Can Nintendo Save the Adventure Game Genre?

Gamasutra is running an editorial wondering whether the Wii can save the adventure game genre. With the intuitive nature of first-person control and interaction the Wiimote/nunchuck combination provides, it's been an open question since the console's concept was announced whether or not the Nintendo could revive a much-beloved but sadly absent game genre. Scott Nixon writes of the future for point-and-click titles, talking about their hearty success on the DS (with Hotel Dusk and Phoenix Wright) and the requirements of design such games would make of the Wii. With word that a Wii developer for the Sam and Max series is being sought, the question isn't if but when adventure titles begin appearing on the system. Here's hoping they get a warm reception, from an audience ready for their reintroduction. Update: 02/07 01:03 GMT by Z : Fixed the link. Sorry.

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Wii Hype Running Out Of Steam

[Anonymous Coward]

Ah yes, who would have seen this?

My god!!! The Wiimote has unlimited potential!!! Just think of the amazing things you will be able to do with it! Just wait until developers tap the amazing gameplay potential in the revolutionary new controller from Nintendo!

Just think of all the incredible things you'll be able to do...

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Pointing. Yes, pointing!!!

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Replace button presses with a flick of your wrist!

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Just a minute...

There's got to be a million more amazing and innovative gameplay elements to the Wiimote...

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Did I say pointing???