Wii or N64?

[colafitte]

GoOnKid said:

colafitte said:

I already explained multiple times i referred to Nunchuk controls and not motion controls as a whole. I mantain what i said: "Nunchuk controls and its mainstream success were a fad". Wii sports kinda games sold a lot, and Nintendo has never come back to those games...It must be for a reason i think. Kinect with Microsoft was the same thing, it completely disappeared from Microsoft strategy. It went from being the next big thing for Xbox to completly forgotten. Would you agree with me that Kinect was a fad or not in this case?.

Nunchuck controls were a deliberate design choice so that developers had more buttons and input options if they needed them. It was one of the Wii's main design features. If you want to call that a fad so be it, but then we could also call many things a fad, like the triple handle of the N64 pad, the Transfer Pak, the UMD discs of the PSP, the PC joysticks for flight simulator games, you name it. You can believe whatever you want; you call it a fad, I call it a feature. The Kinect is also a feature, and an optional one, mind you, just like PS Eyetoy. Surely you would call that a fad too, right? Also the Buzz controllers. Also the PS Vita's backside touchscreen. Also Playstation Home. Also the PS4's touch button on the controller. Also the PS4's LED bar. Anything that deviates from the classic gamepad layout. Anything can be a fad if you want it to be one, but at the same time these are all attempts of differentiation among the competition.

You wanted to say that nowadays we don't use nunchucks anymore and you tell us all that to portray the N64 as superior, but the N64 also had design choices that are not used anymore, so I don't see your point.

Not everything can be a fad. Things that became useless or never succeeded like UMD, PS vita back touchpad, Ps4 led bar, PS home... Were not a fad because they weren't even a success in the first place. 

I already said PS eye toy and kinect were a fad, like guitar hero games, or singstar games but it seems you didn't notice. 

Neither of those accessories you cited for N64 were the reason people bought that console. If you are going to tell me that Nintendo and the consumers did not treat wiimote controls and its gameplay mechanics as the main new attractive point of the Wii during 2006-2010 then there is no point in keep arguing.

That was the main difference between a GameCube and a Wii. That was not an anecdotal accesory like the eye camera for ps2 or kinect for x360. It was integral in the concept of the console and most of its most important games. Wii lived and died on the success of wiimote controls.