GJ07: Wii takes innovation of the year

[Shrygue]

via Computer and Video Games


The word 'innovation' and Nintendo have always gone hand-in-hand, so it comes as no surprise that Nintendo Wii has just scooped The Innovation of the Year 2007 - sponsored by T3 award.

Ultra-advance aliens were clearly on the brain when Nintendo's tech guys came up with the crazy tools that are the Wii Remote and Nunchuk controllers, which topped PS3, the Halo 3 Beta, Direct X 10 and Xbox Live Arcade for the award.

Having been a runaway success since the say it hit shelves, there'd have been a riot in the streets if this award had gone to anyone else, we bet.

[John Vattic]

Since when did gimmick become innovation?

You are all total slaves, or you're so desperate for innovation you slap an award on the first gimmick pushed into mainstream society.

Nintendo makes big dollars, you call it success. Nintendo craps all over veteran gamers, you call it innovation. Are you people even gamers?

Casual gaming will be the demise of the industry. Thanks a bunch Nintendo.

Sold my Wii because it was a gamecube with a wand. Rebought twilight princess for gamecube(questionable linear zelda title anyway).

Wii is good for grandpa with alzheimers or the aunt thats a total bimbo retard.

The Wii is an insult to innovation and a huge success.

The industry is very strong right now huh?

[sappo]

Sony, PWND.

And everyone who says things like you, PWND.

[alienanthropologist]

Go Nintendo!

[Pilot_51]

John, look in the dictionary for "gimmick" and "innovation".
The Wii is only as much of a gimmick as the PS3. Just because you don't like change in your style of gameplay doesn't mean nobody calling themselves a gamer should either.
The Wii is clearly an innovation, it introduces something new or different into the gaming industry. It runs off the common path that most gaming companies follow (that is, improving graphics and performance for the most part).
Wii is far from just a Gamecube with a wand. The backwards compatibility and the architecture (which makes developing for Wii easier for developers since they already know it) are really the only features that make it like a Gamecube. Just look at the specs and you'll see how much it's different.

There is no way that "casual gaming" could become the demise of gaming. Developers will never give up "hardcore" games entirely so they could make games that your grandparents could play. There's just too many developers in existence for that to happen and the only possible demise of the gaming industry as I see it is if EA buys out every developer and decides to follow one path such as sports games.

By the way, since you're apparently a Sony fanboy (at least in the modern sense), I automatically disregard such hate speech against Nintendo as simply misinformed fanboyism. You're an insult to gaming by trying to discredit Nintendo's attempt to breath some much needed life into the console gaming industry. Gaming isn't an exclusive thing only for people who play such games as WoW or Halo for 16 hours a day.
Who are you calling "veteran gamers" anyway? The kind that always want the best graphics? It's obviously not the kind that have been playing games since the 2D era and still like to play 2D games, which IMO are the real veterans.
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[orochi_xxxx]

It will only be a matter of time till this 'innovation' becomes tiresome, controlling every game by shaking or waving the controller is going to get boring and it does not work with every game as some games you can just wave the controller has fast you can and win eg Bleach and some games it does not work at all nfs:carbon

Its good for nintendo to try something new not that it will last as they cant rely on the controllers when competing with 360 and PS3

[John Vattic]

I forgot to add .......fanboys feel free to flame.

gimmick indeed.

if a million people believe in something, that doesn't make it true.

popularity is not a measure of achievement.

I'm terribly sorry, but you all buy into gimmicks. and it's not your fault. I know that. and I don't hate you.
I was only pointing out the fact that society is so dumbed down that they will take a gimmick over something real. In other words, a virtual boy looks appealing now because the innovations are so few and far between. Therefore I'm not contesting the award, only pointing at the ugly fact that innovations are rare anymore.

happy "casual" gaming

between masturbation and wiimote flinging, you should have the strongest wrists of any humans in history. good luck with that

if casual gaming is the future, the future sucks donkey balls.

[jwilds73]

Yes somehow opening gaming up to a wider audience and showing it to be a viable entertainment medium regardless of age and sex will spell doom for the industy. One day we will all wish we heeded your words John.

[orochi_xxxx]

The Wii took innovation of THIS year because we have never had a games console controlled that way just because its a innovation now does not mean its going to be next year

[ICE]

Feel free to say whatever you want but most of the people who hate the Wii will even tell you that its will be number one for a long time. 13 million consoles in under a year gimmick or not. Love it or hate it Wii will be on top for a while.

Oh and by the way all its good games arent even out yet. Seriously only like one is lol. Just watch when mario and smash come out and Wii sales curb stomp every other console but the DS.