Why would anyone want to air drum when you can just get Rock Band or GH4?

Ugh...

As a gamer, I agree with you.

As someone who is nowhere near a Nintendo fan, I agree with you.

Overall though, I agree with you.

First off: I don't think Wii Music is aimed at most of the people on this site. It's aimed for the soccer moms, grandparents, little kids, etc.

Secondly: I think the huge success of GH,RB, etc and intense competition on the music game scene may have largely made Wii Music seemed like a johnny-come-lately cheap money grab than a game that's been in development for so long.

Thirdly: I've been trying to envision how this would play. I can see this being fun to play with your young children - for a little while. Otherwise from what's been shown this game looks like Tickle Me Elmo. Something that's seems really cute but once purchased, doesn't hold your interest for any length of time. But then again.... Tickle Me Elmo was a 'must have' gift for a year so...

I dont care and am not interested.

This.

If the game doesn't have some secret level of depth, then this is a gigantic waste of code.

I get easily bored with rhythm games already, and these are rhythm games that have their own peripheral to make the experience more authentic, like GH.

But I don't even see this as being fit for my mother who's the biggest "non-gamer" I know. I've bought her a Wii and Wii Fit and she loves both (and Endless Ocean), but I just can't ever see her enjoying this for more than 5 minutes and that doesn't warrant a $50 purchase.

It's a fad!!

I blame Wii Music

Anyway, I'm glad they didn't try to copy Guitar Hero (and even GH3 could never live up to the best music game to date, Donkey Konga :P)

I think it will sell well (most first party titles do!), but I won't be buying it. I felt embarassed watching them play it on stage at E3. I got the impression that you are simply pressing buttons or using motion control to trigger preset notes, so you can't play the wrong note and therefore there is no actual "game" element to it at all. It would be like if Guitar Hero only used one button that always played the correct note and all you had to do was press it at the right time - but you get no points or have to face any kind of challenge. I could be completely wrong, but from what I've seen and read about it, that appears to be the way it works.

I have no problem with them releasing the game if there's a target market for it, but don't forget about the long time Nintendo fans who don't want every game to be dumbed down for the casuals!

Wii sports it a 6/10 game in my book. I am guessing Wii Music would be a 3 or 4 out of 10, but I am not buying it. Wii music looks like crap imo.

Still think its a waste of money, plastic, paper and all the fuels needed to move it around the globe, oh and I think it was a waste of development money.

All you do is push the buttons or move the remote. Whenever you want. However you want. There is no failing, there is no skill, there is no point beyond playing the set songs on the disc, which include such classics as Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.

I was kind of hoping at first this would be semi set up like Rock Band or Guitar Hero but with more instruments. I was completely wrong.

Plus there is the great qoute from the legend himself. From Kotaku

One question asked of Miyamoto was Wii Music's qualifications as a game. You know, a game game. Since Wii Music has no discernible scoring system, no goals and little in the way of those squishy innards that makes a game a "game," isn't it just a "musical toy"? That was the question posed by one European journo.

"Yes, that's right," Miyamoto curtly replied "And that's why it's more interesting than a video game."

He's flipped his lid. Seriously the dude should retire while he is still looked at as a god of video game design.