The Wii Countdown

No...the novelty will wear off in a bad way. Yeah, the FPSs will be fun and different. Ultimately, though, the people who prefer the controls will eventually stop caring and the people who don't will just stick to Halo 2 and America's Army.

I don't think the Wiimote will even MAKE IT to the next round of consoles. Think about it. There's gonna be Warioware and probably Mario Parties will use them, and Mario Galaxy and the FPSs...but does anybody have any particularly impressive Wiimote-heavy games coming out? Does Nintendo? Hell, two of the most-hyped games, Smash Bros Brawl and Fire Emblem, both completely bench the Wiimote. And how many games really get anything added to them by the Wiimote? Is Call of Duty 3 going to be leaps and bounds beyond the PC or 360 version? Is Need for Speed going to be better because you can HOLD THE WIIMOTE SIDEWAYS TO STEER (ZOMG!!!!!)? Is Splinter Cell? Is Resident Evil: UC going to be better than RE5 because of the Wiimote? And how many games made to use the Wiimote will end up getting a Cube controller option? I'd have to bet that Mario Galaxy and such will get Cube options. I think that, outside of what end up being a handful of forgettable party games and probably some FPSs, the Wiimote is going to prove to be another Gameboy Printer.
 
I wasn't really sold on the touch screen of the DS for a long time. For a moment I liked Yoshi Touch-n-Go, but then I remember how much I'd paid for it and ground the sealant out of my molars. And a lot of the games on the DS seem to straddle the touch and traditional control schemes. One of the best games on it, Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, almost doesn't even use the touch screen except for a few tacked on moments. Mario Kart DS makes only secondary use of the feature, too.

But they are fine games, and that modest use of the screen was proof that Nintendo isn't so loony as to demand, even from their own teams, that everything should always use the new features.

Then there's Nintendogs. I don't play the game too often, but I've never felt so compelled to play with a virtual dog. They managed to make what amounts to a mouse cursor into a tactile exprience. I feel emasculated to admit how much I enjoy rubbing a screen with a plastic stick, but the whole package tricks my brain just right, and I love petting my fake dog more than I like petting the real thing. And all this after a scarring experience with a dog attack as a child! It almost removed my eye. And this game's gimmicky, silly, embarassing interface cuts right through that and makes me feel good.

And that's only a two dimensional interaction with something within the graphical power of an N64.
 
listereo said:
I wasn't really sold on the touch screen of the DS for a long time. For a moment I liked Yoshi Touch-n-Go, but then I remember how much I'd paid for it and ground the sealant out of my molars. And a lot of the games on the DS seem to straddle the touch and traditional control schemes. One of the best games on it, Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, almost doesn't even use the touch screen except for a few tacked on moments. Mario Kart DS makes only secondary use of the feature, too.

But they are fine games, and that modest use of the screen was proof that Nintendo isn't so loony as to demand, even from their own teams, that everything should always use the new features.

Then there's Nintendogs. I don't play the game too often, but I've never felt so compelled to play with a virtual dog. They managed to make what amounts to a mouse cursor into a tactile exprience. I feel emasculated to admit how much I enjoy rubbing a screen with a plastic stick, but the whole package tricks my brain just right, and I love petting my fake dog more than I like petting the real thing. And all this after a scarring experience with a dog attack as a child! It almost removed my eye. And this game's gimmicky, silly, embarassing interface cuts right through that and makes me feel good.

And that's only a two dimensional interaction with something within the graphical power of an N64.
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That's the thing. Very few of the best games on the DS use the touch screen. Looking at the top 20 DS games (highest media averages), only six of them really have any touchscreen-based gameplay. The six being, in order of rank, Meteos, Kirby CC, Animal Crossing, Prime Hunters, Nintendogs and Wario Ware. Three of those games came quite early in the DS's life (two at launch, one shortly after) The rest are all games with minimal touch screen use which would really be the same great games if it had only one screen. Would Advance Wars DS suddenly suck if it was on the GBA, and you had to toggle between either front by using the L and R buttons? Hell no. The game would still rule. Would Sonic Rush suck if it was played on one screen? Hell no. The game would still be classic, fast Sonic action. And look at the upcoming games for the DS. Yoshi's Island 2 is the same as Sonic Rush, it just more verticalness because of the second screen. Pokemon won't. Final Fantasy 3 won't. Kirby Squeek Squad doesn't. And the list. Goes. On.

This translates directly to the Wii. It'll have loads of great games, in all likelihood. But I can't imagine many of them using the Wiimote all that much.
 
its just hard to interwin a touch screen and the story mode together, therefor i have seen in a lot of mario games that its used for minigames, and or a radiar
 
and they would probably try and make it easy for little kids who start gaming, it would be too hard for them to look at the top screen and do something at the same time on the bottom, while it more easier for us who have went throught puberty
 
Glah Blah Blah Blah Blah........ My God folks I'm gone a day. ONE FREAKIN DAY, and you guys go on a rampage about this and that. I decided not to even read on. I agree with Scoops. It really really does not matter. I will in fact buy the system on day one along WITH ZELDA, and COD3. Red Steel, and Truma Center.. I also will be getting a few VC games.

We are all fanboys of something like it or not. We all can sit here and talk smack on Nintendo but fact is 20 years or more and sthey still have not gone anywhere because of fanboys like me and Mario lovers like scoops. Spud if Nintenod somehow bought out all 2d fighters and Wii was the only system you could play them on you'd be right along with us in 18 days trying to get a Wii.
 
Yes, I've been having fun looking at the fascinating position Nintendo's in. But the proof is in the pudding, and it's another 17 days until that pudding is ready.
 
Still not soon enough.

I'm not sure I'll be able to sleep on the 18th.

I wonder if any stores will have demo units ahead of time? I wonder if any stores will have PS3 demo units. (From what I hear, most stores are getting around 8 units of PS3, which is slim pickins, especially if one of them is a demo.)
 
spudlyff8fan said:
I think you should probably read what was said, Luda.
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Why? Did I make a mistake or do something wrong?

And YEa Interactive Units should and will be coming in with in the next week or so. But if your like me and can't wait to play the Wii and live in, or less than 3 hrs away from NY then head down to the Nintendo World Store ( 10 Rockerfella Plaza) on Friday for a Wii Day, prizes and other great Wii givaways. Plus ther will be about 12 Interactives Units there. Those will be there for ever but the party is only friday.

I will have to beat FFXII by next tuesday in order to play Gears, so that I can beat that before the Wii comes out, See everybody at the Party.
 
yea actually probably wont be seeing any playable systems of both Wii and Ps3, i know for a fact because my brother is a manager of a best by.

" We (best buy) wont be getting a wii because stores dont want a bunch of roudy kids moving around distrurbing customers, or braking stuff, and we wont be getting a ps3 for a long time, because of the shortages."
 
My wife and I went into an EBGames yesterday so I could show her FFXII so she knows what to get me for Christmas, and there was their seasonal promotional publication, sitting on the counter. It had a huge ad for Wii on the cover, so I snagged one. Then I flipped through it over McDonald's at the food court. Not a single mention of Wii or a Wii game inside (oh, actually there was ONE Wii game mentioned, I can't remember which one, but not one that looks any good).

I don't understand that. Wii enthusiasts will pick that up, thinking they're going to see Wii stuff inside, and then be disappointed, and ignore the rest of what's in there. That means all the Wii fans will be snatching up the magazine, and not reading them, like me. That's a waste of ad money, isn't it? Better to put an XBox on the cover, since most of the games seemed to be for XBox.
 
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