Nintendo gets it right, Wii for the casual gamer
Jul 15, 2008 Video game
E3, the sacred conference dedicated to electronics and electronic gaming is taking place this week. Nintendo, arguably the giant among giants of gaming devoted its press conference to demonstrating the new direction its Wii is heading into, attracting the casual gamer.
ArsTechnica reports on a few games and features demoed by Nintendo executives at the press conference.
A new Wii Sports, dubbed Wii Sports: Resort will be taking advantage of a new peripheral: MotionPlus. The peripheral, which attaches to the Wiimote and allows for “allows for true one-to-one movement in games.” Ars was treated to a live demo of the new features when “Nintendo executives Reggis Fils-Aime and Cammie Dunaway [played] a sword-fighting game that offered true one-to-one motion.” Wii Sports: Resort is expected to launch next spring and a MotionPlus peripheral will be bundled with it.
One observation made by Ars (and many if not all of the commenters) was that the games seemed to be toned down and more casual than expected. Nintendo fans were disappointed at the lack of “hardcore” games presented and many have voiced their opinions in the ArsTechnica forum.
I’m happy to see a game company finally make games that the whole family can enjoy. While I somewhat understand the anguish of hardcore gamers at the lack of legacy games such as Zelda, I am looking forward to playing some easier games for a change.
Tags: ArsTechnica, gaming, nintendo, nintendo wii, video games, wii
July 15th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
[...] at my technical blog, Boxed Geek, I wrote an entry about Nintendo’s press conference at this year’s E3 conference. It seems they are taking the Wii to the casual gamer which I am very excited about. I’ve [...]