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Wii gets it

Scott Hanselman’s Computer Zen – Happy Birthday to Mii – Wii Review: “”

Here’s the amazing part for me. Watch how she is playing. She puts both hands on the racket during a backhand. Why? Because that’s what you would do during a normal tennis match. You don’t have to do that. You can just sit on the couch and flick your wrist and the on-screen effect is the same. But why would you want to do that when you can play it just like you normally would in real life? The Nintendo engineers didn’t look at the Wiimote and see a disconnected controller. They looked at it and saw a tennis racket, a baseball bat, a fishing pole, or a bow. And they did that because they knew that’s how the “unskilled” user would look at it. That’s something to consider when you are designing interfaces for people.

The first Star Wars game that comes out for the Wii and allows lightsaber duals will BURY the Xbox360 and Playstation3. Your primary console will be the Wii and the secondary will be from either Microsoft or Sony.