Sony CEO: I've played the Wii..an expensive niche device

[Impulsivity]

11ht11 said:

Impulsivity said:

A different controller is a short term advantage, most likely MS and Sony will release motion controllers too soon enough (Really Sony already had motion type stuff first if you ever played the eye toy games) and the disparity in hardware will still be there.  Do you buy a computer thats a bad value because it comes with a better mouse?

 

so they want to be more like the "niche device"?

 

 

    The Niche part is not the controller, its the strong limitation on the power of the Wii hardware and the use of the Wii for anything but playing games with poor graphics.  It's like comparing two computers where one has great hardware, software and an older mouse and the other has 8 year old hardware and software but a great new high tech mouse, say a touch screen interface or something.  It's a lot easier to give the new great computer a different mouse then the old style inadequite computer a new....everything else.

   Also try playing a lot of the popular Wii games with the Wiimote, it SUCKS (especially smash bros, its almost unplayable with the Wiimote compared with the gamecube controller or the classic controller).  The remote is a lot like the eyetoy, its great for a limited subset of games, but in a lot of cases a normal controller is just flat out better still.  I'd rather have the option to use both depending on the game which is what I'll probably end up with as the PS3 matures.