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No I didn't get a Wii - I lined up but sold out! (damnit)

No I didn't get a PS3 - I'm not entirely interested in having a CELL chip in my home anytime soon

No I didn't get a XBOX360 - I always think their games suck

 

Is my gaming life over? 

 

Anyway, some interesting blogs over the last few weeks covering the story:

blogged from http://www.forbes.com/2006/11/13/wii-review-ps3-tech-media-cx_de_1113wii.html?partner=rss

 

Last week, shortly after a Wii review unit arrived at Forbes.com's office, I set it up in a conference room to test it out. A colleague and I booted up Wii Sports, a collection of simple sports games that comes bundled with every console. It wasn't long before we were completely immersed in Wii Tennis. The simple mini-game replicates an actual tennis match as well as any I've ever seen: Since you're actually swinging the remote like you would a racket, you can hit with varying force or apply spin to the ball, depending on how you move your body.

Within minutes, we'd drawn a crowd, and only a short while after that, most of the editorial staff was packed into the conference room, laughing, enjoying the show and pushing for their turn at the remote. It was the first time since the original Nintendo Entertainment System came out in 1985 that videogaming felt like a party experience--not just because it was new, and worth gawking at, but because the experience is so much more physical, like Charades or Twister, and spectators can enjoy as much as the players.

After the hard-core gamers got their turns, less videogame-savvy editors took a shot, too. And it was here where the intuitive motion control system really proved its worth. There's no sequence of arcane button combinations required to throw a baseball: You just wind up and mime an actual throw. Suddenly, videogames are fun for everyone--old or young, male or female, regardless of prior gaming experience. I lost count of how many times I heard non-gamers say, "Wow, I want to get this."

 

My view:

Wii is indeed revolution!  What makes a console fun is not about how advanced it is, but it's how fun the games are.  Stop babbling about how good your hardware is cause no one will care!  Who cares about what a CELL chip is and who cares about how many SPUs/PPUs. sitting in your $600 box if the game suck!  Technology nevers interests people, it's the possibilities that technology opens up that drive us to explore and to develop!

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