Now that Im not almost late for work can finish my thoughts from before.
Since when is motion controls and 3d so important? Call me crazy here but to me those are just gimmicks. I play games because I like games and not because I like gimmicky periphals and new ways to control the game. I dont care if I get 3d in a game, I dont care if it has a touch screen, I dont care if it has 3d, I dont care if it has a camera on it, I dont care if I can watch movies on it, I dont care if I can play music on it, I dont care about any of that stuff. When I buy a system I want to play games. And 3d nor motion controls has up till now done anything to actually improve gaming at all. All that stuff does is draw attention away from developers because its another damn thing for them to worry about trying to fit into their game so they can be cool. It detracts time, money, energy, resources and manpower that could have been better used to make the game itself better. 3d is a gimmick and nothing else. The best example of good 3d is avatar, and it took years of development between cameron, his crew and sony electronics to make the camera, movie cost 200million to make and was done by a movie effects pioneer and it still wasnt that great. I highly doubt some 35 dollar game on the ds will do much better or do anything worthwhile. It will all just be some gimmick and not actually benefit the game.
Developers had even said the games on 3ds could look better and run smoother and free up alot of system resources by turning off the 3d.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2010/07/3ds-games-will-look-better-if-they-ditch-the-3d/ I would gladly ditch 3d to have games run smoother.
Gamers are turning into idiots because they are all getting dazzled and wow'ed with all this new hardware and they seem to be forgetting that gaming is about the games. Its not about some new piece of hardware, some new periphal to play a game, some new addon or anything else. Gaming is gaming because of the games developers make and nothing else. No amount of virtual reality helmets, touch screen pads, motion sensors, 3d glasses or whatever will make games any better if the people who make the games dont do a good job. I play games, I dont play systems and I dont play gimmicks, thats why Im a real gamer. I dont get caught up in the hype of some new toy because I play games for the games, I dont play games just so I can get some gimmick for it.
Hardware does NOT make a game good. Look at all the failed and stupid periphals we have had in gamings history that predates the systems we have now. Everything from virtual reliaty, 3d, high end expensive hardware, motion controls, voice controls, that smell sensor thing and 100 other gadgets and gimmicks and "advanced" systems, but they arent around and we still play games the same old way because it works. A game is what makes a game good, not what hardware its using or running on. It technology alone made a game good then everytime a new system came out it would have the best games ever on it, but thats not true because hell the sega genesis had far better games than a nintendo wii, but how can that be? The genesis didnt have motion controls! Oh yeah right, because it had good games, silly me.
But again nintendo just does hardware now, they dont do games really. They do mario, zelda, metroid and occasionally shit out a donkey kong game and thats it. Nintendo doesnt care about games. THey create hardware and market it and then sit back while everyone makes shovelware crap games for their system and nintendo sucks up the royalities. Problem here is nintendo doesnt care, they stopped using the nintendo seal of quality where they had to actually put standards on games on their system but they stopped that along time, if they hadnt we may not have my stop smoking buddy, coldstone cremery ice creme store, or the other 100 shit wii games.
