This was the scene at nursing homes across the country today at the end of Nintendo’s press conference:
“Ethel, did you hear? They’re making new Wii thingamabob that can check out blood pressure!” Woo hoo!
Come on, Nintendo. Seriously? The announcement of the Wii Vitality Sensor really made me cringe. Up until that point, Nintendo wasn’t totally sucking. But really, what can we expect, I guess? They looked at the sales stats and determed that a new peripheripal was exactly what the company needs. True Nintendo style.
Ya’ll really should have stuck to the Metroid and Mario announcements, guys.
That had to be the worst conference ever. Like, last year, it was bad.. but in a laughable way with our drummer boy and cammie’s fake smile.
This year was bad because they had some decent stuff to show (New Super Mario Bros, Golden Sun, Kingdom Hearts, a Team Ninja Metroid, Mario Galaxy, a Final Fantasy game, etc etc). When you look at just the games alone, Nintendo totally kicked ass… but mix in all the speakers who seemed as though they didn’t want to be there and the middle being mucked up by the motion plus commercial (c’mon Nintendo, we already know about that motion plus crap!)… just .. “uh”. I can’t believe I woke up early to watch this shite.
Let’s see if Sony can somehow come in 2nd place out of the three presentations, as of right now, Microsoft did it up right… less talk, lots of games, new features.