The high-profile publication asks if, amidst competition, buying a Wii makes sense anymore.
In yesterday’s edition of the New York Times, an article by Seth Schiesel appeared, wondering if it was still worth it to buy a Wii in the face of new motion-control competition. He claims that the Wii is being outclassed by the more powerful consoles and that “the Wii no longer does anything important that the PS3 or Xbox 360 cannot do even better,” noting not just enhanced motion tracking, the graphical differences and how they grant greater degrees of immersion. While he concedes that the Wii has advantage in terms of price and game libraries, he feels confident that the other consoles, the Kinect especially, will quickly gain the advantage there with their superior controls and interfaces. You can read the article by clicking here.
I’m not really happy with the way he sort of blew off the whole “game library” aspect of each console, as it’s easily the most important thing anyone should consider when buying a game console. There’s certainly nowhere near as many good Move or Kinect games as there are good Wii ones, if only because the Wii has been out longer.
Wii is not obsolete. Nobody is going to get kinect or move because it costs too much and it has hardly any games for it.
I hate the Kinect. It takes forever to set up, it's too expensive & the games for it are absolutley terrible. Worst £150 I've ever spent. I recommend a Wii over the Kinect any day.
Also, all the developers for the Move and Kinect are taking the "wait-and-see" approach so there won't be much, if any, quality software for those systems for quite a while. I make it a point not to buy products based on potential alone. It would be foolish to spend so much money on the Move or Kinect, especially if you have to buy the console too, when there aren't any worthwhile games for them.