I know that the Wii is targeted at the family, adults, kids, moms, dads, and everyone in between.
But this photo pretty much sums up why I don't own a Wii!!!
I'm pretty sure that what ever is holding these geezers attention on the Wii is something that I don't want to play. I guess I'm in the minority with this Wii craze thing, but I just don't get it. No HD support and the games are geared towards 8 year olds, moms, and now seniors? How and why the PS3 and Xbox 360 are not killing this console is the tech mystery that has remained unsolved in my gadget filled life.
Someone please help me understand the madness!!!!
3 comments:
It's very simple. 90% of the games you are most familiar with are geared for an adolescent to adult male consumer.
I've tried teaching one my best friends how to play video games. She gets lost in Diablo. She can't find her way around a minimap. If she starts in the same place twice, looking in two different directions, she doesn't recognize the area, and wanders off the wrong way.
Game controllers like XBox or PS2/3 just confuse her. She doesn't want to concentrate long enough to keep an objective in mind. But she does want to be entertained.
She has a Wii. She can play games that don't get her lost, confused, or overly frustrated. She's very intelligent, and is a computer geekess in her own right, but she just doesn't 'get' most of the games. I just finished HL2 and all of its episodes from the OrangeBox. What are you playing? Oh, I'm just killing aliens....
So for these masses who want a simpler entertainment, the Wii rules supreme. And they can't understand why you want such a confusing controller, or a long winded repetative game. Didn't you just kill that guy? But he looks the same as... oh never mind.
Well Said Tim.
Honestly though, it isn't the simplicity of the games and lack of graphics/sounds that primarily keep me away from the Wii; it's their retarded flap your wings like a ninny controllers.
If I wanted to get a physical workout; I'd play Tennis; the real Tennis, not some retarded controller substandard video game tennis.
Ah well, it takes all kinds!
I tried my sister's Wii for the first time this Christmas. It is a lot of fun, but I think the only reason I enjoyed it is the fact that my sister and I were playing together. It just doesn't pull me in as an adult gamer.
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