Joystiq: We're finding it hard to accept the fact that future generations of Wii gamers won't be able to experience the raw thrill of one roomful of people chatting it up with another roomful of people during an Animal Crossing: City Folk session. Sadly, that's the hard, hard truth one must extract from Nintendo's recently announced decision to phase out the Wii Speak peripheral, which is now only available "at limited retail locations."
TK: Examining the boom of motion-controlled devices a few years ago and its recent decline. Peripherals considered include Kinect, Wiimote and PS Move.
I never really bought into the whole motion-control fad. the Wii was cool and so was Kinect. Nothing ground breaking. Its been around since the days of the NES.
PYB: A look back at five of the best game consoles released in history. If you beg to differ, please sound out below and give your top 5!
for those raised on joysticks, this is the ultimate list. a few contenders to the top five mentioned, but I cant agree more that the five have the most impact in the last few decades.
how did the N64 do better than the Wii? I always thought N64 was underrated and did not get enough momentum as the PS1.
Simple, it had Super Mario 64 as a launch title, the 1st ever proper 3D game. Then it had Ocarina of time and Goldeneye to name a few (both widely considered as the best ever in their respective genres).
Sheer sales numbers don't always mean its the better product.
However I do recognize the Wii's evolution on motion sensors.
Then of course its my top 5 list and I stick by #5 :-)
It's a difficult list to compile, I would struggle to place any of the consoles I've owned over the years in a specific order.
They have all had their time in the lime light with some real high points, YS on PC Engine, Shenmue on Dreamcast and FF6 on SNES are some off the top of my head.
Wired- Nintendo is terminating "certain online functionality" for the Wii, DS and DSi including online play, matchmaking and leaderboards for many of its games.
