I was just pointing out the fact that the other poster said that you were bound to find a game you like on the DS, which was simply not true, if the DS didn't have your kind of games.
If you define "your kind of games" as "Gears of War, and nothing else," then you're right. But nobody does that. I doubt there's even one person on the whole planet earth who can honestly say that not even one game on the DS appeals to him.
Ninja Gaiden is coming out for the DS, by the way.
And games like Phoenix Wright did in fact suck me in. When both Wright games came out, I basically spent ever free minute playing these games for about two weeks, until I finished them. Same with the Dragon Quest Slime spinoff, and a few others. Claiming that there are only small, bit-sized games on the DS is simply not true.
Have you played Godfather: Blackhand Edition on the Wii? The console has only been out for a few months, obviously early games will be simpler. It's no coincidence that both Zelda and Paper Mario started out as Gamecube games: It takes time to develop deep games like these. But more complex games from third-parties are starting to appear on the Wii.
There are many good RPGs for the DS, although most seem to be japan-style. Not sure what kinds of RPGs you mean, so...
Where is the deep stuff, the stories that make me think?
Yeah, where are they - on any other console? I've yet to find a game that makes me think:-)
Seriously though, there are some games with deep stories on the DS. Personally, I like Hotel Dusk, Trace Memory and the Phoenix Wright games. There are also some Mana games, and there's FF3, of course. There are others, but these came to mind of the top of my head.
Where are the Gears of War, the Resident Evils, the Xenosagas (the crappy port doesn't count), the God of Wars for the DS?
Uhm... the DS is a handheld. Of course there's no Gears of War for it. There's only one console with a Gears of War, and it's the 360. That's like discounting the 360 because it has no Nintendogs. Same with God of War.
There is, however, a Resident Evil for the DS.
Me thinks you simply never bothered to find out what games actually exist for the DS. Try it, you might be surprised, and find a few you like.
Actually, both consoles have the exact same resolution, so I'm not sure where "blurry" comes in. Maybe the N64 tried to upsample the picture and made it blurry, while the PS simply showed the low resolution. Eitehr way, the N64 can push a lot more polygons than the PS.
The N64 was worse in terms of graphics compared to the PSX
Have you ever seen a PS game? Have you ever seen a N64 game? There's no comparison. The N64 beats the PS hands-down. The PS has one advantage: More storage space. That's it. Other than that, the N64's hardware, and the 3D capabilities in particular, are superior to the PS in every way.
Personally, I love Excite Truck, and I prefer the Wii version of NfS to the ones on other consoles. But there are no real killer driving simulators available for the Wii as of now.
I got one at the end of January. (...) I got Rayman, Zelda and WiiPlay as well.
Buy more games! Seriously. You can't expect one single player game to entertain you forever!
Here's a bunch of single-player games I like to get you started: Super Paper Mario (great fun), Madden, Trauma Center, The Godfather (the control change this from a mediocre GTA clone to an awesome festival of violence), Excite Truck (don't trust the reviews, this is fast, fun and, well, exciting), Elebits, SSX Blur, Sonic and the Secret Rings (first real 3D Sonic, ever - no, the DC games don't really count).
Check these out, I'm sure you'll like some of them. Just don't complain about the Wii if you don't buy any games.
Despite of what the article says, EA has release three great games for the Wii. They started out with Madden, which was great for an early Wii title. Recently, they have released The Godfather: Blackhand Edition (which is absolutely awesome) and the SSX game (which is great if you're into those kinds of games). They've also released a few sub-par games, but even Tiger Woods is quite nice.
If they keep up that quality level, I'm very happy. I doubt the Wii is going to be another Cube.
Also, if you have a Wii and only own Wii Sports, Cooking Mama and Super Monkey Ball, you have no right to complain about the games. At least get Zelda, Excite Truck, Wario Ware and Rayman, in addition to the EA games mentioned above. There are quite a bit of great games for the Wii available right now.
The first iPod came out 6 years ago. Obviously some of these are replacements for broken or obsolete iPods - just like with any other electronics device. Does it matter? No. A sold iPod is a sold iPod, and if Apple managed to sell an iPod to a person who lost or destroyed his or hers, it means they were satisfied enough with their iPod to buy from Apple again.
Personally, I've owned two different iPods. One of the original "mechanical wheel" iPods (which I sold - it still works), and an iPod nano (which obviously also still works, it's quite new).
I don't know why yours is loud -- mine's nearly silent sitting next to my TV.
I doubt mine is louder than yours. A friend of mine has a Japanese PS3, and while I've never heard his PS3, he didn't think mine was any louder than his. The PS3 is quite simply a loud console, and were it not for the 360, it would probably be one of the - if not the - loudest consoles ever available.
Admittedly, I have a beamer, so my PS3 is sitting near the sofa and not near the "projection area," so it's probably quite a bit nearer than it would be if I owned a TV.
As for the Apple unit being perfectly capable, go ahead, rip your own 1080i or 1080p video for your 360 or iTV thing. Tell me how that goes.
My beamer only displays 720p/1080i anyway, so I wouldn't see the difference. But clearly, this is one of the major differences between the PS3 and the AppleTV. The noise the PS3 makes more than makes up for it, though - at least in my opinion.
I think you're somewhat confused about how AppleTV works. In it's basic, unhacked form, it plays the media stored in your iTunes application. That media can come from various places. For music, it could be bought from the iTunes Store, or ripped from a CD, or downloaded from a P2P network. Maybe it's a song you made yourself in Garage Band. For movies, the same applies. You could have bought it from the iTunes Store, or ripped it (using the aforementioned handbrake) from a DVD. You could have downloaded it, but then you might have to transcode it to a format AppleTV understands (which is easily possible using many applications, among them QuickTime - alternatively, you could install the codecs needed in your AppleTV). The movie could also be something you made yourself in an app like iMovie.
These are all valid uses for an AppleTV (although some of them might not be legal where you live). None of them are "getting around" Apple's method. These are all sanctioned by Apple. So iTunes is the only way to go, but the iTunes Store is not.
The issue here is not with iTunes or the AppleTV. The issue is with the format of the movies sold in the iTunes Store. The quality of these apparently sucks (although I can not vouch for that, I've never seen a movie from the iTunes Store). If that bothers you, there's an easy fix: Don't buy movies from the iTunes Store.
The Xbox 360 is only noisy when its DVD player is running.
My brother's 360 is noisy just sitting in the menu, not doing anything. The DVD player definitely does not need to be running, although admittedly if it is running, the noise level goes up yet another few notches.
The PS3 is not quiet. It is not as loud as a 360 by far (which is a small feat, as the 360 sounds like a jet plane while taking off), but it's still too loud for watching movies comfortably.
Also, as you said, the PS3 store doesn't actually sell movies (at least mine doesn't - I'm in Europe, though), so the comparison is somewhat weird. Yes, the PS3 will play DVD rips just fine, but so will the AppleTV. So I'm not quite getting your point: The iTMS sucks, but the PS3 is good, because you can't buy sucky content, because you can't buy anything at all? If that is the point, then the best option would be to buy an AppleTV and not use the iTMS as it does not make as much noise as a PS3.
Unfortunately, my brother's 360 sounds like a jet plane taking off. That doesn't matter while playing Gears of War, but it very much matters while watching a movie which invariably has a few quiet spots.
Doing a great job? The 360 isn't doing better than the original Xbox (which was hardly able to beat even the Cube), and that's with a whole year of no competition. They cornered the market on people who want to play Halo, but other than that, they are not making any inroads.
The funny thing is that Sony is fucking it up big time right now, but even so, Microsoft seems unable to capitalize on it. This is quite astonishing, seeing how much money Microsoft has spent on their console business.
I'm actually not quite sure if you're being ironic, now that I re-read your post. If so, please ignore my post.
Oh yeah, when you know you can't win an argument, just attack the premise as insane. Ok.
That's quite an ironic way to answer to my post. Nothing I can say to that, other than that you're kind of making my point.
I argued that it was not targeted at adults, and that the DS was a better console for adults.
Why don't you read your original post - you didn't make any such claim.
This is indeed kind of baffling. I did not argue that the PSP was not targeted at adults, and I did not argue that the DS was a better console for adults? Let me quote from my post: "(...) The PSP is not marketed towards adults (...) The DS gets the "adult" games like Hotel Dusk: Room 215 (...)"
Seriously, what is it with you?
You claimed, using a source I found interesting and novel, that the DS sells many more games than the PSP
Oh, now I understand why your arguments seem so meaningless: You must be confusing me with somebody else.
Your entire original post was defeatist, suggesting the PSP is failing to compete with the DS
Haha, you know, the funny part is how you tell me to read my own post. A post which I've actually never written, because I have no idea what you're talking about.
I am saying that far fewer adults are playing the DS than the PSP
There are twice as many DSs out there than PSPs. Even if no PSP was ever sold to a non-adult, and only half of all DSs are played by adults, you're wrong. And again, your whole premise that the PSP is targeted at adults, while the DS is targeted at children, is rather absurd. Here's another piece of evidence: Children Prefer PS3 Most, Wii Least. Children actually prefer the more "mature" consoles, not the ones ostensibly targeted at children. Yet another piece of evidence: Is this an ad targeted at adults? I've already linked to the DS ad, which is clearly targeted at adults. Now I've linked at a PSP ad which is clearly targeted at teens. Please, for the love of god, provide some evidence for your claims if you want to continue this discussion.
Your whole claim is based on the idea that adults don't play games like Mario Kart or Nintendogs. That idea is quite simply absurd. If you are not able to provide any kind of real evidence for your claim, I will accept that as an admission of defeat:-)
How about this, why don't you find me the personal website of an adult, even a college student, that proclaims fanatical devotion to Pokemon and Nintendogs
Huh? Why would I do that? Are you claiming that there are no adults who have a fanatical devotion to Pokémon or Nintendogs? If so, you are probably somewhat insane. Pokémon, by the way, is an RPG with a rather complex fighting mechanism, and it is played by many adult gamers. Nintendogs is played by adults as well, especially females. Yes, I know several women who did play that game for months and months when it came out.
I'm not sure what you're arguing for, anyway. I claimed that adults play games like Mario Kart, not that adults are fanatically devoted to Pokémon.
Your personal views are of course yours and I won't dispute them - but seriously, does that translate into the console being a failure?
I did not argue that it was a failure (although that would be quite an easy argument to make). I argued that it was not targeted at adults, and that the DS was a better console for adults.
All I simply saying is don't apply your personal views, which given the data you cited and based on my personal experience appear to be outside the mainstream
Again, I'm not sure what you mean by that comment. Are you saying that adults playing DS games are less mainstream than adults playing PSP games? If so, then again, I would be inclined to question your sanity:-)
It's entirely possible that, from your personal experience, adults are more likely to own PSPs than DSs. However, worldwide sales numbers of consoles as well as of games, and of the particular genres of games that are doing well, should tell you that you are, in fact, the one outside the mainstream here.
The only DS games to outsell GTA:LCS include stuff like Nintendogs, Mario, Pokemon, Braintraining, and Animal Crossing. Outside of Braintraining, which does sound remotely interesting, would an adult play any of these games?
Yes. Next question?
Isn't it possible the DS is just marketed and oriented towards children while the PSP simply is not?
The PSP is not marketed towards adults. Really. I own both a DS and a PSP. The DS gets the "adult" games like Hotel Dusk: Room 215. The PSP gets the "I wish I were an adult and need to pretend to be one by plaing violent games" games like GTA.
Both are nice consoles, but unfortunately, the recent games on the PSP have underwhelmed me. I do play and love fun games like New Super Mario or Mario Kart, but on the PSP, there's just too much stuff targeted at teens and pre-teens who need to prove how grown-up they are by playing games they think grown-ups play. By now, I mostly use the PSP to watch TV shows and movies while riding the train.
The 256 kb AAC files Apple sells are probably encoded from the original sources and may even sound better than the CD versions in some cases. Frankly, if somebody tells me he's capable of hearing any difference between 256 kb AAC and CD, I immediately assume he's either lying or deceiving himself. Most people can't even hear the difference between CD, 128 kb AAC and 192 kb MP3.
In other words, I don't get it. You're creating a problem where there is none.
Finally, most lossless compression formats get music down to about half the size an uncompressed piece of music. So we're talking maybe 30-50 MB instead of 3-5 MB per song. Nobody* is going to buy this. Nobody wants to download 600 MB of data for an album. It makes no sense for Apple to pay for the bandwith and storage space and to change the interface of iTunes and potentially confuse users with more options for an option that does not offer any value and will not be bought by anyone.
* if I say "nobody," I really mean 5% of all users
You counted the same three axes twice. 3D space has - per definition - only three axes. Whether you turn around them or move in their direction does not matter.
When I was young, a tiny little arcade game could keep me busy for hours. Now, if I'm going to play something, I want something I can really sink my teeth into.
Interestingly, it's the other way around for me. 10 or 20 years ago, I could spend hours every day playing Zelda or Monkey Island. Nowadays, I work, so I often don't have the time to finish games that have continuing storylines going for 60 hours or more. I lose track of them.
So I play Motorstorm or Excite Truck or Wario Ware because I can play a few hours every week and not worry about any storyline, and if I stop playing for a month or so, I don't have to feel bad because they are not "finished".
Minigames are great as a free pack in game to show off what the system can do, but shes not going to pay for a minigame collection.
Well, that's her loss then. Super Monkey Ball, Wario Ware and Rayman may "only" be collections of minigames (well, Super Monkey Ball has a pretty awesome main game, too), but they are great games.
So, considering that she doesn't want to pay for minigames and doesn't seem to like games like Zelda, I have to wonder: What games does she actually want?
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Funny, I duct-taped my two Gamecubes together, and I didn't get a Wii. Crap, now what. They are still sold out everywhere...
Maybe it's because one of them is an US cube and one is an Euro cube? Could that be the issue?
As a hardcore gamer, personally, I would prefer Wii Sports 2 to Manhunt 2, too.
If you define "your kind of games" as "Gears of War, and nothing else," then you're right. But nobody does that. I doubt there's even one person on the whole planet earth who can honestly say that not even one game on the DS appeals to him.
Ninja Gaiden is coming out for the DS, by the way.
And games like Phoenix Wright did in fact suck me in. When both Wright games came out, I basically spent ever free minute playing these games for about two weeks, until I finished them. Same with the Dragon Quest Slime spinoff, and a few others. Claiming that there are only small, bit-sized games on the DS is simply not true.
Have you played Godfather: Blackhand Edition on the Wii? The console has only been out for a few months, obviously early games will be simpler. It's no coincidence that both Zelda and Paper Mario started out as Gamecube games: It takes time to develop deep games like these. But more complex games from third-parties are starting to appear on the Wii.
There are many good RPGs for the DS, although most seem to be japan-style. Not sure what kinds of RPGs you mean, so...
Yeah, where are they - on any other console? I've yet to find a game that makes me think :-)
Seriously though, there are some games with deep stories on the DS. Personally, I like Hotel Dusk, Trace Memory and the Phoenix Wright games. There are also some Mana games, and there's FF3, of course. There are others, but these came to mind of the top of my head.
Uhm... the DS is a handheld. Of course there's no Gears of War for it. There's only one console with a Gears of War, and it's the 360. That's like discounting the 360 because it has no Nintendogs. Same with God of War.
There is, however, a Resident Evil for the DS.
Me thinks you simply never bothered to find out what games actually exist for the DS. Try it, you might be surprised, and find a few you like.
Actually, both consoles have the exact same resolution, so I'm not sure where "blurry" comes in. Maybe the N64 tried to upsample the picture and made it blurry, while the PS simply showed the low resolution. Eitehr way, the N64 can push a lot more polygons than the PS.
Have you ever seen a PS game? Have you ever seen a N64 game? There's no comparison. The N64 beats the PS hands-down. The PS has one advantage: More storage space. That's it. Other than that, the N64's hardware, and the 3D capabilities in particular, are superior to the PS in every way.
Personally, I love Excite Truck, and I prefer the Wii version of NfS to the ones on other consoles. But there are no real killer driving simulators available for the Wii as of now.
Buy more games! Seriously. You can't expect one single player game to entertain you forever!
Here's a bunch of single-player games I like to get you started: Super Paper Mario (great fun), Madden, Trauma Center, The Godfather (the control change this from a mediocre GTA clone to an awesome festival of violence), Excite Truck (don't trust the reviews, this is fast, fun and, well, exciting), Elebits, SSX Blur, Sonic and the Secret Rings (first real 3D Sonic, ever - no, the DC games don't really count).
Check these out, I'm sure you'll like some of them. Just don't complain about the Wii if you don't buy any games.
Oh, and your DS is collecting dust??? If the DS doesn't provide any games you're interested in, I'm afraid no console does.
Despite of what the article says, EA has release three great games for the Wii. They started out with Madden, which was great for an early Wii title. Recently, they have released The Godfather: Blackhand Edition (which is absolutely awesome) and the SSX game (which is great if you're into those kinds of games). They've also released a few sub-par games, but even Tiger Woods is quite nice.
If they keep up that quality level, I'm very happy. I doubt the Wii is going to be another Cube.
Also, if you have a Wii and only own Wii Sports, Cooking Mama and Super Monkey Ball, you have no right to complain about the games. At least get Zelda, Excite Truck, Wario Ware and Rayman, in addition to the EA games mentioned above. There are quite a bit of great games for the Wii available right now.
The first iPod came out 6 years ago. Obviously some of these are replacements for broken or obsolete iPods - just like with any other electronics device. Does it matter? No. A sold iPod is a sold iPod, and if Apple managed to sell an iPod to a person who lost or destroyed his or hers, it means they were satisfied enough with their iPod to buy from Apple again.
Personally, I've owned two different iPods. One of the original "mechanical wheel" iPods (which I sold - it still works), and an iPod nano (which obviously also still works, it's quite new).
I doubt mine is louder than yours. A friend of mine has a Japanese PS3, and while I've never heard his PS3, he didn't think mine was any louder than his. The PS3 is quite simply a loud console, and were it not for the 360, it would probably be one of the - if not the - loudest consoles ever available.
Admittedly, I have a beamer, so my PS3 is sitting near the sofa and not near the "projection area," so it's probably quite a bit nearer than it would be if I owned a TV.
As for the Apple unit being perfectly capable, go ahead, rip your own 1080i or 1080p video for your 360 or iTV thing. Tell me how that goes.My beamer only displays 720p/1080i anyway, so I wouldn't see the difference. But clearly, this is one of the major differences between the PS3 and the AppleTV. The noise the PS3 makes more than makes up for it, though - at least in my opinion.
A new storefront? Uploading?
I think you're somewhat confused about how AppleTV works. In it's basic, unhacked form, it plays the media stored in your iTunes application. That media can come from various places. For music, it could be bought from the iTunes Store, or ripped from a CD, or downloaded from a P2P network. Maybe it's a song you made yourself in Garage Band. For movies, the same applies. You could have bought it from the iTunes Store, or ripped it (using the aforementioned handbrake) from a DVD. You could have downloaded it, but then you might have to transcode it to a format AppleTV understands (which is easily possible using many applications, among them QuickTime - alternatively, you could install the codecs needed in your AppleTV). The movie could also be something you made yourself in an app like iMovie.
These are all valid uses for an AppleTV (although some of them might not be legal where you live). None of them are "getting around" Apple's method. These are all sanctioned by Apple. So iTunes is the only way to go, but the iTunes Store is not.
The issue here is not with iTunes or the AppleTV. The issue is with the format of the movies sold in the iTunes Store. The quality of these apparently sucks (although I can not vouch for that, I've never seen a movie from the iTunes Store). If that bothers you, there's an easy fix: Don't buy movies from the iTunes Store.
My brother's 360 is noisy just sitting in the menu, not doing anything. The DVD player definitely does not need to be running, although admittedly if it is running, the noise level goes up yet another few notches.
The PS3 is not quiet. It is not as loud as a 360 by far (which is a small feat, as the 360 sounds like a jet plane while taking off), but it's still too loud for watching movies comfortably.
Also, as you said, the PS3 store doesn't actually sell movies (at least mine doesn't - I'm in Europe, though), so the comparison is somewhat weird. Yes, the PS3 will play DVD rips just fine, but so will the AppleTV. So I'm not quite getting your point: The iTMS sucks, but the PS3 is good, because you can't buy sucky content, because you can't buy anything at all? If that is the point, then the best option would be to buy an AppleTV and not use the iTMS as it does not make as much noise as a PS3.
Unfortunately, my brother's 360 sounds like a jet plane taking off. That doesn't matter while playing Gears of War, but it very much matters while watching a movie which invariably has a few quiet spots.
Doing a great job? The 360 isn't doing better than the original Xbox (which was hardly able to beat even the Cube), and that's with a whole year of no competition. They cornered the market on people who want to play Halo, but other than that, they are not making any inroads.
The funny thing is that Sony is fucking it up big time right now, but even so, Microsoft seems unable to capitalize on it. This is quite astonishing, seeing how much money Microsoft has spent on their console business.
I'm actually not quite sure if you're being ironic, now that I re-read your post. If so, please ignore my post.
That's quite an ironic way to answer to my post. Nothing I can say to that, other than that you're kind of making my point.
This is indeed kind of baffling. I did not argue that the PSP was not targeted at adults, and I did not argue that the DS was a better console for adults? Let me quote from my post: "(...) The PSP is not marketed towards adults (...) The DS gets the "adult" games like Hotel Dusk: Room 215 (...)"
Seriously, what is it with you?
Oh, now I understand why your arguments seem so meaningless: You must be confusing me with somebody else.
Haha, you know, the funny part is how you tell me to read my own post. A post which I've actually never written, because I have no idea what you're talking about.
There are twice as many DSs out there than PSPs. Even if no PSP was ever sold to a non-adult, and only half of all DSs are played by adults, you're wrong. And again, your whole premise that the PSP is targeted at adults, while the DS is targeted at children, is rather absurd. Here's another piece of evidence: Children Prefer PS3 Most, Wii Least. Children actually prefer the more "mature" consoles, not the ones ostensibly targeted at children. Yet another piece of evidence: Is this an ad targeted at adults? I've already linked to the DS ad, which is clearly targeted at adults. Now I've linked at a PSP ad which is clearly targeted at teens. Please, for the love of god, provide some evidence for your claims if you want to continue this discussion.
Your whole claim is based on the idea that adults don't play games like Mario Kart or Nintendogs. That idea is quite simply absurd. If you are not able to provide any kind of real evidence for your claim, I will accept that as an admission of defeat :-)
Huh? Why would I do that? Are you claiming that there are no adults who have a fanatical devotion to Pokémon or Nintendogs? If so, you are probably somewhat insane. Pokémon, by the way, is an RPG with a rather complex fighting mechanism, and it is played by many adult gamers. Nintendogs is played by adults as well, especially females. Yes, I know several women who did play that game for months and months when it came out.
I'm not sure what you're arguing for, anyway. I claimed that adults play games like Mario Kart, not that adults are fanatically devoted to Pokémon.
I did not argue that it was a failure (although that would be quite an easy argument to make). I argued that it was not targeted at adults, and that the DS was a better console for adults.
Again, I'm not sure what you mean by that comment. Are you saying that adults playing DS games are less mainstream than adults playing PSP games? If so, then again, I would be inclined to question your sanity :-)
It's entirely possible that, from your personal experience, adults are more likely to own PSPs than DSs. However, worldwide sales numbers of consoles as well as of games, and of the particular genres of games that are doing well, should tell you that you are, in fact, the one outside the mainstream here.
Yes. Next question?
No.
The PSP is not marketed towards adults. Really. I own both a DS and a PSP. The DS gets the "adult" games like Hotel Dusk: Room 215. The PSP gets the "I wish I were an adult and need to pretend to be one by plaing violent games" games like GTA.
Both are nice consoles, but unfortunately, the recent games on the PSP have underwhelmed me. I do play and love fun games like New Super Mario or Mario Kart, but on the PSP, there's just too much stuff targeted at teens and pre-teens who need to prove how grown-up they are by playing games they think grown-ups play. By now, I mostly use the PSP to watch TV shows and movies while riding the train.
The 256 kb AAC files Apple sells are probably encoded from the original sources and may even sound better than the CD versions in some cases. Frankly, if somebody tells me he's capable of hearing any difference between 256 kb AAC and CD, I immediately assume he's either lying or deceiving himself. Most people can't even hear the difference between CD, 128 kb AAC and 192 kb MP3.
In other words, I don't get it. You're creating a problem where there is none.
Finally, most lossless compression formats get music down to about half the size an uncompressed piece of music. So we're talking maybe 30-50 MB instead of 3-5 MB per song. Nobody* is going to buy this. Nobody wants to download 600 MB of data for an album. It makes no sense for Apple to pay for the bandwith and storage space and to change the interface of iTunes and potentially confuse users with more options for an option that does not offer any value and will not be bought by anyone.
* if I say "nobody," I really mean 5% of all users
You counted the same three axes twice. 3D space has - per definition - only three axes. Whether you turn around them or move in their direction does not matter.
Well, if the "motion controller" is anything like the one in Dick's story, then I pretty damn well want one!
Interestingly, it's the other way around for me. 10 or 20 years ago, I could spend hours every day playing Zelda or Monkey Island. Nowadays, I work, so I often don't have the time to finish games that have continuing storylines going for 60 hours or more. I lose track of them.
So I play Motorstorm or Excite Truck or Wario Ware because I can play a few hours every week and not worry about any storyline, and if I stop playing for a month or so, I don't have to feel bad because they are not "finished".
Well, that's her loss then. Super Monkey Ball, Wario Ware and Rayman may "only" be collections of minigames (well, Super Monkey Ball has a pretty awesome main game, too), but they are great games.
So, considering that she doesn't want to pay for minigames and doesn't seem to like games like Zelda, I have to wonder: What games does she actually want?