crumas2 on 12 April 2008
| FishyJoe said: The controller is not so much new as accessible. You can give the Wiimote to anyone and it is intuitive enough that most people will be comfortable. That is not the case with the power glove and other such devices. The typical joypad is not terribly intuitive. Give it to someone who has never used one before and chances are they will not feel comfortable. It's like the iPod. All the technology that went into the iPod existed before Apple created it. But Apple made it accessible enough for everyone to use it. And people certainly didn't choose the iPod because of price or features, because the Ipod was more expensive and had fewer features than most mp3 players. Apple created a device that everyone could use that was intuitive. The same way the Nintendo has created devices that are intuitive. Features and price were only secondary to accessibility. |
This is definitely Apple's forte. Xerox PARC invented the computer mouse, GUI, etc., but Apple made them usable.
As you say, this is what Nintendo has done with the Wiimote... made it actually work well enough and in an intuitive way so that it transcends being a gimic and becomes a popular solution.
