Does anyone else think the Wii is a prototype for something greater to come? I'm thinking they just wanted to test the waters with these motion controls to see if people would buy into them, before spending a giant budget on superior component parts with the risk of motion controls failing. Thats what I'm hoping anyway, I just don't see how this could be Nintendo's "Revolution". It seems more like Nintendo's "Fund Raiser" to me. Sure the Wii has some fun games, but not too many of them. A lot of the games don't even use the motion controls, and if they do it is more like a shi**y gimmick. It seems the only logical reason nintendo would have us play last gen games(maybe even worse) with the pseudo-next gen controls(sometimes) is to test the controls out and raise some money. i don't think the "Revolutions" name was ever changed to "Wii", because the Wii does not deserve a code name of that stature. Perhaps we will see a real "Revolution" from Nintendo in the future.
For the first time in industry history the console with [by far] the most sales has the weakest overall library. That's.... some kind of record. So, the Wii will get PS2 sales numbers, with GC (or lower) level of AAA's and AA's, and looking at the upcoming lineup it's even less encouraging, with Wii putting out some low level exclusives while completely missing out on all of the huge multiplats (RE5, Fallout, FF, etc.) and even when they do get the rare multiplat it ends up butchered and horrible due to the Wii's hardware scheme (see Dead Rising.)
Yeah, I think Nintendos next step is totally forgetting the people that supported them over the GC era and expand on mingames and useless paraphernalia catering to the ADD horde.
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