Reply to Keith Stuarts article on the Wii

The article can be found here.

I agree and disagree with Keith in a way, the Wii has bred a new wave of family gamers, the simple control style and the prospect of watching the game character mimic your movements excites a large audience. However from personal experience, the Wii has its violent bits as well as its family based games such as Wii sports and Wario Moves. Red Steel can have you making a defeated enemy kneel at your feet while you carve him up. The godfather game relies on the player physically "shaking" the enemy on screen and beating them to a pulp. Call of Duty 3 makes full use of the controls by making you sweat as you wrestle with a German holding a knife to your throat, then turning it back onto him, and you can watch the horror on his face as the knife starts slowly sinking into his neck, at your own doing. So no Keith, the Wii isn't all Universal rated family games, it just targets a much larger audience than the other two, with the exception of dreary film based games like Ice age, Over the Hedge and Happy feet, which all follow the same plot, game structure and so on. Also probably the most violent game of all time, Manhunt, will be making a second game, Manhunt 2 which will be on which platform? You guessed it, The Wii, so I think Keith Stuart has targeted a very small part of Nintendo's audience for the Wii.