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Tuesday,
May 09, 2006, 8:33:27 PM
You might
think I'm talking about the name of Nintendo's new
console, Wii, but I'm not. I'm talking about the noise a
balloon makes as the the helium is released from it. That
how I felt at Nintendo's press conference today. While
there were a lot of people surrounding me who were excited
by everything they saw, I can say I was less than
impressed. Here we were waiting for Nintendo to drop bombs
and what happens? Miyamoto conducts a symphony? Some guy
on the stage shoots bad guys by pointing and firing?
Reggie, Iwata, Miyamoto and the pudgy winner of the AOL
Contest to play the Wii play a doubles match?
If this is the Revolution you were expecting, well then, I'd have to say that you weren't expecting enough of Nintendo. I mean, sure, "Playing is believing" and I might have a different opinion tomorrow, but come on, guys. The games didn't look that much better at all, and regardless of what Nintendo tells you what they think about graphics, you should demand a little more improvement from them. Nothing in their portfolio of Wii titles looked like it couldn't have been accomplished using the GameCube. Super Mario Galaxy, especially, looked extremely bad.
Sure, the remote style controller is extremely inviting to use. I'm not going to challenge that fact. I just think that you're going to end up having games you will not play more than once or twice because it's more of a work out than what I consider playing a game. Nintendo is trying to change the standard concept of what we think playing a game is, and if it didn't require me to look like a flailing child to do so, I'd be okay with that. I'm just not excited at the prospects of having to go play a long RPG where every random encounter I'll have to attack enemies by making slashing motions with my remote. That is why I felt disappointed by Nintendo.
At least Microsoft had a somewhat decent press conference in this, the year of the non-conference, where shit doesn't get said and we get to hear nothing we want to hear. I mean, think about it. At Sony's press conference we wanted to hear a lower price point, and that didn't happen. We wanted Nintendo to announce an official date and price for the Wii and show off some Super Smash Bros. Wii. That sure as hell didn't happen. And Microsoft... well, I'm not really sure what we wanted to hear from them. Maybe more about 2006, you know, the year we're in at this very moment instead of 2007. That's what next year's price conference is for, gentlemen.
Microsoft gave fans some of what they wanted. Halo 3 being shown, and the news that Grand Theft Auto 4 would be released simultaneously on the Xbox 360 and PS3 in 2007 makes me think that Microsoft was the quote unquote winner of the press conference battle. But it's not hard to win when it seems like everyone else was shooting blanks.
If this is the Revolution you were expecting, well then, I'd have to say that you weren't expecting enough of Nintendo. I mean, sure, "Playing is believing" and I might have a different opinion tomorrow, but come on, guys. The games didn't look that much better at all, and regardless of what Nintendo tells you what they think about graphics, you should demand a little more improvement from them. Nothing in their portfolio of Wii titles looked like it couldn't have been accomplished using the GameCube. Super Mario Galaxy, especially, looked extremely bad.
Sure, the remote style controller is extremely inviting to use. I'm not going to challenge that fact. I just think that you're going to end up having games you will not play more than once or twice because it's more of a work out than what I consider playing a game. Nintendo is trying to change the standard concept of what we think playing a game is, and if it didn't require me to look like a flailing child to do so, I'd be okay with that. I'm just not excited at the prospects of having to go play a long RPG where every random encounter I'll have to attack enemies by making slashing motions with my remote. That is why I felt disappointed by Nintendo.
At least Microsoft had a somewhat decent press conference in this, the year of the non-conference, where shit doesn't get said and we get to hear nothing we want to hear. I mean, think about it. At Sony's press conference we wanted to hear a lower price point, and that didn't happen. We wanted Nintendo to announce an official date and price for the Wii and show off some Super Smash Bros. Wii. That sure as hell didn't happen. And Microsoft... well, I'm not really sure what we wanted to hear from them. Maybe more about 2006, you know, the year we're in at this very moment instead of 2007. That's what next year's price conference is for, gentlemen.
Microsoft gave fans some of what they wanted. Halo 3 being shown, and the news that Grand Theft Auto 4 would be released simultaneously on the Xbox 360 and PS3 in 2007 makes me think that Microsoft was the quote unquote winner of the press conference battle. But it's not hard to win when it seems like everyone else was shooting blanks.
