"System Seller"

[goddog]

puffy said:

goddog said:

puffy said:
Without Wii Sports people wouldn't care what kind of controls the console has - Oh it has motion controls cool.. *Plays Wii Sports - Wow it's really fun!*

See the difference yet?

 

yet again you prove my point. I said  "with out" motion (controls was implied but maybe i believed to much in your deductive reasoning ) and using traditional mechanisms (say a non motion cotroller)   would be nothing but early last gen pedestrian games... the motion physics is what makes them unique ...

*edit* strike through sorry I miss read. I thought you were replying not going off on a retarded tangent. your assuming wii sports is selling the wii because of its high sales numbers, any bundled game can pull these numbers off. you would be far better suited to use non bundled games to prove you point. say mario kart, or super mario world. or a game where you can choose your control schema classic or motion. here all you have is a fun tech demo that requirers motion control 

all of this shows that without the hardware that is currently in place wii sport would not sell 

or to help you if it was called xbox 360 sports and you had to use a traditional control the game would have sucked and been forgotten

back to my original point of the wii  being a software seller, and title on it not being hardware movers. both wii fit, and wii sports are prime examples of this being the case 

up for more of this or are you done sticking your foot in your mouth... edit mmmm my own foot tastes so good.. that replying without reading through a second or third time is tasty 

Lets talk about Wii Fit for a start. Are you seriously suggesting that people bought the game for the balance board? Yes some may have to play more core games in the future based on the BB but the majority (95%) of people bought it for Wii Fit. The hardware was built around the software, it's just a means to allow people to interact with the software and the software is what people are interested in.

People don't buy Singstar because they're interested in the Microphone. They buy it because they're interested in singing along to their favourite songs - The microphone allows them to do that.

People don't buy the iPhone because it has a multitouch touch screen and an accelerometer. They buy it because you can interact with the system more easily than others and you can do things that simply aren't possible with other phones. It isn't the hardware that makes people say wow I want one - It's the software that uses the hardware.

 

I can't explain it any clearer really... If you disagree then we'll have to respect each others opinion on that... 

 

once again with out the hardware provided both (sports/fit) of those units would be nothing special. I read it as this software was built for specific hardware they wanted to put out. 

 

sing star is a different case where you could play the game with hardware that did not ship with the game making it less hardware dependent on top of that its core functunality is not broken if say you only have a headset and a controller vs the mic they include where wii fit does not work without a balance board and wii sports dose not work without motion controls. 

 

and Ill reiterate I consider the Wii a special case. 

 

 never said the iphone sold because of this or that only the wii