| Warlord_ said: The wii does not use true motion contols as some would like to think, it judges if you are moving the contoller in a side to side motion or up and down, or if you move it fast, the same thing is true for the sixaxis, it has tilt and the buttons tell how hard you are pressing them, they even had pressure sensitive buttons on the dualshock controller. If the wii2 can have true motion sensing controls then that would be different, but that would need lots of sensors or a camera. The PSeye had motion controls, i could truly move and see it on screen, the wii just makes you think it has true motion controls. The wii is nothing truly amazing for this generation, if it never came out the PS2 would still be selling, the market would not fade away with the Playstation 3 or the xbox 360. The wii is lots of fun, don't get me wrong with what i said above, i play it all the time with my sisters kids. It's a great system, but don't try to take it for more then what it is, it's just another console from Nintendo. |
You seem to be misinformed about the capabilities of the Wiimote.
The Wiimote has an accelerometer which can sense precise acceleration along 3 axes. The Wiimote calculates the distance from it to the TV thanks to the sensor bar. It also detects the tilt and rotation of the Wiimote with respect to the sensor bar, allowing for it to sense something like the wind up for a pitch in baseball, or the pulling back of your arm for a punch (ala Godfather, which was brilliantly done I might add). It also has the ability to sense the tilt and angle of the Wiimote to the ground.
To summarize: The wiimote can detect tilt, angle, position, distance, and acceleration. This has not been fully explored yet, but theoretically the Wiimote is capable of a lot more than has been shown to date. Here's hoping Lucas Arts shows us this for the first time with a lightsaber game.
Also to add, rumble and the Wiimote speaker are really nice features.
Edit: I love the "my mom plays it" or "my children play it" methods of attacking the Wii. It's a very entertaining way to demean it. I think it's especially entertaining coming from a PS3 owner, when clearly based on game sales alone there are more core gamers with Wiis than PS3s. Core gamer doesn't have to be the only part of the Wii's userbase for it to be the dominant part or even a major part. It's like when PSP owners were bragging a while back about that press release that showed that 60% of PSP owners were over 16 but only 40% of DS owners were... even though 40% of DS owners is signifficantly larger than 60% of PSP owners. All it really is showing is that the system appeals to a much wider demographic including your own signifficantly better than it's competitors.
