| Destroyer_of_knights said: if your an investor or some Nintendo employee, then it's awesome, but as a gamer it sucks balls so much buying a peripheral based game for only 1 game, it's upto 1st part to supporr the peripheral otherwise 3rd won't even touch it, I mean you can't seriously be happy with this 1 huge game per peripheral crap can you, why not want 5 huge games instead? |
I was going to agree with you, but then I stopped to think about it a bit more. They ARE doing some stuff with the Balance Board, and several Nintendo games aside from Wii Fit can use the thing. Admittedly, I wish they'd do more. The Wheel is technically used in two other Nintendo games, and will likely show up in all future Nintendo racing games. I don't think we're going to see future Zapper games from Ninendo, but third-parties are picking up the slack there. Motion+ should be used more, but then they're going to make it mandatory for Zelda, which is a pretty big deal. And now there's this thing.
Their use of peripherals could be better, but it's not as bad as a casual glance would argue.
Demotruk said:
Perhaps, but Nintendo could also simply decline to grant a license to a game whose name they feel is using their brand innappropriately. Admittedly, if someone were to release the game on another format they'd need to trademark all "Wii___" derivatives (WiiRelax, only on XBox 360!) . |
I think that would violate the "consumer confusion" test, and would thus be invalid.
