Simplicity is Beauty says Wii

The Wii is arguably the most controversial game console to date that the geniuses over at Nintendo have thrown at us. This little piece of device have weathered every kind of comment thrown at it by skeptics. Like its non-console name, that sparked a lot of laughs and guffaws from gamers placing it as an awkward name for a console.

Hardcore gamers also had a thing or two to say about the Wii’s graphics, that it pales in comparison to other next-gen consoles in its league. And of course, who could miss the fact that this gadget wants and even demands, players who have been cooped up in the four dark corners of their rooms to move. Who would’ve thought that a simple task of swinging a tiny remote can cause an experienced player to break into goosebumps?

“There is always this image where you think of a young person holding a controller in two hands kind of in a darkened room with the light of the TV shining on his face, and it’s not a very positive image. We really wanted to break that by creating this interface that would allow people to be much more active.” says Shigeru Miyamoto, Creative Director for Nintendo.

It has broken every rule in the rules-to-be-cool handbook of the gaming world. When other consoles are selling at around $500 the Wii will only sell for around $250, making it consumer friendly especially to casual gamers.

“My mother is never going to play a PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 game because she simply cannot comprehend the controller,” Dan Hsu, editor in chief of gaming magazine, Electronic Gaming Monthly.

Prop the Wiimote next to another next-gen controller with a gazillions buttons and place it in front of a parent that’s going to buy something for their kids as a present or middle-aged person that doesn’t know much about gaming but has the purchasing power for it, guess what they’ll pick. Thanks to the truly revolutionary unobtrusive remote that can be a golf club, a baseball bat or a sword.

“People often call this another next-generation game competition or war,” said Nintendo’s president, Satoru Iwata, who was also at the E3 convention, but “Nintendo is not trying to compete with merely the next generation. Instead we want to provide completely different experiences. What we want to provide you is not something that is simply a linear extension of current high-end gaming. But rather we will provide you with something brand new, something unprecedented.”

With everything going mainstream, Nintendo will surely have a load of skeptics hounding their trail. They shouldn’t fret however, it’s nice to see a company braving the odds by experimenting because, hey, that’s where true innovation lies – To be original, one has to be extremely different.

Via nytimes

The Wii is arguably the most controversial game console to date that the geniuses over at Nintendo have thrown at us. This little piece of device have weathered every kind of comment thrown at it by skeptics. Like its non-console name, that sparked a lot of laughs and guffaws from gamers placing it as an awkward name for a console.

Hardcore gamers also had a thing or two to say about the Wii’s graphics, that it pales in comparison to other next-gen consoles in its league. And of course, who could miss the fact that this gadget wants and even demands, players who have been cooped up in the four dark corners of their rooms to move. Who would’ve thought that a simple task of swinging a tiny remote can cause an experienced player to break into goosebumps?

“There is always this image where you think of a young person holding a controller in two hands kind of in a darkened room with the light of the TV shining on his face, and it’s not a very positive image. We really wanted to break that by creating this interface that would allow people to be much more active.” says Shigeru Miyamoto, Creative Director for Nintendo.

It has broken every rule in the rules-to-be-cool handbook of the gaming world. When other consoles are selling at around $500 the Wii will only sell for around $250, making it consumer friendly especially to casual gamers.

“My mother is never going to play a PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 game because she simply cannot comprehend the controller,” Dan Hsu, editor in chief of gaming magazine, Electronic Gaming Monthly.

Prop the Wiimote next to another next-gen controller with a gazillions buttons and place it in front of a parent that’s going to buy something for their kids as a present or middle-aged person that doesn’t know much about gaming but has the purchasing power for it, guess what they’ll pick. Thanks to the truly revolutionary unobtrusive remote that can be a golf club, a baseball bat or a sword.

“People often call this another next-generation game competition or war,” said Nintendo’s president, Satoru Iwata, who was also at the E3 convention, but “Nintendo is not trying to compete with merely the next generation. Instead we want to provide completely different experiences. What we want to provide you is not something that is simply a linear extension of current high-end gaming. But rather we will provide you with something brand new, something unprecedented.”

With everything going mainstream, Nintendo will surely have a load of skeptics hounding their trail. They shouldn’t fret however, it’s nice to see a company braving the odds by experimenting because, hey, that’s where true innovation lies – To be original, one has to be extremely different.

Via nytimes