Originally posted by: Bateluer
Originally posted by: inveterate
I can't believe nintendo actually thinks this will fly.
Well, since their million+ unit North American launch sold out, I guess it is flying pretty well.
the real measure of that will be in a few months.
the novelty and the hype have garnered much interest in the wii.... everyones excitied and those who can are buying them. same with the 360....they sold out, PS3 sold out despite its craptacular pricing and bundles.
but in a few months will the novelty still be there? will it still be an exciting alternative?
yeah theyre selling like hot cakes now, but will they still be selling copious amounts next year?
i personally think the wii-mote, while a new and novell take on the control of games (im gonna stick my neck out here and say its more evolutionary than revolutionary tho its pretty close to the latter) will lose its appeal.
yeah its great bouncing round your living room stabbing your mates with the remote for now, but i envisage in a few months time those people will be back to sitting back in a lay-z-boy pressing buttons with the addition of a the occasional wrist flick. PS3 man will be doing the same thing on his couch with the sixaxis and 360 man has been doing it since he bought the console
gamers are typically lazy, and if your not a lazy so and so then your either gonna have little time to play or your gonna want a nice relaxing sit down and a cuppa tea at some point.
infact after i've been training ( 2 hour pool session 5-6km worth of swimming) last thing i wanna do is play games at all...i wanna flake out infront of the tv watchin mythbusters or something.
different strokes for different folks at the end of the day
i like driving games, and games like GoW, i like lots of realism, blood, destruction i like cinematics, i like stuff to blow up, i like jaw dropping graphics and ear bashing sound...so for me its 360 or PS3 (since pS3 isnt out yet for us and its gonna be expensive i have a 360) and the steering wheel when its available.
if you like good old fashioned fun games, like DDR and stuff like you get in your typical arcade then the wii is your choice.
i know i wont buy a wii, i probably will never use one.... nintendo's games etc just dont appeal to me, i couldnt care less about mario, or zelda but equally nin fans probably dont care for PGR3 or GT4.
so im not gonna get a wii then complain about it, im not gonna complain about the wii from a 3rd person perspective either (bar the questions i posed in this post) i know im not interested in it (though i am interested in the tech) so im not gonna try shoot it down