| mai said: @Shoestar Copy might be not a right word, but are you implying there's absolutely no connection between the amount of success Wii Sports is enjoying and Microsoft and Sony decision to make Sports game compilation all of a sudden and market it heavily? Absoulutely there's a connection, they copied business decision to go after audience Nintendo captured. That's what they copied. |
I don't think it's that SONY and MS looked at Nintendo and said we need to copy motion controls. They realized what games were selling and decided to create a product for that market. You could say they listened to the gaming audience.
Also both products have something extra and distinct from Nintedo. MS has ESPN and controller-less controls for moving through menus. This is for a new audience that current Wii doesn't capture.
SONY, while creating a supply of 'Wii Sports' type games hasn't forgotten hardcore gamers making the move a differnet option for action games (RE5 Socom4) despite those type of game not selling well on the Wii. In this case they're not only going after a new audience for the PS3, but also trying to attract current users to adopt motion controls.
It's true that both SONY and MS did not have motion controls before, but their new products are not simply copies of NIntendo's controls with Nintendo like games.
