Kotaku

I’ve never totally gotten the appeal of Wii dancing games, though clearly there are a whole ton ofJust Dance fans out there who disagree. This new ad for Harmonix’s just-released Dance Central 2takes a humorous dig at Wii games and their obsolescence in the face of full motion-tracking.

Honestly, while truly compelling Kinect games are few and far between, watching this ad reinforces the fact that there is no greater hardware out there for dancing games. Though it must be said, when I play Dance Central 2, it’s less “cool, attractive dude and girl playing together” and more “goofy guy dancing around in his apartment by himself”. But the potential is there! Maybe I should invite more people over so that my own Dance Central 2 sessions begin to resemble the ones on the TV.

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/10/microsoft-takes-a-shot-at-the-wii-in-their-newest-dance-central-2-ad/

The points you are making is really good and I have to say dancing  Just dance on WII is totally different than dancing Dance central.

Going to the point where you say that dancing by your own as a guy at home is goofy I have to agree on that too, but I can look at it differently and you indicate that with the sentecne after. Invite some people over a mix och females and males put on some hip-hop clothes and just show them what you got. In some way I have noticed having that mix makes it much more social and the embarresements disappear to some degree because of the reason you are having fun and maybe having a mini challenge against each other.

So it kind of goes back to the point that is this game for you because maybe you know by yourself you will look like a failure and doesnt want that then I would say its less likely that you are going to buy the game.

After all we should keep in mind this isn't really pointed to the hardcore which would be the ones for the big part who will feel embarresed so I kind of have to say something that is obvious "they are going after the casual players"

EDIT: Just saw that this was the editors points hehe :P

you look goofy on Dance Central only if you suck at it real hard :P

but nah on a serious note who gives a ef;...it's a lot of fun

lol ad is funny... like anyone plays any dancing game alone.

In a party atmosphere... wii dance games are just more fun. More players at a time, just as much movement, etc...

Even Just Dance on Kinect isn't as much fun as the Wii version.

Really superchunk, sometimes even you must sigh at your love for Nintendo.

Anyway, different strokes for different folks, if you can't see the appeal in Dance Central then .. well I'm not surprised. It has 2 player so that isn't 'alone' and judging by the last games sales, it seems 2+ million dance 'alone'

You don't need to use controllers and it's real dancing, vs Just Dance which isn't, the entire game is better quality and obviously more talent has had to go into DC than JD.

I can certainly see the appeal in Just Dance though, just like how the majority prefer Mcdonalds over a steakhouse

Only part I liked better about DC was the playback of your video. Otherwise JD is just more fun.

As for first DC being one player.. that doesn't mean people played by themselves. They played in turns (borrrring...) with many other people.

You're example is really bad as well.. a better example is between Mario Kart's fun arcade style to GT's push for simulation. MK, like JD, sells way more due to it being a simply funner game... and that's what games are for ... fun. Especially a dance game which is really a party game.

Uh oh. The snarky smile has been used. Things have gotten serious.

OT: Eh, seeing as Just Dance is the big guy on campus as far as dance games go, Dance Central's poke was one used wisely. DC wants JD's audience, so they're trying to get the attention of those who played JD1 and 2 on Wii.

Also, I got Just Dance 3 for my sister for her birthday. I'm really looking forward to playing it too. Maybe afterwards we can go to a nice steakhouse.

My example is fine, just because you don't think it's fun doesn't mean it isn't. You seem to think a game has to be cheap easy to be fun, somehow real dancing is boooring rofl.

What you really mean is, Just Dance is fun to the Wii crowd and DC isn't, I'd probably agree with that, they wouldn't appreciate it like the 360 crowd will do over Just Dance 3.

Now you're just trying to insinuate that it has to be easy to play... however no that's not the issue.

The issue is DCs playstyle, scoring, lower player count, slower, etc... all make it less fun.

The dancing is the same. You dance. Can you just move a hand? sure but that's stupid and only trollish idiots do that. I have yet to be at a party where players just stood there moving their hands. Everyone gets up and dances the same as they would playing DC. The difference tho... and all agree on this even though all of them have 360's... is that they ask me to bring JD as it was more fun for everyone than DC.

Guess what? most of them bought Kinect/DC due to playing JD and then realized it isn't as much fun.. and some have bought JD2 for their Wii's as well.

I think this argument we're having is less me being pro-wii fanboy and more you being anti-Nintendo fanboy.

That's just hilarious, no superchunk, you use your whole body in DC. If we're going to use ancedotal evidence (which I hate but here goes) everytime I've seen Just dance played, either IRL, in ads or on yourtube, all I've seen is the generic swaying back and fourth, there isn't any skill in it.

I don't believe the comment after either.

It's nothing to do with me being anti Nintendo, it's to do with the obvious, in one game you dance, in the other you use two controllers to track your arms. End of.