You really want to tell me a pager motor was more innovative than the Wii's motion controls....That is a bit of a stretch even if you grant the existence of light guns.
well how many gamers Nin fans are there?Arbre said:A good note is that with all the cash Nintendo grosses, it has enough munitions to fuel their crusade to convert people to games, by flooding them with more and more ads with ladies and grannies.
I think the point is that though it looks like an outbreak or something, it may be blown out of proportions. There's clearly an evolution, but just look at the amount of cash that had to be spent in marketing to achieve this.
Feels more forced than a mere work of natural evolution.
Wiiplay is another controller?slapme7times said:well... i'd simply compare the game sales to the console sales...
you'd think a console that's sold out for nearly a year straight would have massive software sales correlating with the hardware sales, but it doesn't.
the best selling wii game is wii play, which is really just another controller... it's not even a game. wii play beat out metroid prime 3 corruption, a nintendo/retro title...
the people who are buying the wii aren't gamers... they're consumers who are interested in a product with alot of hype.
it used to be that nintendo games were the only games to sell or make profit on a nintendo system, but now even nintendo is struggling to sell it's own games...
this is because the wii is a gamecube with motion controls and a light gun. once you've played around with the new controller, gotten bored with it, all you have left is a gamecube....
I just don't think that the 'blue ocean' theory is working when it comes to convincing non gamers to buy video games. it's just convincing non gamers to buy an exciting gaming console...
it reminds me of my mom who bought an ipod, even though she doesn't own or listen to music, and she doesn't buy music off itunes, and she hasn't started buying itunes music since buying and ipod...
Simply put, i don't think the wii is technologically capable of producing games any more compelling than they were on the gamecube, and i don't think that non gamers who are buying the wii have become sold on the idea of purchasing and playing games themselves... they're just interested in the wii itself, just like my mom, who was interested in the ipod itself, not the music.
The point is more that everyone bought WiiPlay because it was a game guaranteed to come with an extra Wiimote, which at the time was scarce. You were basically getting a Wiimote and a $10 game with it. Few people got the game for the game itself.Wiiplay is another controller?
But it has no means of input, nor when I swing it like I do mah WiiMote, NOTHING happens, absolutely nothing....
About that. It could go either way. Blue Ray, as I'm sure you know, is a little piece of Sony magic, so all Sony films are coming out on Blue Rays. This includes 20th Century Fox, Lionsgate, and Disney (Disney only has a non-exclusive deal). Complicating maters, Paramount and Dreamworks are exclusive with HD-DVD, despite that blue ray had a 2-1 lead. Warner Bros and New Line have non-exclusive agreements with both formats. The only other sector exclusively backing Blue Ray is the adult film market (they chose that format for its PS3 compatability). There's all sorts of interesting sociology in that waiting for a less sleepy mind to broach it. What I'm trying to say is that if buyers are having to choose between the two technologies, one of which has a limited selection of titles and has a reputation for the being, you know "blue" (I didn't even think of that meaning until now, and I'm enjoying the possibilities way too much). It's still too far off to commit either way. I haven't forgiven Sony for the my disappointment with the PS3, so I hope the HD pulls ahead.Nidenel said:Also if any one can find the sales of HD DVD versus Blue Ray, that would be great.
Lack of local storage will kill a Wii MMO before it starts.Kwil said:The real challenge for the Wii is it needs to follow these massive hardware sales with a 'killer app' of sorts, and do it fairly soon before people get bored of the current generation of titles. My prediction? Someone is going to catch on to the bit that the really innovative part of the Wii controller isn't the motion sensing, but the light-gun that allows for easy on-screen pointing. WoW on the Wii anybody? Throw in a headset/mic through the controller and you have an extremely easy to use MMORPG platform -- thus combining entertainment and socialization in a cost effective package.