Lol, what if it is a good game?

This is exactly what I was asking. I haven't seen any videos of anyone making music in Wii Music. Where was the announcement you can do something other than mimic the selected song? I may be misinterpretting what's being said, but isn't a music making game actually something like the Creat A Song function in Guitar Hero World Tour? Does Wii Music have something like that?

From GameSpot:

"Unlike [Guitar Hero and Rock Band], Wii Music was designed around the idea that there shouldn't be any "incorrect" input. Built with the goal of allowing anyone to appreciate the joy of creating music, the game allows players to mimic more than 60 different instruments in improvised jams or playing along to more than 50 well-known standards and licensed songs. For those with a Wii Balance Board and a desire to make some noise, the game also includes a virtual drum kit using the board in tandem with a Wii Remote and Nunchuk."

Source: http://www.gamespot.com/wii/sim/wiimusic/news.html?sid=6197914&om_act=convert&om_clk=newsfeatures&tag=newsfeatures;title;1

Ohhh, so you can press the buttons and stuff and it will make noise in a
Jam Session type deal.
Hmmmm that still isn't making a song though, but it does sound like it has more potential than it did before.

Nintendo has been passing their software off as educational gimmicks for quite some time. From advocating that schools use their DS as a tool for eduction. To selling adults on Brain Training games. That said the premise that this is a useful educational tool is far fetched at the best.

Young children already create music of their own accord without guidance. They use their creative instincts to turn almost anything into a musical instrument. They will sing along to music, create their own songs, and will sing with one another. In fact I would prefer children do that then use this game.

The reasoning is sound creating music in the real world imparts a great many lessons to the young mind. Imagine your first musical instrument chances are it was probably something like a bucket. Can you remember that discovery how it sounded different when it was on the ground then if you slung it under your arm. You found that hitting it in different places made different sounds.

Music is a learning process, and you cannot substitute this process with a video game. You need to use real instruments real or fashioned to capture the correct experience. You want to get a child enthusiastic about creating music give them a bucket. They will learn far more from that. Free form creativity is the way to go, and the thing that teaches you the most at that age.

Meh. Unlike everyone in this thread, I *have* played it. It's not a game, it's not for us. It's a toy noisemaker.

If the final product has some kind of freestyle mode for *actually* making music, it might be worthwhile for certain people. As is from what I saw it's pretty much a waste of time and not really that fun.

Have they actually explained how that's supposed to work? Like if I were to select violin in an improvised jam, how does the game seperate what notes I'm mimicing? If everything is in your control, I would imagine the game to be very difficult to make music with and if it's predetermined, it's not really you making music at all.

hmm

1. he wants to fill his wallet with kindergarden parents money.

2. he is crazy.

or both uh :/

Beware turning this into an "us vs. them" scenario, because you can never actually define who "we" and "they" are.

Come on Zexen.  I expect better of someone with a Suikoden avatar.