I don't care if the Wii is innovative or a revolution. The point is that very few are using the potential of it thus making this revolution crap. Sure MS and Sony might take the idea of motion sensing in the next gen, but I'm sure that if they do they will bring out a lot better games.
Yeah I thought it would add depth and precision to games with 1:1 controls. Instead it simplifies everything to be played by anyone.... which just means dumbed down for non-gamers and lacking any depth.
If you don't think the Wii has revolutionized gaming, I think you got your head on backwards. It's changing the way we play, like my previous example. "Press the A button to swing your racket", go ask anyone whose timed 5 hours in Wii Tennis and ask them to play any Tennis game on a standard controller. They'll get bored within seconds.
The success of the Wii is going to impact gaming, if the Wii turns out to be more successful than the PS2, what do you think? Microsoft and Sony will just add some graphical improvements and throw out the next console at some bizzare price? No. The Wii would've been proven successful, it only makes sense to follow its business plan. Expect to see motion sensing or something else innovative in Microsoft's and Sony's next console.
Bucks the industry tend of rising development costs
Gives devs a new interface to play with. They can acheive new plays styles other than the ones they have used for 20+ years.
Opens the market to people who never played games(something the industry has been trying to do since the original NES and Atari)
Brown52
It is not a revolution for developers because nobody is developing for it. 3rd parties like bioware and irrational are too busy developing revolutionary games like mass effect and bioshock on next gen consoles to have time to deal with wii. Disney develops for Nintendo.
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