The folks over at iLounge spent a lost weekend with a Wii console (gawd, it’s going to be hard to live with that name for the next few years). As usual, the Loungers do an incredibly thorough job of detailing the hardware and some of the release-day games (namely Zelda, Excite Truck, and Wii Sports (which, uh-hum, despite the name, IS work safe)). So what was their overall impression. I’ll let them tell you:
“Nintendo’s Wii is strong. Way strong. Like, “okay, we thought Nintendo had a nice new console to play Zelda and Mario on, but now we actually like the whole crazy controller thing” sort of strong. (The controller is a two-piece, fully wireless device that tracks its position and orientation, allowing you to point at the screen like a wand or laser pointer, twist and turn the controller like a 3-D steering wheel, or play games with more traditional buttons and an integrated joystick.) The surprise is that Zelda didn’t convince us. Excite Truck began the process, and Wii Sports was the tipping point.”
Read the first of the four-parter here.
