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Forums - Gaming - If the next-gen is REALLY all about motion control....

BenVTrigger said:
@ JGarret

I hope to god he's wrong. And I think he is. I think honestly gaming is a large enough culture that the "casual" games can live perfectly fine with the "hardcore" games. Look at the movie industry. Movies made by Pixar which appeal to large audience age groups due great as do films for just strictly a mature audience. Both are great and both generate money. That is the way I believe gaming should and hopefully will be.

 

NO!!!

You DO NOT understand. This isn't about appealing to a strict audience. Both those kinds of movies are million dollar investments with tons of work and value put into graphics and technology, as well as epic soundtracks and stuff. The movie industry doesn't really have a "Wii" that revolutionizes anything. There is no new experience.

The Video Game industry however has Nintendo, and the Wii. They are trying to change the way you play games. THAT's why people buy it, because they are made, and marketed as games (and a system) that changes the way you play games into something more fun. It has nothing to do with "casual appeal", assuming that phrase could even be defined.

The Movie industry is not changing the way we watch movies. And that's why you are so confused and fearful of the wrong things. You don't know what "casual" is. No one does, because it doesn't make any sense.



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Actually the internet, cheaper big screens, and cheaper surround sound systems are changing the way we watch movies, and both the film industry and television industry are suffering because of it. Now TV stations are all scrambling to put their shows on Hulu and YouTube and it's hilarious because they don't know what they're up against and they're almost all losing money. Kinda like how 3rd parties are all scrambling to put their games on the Wii and it's hilarious because they don't know what they're up against and they're almost all losing money.

If you see those as comparable industry changes, then the Wii is basically the internet of video games.



I really doubt that people that says "nuuuu! motion controlz!!" have REALLY played with games that use them, weather they had a wii or not.

Anyway, I think is silly to be "scared" of those kind of new input methods. So you move the control to look to the right or reload a weapon or hit a punch...so what? is not THAT bad and well implemented it can be great. Maybe the problem is that so far it hasn't been a company (besides Nintendo) that work with said controls properly and dedicately but that seems to be changed.

And wether you like it or not, that's the future folks, like D-pads on the eighties and Analog sticks on the 90s.

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