GAMES: Nintendo Wii
July 31, 2008 – 12:10 am
Nintendo Wii: Feel The Game!
The fifth video game console of Nintendo, Wii, is different from what you might have ever experienced with games. Wii remote, the remote controller of the game, is probably the most important piece of Wii. What makes Wii remote different from other controllers is that it is sensitive to the player’s moves and it is a wireless controller. That is, you play bowling, holding Wii remote as if you are holding the bowling ball. That is you are totally inside the game. 2004 was the year that the idea of such a game console was made public.
Wii is released on 17 November 2006. The console would first be called as “Revolution” but later on the name was changed because it might be difficult to pronounce in some cultures and the current name “Wii” is easy to remember. Two “i” characters are meant to resemble to people standing side by side and represents people that get together. In 2006, Wii won its first award, Game Critics Award for Best of Show and Best of Hardware and then awards kept coming. Wii, was also chosen as one of the 20 most innovative products of the year by PC World magazine. Wii makes games more attractive such as the classical game Super Mario. The new game is called Super Paper Mario and it is a 3-D game, which promises more fun. Red Steel is another attractive arcade game designed for Nintendo Wii.
You can use the Wii remote as a gun or as a sword in the game. It looks that Wii is going to be an icon among the other video game consoles. It can also connect to the Internet and has Wi-Fi Connection (WFC) which is an online service provided by Nintendo in order to enable free internet play among the players. WFC service is totally free and it is said that it will remain free, but there will be some other services that the players will have to pay if they want to use.
Advance Wars: Day of Ruin, Animal Crossing: Wild World, Bomberman Land Touch, Final Fantasy III, Need For Speed : Pro Street, Ultimate Mortal Kombat, World Soccer Winning Eleven series and Pro Evolution Soccer (PES) are just some of the games that can be played through WFC service. Some of them are also downloadable through WFC. There is also an official internet site for Wii players. Nintendo provides parental controls in case of any unsuitable content for the children and it also blocks internet access when needed.
Nintendo keeps developing its game consoles but this one, Wii is probably the best of all among the other products of Nintendo and there will not be a need for a better Nintendo video game console for years and the sales seem to prove that. In the first half of 2007, Nintendo was sold more than Sony Play station 3 in United States and the demand for Nintendo Wii keeps growing day by day. It seems that other companies should work harder to beat Nintendo Wii’s success and develop the video game consoles further than we might imagine.