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    Rev Miyamoto: Wii Music "better than a game"

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    Wii Music has no score, no aim and so no game over screen. There's no winning or losing. Just music. But that is exactly why it's "better than a video game", according to Shigeru Miyamoto.

    If you dared suggest Wii Music would be better deemed a musical toy than a videogame, the legendary Nintendo producer would straight up agree. "Yes, that's right, and that's why it's better than a video game," he said at a recent Nintendo developer roundtable.

    It could be a great educational tool, too, he went on to explain. "I really think that half of an elementary music school could be dedicated to this.

    "I'm hoping that through Wii Music, we'll get more drummers, more musicians and more people interested in music," he said, according to Kotaku.

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    Lol, "It's better than a video game, ...because it isn't."

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    This is this first profoundly stupid thing that I think I've ever heard Miyamoto say. Video games have striven for years to set themselves above common toys. Miyamoto, however, is basically saying that video games would do better if they tried to be toys again.

    While it is true that a game with no goals or losing conditions can be fun to pick up and play, it will quickly lose its appeal without a hook or an incentive to keep playing.

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    fun to pick up and play, it will quickly lose its appeal without a hook or an incentive to keep playing.
    That's why the Wii is called a gimmick all around the internet and even by official people. I love Nintendo and all it's systems, but it's $#@! like this that makes me wonder about Nintendo's future. They are trying to set games in the same class as a toy, but games are supposed to be so much more! They are supposed to have in depth story, characters, art, and music! Miyamoto has come a long way since the first The Legend of Zelda came to be, and not in a good way. He's really disappointed me. E3 was terrible this year.

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    We need more games like The Conduit and Deadly Creatures (if you look at a video, deadly Creatures looks pretty fantastic and innovative.)

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    hmmm............when i was little, i had a toy piano that had the same functionallity, you could press any key at any rythm, and it would automatically play the right note for you.

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    Of course, it's better for someone who doesn't like video games.


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