Business Week has an interesting interview with Shigeru Miyamoto and Ken’ichiro Ashida about the Wii and how they took inspiration from just about everywhere but CPU horsepower to create the system. They also wanted to make moms (and wives I would say) happy with the cost and the lack of wires. In the end they hope that the new interface (like the DS has already shown) will create the space for new types of game play.
I think Wii will do everything that they set out to do and within a couple of years will be $100 to boot. If you look at arcades, DDR is the game that the kids are lining up for. It’s a game that you can’t play with a regular controller. Guitar Hero is another that requires a special controller. If these control schemes were just fads, why are they taking off? The Wii-mote and the nunchuk will certainly allow for many new control schemes to be at least “virtual” versions of these kinetic controllers. Edit – Nov 20th – Wired has a pretty good take on this.
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