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Carl2291 said: It is. It is indeed. But SMB can still be played the way it's supposed to be played USING the keyboard without any major drawbacks. Wii Sports is built around the Motion control. It could still be played using a CCP for example... But it would be a far, far, far inferior product because of it. Whereas with SMB, it isn't as good playing with a keyboard, but you still get pretty much the same experience out of the game. And i think Mario Kart Wii is split between the Motion and the Multiplayer aspects. People love to race against eachother using the wheel. |
I can use this kind of argument as well and claim that Mass Effect or Killzone 2 (or any other game that has ever been considered graphicaly stunning experience) would have been far, far, far inferior product if they were made with PS1-level of 3D graphics. I'm pretty sure it would have impacted sales of these games more severely than Wii Sports if it would have been released without motion controls support. But does it make these games any different? I may argue that less horsepower will lead to less enemies on the screen and lower resolution will make aiming a bit harder, but these are far-fetched arguments. The core gameplay is here, it's practically the same experience. If you claim it's not, then you as well claim that graphics is main selling point of these games, the same could be said about dozends and dozens of other modern games with little exception.
PS1-level of 3D graphics is clearly outdated by modern standards, the same way standard PS1-level of controls are seen as outdated for such sports games as golf, tennis, baseball etc. after Wii Sports came out, which is more fun to play because of motion controls compared to other sports games if other things being equal. Controls, or rather interface, is essential part of any game as well as graphics. It just happens that Wii Sports is able to differ itself from other similar games with superior interface rather than superior graphics. So you can't claim that superior motion controls is Wii Sport's main selling point and not admitting at the same time that Mass Effect and Killzone 2 were sold mainly on graphics.
