Slate Pans the Wii, Slate Loves the Wii

thatguywhoiam writes "Slate's Eric Sofke takes a few considered shots at Nintendo's latest console. He claims the Wii Remote has major accuracy problems, which are compensated for by too-easy games. Meanwhile, just next door, Chris Suellentrop says the Wii is even better than the PS3. Check out both sides of the issue." From the Sofke article: "The new Nintendo's flaws make me question who the Wii's audience will be. Kids don't want embarrassingly easy games. Casual gamers of any age will bail out the first time their crosshairs go AWOL. And hardcore gamers like me aren't going to bother with a magic wand that makes us less efficient at killing aliens. For a console that wants to start a revolution, making users doubt their reflexes is a serious design flaw."

To Be Blunt

[HappySqurriel]

To be completely blunt, most of the control problems I have seen people have with the Wii have been problems with the user, not the interface. Much like the analogue stick (or the keyboard mouse before that) it will take a little time to get used to the input device.

I remember (back in the day) watching people flail around in Goldeneye or crash in Mario Kart simply by making too large of a gesture on the analogue stick; after you had a few games under your belt these problems went away. The Wii is fantastic, but it is a new way to control games; an input method that you don't have 20 years of experience using.

Sofke is an idiot

[SageinaRage]

He has no idea how the Wii actually works. He treats it like a light gun, and of course it doesn't work, because that's not what it is. He brags about his 14 hour long Halo tournament, of course he's not going to adjust well to a new scheme, he's as ingrained in the old method as you can be. He gives the system about 10 seconds to impress him, and is disappointed.

Everyone I know who has used the remote has started off extremely dubious, but eventually been won over, and gotten used to it. It sounds like the Wii just didn't match up to what he wanted, instead of trying out what it was.

Re:question for you, sir

[Ralph Yarro]

I don't get how you could miss anything

Or as the summary puts it "compensated for by too-easy games".

It almost looks like you agree.

Re:Super Monkey Balls REALLY shows the shortcoming

[barjam]

What are you talking about, precision aiming is where the WiiMote absolutely shines. I suspect you don't have something set up correcty. Oddly enough the "FPS" mini game in monkey ball features the best FPS control setup I have ever played (on a console). Red Steel, no so much.

Found it...sorta

[aztektum]

not the slashdot blurb but still what i was looking for clicky [1up.com]