Wii fever is (fortunately or unfortunately, depending on who you are) still gripping America with its motion-controlled simplicity. So much so, in fact, that TVs and PCs set to debut next year are including "gesture" control that is already being compared to Nintendo's white box o' waggle.
The runaway success of the Wii and the appeal of touch-screen devices like the iPhone are being said to have influenced this new look at gesture technology, with advances in camera technology making PCs and TVs that recognize movement a very realistic proposition. It is believed that the cost of such expensive technology is going to see a reduction soon, leading to more widespread availability.
So, not only is the Wii inspiring people to buy Carnival Games, it's also influencing technology outside of the gaming sphere. Expect more waggle in all forms of entertainment over the coming years.
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5:20 PM on 04.06.2009
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Sarcasm aside I still can't figure out why the thing is so popular ( and I have one ), I guess its just beyond my ability to comprehend. Well somebody must be enjoying the things so good for them, just keep the thing faaar away from my HD systems.
It's obvious that people are just copying what's popular, instead of creating new things to actually fully implement the tech. They just want to make sure people know that you can move instead of pressing buttons. Sad as it is, people will probably eat that up.
Because it's allowing people who normally would not be into video games to play them, and they're finding out that some of them actually can be -- shock! -- fun, and not just for the young whipper-snappers. The 360 and PS3 have an image for being the hardcorde, angst-creating, go-in-and-kill-the-enemy consoles, which I'm sure turned off most non-gaming adults. Then here came the Wii which allowed the majority of people who don't want the hardcore games to still play video games and actually have fun with it - after the muscular pain of five straight hours of Wii Bowling goes away, of course.
You and I aren't the reason it's popular. It's the people we tend to ignore who never knew that they could actually get into video games - and with their families, no less.
Of course, it also helped to spawn the latest batch of techo-cretins and asshole fanboys who look at a fucking white box as some kind of threat to the 360/PS3. Personally, I think that's more difficult to understand than why the Wii is so popular, courtesy of the incredibly low IQ rate of most fanboys, regardless of which of the three boxes they masturbate to.
Now, before I get called a Wii fanboy, I'm going to fire up from some H.A.W.X. on my 360 after I upgrade my PS3 to firmware 2.70. :P
And don't bother, -PL-. You know what my response will be anyway.
thanks that actually explains alot.
Within seconds I'd ram my very own "weemote" down her throat.
...............uh, what?