"The Revolution", six years later.

[artur-fernand]

the_dengle said:

artur-fernand said:

Fair enough. I'll concede I made a mistake that they forgot about the Wiimote. It's just the impression I had with the Wii U.

But my other points still stand, motion controls are nowhere near as essential as we thought it would be when the Wii was revealed.

And that's not an incorrect statement. The impact of motion controls is pretty subjective -- you might say Nintendo Land should have supported Pro Controllers, and I agree, but at the same time, no way would the Zelda or Metroid attractions have been remotely as much fun with simple dualstick controls.

And as I mentioned with Pikmin 3, the game is really being designed to take advantage of the speed and precision possible with Wii Motion Plus. It might not do anything not technically possible with dual analog controls, but it looks like it plays much better with Wii Remotes.

Metroid Prime 3 and Skyward Sword did benefit from motion controls. But that's an extremely small fraction of all the games out there to call this a "revolution".

What about Nintendo's biggest game, Mario? Super Mario Galaxy only uses it to control the pointer on the screen. It's not exactly a ground-breaking use of the technology.  I noted I said a bunch of bullshit here, forgive me.