Who wants to watch others playing games when Wii can play together?

In this week's tutorial, we discussed the difference between watching someone else playing video games and playing it yourself. Watching others playing games is a lot less stressful because you don't have to multi-task so much. I think that is one of the major reasons why some people don't play viedo games. They find it hard to control what they are doing in the game by pressing a few buttons. It takes time to get used to it and I guess some people just don’t have the patience to practise, which is fair enough. However, Nintendo’s new game console Wii aims to attract both non-gamers and gamers which takes gaming experience to a whole new level.

The Nintendo Wii developers said that they wanted to make gaming as accessible to people of all ages and all abilities. The unique thing about Nintendo Wii is its controllers. The developers used motion-sensing technology so that the controller sends your action to the console. For example, if you are playing a shooting game, your controller is your gun and yes, you only hold it by one hand. Another example would be tennis game. Your controller becomes your racket and you have to move your arms around to hit the ball on screen. What Nintendo Wii has done is that it made video games more interactive. First person shooter games can make the gaming experience personal, where you get absorbed into the gaming world. For example, in Doom 3, you feel unsafe around the lab by the limited view on screen. A dead body could be hanging from the ceiling all of a sudden. It gave me a fright that's for sure. Anyway, with Nintendo Wii motion-sensing controllers, gamers would become even more absorbed into the game because not only mentally they are experiencing it but also physically. I think Nintendo Wii has put gaming experience on a whole new level. It is definitely going to attract non-gamers because of its intense interactivity.

For more information on Nintendo Wii, you can visit http://wii.nintendo.com/ .