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Will Wright Opines That Wii Is the Only Next-Gen Console
PhoenixOne writes "In an article that will probably tick off a lot of PS3 owners, Will Wright calls the PS3 and 360 'incremental improvement(s)'. 'The Wii feels like a major jump - not that the graphics are more powerful, but that it hits a completely different demographic. In some sense I see the Wii as the most significant thing that's happened, at least on the console side, in quite a while ... I still, for the most part, prefer playing games on the computer - to me the mouse is the best input device ever. Every generation it's like 'the PC's dead! The PC's dead!'. But it carries on growing when consoles are flat for five years. At the moment I can get better graphics on my PC than I can on the PS3.'"
Seeing as Spore currently is on track to be Next-Next-Gen anyways. I guess it's safe to say it'll be on the Wii 2 rather than the Xbox 720 at this point.
So you're saying that 360 owners are resigned to knowing that their system is mediocre at best?
Concept is simple, a bunch of folks standing in a circle holding wii-motes shaking them towards the center.
I agree with an earlier post, the sims would look no better on a WII than an XB360 or a PS3, each of the new systems is innovative in
their own right but using something like an innovation in control as an indicator of 'next-gen' status is a little silly.
Unix, an obscure operating system developed by bored researchers in an attempt to get a better game playing experience.
I've always felt like Nintendo's game have more soul...Now the on screen characters and gameplay make you feel in your heart and mind while the Wiimote makes your body feel as well.
Dude, you and Wario need to get a room.
> Unfortunately, most of the wii games have absolutely no quality gameplay
Thank you!!
I finally acquiesced and played the new Metroid game, which my Wii-apologist friend assured me was the pinnacle of interface design for the system. I couldn't play it for more than about 4 minutes without my hands starting to ache, but okay, fine, I'm not used to the Wii.
Then I watched him try to throw the grapple line to pull doors open. He got it to work about one out of four tries. >_
ALL THAT SAID... the bowling and golf games are tight. =)
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She wouldn't touch the other consoles with a ten foot pole, but she loves the Wii games.
It's easier to use the 360 if you switch to a smaller pole... try 6" or maybe a foot at most.
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You mean the Sims expansion packs have a wall texture of Will Wright's bloody head impaled on a stick? AWESOME!!!!
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expect the name will probably be wiiII