Can Xbox 360 take Nintendo Wii market share with Newton motion controller?
Filed under: Gaming, Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360 | By: Daniel
Posted on: April 14, 2008 | 20 Comments
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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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!!!!!
1st ) Sony tried to copied Wii-mote with the Dualshock 3 (previously known as Sixaxis controller) .
2nd ) And Microsoft has 2 type of controllers for 360 (wired and wireless) in order to compete with Sony wireless sisxaxis .
3rd ) As all of u can see…some time in April, rumour begin to spread saying that Microsoft is having “Newton” motion controller ( the so-called ‘coming soon’)in order to compete with Wii-mote.
4th ) On september 21st ,PlayStationLifestyle.net announced yet another rumour, saying that “Sixense”, a wiimote-like controller for the PS3, is coming…with video showing a demo in it.
Basically it’s liddat…..Sony ripped Nintendo,Microsoft ripped Sony ( currently…. since the other 2 version of motion mote weren’t released yet as the fanboys of 360 and Sony claim )
If Sixense(ps3 motion control) and Newton(xbox360 motion control) really does launched… it shud be liddat….SONY AND MICROSOFT RIPPED NINTENDO …
I wouldn’t mind trying a halo game with that though.