Wii Sports

Nintendo\'s sports game past aside, this is an interesting premise for the genre of games that lends itself most easily to the Wii.
 
Check this out, and note the cool way the controller speaker will work.
 
From PGC:
 

Nintendo reveals and partially demonstrates the self descriptive Wii Sports.
Nintendo announced the winner of an AOL contest and invited the lucky guy on stage to play a tennis match with Reggie, Miyamoto and Iwata. The game went as you might expect with familiar tennis ball "pop" sounds emitting from the controller\'s newly revealed speaker each time a player hits the ball.
The tennis game is part of a larger package aptly titled Wii Sports. We\'ll have more information about this title as it\'s revealed. This demo also concluded Nintendo\'s media briefing. Stay tuned for more news and preview updates later today and gameplay impressions from the show floor tomorrow!

 
Time magazine previously reported that the controller is so sensitive, it can tell if you put slice on the ball, top spin, lob it up, etc.
 
-Dan

i\'m sorry, but standing in your living room, swinging the remote to "hit" a tennis ball on screen is about the stupidest thing i\'ve ever heard.

there is a reason why these things already existed in the past and have failed miserably.

hahaha great thinking.

Takes the gamer in general to a more personal relationship with Nintendo. Even the gamers that wont win will feel that. That competition alone being know to public is smart.

 Nintendo seems friendly to the gamer and thats exactly what Nintendo wants to present with the Wii



Good thinking Nintendo

mm is totally self conscious

he cannot tarnish his reputation by gracing this console with his freakishly good looks or "da ladies" might start ignoring him

In the conference, you can play it while sitting down and doing very little movement or you can just go crazy. You can play it the way you want to.

mm, would you wait before you stink up my thread?
 
Regardless of your opinion, and you\'re entitled to it, I\'m more psyched to try this Tennis game or Red Steel or Zelda than I am MGS4, VF5 or FF13.
 
Hi-def graphics aside, Nintendo is creating exactly what I want.
 
That Sony is trying to rip off Nintendo\'s Wii controller has me a little bit more excited in that system, but knowing developers aren\'t taking advantage of it yet has me less excited.
 
What\'s worse, I know lazy developers can even make impressive graphics seem uninspired (Fight Night Round 3).
 
I\'m ready for Nintendo\'s next console.
 
-Dan

MM ^ One big difference though ; those were 3rd party add on efforts aside existing platforms.

Of course they didn\'t have a wide solid development base to create good
custom games for it.

Wii\'s situation is different because it builds this development base up from
the ground, from scratch. No expensive risky add on\'s to buy, just the
default standard Wii console.

make excuses all you want, but if you want to "play" tennis
go outside, make friends, and play it

or wait a year, get a wii, invite your buddies over, hand them the remote and watch them laugh hysterically

no Knotter8, i mean those single game jobbies you buy at dept stores that let you "virtually" swing a golf club, or a baseball bat in front of your TV like a doofus. (i\'m fairly certain there was a tennis one also)

found example:

punch yourself now please if you think this is \'"cool"
:rolleyes:

there is only one next gen game i an looking forward to on any console, and it\'s not going to happen.
the next katamari
:hissyfit:

there is a reason why these things already existed in the past and have failed miserably.

You mean like the Sega channel, right?
 
-Dan
 
/gotcha ;]

make excuses all you want, but if you want to "play" tennis
go outside, make friends, and play it

or wait a year, get a wii, invite your buddies over, hand them the remote and watch them laugh hysterically

If I want to drive so much, oh gosh, I should just drive around the block maybe. Man, I feel like playing a shooter, oh wait I cannot enjoy this without doing the real thing.

A Madden competition here huh? HAHA Jokes on you faggots, let\'s just play the real thing because videogames are lame in this videogame website.

That\'s a good point, but we all know tennis games are only fun if you use your thumbs.

make excuses all you want, but if you want to "play" tennis
go outside, make friends, and play it

or wait a year, get a wii, invite your buddies over, hand them the remote and watch them laugh hysterically

no Knotter8, i mean those single game jobbies you buy at dept stores that let you "virtually" swing a golf club, or a baseball bat in front of your TV like a doofus. (i\'m fairly certain there was a tennis one also)

found example:

punch yourself now please if you think this is \'"cool"
:rolleyes:

Hey buddy dont rule out all possibilities. Wii could proove interesting and much more fun than the examples you mentioned.

RS from comments I ve read showed huge promise. Not the typical game for kids either

it\'s gonna tank

default, perhaps someday "the point at hand" and you will make acquaintances.
you may even become friends.

Ok, but that Baseball game is a standalone product. It does baseball sim and only that. Of course the consumer was gonna get the videogame console over
that thing instead of the videogame console + the baseball game unit.

Wii is a true single purchase product which provides diversity without having
to choose \'this\' and ignoring \'that\'.

Nerd telling people to get friends on a website about videogames.

Oh boy, in this thread we hate games and should do more real life stuff. Like not playing games and arguing about them instead.

pathetic, really