Are Wii the Children of the Revolution?
There has been quite a bit of hype surrounding the new Ninetendo Wii gaming system. Some say that the Wii's ability to "democratize" gaming for people of all ages and abilities is revolutionary. Do you think this is a true technological revolution or just hype? Please defend your opinion.
Personally, I want a Nintendo Wii. Before It came out in Canada, I read up on some articles on the new Nintendo Wii. I think is it a a true technological revolution. The intentions of Ninetendo in creating the Wii was not primarily to compete with sony with their PS3 or with Xbox with there 360, but it was to get everyone playing, not only children, teenagers and some parents. It was ment for the whole family to play, to play together and have fun. I believe Ninetendo had a goal where they would build a counsel where everyone would be able to play, and not think that oh this to too complicated or uninteresting. In saying so, I think that is where their remote controls came in. The Wii remote, and the Nunchuk. These remotes are wireless. They can sense motion and and is integrated for the game play, it is how the games of the Wii are played. It makes the player active. I believe since the player is not just sitting down pushing bottoms, it would be more exciting and fun. You are moving around and being active interacting with the movments that the character is doing on the screen.
1 comment:
Hey Ryan,
I like the fact that you stated Nintendo's intentions with the Wii, as to bringing people together. However, just because the product is purposely named "Wii" as in "We" and the company would like it to bring people together, how do you know that their predictions will actually happen. I disagree with the fact that you have stated the Wii is a technological revolution because it is being considered a part of the whole world of technology and not only game consoles. If it were only referred to the categorty of game consoles then it could possibly by considered as a technological revolution because no other gaming system does what the Wii is intended to do. However, as a part of all technological inventions, it is possibly in the bottom ranks because there are better technologies out there.
- just some constructive criticsm :)
- karizza
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