Let’s get one thing out of the way early, in the interest of fairness: Nintendo’s 3DS looks awesome. There, we said it. Still, the success of the new handheld’s reveal at E3 conveniently deflected attention from one of Nintendo’s other, less appetising new bits of hardware: the Vitality Sensor.
Luckily, Nintendo of America big-wig Cammie Dunaway is here to explain, both in words she said and words we blatantly made up, just where the little device has been…
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
It's important in life to maintain a broad palette when it comes to culture and the arts. Hideo Kojima agrees, as he continues to use video games like Death Stranding to introduce people to music and other elements they might not otherwise discover.
Mojang has partnered with Merlin Entertainments to build the world's first Minecraft theme park in the UK.
I'm no fan of the Vitality Sensor (actually, I'm not anything of it - I have no idea how it works or what games it supports). But that an XBox site would take the chance to rant about and lampoon anything related to Nintendo? I expect to see this kind of stuff in humour, not on a games journalism site where professional ethics are meant to apply.
It's one thing that a 360 site isn't a reliable source for anything Nintendo related, but when they prattle out this nonsense for the sake of hits? I don't even like Cammie Dunaway and I still feel this is pathetic and no better than "Gabe Newell is so fat!" or "Cliffy B is such a douche!"
Articles like this shouldn't even get approved.