Hands on experience with Wii

I finally got a chance to play on the innovative Nintendo Wii.
Originally every store was out of it. You simply can't buy one. Well I wasn't one of those getting in line to buy one, console games are not priorities of life now.

Video games have came a LONG way in recent years. Graphics are better than ever. Yet game play has not been so innovative. When people were shooting aliens on Space Invaders in 1970s, a different type of game play: Pac-man simply energized the video gaming industry. The gaming arcade later was filled with shooters with powerups, 2D sprite adventures and all that in the 80s.
The innovative 6 button fighting saga of the Street Fighters were a true knockout to usual 2D scrolling brawl games in the 90s. First person adventures such as Lara Croft and Half-Life were a blast in the PC games. The arcades die as PCs become more powerful so games are played at home. Then there were the innovative music games: dance dance revolution, and some guitar/drum games. Since the early 2000s, I have not seen real revolutionary innovations until the Nintendo Wii because of the unique controller.

At first I thought it only adds swinging ability to play sport games such as tennis and bowling, there are actually MUCH more you can play with. I played with a few games that requires shaking it up down, swirl it, or shoot on screen like Time Crisis! Now that's fun and innovative.

Gaming hardware: before the Wii almost all games were played on a joystick/joypad and buttons. Trackball, light guns merely do the same thing, except you move faster. There really hasn't been anything new since the dawn of gaming.

The Wii really adds new tweaks to the standard joystick. BTW, I have a minor complain of the joypad. For home games, ONLY Atari makes joysticks, every system make joypads that can add pain to your thumb. Yes I have heard of professional joysticks for MAME.

While everyone works on making graphics even more realistic and beautiful the innovative Nintendo guys work on the controller. Way to go Nintendo.

Another plus for the Nintendo: the games I saw have cute characters. Games CAN be fun without violence.

Although the Wii is fun I am still not buying one, I have spent too much time in front of the TV and the computer already!