| Staude said: yeah. It's evident to me that sony pulled a very smart move. They combined their camera tech with wand tech... It's the ultimate motion controller. |
I missed the button part so that's a relief but still, it's an accessory and an old accessory. Not only that, but they have to have two of the wands per person and an Eyetoy.
I know you people are expecting a lot from a years dev time but that's just foolish. A year is an incredibly small amount of time and leaves room for no mistakes and nothing deep. Things like Wii Sports and Wii Fit are both good because they spent much longer than a year researching everything they could from them. The games that are releasing at the wand launch won't have that time and they will suffer.
Nobody gets it right first try and games that do things well only do those things well because they had time to polish the Hell out of it.
Two things are going to happen from the launch games:
- They are just going to be bad versions of games that have already been out for four years.
- Or they are going to be alright exact copies of games that have already been out for four years.
You all can talk all you want about Sony quality but it's a loss either way. Either they're going to pour a lot of money into a game with only a year development time so they are only going to be copies of 4 year old games or they are either going to be called shovelware because they are in fact games developed into a year.
Let me say this again and even bold it this time: it's incredibly hard to make a new game in a year and even harder when you're working with prototypes.
Sony can throw all the money they want at their quality developers, it doesn't matter, they're still trying to make a game in a year. Again, anyone expecting anything impressive next Spring is in for a huge disappointment.
Every game will easily fit into one of the two above categories. Because of that, the accessories just won't sell and will fade away into obscurity. These will be incredibly casual games aimed at people that do not have a PS3, the PS3 doesn't have the family image the Wii has, don't want to spend the money on the PS3 when they can spend less money on a Wii, and have to buy many accessories.
Just so you know, those are huge barriers to entry for the general uniformed non-gamer.
Let’s just pretend there's a fitness game next Spring for the wands. For the PS3, you have to get the PS3 which is not the family friendly console and the more expensive console, then you have to get the wands, then you have to get an eyeToy, and then you have to get the game. That's a lot to ask the non-gamer.
Now, look at Wii-Fit, you have to get the Wii which is the cheaper family friendly console, you have to get the balance board, and you have to get a game (lets assume no bundles because it's fun being stupid). For the non-gamer, that's something that's much easier to swallow.
Now I know I'm talking about the non-gamer here, but what the mythical hardcore gamer? Well they won't give two shits about the wands because it's going to be Sony Sports, Drake's Handgun Training, Sony Fitness, and Circus Games (the exact things they have been mocking the previous four years). There aren't going to be any deep games unless they are horrible throw away games like Red Steel.
So because of that, the wands just aren't going to sell worth anything. Deeper games may start coming out a year or later down the line, but by that time the wands have already failed and it just won't matter. During that year no new developer will want to waste their time on something nobody is buying.
So the wands-- too little too late.
And as for me calling you a liar Staude, what do you expect?
When you say something as ridiculous as the Wii doesn't work in a normal living room I have to expect one of two things:
- You're lying to make the Wii look bad
- You're too inept to actually setup your Wii
I don't think you're an idiot so I have to assume you're just trying to make the Wii look bad. If the Wii had as short of a range as you think it does, it wouldn't be any kind of success and that would be every non-Nintendo fanboys first weapon against the Wii. It would be like the Wii's equivalent of the RRoD.
So yeah, pick either of the two above options because those are the only two there are and, like I said, I don't think you're an idiot so I'm just assuming you're not telling the truth to make the Wii look bad.
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I forgot there is a third option, you Wii may be busted but that doesn't seem like the case since putting it on your coffee table makes it work for some reason.
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And I mean no disrespect to you, that's just how I reason things out when I see statements like that. Definately don't think you're an idiot (want to stress that) and don't even like calling you a liar.
