Vishnu

This has pushed me away in terms of a launch purchase.

Alot of what we see with the controller in the video is superflous: how much more fun/immersive does shaking a remote when you want to tackle make a soccer game? I think after 5 minutes most people would be thinking "Can I please just press a button? PLEASE?" Battalion Wars was somewhat similar, in that it seemed to force you into making annoying gestures with the LH controller to do simple things, and just had the RH remote acting like an innacurate mouse. Ditto for Red Steel. The Wii Sports stuff is more along the lines of what I was expecting, so hopefully they demo more games that take advantage of the controller in that fasion moving forward.

I guess it's the same things as the DS: games that use the stylus for the sake of using the stylus are annoying, games that use it where it makes sense, like Kirby or Metios (or whatever its called), are a blast to play. The thing is, DS has standard controls and uses the stylus as an enhancement. The Wii has funky controls and can adopt a more standard setup if necessary. If I'm going to play without using the remote for something innovative, I'd rather get the better graphics, physics and AI of the PS3 or 360.