i thought the nes had the best graphics yet for a console when it was first releases?

something about "it's a real arcade experience, in you living room!" and their marketing slogan at the time "now your playing with power!"

Nintendo is hot...enough said !

I wasn't making a joke. I was astonished that no duct-tape was need. My things have changed.

Nope, it was 8-bit so therefore a generation behind in graphics compared to computers. At the time consoles were considered a non-product because of the Atari 2600 crash, so gaming was taken over by computers temporarily because of that. Today the computers of then are the Xbox 360 and the PS3. As far as consoles went, it was a non-business so definitely the NES was among the best looking ones, but still less powerful than the Master System which was hardware released earlier than the NES.

Consoles were always a generation behind in terms of graphics when you compared them to the Arcades(and therefore high tech). It's just that along the lines console standards evolved from products pushing huge profits out of the box at launch as a necessity, to minimal profits with hardware at launch(PS1), and then losses at launch(PS2), and even bigger losses today. This gradually blurred the line between what was considered to be console technology and the estate of the art Arcade technology, today they're almost the same.

If you trace back the Wii is actually a correction, not an exception. It correctly uses technology in line with what used to be the standard for consoles, aiming for a profitable sale from the start and smaller chipsets(the big casing of the NES and other American versions of consoles back then were mostly for show, the Famicom was released two years earlier and was about half the size for instance). What we have today with the HD systems are essentially computers once again, the Wii is really the only console, much like the NES.

I think the thread creator meant something like this....

Since the balance board is weight sensitive, the game will probably pick up your ducking, head, and body movements while you shift your weight around while shooting or dodging a shot.

I was just about to call you an idiot for predicting the very obvious long after it happened, and then I realized you were necro-patting yourself on the back.



The Balance Board can definitely be used in an FPS. One player sits on their ass, with their hands on a Wii Wheel, and their feet on a Balance Board. They apply pressure with their feet to drive, and use their hands to steer. 3 other players grab remotes. Wii Drive By.

Or you shift your weight to lean around corners and to duck, while using the analog stick to walk, and aiming for camera+shooting.

Or you shift your weight forward to walk and use the analog to control the camera and the remote is just for shooting.

It would have been better if you called me an idiot. Then I could have returned the favor. Ah well.

When I wrote about an FPS using the Balance Board I was envisioning a character on a Marty McFly style skateboard armed with an Uzi. Make it happen someone!

With the Wii's control options, you could have a Hoverboard/Uzi game or a Hoverboard/LightSaber game. Hoverboard racing, hoverboard JOUSTING, hoverboard boxing (like a beat 'em up while keeping your balance), or anything else.

I really really hate all 3rd parties. It really is pathetic that Wii Fit comes with both ski and snowboard minigames, and the first ideas to go through 3rd party heads are We Ski and Shaun White Snowboarding. Any of us could walk into an office and say "make a hoverboard game" and get a huge bag with a dollar sign on it.

Or you know the hoverbelt in Pilotwings? You stand on the board and lean side to side, while using a remote and a nunchuck as your right and left boosters. BLAM. There's a whole game. Just design a tropical archipelago with some secret caves and let me play that shit already. I'd even play that if it was made by Ubisoft and full of babyz and other petz.

Yep, definitely Famicom 2.0.

The sales are reflecting this with enormous numbers.