Yeah it never get old.

THE question can now be asked: Does it make sense to buy a Nintendo Wii anymore?

For four years, there has been no question. No product has been more important than the Wii in leading video games’ return to the cultural mainstream. Since its debut in 2006, the Wii has reshaped living room entertainment by making simple, intuitive games accessible to millions of people who never felt comfortable with a typical two-handed game controller covered with buttons and sticks.

For all their sophistication and power, the competing consoles — the Microsoft Xbox 360 and Sony PlayStation 3 — have remained largely the province of serious gamers. Neither brand offered the sorts of controls that could truly appeal to a mass audience, and particularly to families that want to have fun together at home.

Until now. Nintendo should feel some heat at the moment, because Microsoft and Sony, which outstrip Nintendo in sheer technical resources, have finally caught up with the Wii’s lead in engineering and its ingenious human interface. Put another way, for almost four years, the Wii offered a unique home entertainment experience. But now, after the introductions this fall of the Move system from Sony for the PS3 and the brilliant Kinect from Microsoft for the Xbox 360, the Wii no longer does anything important that the PS3 or Xbox 360 cannot do even better.

On the one hand (so to speak), the Move basically copies the Wii’s wandlike controller, although it feels slightly more accurate. As with the Wii, you wave the Move’s controller around and swing and twist it in space to bowl or throw or evoke some other action on the screen.

The difference is that the Wii’s graphics, while cute, are of low resolution and inferior detail. The PS3 is a high-definition powerhouse. When you compare golf on the Wii to golf on the PS3 with Move, you realize that there really is no competition. On the Wii, golf looks like a video game. On the PS3, golf looks like a golf course. I cannot wait to see how Sony incorporates the Move into its Major League Baseball series next year. Done properly, it should be as close to standing in the batter’s box and trying to hit a professional curveball as most of us will ever come.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/03/technology/personaltech/03KINECT.html

LOl, this years butthurt is already laughable, but next year will really be the epitome.

ROFL!

This guy needs to read some of the Malstrom articles!

And when he even say: "On the Wii, golf looks like a video game. On the PS3, golf looks like a golf course"

This is why will games sells more, they are made to be games, not interactive movies! In a few weeks Mario kart Wii (a game that looks like a video game) will start outsold GT5 (a game that is "more real then reality ") .

So... ROFL! (just one more time)

It's pretty clear the author only has a superficial understanding of video games. Given the source (A general news outlet like the New York Times as opposed to a professional source like Joystiq or Escapist), that's not surprising.

Also, seeing the Futurama pic made the double "Doooooooooooooooooooom" play in my head. Good stuff.

The Wii still has something that the PS360 consoles can't do. The Wii has lower budget costs, it doesn't take such a large investment to make a Wii game. This is why games like Conduit 2 are still Wii only, and why The Grinder is staying an FPS on Wii. The fact is making games for the Xbox or Playstation 3 is expensive about three times the cost. When comparing that to the Wii's costs it will always remain profitable to produce on the Wii. For households this means that they will continue to buy Wiis to get ahold of this exclusive software only found on Nintendo's system. PS360 fans can go to hell, Nintendo took your so called mighty consoles by surprise and now your forced to reimage your systems.

EDIT: This post has been moderated. -d1

They are correct about what SONY can possibly do with their MLB The Show series if they use the Move correctly. It would allow you to actually golf swing a low inside pitch and with enough speed launch it to the fences.

It is the game I am looking forward to most right now. The calibration screen is caused me to think of the possibilities. With it the eye will realize where you waistline is, making it even more deadly accurate when swinging high or low.

I don't think the Move gets enough credit.

Rolling On Laughing Floor?

I want a laughing floor too :P

lOLOLOOOLLLOL

Ok, sorry, I lost control.

I agree with the post saying that games are meant to be..... games, that's why wii is too cool and awesome and MKwii will indeed start to outsell GT5

The Wii probably has the greatest commodity this gen.

Nintendo titles.

Talk to me when Wii Fit 3/Mario Kart Wii 2/NSMBW2 is on PS3 and 360.

Fixed, thanks =)