The future looks grim then.
no, it's grim if you're a gamer who is completely fine with current controls but wants real innovation of the sort the comes with hardware and RAM upgrades
no, it's grim if you're a gamer who is completely fine with current controls but wants real innovation of the sort the comes with hardware and RAM upgrades
You mean the exact same "innovation" we have been seeing for the past 20 years?
no, it's grim if you're a gamer who is completely fine with current controls but wants real innovation of the sort the comes with hardware and RAM upgrades
You mean the exact same "innovation" we have been seeing for the past 20 years?
you mean the exact same innovation that moved us from left-to-right hop-and-bop to fully-realized three-dee worlds, emergent gameplay mechanics, and countless new genres?
Sounds like a lack of imagination on your behalf! What is the Wii but laterally shifting button presses to gestures?
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Increasing the power of technology always leads to innovations; look at drive space for example. Cheap storage has led to an explosion in related technologies: mp3 players, video players, etc; not to mention the combination of broadband connections and large HDs leading to a downloadable digital content "revolution" that's expanded into set-top boxes and video game consoles, etc. The Wii's use of flash memory is neither cheap nor practical for the medium; it's not a portable system where a user has an expectiation that stored data will be mutable, it's a home system where the preference for downloaded content would be to build a static library. Not to mention the fact that demos/etc won't be forthcoming, or again not in a practical manner. These are innovations directly tied to raw power.
A shitload of fun you could easily duplicate by actually going to a bowling alley or setting up a croquet kit in your lawn -- only those two games have actual depth, whereas Wii Sports plays like shit and controls the results for you!
Are you saying that downloading a demo is innovation?
no, it's grim if you're a gamer who is completely fine with current controls but wants real innovation of the sort the comes with hardware and RAM upgrades
You mean the exact same "innovation" we have been seeing for the past 20 years?
what is that warcraft? my friends and i used to have a lot of fun playing that in high school i liked how the orcs would get pissed if you clicked on them a lot it was cool seventeen years ago.