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Rpruett on 27 August 2010
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Metallicube said:
Carl2291 said:

Okay. We're at a stalemate here and we're moving away from the original point ¬_¬

My point is. The Motion Controls of the Wii are no way a secondary reason for Wii's success.

Not a chance.

No way.

No.

Wii Sports would not have been the same game without Motion Controls. It would not have gone on to be the most important game this generation without the Motion.

Wii Sports needed the Motion just as much as the Motion needed Wii Sports.

Price - That's a whole different point that I'm not going into.

Did motion controls in Wii Sports add an entirely new appeal and fresh/intuitive way to play the game? Absolutely. But had the GAME itself Wii Sports been broken/boring/poorly made, it would not have succeeded the way it did. This cannot be denied.


We could spin this circle round and round though.   If motion controls were poorly implemented, broken, not intuitive, poorly made it would not have succeeded the way it did.  This cannot be denied. The Motion Controls were the primary reasoning for why games that were relatively shallow in terms of depth by modern game standards succeeded.  They made them fun to play for reasons other than the game itself. 

The reasoning for why Motion Controls are held to a higher regard than Software (In this instance) IMHO is because there is quite a bit of software on the Wii (Good Software) that does not need to be played with motion controls but can be played just fine with it with no issue.  On the flip side, a good amount of software is motion control based on the system and for those instances (Wii Sports/Sports Resort/etc/etc, Im looking at you)  this software wouldn't even remotely be the same without Motion controls.

And my reasoning for why price is such a huge factor (Even larger than software) is because of a word you mentioned several times.  Accessibility.  If the Wii wasn't capable of reaching a wide-spread audience and ended up just reaching for the hardcores, it would have failed pretty hard as well.