Onimusha12 said:
Why is the Wii a Gimmick? Because its graphics aren't as good as the 360/PS3's? I hope motion controls aren't your issue because the PS3 has them too. When I think of Gimmick, I think of things that don't really succeed like oh you know, the Eye Toy, the PS-EYE, Six-Axis, Sweat Engines for Sports Games, Gameboy Advance Card Reader, N64DD, PS Pocket Station, Virtual Boy, Famicom Disc System, etc. etc. When I see Sony has already attempted Motion Controls with the Six-Axis, a potential motion sensing glove for the PS4 and Microsoft is developing their own dual motion controller, you can be pretty sure that the originator of the trend (The Wii) isn't so much a gimmick as it is a sign of the comming times. Last generation you could have called the Gamecube's Wavebird a Gimmick, but wireless controllers are now the standard. You could have called the Dreamcast's (even the Xbox's) online play a Gimmick, but today it has become the standard if not a necessity. You could have said the N64's Rumble was a gimmick, but before you knew it the PS had Dualshock. You could have called the N64's four controller ports a gimmick but by today its the bare minimum for any console. What's the real Gimmick here? A console that tries to take gameplay further via a new means of interaction (the Wii) or a console that tries to force something as arbitrary to gaming as its company's new media format onto the consumer in a dubious gesture while boasting copy-cat slapped on motion controls and a successor to the questionable Eye-Toy? If you want a Gimmick try an overengineered console that is so hopelessly complicated and was so unprepared for developer support that it was sold on the promise of what it potentially could do in years to come, not what it could do at the moment resulting in a slew of graphically inferior and buggy ports. While Sony pushes the Ps3 as a trojan horse for Blu-Ray and Microsoft pushes the 360 as a means of blocking their competitor's expansion into other markets that could possibly be exploited through gaming... Nintendo is the only company still making a video game console solely for the video game market. Oh but that's right, they're the ones who are the gimmick, not the two others who are using gaming as a means to other ends. |
Motion controls are a gimmick, and i hate them, they serve no use in gaming. Sony was retarded to add them just like Nintendo. And if motion controls are the future then why the hell is Nintendo still selling GC controllers right alongside wii games.
Rumble in games serves little to no use, i have only found one use for it and thats being shot at in a game, and i could careless if it leaves forever. Since i have had no rumble since i bought my PS3 and i do not miss it. Online play or wavebird controllers could never be called a gimmick, they improve on gaming as a whole, unlike motion controls, which infact inhibit gamers controls over their game.
Pressing a button gets the job done alot faster and alows quicker controls in fast paced games the waving your hand to do something, plus the game does not even do what you want it to all the time.
I don't think i need to respond to all your anti-Sony/MS crap.
