I really can't say that wii control is a slam dunk on RE4 either to be honest. I loved it, but I never played RE4 until I had a wii. My friend who was ridiculously obsessed with the game who had it on Gamecube, PS2, beat it who knows how many times did knife runs, no merchant runs, whatever else the RE4 community (there is an actual community dedicated just to this game) did. He would come to my house and want to play RE4 because that's what he always did in his spare time, and he would actually hook up the GC controller to play it. The IR and motion controls felt unnatural to him. He was very used to dual analog, was perfect proficient with it, and had no desire to use the wiimote even when it was sitting next to him, and yes he did try it. He played the first few hours with it, and then went back to GC controls.
A person can say "oh, oh, it's the best, it's so much better" but it's still a matter of preference. Not everybody likes to use a keyboard and mouse combo either, even though from a utilitarian standpoint it blows both set ups out of the water in terms of what can be achieved in technical skill. But for a generation of gamers that grew up with dual analog, that's what feels natural and precise. I doubt the millions of people who buy RE5 will sit there wishing they had a wii mote or a mouse instead.
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