This morning, at the Nintendo Media Summit, NoA President and resident badass Reggie Fils-Aime had some interesting statistics on the Nintendo juggernaut. While a lot of it may not be the best news for the hardcore gaming contingent, the massive revenue increases indicate that the wider potential market may well be what powers the industry in the coming years. One particularly telling statement backed up the figures: "We don't consider Sony and Microsoft as our only competitors. We're competing with other leisure time entertainment. If people stay at home and play Wii bowling instead of going to the movies, we win."It's not all gloom and doom for the hardest of the hard, however. Reggie had some interesting things to say about this summer's highly anticipated Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. It "will reinvent the control scheme for a first person shooter. It's the closest you can get to PC control in a [console] game." A lot of people hoped Red Steel would pull that off for the Wii at launch, but leave it to Nintendo to really show us what the Wiimote and nunchuk combo can do for the FPS.
Reggie also added that the DS continues to print money, just in case none of us knew.
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5-22-2007 @ 6:44PM
Ben said...
I actually don't like the "closest you can get to PC control" comment. How is that reinventing anything? Ideally, the Wii remote would be much more functional than a mouse seeing as how you point with the frigging thing.
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5-22-2007 @ 8:26PM
accidental said...
Agreed. If you think about it, PC FPS controls are screwed up man. You push a mouse around on a horizontal surface to adjust you aim, and press your index finger downwards on a button to fire?
The only reason people regard it as the best method is because everyone who uses a PC regularly feels the mouse is an extension of their hand so the instinctiveness of the controls is much closer to home.
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5-22-2007 @ 9:10PM
Mr Khan said...
@ accidental
you just hit the nail on the head
Mouse = more freedom of movement, significantly more than a joystick, the Wii remote could easily do the same thing
Now; i happened to prefer the way Metroid Prime and Prime 2 did it, but apparently that made me a social pariah amongst my gaming friends...
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5-22-2007 @ 10:17PM
Matt said...
Reggie and the Full Effecttt
Anyways, I'm looking forward to a good FPS game on the Wii. Red Steel didn't really do it for me. I'm sure Nintendo can make the best out of the controls on Metroid Prime. Also, Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles is looking good, although its not exactly an FPS
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5-22-2007 @ 10:30PM
Dan said...
actually, there's scientific studies that show the mouse allows players to move back and forth between targets faster than a joystick, trackball, or touchpad. the ONLY interface that has beaten the mouse is eye-tracking.
but this study was done long before the wii-mote was ever invented. i'm not sure that the wii-mote is faster than the mouse, but it seems at *least* as fast.
what you're really talking about is intuitiveness. i still remember my mom trying to use the mouse, making left turns and right turns like she was driving a car. she eventually figured it out after a few hours. but i doubt she'd need more than 5 seconds to figure out the wii-mote.
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5-23-2007 @ 12:21AM
Rakuen42 said...
All other things being equal, the Wiimote will end up faster than the mouse. As for the reason, pivoting your wrist, covers a much wider range at a faster rate than sliding your hand.
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5-23-2007 @ 2:42PM
Will said...
Wait, 10 years ago PCs were trying to be consoles, now consoles are trying to be PCs? I'm lost.
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