[NefCanuck]

darkpuppet,Oct 12 2006, 02:51 PM Wrote:the only thing the Wii has going for it is it's cheap price and novelty.  I don't think people are going to like using the wii-mote controller the way it was intended in the long run..  I guess time, and repetitive stress injuries will tell.

Not to mention the alienation of the physically handicapped!

*ahem* .. the playstation brand broke 100 million units in 2005 I believe.... and I thought that was a 'combined' number.  Interesting trivia tho.. in the 1st year the PS2 was out, it was outsold by the redesigned PSONE.    So there IS a market for the not latest technology... but a part o me likes to believe that was assisted by the fact that people wouldn't lose their software investments when they finally moved on to the PS2.
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Y'know, funny you should mention that about the alienation of the physically handicapped... Now I haven't held a Wii controller myself yet, but visually it looks the easiest of the next gen consoles for me as a one and a half handed user to use (Esp. if the "free swing" mode) The hand acrobatics I have to pull with some titles on the PS2 would be funny if they weren't so depressing :( and that's with a mini controller yet. The XBox? not on a prayer, NVM a wing, even the smaller controller is a mishmash of buttons

NefCanuck