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Square Enix keen on Wii Fit Controller
Square Enix keen on Wii Fit Controller
Kotaku - July 17, 2007
Submitted by pilias_simber (122) at 7:30AM PST on July 17, 2007
Wii Fit's Balance Board is an interesting thing. Very flexible. Yeah, for Nintendo it'll work for a fitness game, but the possibilities go waaay beyond that. EA would tell us you could skate. Or ski. Or even surf. Extremely. Square Enix? You'll never guess what they'd use it for. Never ever in a million billion years.
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3zeromous posted on Wii Fit (Wii) at 9:58AM PST on July 17, 2007. RE: Square Enix keen on Wii Fit Controller@pilias_simber,
Respectfully, that's the same thing they said about the Power Pad and Sega Activator (Oh Eternal Champions, how you crushed my naively high hopes!) On the other hand, my own mother was asking about it the other day....that has to be worth something!
I need to see more before I believe in the Wii-Pad's genre-busting qualities. For me personally, it begs the question, who really needs a computer in place of a work-out tape? Apparently someone does, as millions are sold each year (just for a more pervasive platform called DVD)!
I still don't think we'll see the board used much more than a niche device. I hope I'm wrong though! I love the idea using it to peek around corners in a Wii-FPS to be named later or something to that effect.[ Veteran ] [ Level 21 ] [ Rank: 878 ]bids
2pilias_simber posted on Wii Fit (Wii) at 7:30AM PST on July 17, 2007. RE: Square Enix keen on Wii Fit ControllerWii Fit's Balance Board is an interesting thing. Very flexible. Yeah, for Nintendo it'll work for a fitness game, but the possibilities go waaay beyond that. EA would tell us you could skate. Or ski. Or even surf. Extremely. Square Enix? You'll never guess what they'd use it for. Never ever in a million billion years.[ Oracle ] [ Level 22 ] [ Rank: 122 ]
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You might be right, but I think that the Wii fit controller will go places. Why? Because the Sega Activator was basically just making motions to push buttons. The Wii fit controller on the other hand is actually doing what you do on the controller. For example, when you're leaning to the right, you aren't pushing the B button, you're actually leaning to the right. I think this will make all the difference in the long run.
Besides, this gen's already shown us that some ideas were just ahead of there time. When the Wiimote was first released, it was compared a lot to the powerglove. I'm pretty sure the Power Glove hasn't had the level of success the Wii has.