The Wii is almost enough to get me excited again about console gaming. I won’t buy one, because it would mean also buying a television, and becoming even more anti-social than I already am, but I like what Nintendo is doing.
{ 2006 11 20 }
Concern
In Which We Worry and Complain Out Loud in Our Outside Voice
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neugens | 20-Nov-06 at 5:54 pm | Permalink
Hello Casey!
Yes, I guess the difference between Nintendo and the others is that Nintendo *is* a gaming company. I think that they usually try to find new ways to innovate the playability of games, digging the user experience into new levels of interactivity.
I recently got a Nintendo DS, it is impressive what you can do with games that use the touch screen and the microphone (like Another Code, for example), or just the dual screen (like Sonic Rush).
Compare this, for example, to the PSP, which is amazing and powerful, but still just a portable PS2 (with its too few real games)…
Andrew Pinski | 21-Nov-06 at 4:05 pm | Permalink
Don’t buy a Wii, buy a PS3 instead, it is better and actually supports GNU/Linux.
csm | 21-Nov-06 at 4:49 pm | Permalink
What, do you work for Sony or something?
I just don’t inhabit the TV-having, game-playing headspace at the moment, so I won’t buy either one. I would just have to favor really fun gameplay instead of extremely good graphics (8 and 16 bit consoles were my bread-and-butter through childhood).
Also, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljZOHnZNaBc