The Nintendo Wii was said to be “just for kids” at first by gamers that did not like the unrealistic graphics, but many months after this games console released we not only have adults and children playing the Nintendo Wii, but there has been lots of press showing the Wii being used for health reasons. The Nintendo Wii gets you up and gives exercise as well as gaming fun, now the Xbox 360 and Sony PS3 might have better graphics but they lack that added involvement in the game.
Following the news of a Newton motion controller and the photo above shows what some people feel it will look like, we see that Microsoft’s Xbox 360 wants in on Nintendo’s motion technology success. Even the PS3 has motion on its controller, although its nothing like the Wii’s.
The question here is: Can the Xbox 360 take some of the Wii’s market share with the Newton motion controller?
I personally play my Sony PS3 way more than my Nintendo Wii, but I did buy a Nintendo Wii because it did things the PS3 could not. So will a motion controller for the 360 stop some people buying a Wii?
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No this will fail. Nintendo has created something unique while Sony and mirco haven’t. Everybody will still go with wii,
Come on! were talking about microsoft!! $$$$$$
No Way, what a cop-out on microsoft’s part, I guess it’s a compliment to what Nintendo has done right this time around.
No as although they could probably do some decent games around it the Wii now has the word of mouth momentum.
Everyone knows that this is what the Wii is all about and no me-too controller is going to change that - look at the reaction to Sony announcing 6-axis afterwards to see what people thing for confimation of this.
i like my 360 just the way it is. if i wanted motion controls id just play my wii.but i dont thats why i dont play the wii. i dont like it…goodbye
i guess their trying to find a new reason to buy more EA games. at least we can say they are doing some different (although stolen). so microsoft is the new sony. if there really is anything slowing down the business its piracy like this boycott this “new” device (its okay to still use microsoft). Microsoft has a good thing going, really, sure halo is gone and nothing else is really replacing it, but the one thing they have is connectivity online and (gasp) offline. seems a lot of people forgot about using a lan line and just connecting the systems to avoid lag and what not. but i guess that was last gen. features.
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motion controls on the 360…can’t wait to see the RROD rate after this lol. Either way it would be bad. The 360 is just fine the way it is. A PS2 with great shooters with hyped up graphics that will soon be overcome by the PS3.
The 360 already won regardless of the Newton as is shown by the fact that it sells more games than the Wii and the PS3 combined.
Don’t let people fool you into thinking that number of hardware units sold means anything as there isn’t any real profit selling consoles.
It is all in the number of software units sold, movies downloaded, PAID subscriptions to online service and live games downloaded that prove the winner.
Now you can see that 360 dominates every single category that matters hands down. It’s all about the profitability folks….not who sells more systems.
GAME OVER…WINNER MICROSOFT!!!
When the next version of the wii console comes out (or when nintendo finally adds on a HD component and a HDD), the wii will pwn ps3 and 360. The wii is simply a test platform, and it blew up much larger than they anticipated. I can’t wait to see what Nintendo has up their sleeve in the coming year or so! Way to INNOVATE nintendo…. ever heard of that before Microsoft?
It’s all about cross platform games. It has nothing to do to boost hardware sales. Now the software companies can release their “mini-games” on multiple platforms. I have both systems and for multiplatform games I already choose the xbox 360 version for the better graphics and partly for the achievement system, but this may be the last bit that someone needs to decide. I seem to only buy 1st party titles for my Wii. Now if they could aim to get their price down on Motion games to $50 like Nintendo.
It looks like a rip off destine to fail just like the console did. Nothing Microsoft does will help them stay in the gaming industry their dead in 2008.
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This is pathetic. Making a controller that looks exactly like the wiimote? HAHAHA. Microsoft must be hurting with there lack of exclusive titles for this year and the sickness of the incurable RROD. Makes sense though. If you’re going to go down, you might as well go down clawing and pulling hair.
it seems as if theyre just trying to get into the interactive thing. this could work i guess i dont think itd hurt to try, but what i think they need more of is more multi player oriented games such as mario party, i think fuzion frenzy was an attempt at this personally the 1st one seemed moderately fun to me but then i saw the 2nd which seemed sorta well horrible, i guess they sort of gave up after that on the multi player and try to make it up with xbox live
i guess this is an okay idea
but still they should focus on multi player games its so much more boring by yourself so thats why ill still go back to my gamecube and play games
i don’t mind if microsoft “wins” or not. what i don’t want is for games that reoccur every year with nothing new brought to the table. halo 3 was iffy because it was hard to top what they did with halo 2. The only issue im raising here is what are these games? if you wanted a good fighting game back in the day you had the dreamcast. if you wanted a good first person shooting experience you had xbox if not a real computer. if you wanted to be as japanese as possible you get sony. if you wanted something else you get nintendo.
now since dreamcast died almost all fighting games went down with it. I don’t want the same thing to happen to Microsoft or anything, but it does seem like the first person experience is dying on the console front. even with the wii. i have seen a system that SHOULD work and kinda does only problem is the game itself isn’t enough to keep people interested, its a decent experience but not enough to get excited over.
this new controller for xbox. it could break the ice. it really could revive the first person experience all over again. despite the fact that it practically is a stolen intellectual property, but thats just why we don’t see anything good anymore.
another thing that crossed my mind. if microsoft release their system a year early. 2005. and releases a totally new kind of controller 3 years later, this is pretty late in the xbox360’s life span, so wouldn’t this just spell disaster?
not only that, but where is the faith in all those 360 games that were already made for the system? Should we nix the last 3 years and adopt this “revolutionary” form of entertainment? Will this be a gimmick that will carry the 360 for another year? 2010 seems so far away.
i guess the question is if this new controller works with all those old games (which made the 360 what it is today) and if its compatible would people even want to use it?
I think you missing the point, the 360 gonna have both the standard and the motion control going at the same time. Full support for back games and otional wand for new games. Imagine no more button mini games or a quick draw handgun in a shooter. Both motion and standard control have limits where the other would be the best choice.
So the answer is to have two seperate touch sensitive controls going (one motion one standard). The Sixaxis was 2 in 1 and it sucked. The Wiimote is awsome for some things and sucks at others. Microsofts leading position has given them the option to change course, to fine tune whats going on and give us gamers the best of both worlds. No I dont think the 360 combo is gonna hurt Nintendo at all but it may convince some soft Sony fans to choose the 360.
This is the perfect time to stick it to Sony as they have killed the Sixaxis and are bringing back the Dualshock 3. Microsoft can pull the rug out from under Sony while paying homage to Nintendo. Its win win and us 360 fans as we have a soft spot for Nintendo and we get to make our games that much more interesting. You would do well not to count out Microsoft because its their 3rd try that the competition has to worry about…and the 360s only their 2nd. Go 720!
OMG ms is PATHETIC LOL!!!!!