IGN: "Wii Music a Hit: We Have Failed"

[MaxwellGT2000]

Esa-Petteri said:

MaxwellGT2000 said:

Kyros said:

for it sharing the exact same idea as Wii Music

The exact same idea is a phrase that must have a different meaning for you than for me.

The thing is Singstar is a Karaoke game and it is a good karaoke game with an input device (a microphone) that is perfect for Karaoke.

Wii Music is a game for making music and it does this with an input device that is shitty for making music. A wand you wave around. The Wiimote doesn't look like a music instrument, it doesn't have the controls of a music instrument. Because of this games like Rockband add very expensive accessories like the drums that really work like music instruments.

The Wiimote is great for Wii Sports because many sports are rather nicely approximated by waving around a racket, a bat or whatever. Making music is much more complicated with very different instruments and many times blowing out air of your mouth is a completely different matter and this shows. It looks ridiculous and 95% of reviews have said that it plays sucky too. Now it apparently has sales success but perhaps people are so disgusted with it that they will learn for the next time. One can only hope.

A bit of cherry picking on my part but from personal experience GameStops don't have mass amounts of traded in Wii Music games which usually is what happens when people are displeased with a new game, but they have huge stacks of games like GTA IV, The Force Unleashed, Halo 3 (even though that's a little less relivent since it's older but still has huge stacks right after release) and even MGS4...

 

I wonder. Could it be because most of wii music buyers don't shop from stores like gamestop? They don't know that they can sell their used copies.

 

 

Except there's ads all over TV... and stores everywhere... and well no way not to see at least one gamestop ad on TV in north america...