Rumor: Sony creates their own Wiimote, focus tests it

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Yeah. Geez. Don't be a such a wii fanboy on a site called WII FANBOY.

Well, being a fanboy is pretty much retarded...It basically is you justifying whichever console(s) you bought regardless of the purchase being satisfactory or not. Currently in the market for the PS3, owner of a Wii, I've finally realized being a fanboy just wastes money while making yourself feel better about your console/associated e-peen.

Enjoy playing your PS3 port of Imagine: Babiez.

You're missing the point, Sam.

Being the cheapest one, the Wii will sill be the console of choice for casual games.

Instead, what will in fact happen is that the only appeal in playing wii versions of games like The Force Unleashed or Alone In The Dark, will be lost.

That might be the case if these controllers weren't ADD-ONS.

They are, though. More than likely, that means that one or two 3rd party games will utilize them, at best and a handful of first-party games.

Don't kid yourself – this isn't going to change anything. That's the nature of these devices. I guarantee you that until the next generation of consoles when MS and Sony pack in their Wiimote versions, you'll be able to count on one hand the amount of games that use these things.

I disagree. Until the Wii starts attracting serious games from the PC library, games like CnC, Civilization, and FPSs would all benefit from IR pointer functionality over gamepad functionality. PS3 and 360 attract these games. And Nintendo hasn't made an effort to draw these games to Wii. That leaves an opening for either Sony or the 360 to go after gamers like me, a PC gamer at heart, looking for a console that gets us. I hope one of them drives a big rig through that hole. I'm not holding my breath, but I can hope.

The Wiimote is an incredible device, but also extremely misunderstood by even Nintendo. There's plenty of room for it's potential to be realized. And if Nintendo doesn't care to do it, someone else should.

"And Nintendo hasn't made an effort to draw these games to Wii. "

Well they actually HAVE, but 3rd parties aren't interested in putting those kinds of games on the Wii.

What efforts has Nintendo made to draw in 3rd party core development? They didn't even advertise their own biggest core game: MP3C. They let the 40% of Wii owners who were online download videos to their Wii if they REALLY wanted to, and half the gaming verse didn't even know there was a MP3C. They could have sold several multiples of the 500K+ they did with a modest amount of advertising. If it had blown the doors off the sales charts, it would have sent a signal to other developers. But Nintendo was too busy with other things to devote more than two upaid interns to MP3C's marketing. It was a grossly under-appreciated game, and Nintendo is the only one to blame for that. Why should the gaming media give it AAA coverage if even Nintendo doesn't like it enough to give it AAA advertising?

Nintendo is rolling in dough, and they have the opportunity to team up with some 3rd party devs and bankroll/publish some serious AAA titles, they just aren't interested. They could be bribing places like Free Radical for some form of TimeSplitters exclusivity, but don't hold your breath.

don't know about you, but i have metroid prime 3 and it's a good game the only thing i hate is how my wrist hurts after i play it for a long period of time. i rather have a conventional controller for my ps3 and leave the motion sensing to the wii.

I hope companies have the sense to see how important IR functionality is to what the Wiimote has to offer. It's one of the major reasons six axis sucks compared to the Wiimote. They missed the boat. Motion sensing is nice (although overused and often poorly implemented). Precise pointer functionality is absolutely vital.

Yeah, by motion I meant the pointer mostly. I wasn't really clear enough.

Don't worry about. 1up does this for a living, and 90% of the time, they act like they don't know the difference.