One of Spores developers says "Wii is a piece of..."

[Kwaad]

Holy shit. what is today? Attack me? More personal attacks in the last 3 days from posters with under 10 posts than I've ever gotten... total. No. He is saying the Wii is not next gen. He is saying it is 2 game cubes duct taped together, with a new controller. The Wii is nothing new. Nothing special. The controller is. But you could use them on the GC. Next gen... is Next generation.

next ■ adjective coming immediately after the time of writing or speaking. ▶(of a day of the week) nearest (or the nearest but one) after the present. ▶(of an event) occurring directly after the present one in time. coming immediately after the present one in space, order, or rank. ■ adverb immediately afterwards. ▶following in the specified order. ■ noun the next person or thing. ■ preposition archaic next to.

generation ■ noun all of the people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively. ▶the average period in which children grow up and have children of their own (usually reckoned as about thirty years). a set of members of a family regarded as a single step or stage in descent. ▶a group of people of similar age involved in a particular activity: a new generation of actors and directors. the action of producing or generating. ▶the propagation of living organisms; procreation. a single stage in the development of a product.

so you get

occurring directly after the present one in time. a single stage in the development of a product.

The Wii is NOT next gen. It is a enhanced Gamecube. So it is therefor by definition LAST gen. You can not play a next gen game on the Wii. I have always enjoyed immersion on games. I have always felt that is a very imporant part of a game. I play games like people read books. I like there to be a whole new world. A new story. Laws different from our word. But laws that are laws, that have to be obeyed. The Wii does not allow too much in terms of that. EDIT: I just wanna say, there are not many games that fall into this criteria. I doubt there will ever be. Some games might come to the Wii with good immersion. But it does not have enough power to make the people around you 'think' it does not have enough power for advanced AI.