BTW, this article is biased against Nintendo. It starts objective, but the last paragraph is aimed at hitting Nintendo directly. However, baseless criticisms will simply slide off of Nintendo’s back without effort after the Wii launches…

Until you get your hands on the controller you won’t fully understand it, even I won’t until I get to play it at the Nintendo Fusion Tour. So you cannot say

I don’t know for certain but I believe in Nintendo’s ability to bring new and innovative products and hardware to the marketplace.

Sorry to tear apart your last paragraph further, but it is really bothering me that unfounded criticisms go unchecked. Saying things like —

— don’t even make sense. This precise technology in the Wii’s controller has not been readily available until only recently. It doesn’t use loads of batteries and the use of motion sensing so accurately and in so small a confinement is new and innovative. I am sorry but your argument here is like saying, “No we don’t need gas powered cars because we have steam powered trains.” It just doesn’t work or fit into any semblance of logic.

Last rant I swear, but your assumption that —

— doesn’t make me that happy either. It isn’t that you are saying what I don’t believe to be true, it is that I believe that many of the first genereation games (launch games) will be great. For example “Zelda: Twilight Princess” will be the best game on the launch lineup, in my humble opinion. Also, other games like “Red Steel” and “Rayman: Raving Rabids” will also be great fun, not to mention Wii Sports will be a blast with your family. I conceed that every game system has only to get better after the developers get used to making games on that console, but to say that the best games will come later is to throw a pie in the eye of Nintendo’s great history of game making, and to insult Zelda. An insult to the Zelda franchise is a crime punishable by death in certain circles…

OK, I am done now. You can leave whever you feel like it at this point, I don’t care.

Wow, the console has yet to even launch. Give it a chance, the second generation games have a really good chance of being great. So do the first generation games for that matter.

Nintendo’s strategy with both Wii and the DS is to expand the market by offering non-traditional games. That market expansion includes women and older adults. They’re not only aiming at younger kids.

“The Wii’s one-hand controller may not turn out to be quite as cool as the tried and true controllers we’ve been using for years.”

What is that statement based on? Nintendo invented the D-pad, and now it’s commonplace. The N-64 was the first console to offer “rumble” force feedback and also the first to utilize an analog stick. Again, both features are found everywhere. I wouldn’t be surprised if the 2-piece, remote-like controller becomes what we call “tried and true” in the next generation (and you’ll probably be saying that the next Nintendo innovation is just a gimmick)…

I too am in Chicago

Wow- that is

Laugh.

Outloud.

Stupid.

Thank god people didn’t say the same thing about cars or electronic calculators! Or the Commodore 64!

Yeah- we should probably pretty much get rid of all the R & D outfits in the world- I mean, if they didn’t figure everything out BY NOW then there probably just isn’t anything else to figure out.