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Nintendo Wii at E3 Videogames - Nintendo Wii
Leading into Nintendo's unveiling (finally!) at E3 tomorrow, there's an awesome TIME article on the Wii - Nintendo's next console - and what you can do with it. Reportedly, the sensors are responsive enough to apply spin to the ball in tennis if you swing the controller like you would a tennis racket. This console is going to be awesome.
It's a remarkable experience. Instead of passively playing the games, with the new controller you physically perform them. You act them out. It's almost like theater: the fourth wall between game and player dissolves. The sense of immersion-the illusion that you, personally, are projected into the game world-is powerful. And there's an instant party atmosphere in the room. One advantage of the new controller is that it not only is fun, it looks fun. When you play with an old-style controller, you look like a loser, a blank-eyed joystick fondler. But when you're jumping around and shaking your hulamaker, everybody's having a good time.


Here's a link to my rundown of the controller details from last September.

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    Posted by: dave on May 9th, 2006 | 10:07am

    The PS3 controller, it turned out, would look like a wireless PSOne and PS2 DualShock controller but — Harrison demonstrated as Kutaragi leaned casually against the podium to his side — the PS3 device reads motion as it's moved in mid-air. A developer demonstrated the feature with the flying combat game "Warhawk," pitching and twisting the controller to pitch and roll the onscreen fighter.

    Here was Nintendo Wii's most unique aspect (outside of the decision to shape its controller like a remote control) getting imitated by the company that has handily defeated Nintendo in the last two console generations

    • Not quite...
      Posted by: niraj on May 9th, 2006 | 10:25am

      While it's true they sense motion, it's quite different. They can't sense it in a 3D space, and they can't sense it relative to the TV. Nintendo has a sensor you place by the TV which give you true 3D - towards and away from the TV as well as all other directions. The PS3 controller will have sensors within the controller. So you can tilt it, but actually sliding it side-to-side or towards the TV does nothing. And that's a huge difference. Even if it could detect that kind of motion, good luck holding the controller like a football, or trying to stiff arm in Madden with the controller attachment :)