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Peter Moore Plugs the Wii60 Again
Next Generation is reporting that Peter Moore has once again raised the concept of the 'Wii60', a gamer who has chosen to buy an Xbox 360 and a Wii, instead of ... that other guy's product. From the article: "In a canny piece of anti-Sony propaganda he said, 'Dual platform ownership of Xbox 360 and Wii could be as high as 40% depending on what territory we are talking about. The influence of the Wii-60 movement seems to be growing enormously.' ... But the mischievous Liverpudlian could not resist expressing some doubts about Nintendo's machine. 'The controller is innovative but it remains to be seen how innovative your shoulder will feel after an hour's play.'"
'The controller is innovative but it remains to be seen how innovative your shoulder will feel after an hour's play.'
People dont seem to realise that you arent going to be cocking your whole arm back and exert enough force to chop a tree down. There are plenty of gameplay videos, including videos of Madden, where its a simple snap of the wrist in order to pass.
There goes Microsoft trying to piggyback off the anticipated success of the Wii. They know the Wii will most likely succeed and will try as much as possible to connect the 360 with the Wii. The fact that the article mentions a Wii, is free publicity for Microsoft. Pretty smart, I must admit.
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So you're saying that gamers are so out of shape that its going to put the hurting on you to play tennis for an hour?
See, in my opinion that is one of the greatest benefits that the Nintendo has. Imgine the marketing campaigns that they will be able to use and tell parents that their children will... now get this *actually get a work-out* while playing. Now, its not going to be the same thing, but it is still better than being totally dormant.
I am looking forward to playing some tennis, etc with my wife. I can't convince her to play traditional games, but if there is some physical activity involved she might consider playing every now and then.
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Hasn't this guy ever heard of tennis, golf, foootball, etc etc. These are activities that require much more that swinging a remote control around and yet every day thousands of people voluntarily go out and perform them. In the case of golf and some others they even pay.
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Let's see, what can I get for the price of a wii60? I can buy a wii, with an extra controller and a few games. The people going around spouting this wii60 crap are just doing the marketing for Microsoft by jumping on Nintendo's coattails which is pretty much brand theft. They are just hoping that this will help their dismal sales as they are about to be trounced by the PS3(especially since they just announced some price cuts) and Wii this christmas.
Dance Dance Revolution - which has been remarkably popular. DDR has even (according to previous Slashdot articles) made it into secondary school phys. ed. programs.
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Tell me how this is bad? Besides, exercise puts a person in a better mood and wakes you up.. Prime conditions for innovation.
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and just buy a Wii? I already have a games machine (my PC), I'm at least somewhat interested in getting a console. Why the hell would I want 2?
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But those people are typically in good shape physically. The average gamer is not.
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Exactly. People think the controller is going to be some wonderful gaming device, but it is strictly for casual and brief gaming. Any more than that and you will get wrist strain. The situation is exacerbated because the thing has so few buttons that many games will have to rely on weird gestures to perform actions that you can do with a button press on another console. Not only are gestures slower than button presses, but they'll just make wrist strain even more likely than it already is. I wonder how many Wii games will bother to support the "classic" joystick seeing as it's sold separately.
Having said that, I saw a review of a game that would work great on the Wii - Okami. The game requires the user to do gestures with an analogue stick, but the Wii remote would work far better.
But I think the Wii-60 argument is really compelling. The idea that you can buy both machines for a price comparable to the PS3, and have both next-gen graphics as well as innovative gameplay... I don't really see why you wouldn't, especially as we're entering this age of multi-platform games being the norm, due publishers and devs trying to make back their high development costs.
It isn't a comparable price unless you buy the "core" XBox 360 and then you're tossing out most of the reasons for buying a 360 in the first place, such as being able to play music (from the HD), download games or episodic content. All that's left is HD games and DVD player. And if you do buy a premium Xbox 360, why not just buy a PS3 and benefit from the bluray HD player, better performance and other bits and pieces it contains. So what's the point of buying two consoles? You may as well buy a Wii or buy a PS3. I don't see any compelling reason to an XBox 360 as well.
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All console add-ons have failed. The only one to even come close to succeeding is the Sega CD with 500,000 sold.
It's very doubtful any games, besides a few technology demos, will ever be released for the Xbox 360 HD-DVD. Why? Because it will increase the already astronomical development costs of the platform, yet it will significantly shrink the possible market since a very small percentage of Xbox 360 users will buy it. It's sort of a chicken and egg problem.
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