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« on: June 02, 2008, 07:06:39 PM »
I didn't feel like reading walls of text from some new person I've never heard of, but I read Mashiro's walls of text because despite his defection to the dark side lol I still like him.
I agree with a lot of your points, online is good, I don't care that much about HD but it would be nice to have. Traditional controls still have an important place in gaming, 512 MB is nowhere near enough (I'm not sure if you made that point, you had two long posts and I don't remember everything you wrote, but if you didn't make that point you should have). Comparing 1:1 motions in games to athletic competition is crazy, you don't need to run a 4.4 40 yard dash to play Wii Tennis, senior citizens can do it.
Then there are a couple points I disagree with. First, you're right, the motion control hasn't been used effectively, but you downplay how good the pointer is. The pointer is the big control revolution of the Wii, at least for traditional games. Resident Evil 4 Wii Edition and Metroid Prime 3 could have been (and have been) done with a standard gamepad, but the pointer makes them better (and in the case of Metroid, regarding waggle, can you sit there with a straight face and say using motion controls for the grapple beam wasn't awesome?).
Second, I think it's way too early to say that the Wii doesn't deserve to win this generation. You could argue that it didn't deserve to win like this, it didn't deserve to win so early with the lineup so far. Things don't always work out fairly in the game industry, if they did the Dreamcast would have had a much longer life. My point is that there are at least 3 more years of life in the Wii, more than it's had so far. I do think the third parties (some of them, the ones that aren't Ubisoft) will come around.
Well there you go, my own mini wall of text.