Some more Wii love

This is from reader, Lucas who found this article and translated the important parts. Thanks!

Keep in mind that this is a very mainstream scientific magazine that has nothing to do with games and thus far has only featured some select PC games in it’s Cyberia section.

Even if Nintendo-characters like Mario, Zelda and Donkey Kong are too ‘kiddy’ for you, you will have to admit: of the three new game consoles, the on 8 december available Wii is the most interesting. Whereas Microsoft and Sony focus on more powerful hardware with their Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, Nintendo chooses to take a different path. According to Nintendo executive Satoru Iwata, making games more realistic and bigger has brought the game business where it is now, but that growth will stagnate if game developers do not learn to think outside of the box. “Is someone going to invent a new platform for the industry to grow further, or will gamers be devided and will the industry shrink?” is what Iwata asks. He answers this: the Wii, formerly Nintendo Revolution. The console’s biggest advantage: a controller, resembling a wand, that you move through the air. This innovative controller gives the hardcore gamers some much needed innovation, as well as giving unexperienced gamers a more intuitive way to control their games.

[In between there is some stuff about what people from other Dutch gaming magazines think and about some features like the channels, Miis and WiiConnect24, but nothing new or worth translating, not that Dutch magazines ever report anything new when it comes to gaming.]

We hope to stop by Nintendo to try out the Wii ourselves soon after this magazine is printed.

The stuff in the article is not very special, but at least it’s good to see that the mainstream media is covering the Wii so well, even here in the Netherlands.