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Originally posted by: Ian Sane
I think the characters look too much like children's toys. If Nintendo really wants to attract a wide audience something more neutral would work better. This is just sports. It's EASY to make a sport family friendly without it looking like a kids game. The design looks a little lazy, too. It's just a little too simplistic where it looks less like an intentional design and more like a bare minimum effort with the "intentional simplistic design" being more of an excuse. Nintendo has a well deserved reputation for being cheap. They can feed us all the BS they want but the REAL reason they didn't go HD or anything like that is because THEY didn't want to spend more money. So when they try to pass off weak graphics as an intentional style I'm immediately suspicious of them just trying to save a few bucks.
HAhahaha! No Ian you are wrong on so many levels. Why are you even talking about HD in a thread about Wii Sports?!?! The whole point to Wii Sports is just to get other people who don't normally play games to see a very simple interface (controller and visuals on screen) and que curiosity. Heres a fun fact: while playing you are not paying attention to the graphics. Yes your character will move on its own in Tennis, but because of all the different movements you can put on the ball you have to keep your eye on where its going to swing at the right time and speed.
Its too simplistic maybe for you because you want everything your way. You want Nintendo to do everything your way or its a waste of money. But the fact is Nintendo doesn't care about you as an individual. When in fact it is perfectly suitable for what they are trying to do in bringing in new people. I could see myself playing Wii Sports with my grandma, and only Wii Sports because of the combination of interface and control. You talk about playing Baseball Stars 2 from SNK...SNK of all people. You really think that with all the stats around the screen, those little cut-in clips of the guys yelling to eachother, and the smirk faces in the top corners when the cam is at the plate would be attractive to people who don't play baseball?? Those are the things that turn non sports fans away. By keeping everything (for lack of better words) to a minimum they are able to keep a more "pleasant-on-the-eye" look for females or even elderly.
You remember the first DS games? They were very plain and simple, and tended to focus on one feature of the system. Just like some of these Wii games. The focus is not graphics for Wii Sports. Its about the basic interaction the new controller has setup. Its a gateway to gaming for the potentially millions of other people out there who don't or haven't for many years.
You complain about it looking like a mini-game. Well just about every single game these days has a mini-game in it. There is no style that characterises them either.
You are in fact a minigame in the game if the internet.
Funny, reading your post again...I wonder why I even bothered to write all this, you answered your own question: "This is just sports".
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