Comments on: Is XaviX where Nintendo get their Wii ideas from? http://www.bruceongames.com/2008/05/21/is-xavix-where-nintendo-get-their-wii-ideas-from/ A veteran's view on marketing games Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:01:38 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jeff V. Thompson http://www.bruceongames.com/2008/05/21/is-xavix-where-nintendo-get-their-wii-ideas-from/comment-page-1/#comment-2323 Jeff V. Thompson Wed, 28 May 2008 04:15:49 +0000 http://www.bruceongames.com/?p=535#comment-2323 Light guns games have been around since the NES, and I'm sure they were in the arcades before that. So the idea using a special controller to mimic what you are doing in the game is not at all new, remember the powerglove? The difference is that the technology that the wii uses has only recently become affordable, and the wii was built from the ground up around the idea of using a motion sensing controller that can potentially support many innovative ways for the player to interact. Xavix looks like some overpriced cheap toy, and I would guess that the software that goes with it can't hold a flame to anything nintendo has developed in the last twenty years. Light guns games have been around since the NES, and I’m sure they were in the arcades before that. So the idea using a special controller to mimic what you are doing in the game is not at all new, remember the powerglove?

The difference is that the technology that the wii uses has only recently become affordable, and the wii was built from the ground up around the idea of using a motion sensing controller that can potentially support many innovative ways for the player to interact.

Xavix looks like some overpriced cheap toy, and I would guess that the software that goes with it can’t hold a flame to anything nintendo has developed in the last twenty years.

]]> By: anon http://www.bruceongames.com/2008/05/21/is-xavix-where-nintendo-get-their-wii-ideas-from/comment-page-1/#comment-2283 anon Thu, 22 May 2008 00:24:46 +0000 http://www.bruceongames.com/?p=535#comment-2283 um...just because the xavix release date is before the wii's does not imply that the xavix concepts predate any wii concepts. for the record nintendo begins work on next gen consoles immediately following the release of their current gen consoles (gamecube release date? 2001). that means you need to find evidence of xavix (conceptual evidence would suffice) before/by 2001 otherwise your argument fails. um…just because the xavix release date is before the wii’s does not imply that the xavix concepts predate any wii concepts. for the record nintendo begins work on next gen consoles immediately following the release of their current gen consoles (gamecube release date? 2001). that means you need to find evidence of xavix (conceptual evidence would suffice) before/by 2001 otherwise your argument fails.

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