Gaming

Wednesday, August 01, 2007

I Had a Wii Old time

I was over at my good friend Greg’s house for a game of poker last Saturday night. After that was over I finally got to play with Greg’s new Wii set which he got for his birthday (and which I got him a bunch of accessories and games for!).

I had read a lot about the wii of course, but like a lot of groundbreaking products you’ve just got to use them...and the Wii did not disappoint. Like the original iPod interface it takes something that has done before and gives it a whole new spin. The way you can use the controller to point and navigate to the screen completely caught me by surprise. And it wasn’t hard to do.

In many way I think the Wii and the iPod are similar. Both focus on doing one thing very well, without trying to do everything. In the Wii’s case high resolution is not a concern, an innovative way to interact with the game is. On the iPod and innovative interface and ease-of-use with iTunes was the winner, no having an FM-radio.

Good stuff. Although I did have Wii arm and shoulder the next day.

Posted by Hadley Stern on 08/01 at 07:11 PM
Gaming • (2) Comments • (16) Trackbacks • Permalink
Page 1 of 1 pages