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@#30: "i never remembered people clamoring for a motion sensing remote in the past 20 some odd years."

Right... until Nintendo made one and Sony were clamouring to keep up ;)

@#47: Nice work, Detective Anonymous. However, we know it's loading because we had the sense to turn our speakers on; "It's loading... it's still loading... that light means it's accessing the hard drive.. it's still loading... *button mashing*... still loading... er, heh heh..."

Thanks for showing us this, Joystiq. I honestly don't care about noise; the PC I'm using right now is creating background noise but I just accept it. Loading times, on the other hand, as many have mentioned already, are downright awful. Like most people here, I have owned an original PS and a PS2 and if I'm honest I have never gotten used to the loading times in games. I still find them incredibly frustrating. If I want to play a game, I want to be entertained. I don't want to wait for anything. It's always in the back of my mind that technology is always lagging years behind the game requirements of the time. Yes, it's largely down to the game developers to minimise loading time, but it's safe to assume that very few PS3 games will be without the dreaded "Loading..." screen completely. Am I alone in this opinion? Have you guys managed to embrace loading screens over the past decade or does it still frustrate you?

I'm neither a Nintendo, Sony or Xbox fanboy, but I have read Ryan Garside's article and it has to be one of the worst pieces of journalism I've read for a long time. If a game journalist cannot be excited about the _potential_ of this new input device then he should find a different job, because it's obvious that his enthusiasm for video games has gone.

There is little worse than listening to someone who, whatever the subject, always assumes the worst case scenario when there is so much potential.

His argument for the Wii controller being a gimmick is based entirely on the word "might". It's very strange to me that Ryan automatically took a pessimistic view and wrote a 3 page article about it. I'm inclined to agree with crono141 when he/she suggested that Ryan could be biased toward Sony. I'm not even going to comment on his obsession with how he looks in the photos (you won't look any better or worse playing any other console), not to mention his constant focus on graphics, disregarding everything that Nintendo is trying to achieve with this console. As for his comment "This is how models look playing the Nintendo Wii": Ryan, it's called Marketing and you'll find that other companies are guilty of this horrendous misrepresentation of player aesthetics too. However, if you want to see regular people playing the Wii for the first time, Nintendo have also made that available. Not only that, but they seem to be having fun. As did you.

If people like Ryan Garside were around to playtest the NES joypad 20 years ago, he would have told us that it offers nothing new compared to a joystick and that it wouldn't catch on. Grow up and accept change. If not that, then embrace the potential.