Wii-isms
The Wii has had its fair share of ridicule for its name. But it’s funny sometimes how it comes out unintentionally. “Wanna play with my Wii?” “You haven’t even touched my Wii yet.” “Everyone’s playing with my Wii.” “The Wii is so small.”
So the next day after getting it, my brother had a big party so they all played it alot. Everyone seemed to be having a good time with just Wii Sports. I guess that’s a testament to what Nintendo has been trying to achieve. I also rented Trauma Center which is okay. I like the new gameplay style of the Wii, but so many other things Nintendo does really annoys me. The fact the games look like crap is one thing. I’m sure with even the reduced processing power the Wii has compared to other systems, it can afford to at least apply anti-aliasing to Wii Sports. I’m sure the game hardly pushes the system to its limit, please do something about the jaggies at least. If you can get component cables for the Wii, the best it would give you is 480p, and even then it’s not enforced. Some games may even be 480i, so it’s no difference playing it on a standard TV or a HDTV. Lack of features is something else the Wii and Nintendo in general have been guilty of. Even though it already has a DVD drive, it doesn’t play DVD movies. Nintendo fans say it’s a gaming console so it should only play games. But Nintendo is going to release a version later that plays DVDs? wtf. I’m sure they will color gouge people with different color consoles and accessories like they always do.
Nonetheless, the games are fun so far. I’m enjoying Zelda, although I don’t think the new control scheme adds that much to it. It’s still the same game to me. And it looks great, if it was a Gamecube game. It looks like a direct port. They didn’t try to increase texture sizes or add orchestrated music or anything. I’m really wondering what the Wii is really capable of graphic wise. Right now it doesn’t look like much of an improvement over the Gamecube.
