"Worlds of possibilities" for Wii board Comments by Robert Purchese

"you have to treat the Nintendo console specially in order to be successful; a port would have been rubbish"

QFT!

It's good to see that some Devs are finally picking up on this, let's hope everyone else catches on soon too.

Sounds like the exact same enthusiasm we had for the Wii itself, making it sound as though everyone had a wave of ideas all ready to be exploited, but in the end we had very few examples of such innovation and a whole lot of game like Raving Rabbids.

"worlds of possibilities" = more games you can play with your arse
something i, for one, am in favour of

I reckon the possibilities are actually quite limited.

Think of all the things you could do! You could do snowboarding. You could do surfing. Maybe you could do skateboarding.

Hmmm. Let's see... You could do snowboarding!

Jet Set Radio? How would a rollerblading game work with a single board-based controller?

I guess they could redo it with skateboards... But that'd kinda suck.

On the other hand, Wii Remote graffiti, now that would be awesome

Wii will be king of sports games, it seems. From selecting football players on pitch with the Wiimote to snowboarding/skateboarding/surfing/skiing with a "virtual board" and leaning with the 'mote, boxing with technical skills and swings, tennis/table tennis, baseball, throwing and passing an American "football", it seems the possibilities are limitless.

There is so much more to do with the Wiimote in other games too, like literally "throwing" a grenade with physics unique to each throwing action, flying aircraft, soul calibur style weapon fights, RTS selection of units... the list is limitless.

Could even have virtual segway game!

Sounds like a limited gimmick, but I suppose it adds a selling point to their otherwise derivative mediocre games.

@Aspic

A better example of jumping would have been the ski jumping game in Wii Fit.

Yeah, only, rollerblading is nothing like snowboarding. In snowboarding you control your movements by redistributing your body weight, while gravity and momentum push you forward. So, you're tilting yourself around, and your avatar onscreen is doing the same thing.

While rollerblading you move your legs independently to propel yourself forward, and you control yourself much like you do walking, by the movements your legs are making. Sometimes you control yourself skate/snowboard style, once you have momentum, but the majority of the time, you're really not.

So you'd be tilting your body around to control where you're going while the character onscreen was skating around, with a totally different, unrelated movement. What would the point in that be? It'd basically be like standing on a giant D-Pad.

On the other hand, replace the rollerblades with a skateboard, and your idea is awesome.

Worlds of possibilitiis, more like.

Worlds of possibilities - if you can find one that is!

Didn't Ubisoft make all those really shite games around the Wii launch?