cstead says:

Hi Guys,

For those who are interested, there is an interesting article about the future of the Wii here: www.gameplayer.com.au/

What do you think?

05/16/2007 Sydney

Gnato says:

To be on honest, I think an arcticle titled 'Ten Reasons Why the Author Shouldn't Call His Own Article Interesting' would be for more interesting!

05/16/2007 Adelaide, SA

cstead says:

Hahahahahaha - fair call. I didn't even think of that.

05/16/2007 Sydney

dsreaper says:

I got an error message, site must be dying lol...looks like their SQL server.
In either case I think it's clear the Wii will pave the future and now Sony and MS will just play catch up and imitate wherever they can.

05/16/2007 Gold Coast, Queensland

RerunWii says:

Well it isn't his article Gnat, give him a chance, he is new after all...

EDIT: same, an error message was recieved, Gnato was right, hahaha, joking.

05/16/2007 The land of Prosperity...ok Brisbane

cstead says:

Sorry guys, we are working on this now, I'll advise once the site is back up.

EDIT: Ok it is back up and running now!

05/16/2007 Sydney

RerunWii says:

Good compilation, it was interesting...

05/16/2007 The land of Prosperity...ok Brisbane

paulmc says:

I think it's quite a well thought out set of points.

The first one is probably the weakest. Now the Wii has made it's mark I am sure more companies (making cross platform games) are thinking about motion based controls from the start but I don't think they'll be thinking any less about buttons to the extent that the Wii will be "the lead format" and the others will be second class citizens.

05/16/2007 Sydney

desi says:

It's not harder to map functions to motions than buttons, nor is it easier.

In fact, motion sensing may lean more towards a negative because when you press a button you know what's going to happen. When you wave a Wiimote, and especially in cases where you have to hold down buttons while doing it, a motion may become confused, or users may not know exactly how to perform the motion so that it is registered by the game.

05/16/2007 I'm in your profile, deleting your spams for Great Justice.

cstead says:

the concept of the lead format is not that is the developers primary focus, it is just that is where the game is natively designed, before being ported to the other systems. In the last generation almost all multi-format games were designed on the PS2, then ported elsewhere.

A few developers have started to design on the Wii, because it is easier to then swap that game to X360 or the Playstations than the other way around. This means that the quality of Wii games should pick up.

05/16/2007 Sydney

ICC_06 says:  

I sure hope the quality of wii games from 3rd party developers picks up the ports are growing very old

05/16/2007 South Australia

cstead says:

It all comes down to console numbers, and if the Wii can keep its upwards trajectory for just a bit longer it would make bad business sense for 3rd party developers to ignore it.

05/16/2007 Sydney