Nintendo’s Wii taking on Playstation (New York Daily News)
Comments(4) “Wii reinvents games for the devoted player, but more importantly, Wii breaks the wall separating players from nonplayers,” said Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime at yesterday’s Chelsea Piers unveiling.
The sleek, white Wii unit is decidedly more iPod than Mario Brothers, and features a two-handed remote controller – one a standard Wii Remote, the other an attachable joystick called a “Nunchuk” – that separates controls to both hands. -Julian Kesner
[Apparently interactive movement is what separates players from nonplayers. I remember switching from Nintendo to PlayStation during my third year of undergraduate and I never looked back. However, I continue watching Nintendo from a distance and it seems like the company’s lack of recent success is not due to its technological innovations, but instead the lack of a strong game library. Almost all of the video game series I played on Nintendo from elementary school to middle school switched to PlayStation (Final Fantasy, Mega Man, Castlevania) and many of them never looked back either. BK]
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