Picture it, Sicily,…1942..oh wait that’s Golden Girls. Back on topic, imagine in the near future you’ll be able to play WoW and see the sexy Night Elf do her slithery dance, right in front of your eyes.Your own personal WoW peep show, if you’re into that sort of thing, that is.When you’re playing Halo 8, the frag grenade will come right at you, and you’ll have to actually physically dodge them to keep from being hit.
Yes, you’re laughing and you’re saying to yourself NEVER, NEVER will that happen.We say it will and we are always right, so NEH!Allow us to take you back a few years when Nintendo introduced a little console called Revolution.They showed us nothing in effect. You didn’t get to see the controller, just an angry little white box.
When they renamed it the Wii, we all made our jokes, and reasoned that men with little Wiis would be afraid to play. When we found out that you’d have to actually move the controller or get up and physically move around, there was more pointing and laughing, to be sure.
Come with us a little further forward and see that the Wii has outsold its counterparts EVERY YEAR since it's release.Yes the arguments are being made that they aren’t selling now, but as we always say here at Gameinatrix; there are only so many people in the world. Which means only a finite number of Wiis can be sold.Not to mention, Wiis have a very long shelf life. They don’t die, have errors, glitches, short of taking a hammer to it, they are nearly indestructible. Excuse me while I cross my fingers and throw salt over my shoulder in hopes that my Wii doesn’t prove me a liar.The other argument is made that Wii catered to families and yet another is that they went after women.From a business standpoint, she who holds all the money wins. Not she who has decided to make games for a smaller demographic (yes men we speak of you, we women are legion and we are many).The long and short of it is that Wii stepped out of the proverbial box and made something new and unique. And though many of you laughed, here we are 3 or 4 years later and PS3 AND Xbox360 have tried to go toe to toe with Wii and created their own versions of motion sensitive games and peripherals.Now to be fair, it was PS2 who broached this particular genre first with the Eye-toy, but they dropped the ball. Nintendo picked up the ball and scored a touchdown.
Nintendo has now very subtly introduced what we’re sure will become the next big thing in gaming. 3D. While you’re all set to point and snicker yet again, keep in mind, this is the same company that created the first successful hand held console that wasn’t little red blips on a black screen and gave us our first video game icon in the form of Mario. Oh ye of little gaming faith, do you still not believe? Now, I will go on record as saying I HATE 3D anything, but I will most likely buy whatever it is Nintendo is selling.Yes you all pointed and laughed when they showed you the DS in 3D.You said it was stupid, who would want to play that. Do I NEED to point you to the Wii again and its staggering sales figures?They will indeed have the last laugh yet again, when Microsoft and Sony are struggling to keep up with them in a few years. Flash forward: <Microsoft at E3 2016> and now we give you, Halo 8…in 3D <crowd rolls yes and goes to see Nintendo’s new full emersion console>.We’ll get our ‘We told you so’ in now. And for the record NEH again.
-Ferrari Hotpowder, Mistress of all things gaming, head of the intergalactic force against pantyhose and Queen of whips...er quips.
