Wii owners, what would online play for WiiSports Resort mean to you?

[Showertea]

tuoyo said:

 You talk as if casual gamers (whatever that means) are retarded.  Don't they have PCs in their homes?  Don't they know how to operate televisions, microwaves, dvd players, etc?  Or are they half brains that only know how to put Wii Sports into the Wii and do nothing else on this earth? If they can go online with their PCs what could be so difficult about going online with Wii?   

 

I'm not saying that at all. However, it's a value judgement for most people: Is doing X worth the reward Y. Now, the X is relatively small: Reading a manual, figuring out how their wireless network is encrypted. My dad loves Wii Sports, but he's not going to find out the 16 character random password I set up on his wireless. Unlike traditional gamers, non-traditional gamers aren't neccessarily geeks. They're just as likely to be soccer moms who throw up their hands at the very idea of a WEP encryption or a wireless LAN. The key issue in the value judgement, however, is the reward Y. Will Joe and Jill Non-Traditional Gamer, who play Wii Sports every night, who bought Wii Fit and Mario Kart Wii to have fun with their teenage kids and get more exercise, be excited by the idea of playing a video game against people they never met? Of course not. The entire mystique of the wii is that it brings people, and families, together, which is not what you're doing if you're at different ends of an internet connection.

Furthermore, non-traditional (note I never said 'casual') gamers feel estranged from the entire traditional gaming hierarchy. They aren't too stupid to play Halo 3, they just think the endevour isn't worth getting the hang of the hostile controls. In the same way, I think if you ask a lot of new 'wii sports' gamers about online play, they'll say something along the lines of "Isn't that for sweaty nerds who live in their moms basement?" I'm not saying this is true, but that's the perception a lot of people have.

You know that oft repeated meme of the VCR/DVD clock that is constantly blinking 12:00 because nobody bothered to set it? That's not because nobody is smart enough to set it, it's because nobody cares if they have a clock on their VCR.