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Old 08-22-2007   #5 (permalink)
scarlett
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Default Re: Wii?

Naaaaawww... has nothing to do with a penis. Lots of girls like games and lots of guys don't.

I have a Wii, but I sort of approached it from a whole different angle. I was looking sideways at the wiimote, wondering just how annoying it was going to be. Now I'll admit it's kind of fun to wildly swing that thing around like a sword while I'm playing Zelda but in the end I'd rather have a D-pad and some shoulder buttons. Or WASD plus a mouse. Whatever. It's just a gimmick.

I think the Wii is revolutionary in that it's reaching out to a new demographic but in the end, the people it really hooks are going to be the closet gamers; people who didn't know they liked games because it was geeky or they just never exposed to it and don't know they like video games. The price of the Wii is pretty darn cheap in gamer-land and I think a lot of people will try it out because of that and because it's new and different, but I also bet a lot of people will discover they really couldn't care less about games and their Wii will end up collecting dust. It doesn't even play DVD's. All it does is play games and in the end, a game is just a bunch of puzzles, reflexes, trouble-shooting and role-playing (varies depending on which genre you focus on). If that's not your bag, a different type of controller probably isn't enough to keep you coming back.
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