Man The Wii Craze Crashed Hard

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Tachikoma said:

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Tachikoma said:

More accurately, Wii was not a fad, motion controls however, was the fad.

Oh motion controls are alive and well, they've just migrated to mobile and handheld gaming.

Very few mobile games bother with using the accelerometer anymore, generally just racing games using it for steering, by all means point out any modern mobile game out right now that focuses on or even widely uses the accelerometer for play, other than console ports like thomas was alone, which only have accelerometer support because of the vita, a console which in itself is failing miserably.

It became unpopular in mobile too, around about the same time the Wii did.

Catching a commuter train in 2014, it's very common to see people tilting their phone as they play stuff like endless run racers, Graviturn and similar tilt-based puzzlers, even Pacman. 3DS also uses motion, and unlike Vita, it's not a failure.

If it was really dead, phones would have stopped incorporated accelerometers; they could cut build  cost by removing an unused feature.