New Microsoft peripherals

[thx1139]

nordlead said:

thx1139 said:

 

Thats BS the Wii isnt designed around the controller. The motion controller could have been an add-on all along.

The newton controller doesnt need to be a game changer, a little success in making people think twice before they get a Wii is all MS needs it to do. Nothing more.

As for peripherals Guitar Hero and Rock Band show how successful a peripheral device can work. MS simply should release XNA Sports with the Newton and charge like $50 for it.

 The Wii was designed around the controller. The hardware may be an evolution of the GC, but there are specific additions made because they decided they wanted a simple controller with motion sensing as their main input. Nintendo doesn't just make a console, they develope a console that is capable of running software with the features they want. Games are developed around the console, and the console is developed around the games, it is how Nintendo makes such high quality games.

 As for peripherals, has the Guitar from Guitar Hero or Rock Band been used in any other game? If not, then the periphial did nothing to further the systems capabilites other than to play 1 game. If that is all the Newton will be capable of, then it will do nothing. Who would buy a XBox 360 for XNA Sports, when they can get a Wii with Wii Sports and hundreds of other games use the motion controlls too.

Still say that is BS what about the Wii hardware makes motion sensing better?  I am talking about everything on the motherboard.  Nothing that cant be done with software on a PS3 or 360.  Nintendo makes high quality games by having a high quality software development process (although not all of thier games are high quality).

Also no one is saying stop with XBA Sports.  It is just one way to get some adoption.  I actually think they will go another route with a high quality game rather than a novelty game (like WiiSports).  Also they dont need 100s of games using the motion controls. Just a couple of good ones just like the Wii only has a couple of good ones.