Goodbye Mii, Hello Home

[MalReynolds]

Re: Goodbye Mii, Hello Home

It's just like Nintendo's plan. The more controllers you want to do things, the more money you gotta kick out. Just a classic controller and another Wii controller costs what $60-70 all together? Yeah, sure Nintendo.

Well, right. But each add-on actually enables you to play more games, whereas the rumble is just a perk, not a neccessity. Nintendo isn't charging out the ass for something that isn't required - you need it to play the games. Which is a good and a bad thing, depending on how you look at it. Good, because the innovation could continue (like the nunchuck, there could be others), and bad because it is certainly going to cost you more money.

But to fork out extra money just so all of my controllers could have a rumble on them after having paid for the system? That's just kind of unfair.

[LythincaMan]

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Actually, want to know the real reason why rumble isnt in the PS3?
Its becuase, Interact (IIRC), a branch of microsoft, sued Sony for using their rumble, idea which was patended by Interact years before.

Makes sence, sony doesnt wanna get sued.

[Chromer]

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Dude, we've known that for a while now.

Also Squeek, not many people have a PS3 at the moment. Yeah, the established base might complain but when you can get millions to purchase it compared to the 144,000 or whoever that have it now just because it has the rumble feature, that's a risk worth taking.

[KKKEEENNN]

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I wouldn't really say goodbye to the Miis yet. Miis are a little more original than what I compare to Home. It alright, but you can't 100% replace the Miis because (like most people are saying) it's like Second Life, but more detail and some better stuff. I don't prefer realism over kawaiism (the "good" ones) for virtual things like that.

[Chromer]

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Home is an example of what should be done to make going online more interactive. That's why I'll always have respect for Nintendo for Mii and Sony for Home and not for the 5-year ago XBL.

[Pyroshock]

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Can you play as your custom-made Home character in any of the PS3 games?

No?

Oh, OK.

Although I do like the idea of meeting people on Home and then going directly into an online multiplayer game with them.

[Chromer]

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Can you play as your custom-made Home character in any of the PS3 games?

No?

Oh, OK.

Although I do like the idea of meeting people on Home and then going directly into an online multiplayer game with them.

What Wii games can you take your Mii into other than Wii Sports?









































Wii Sports it is then. =P

[Pyroshock]

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You seem to have forgotten Wario Ware.

EDIT: Wario Ware and Wii Sports are the only two games I know of so far that use Miis, but two games that use it (so far) are better than zero.

[Afrobean]

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Wii Play also uses them, I believe.

Miis were never really supposed to be like this though. This is more like virtual living, it seems. Miis are just avatars and nothing more.

[Squeek]

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Don't forget, they also appear in other channels. So, in addition to cameos in WarioWare, Wii Play, and Wii Sports, the happy little dudes show up in the Everybody Votes Channel and the Message Board. And you can send them to anyone you have registered pretty much instantaneously, as well as store them on the Wii-Mote to bring to friends' houses.

WarioWare has so far made the best use of the critters in the multiplayer aspects of the game. They actually have arms and legs and a body and such. And it's all connected.

All that being said, I don't really care that much. I spent maybe an hour messing around in the Mii channel when I first got the console making a few of them but have not gone back since. I can't see myself turning on a high-end video gaming console just to see how a virtual character is doing and play 'house'.

I see game consoles as game consoles. I probably won't even use Wii's online services unless it's a friendly game against FFR people. I think a gaming console should do what it's intended to do and very little more. That way, it does what it's supposed to do very well.

So, I'm the kind of person who keeps the console off of Standby because I don't care about News, Weather, Voting, Internet, etc. My computer is just inches away from my Wii console. There's absolutely no point in turning it on just to see the weather or something. Likewise, there'd be no point in turning it on just to see how my virtual character is doing.

[mead1]

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Hello there Habbo Hotel for a 600 dollar system

[Chromer]

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What do you call Mii then? Because Mii looks more like Habbo Hotel than Home does.

[Pyroshock]

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Home acts more like Habbo Hotel than Mii does.

[Afrobean]

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What do you call Mii then? Because Mii looks more like Habbo Hotel than Home does.

Chromer, do you have any idea what you're talking about?

Have you ever actually experienced anything with Miis or are you just assuming?

Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_Channels#Mii_Channel

It is an avatar system and NOTHING more. The Mii does nothing at all, but give you a face to look at when playing certain games or other things of that nature. There is no virtual life element at all, and I wouldn't be surprised if there never will be.

Saying that the Mii system looks more like Habbo Hotel than this Home system does is just stupid. Habbo hotel is a pixel art based virtual life game. Home is a 3D virtual life system.

[ddr_f4n]

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What's he point of having Home? If you have one, then it tells everyone else that you have no real life and your life is stuck in a virtual reality. I don't need this Home crap as a second life, because my real life is good...real good. Let's see what Sony has stolen from other systems:

Online Compatibility with Headset: Xbox
Motion Sensitivity: Wii
Home: Wii's Mii
Achievements for Home: Xbox 360

I could think of many more but I feel lazy today.