Wii and the FPS Genre

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twesterm said:
I don't think the Wii will become the FPS powerhouse that it should. It's true that the Wii can hands down control better than the 360 with games like Metroid Prime 3: Corruption and Resident Evil 4: Wii *and* still be able to even fall on the Classic and Gamecube controllers for those people that don't like motion controls but sadly FPS games have *always* been about power.

FPS games always try to one up all other games by having the most realistic physics, the best real time lighting, the smartest AI, the flashiest weapon effects, ect, and for FPS games to really get popular on the Wii, the Wii would have to let developers one up each other. With games already out on the 360 the Wii could never touch power wise, developers would never be able to one up each other.

 I actually agree with you quite a bit but I have to wonder if the one-ups-manship is limited only to graphics.  There are definitely other areas where the Wii FPS could try and one-up the 360 FPS but the question is would people respond to it or ignore it in favor of the traditional?

Without knowing what innovations they might come up with it is impossible to predict how well such things could compete.  But I have to ask if you think that going outside the paradigm of "raw power begits raw power" could work for them? Or do you think that they are stuck forever playing second best in the eyes of FPS faithful?

I don't think there is nearly enough info to predict what "will" happen, which is why I am focusing more on the possible outcomes.