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curl-6 on 15 January 2014
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KylieDog said:
curl-6 said:
KylieDog said:
curl-6 said:

No PS3 game propagated and popularized a whole genre the way Wii Sports and Wii Fit did.


Yeah there were no sports games or fitness games before the Wii.


There is nothing original about Wii Sports at all, motion controls are someting the Wii did, Wii Sports was a poor version of a hundred sports games before it, looking worse than all of them and having next to no features that they all had.

There's your answer; there were no real motion games before the Wii. Since that is the defining element, they're not just sports games, or fitness games, they are motion games. Before Wii, they weren't.

Motion games are not a genre or type of game, motion controls are an input method.  We don't call Mario a 'controller game', it is a platformer, or platform game.  Again, Wii Sports did nothing for the genre.

Whatever helps you sleep at night.