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Take a Look at Wii

By Adam Myers ⋅ May 8, 2006 ⋅ Tags: Gaming

Time has a great article that provides the public it’s first-look at the Nintendo Wii. From the article:

It’s a remarkable experience. Instead of passively playing the games, with the new controller you physically perform them. You act them out. It’s almost like theater: the fourth wall between game and player dissolves. The sense of immersion-the illusion that you, personally, are projected into the game world-is powerful. And there’s an instant party atmosphere in the room. One advantage of the new controller is that it not only is fun, it looks fun. When you play with an old-style controller, you look like a loser, a blank-eyed joystick fondler. But when you’re jumping around and shaking your hulamaker, everybody’s having a good time.

Wii is really the only true next-generation system; it’s the only one with a controller that allows a new generation of gameplay possibilities. The Xbox 360 and PS3 both sport multiple core technology, three and seven cores respectively if I recall, but all this power will not really be advancing the entertainment value in videogames.

I predict that after getting first-hand exposure to this new gameplay experience; everything else will seem clunky and unresponsive. Besides, you don’t want to be a “blank-eyed joystick fondler”, do you?