The Nintendo Wii Remote

It’s been a while since there’s been any other information here on How To Get Wii Points. So lets start off again and discuss the intricacies of the Wii Remote. Or, “Wiimote” as it is often referred to as. However for this discussion we will refer to it as simply it’s original Nintendo preferred name of Wii Remote.

I do remember back in the day, 2006 I believe it was, when the rumor was about stating that the next Nintendo console that they were preparing to introduce was doing to be dubbed the Nintendo Revolution. This obviously didn’t turn out to be completely accurate. The Revolution was just the working title and was later changed to the Nintendo Wii. At the time I thought that this was ridiculous and preferred the name Revolution to “Wii”. But like make other people the name stuck with me and I got used to it. Now it doesn’t seem that bad. It actually fits in with the concept of the Wii.

Another thing that, at the time, seemed strange about the Wii release was it’s controllers. They were different to say the least. Everyone was expecting a slightly different version of the previous controllers that had pretty much become standard for video game consoles. When people saw that the Nintendo controller would resemble a vertical NES controller and would be wireless and motion sensitive the reaction was very similar to that of the name change. For myself for example, I thought it to be a gimmick more than anything else.

However, just like the Wii console itself the controllers that Nintendo introduced to us grew on me. At this point the two remaining major consoles are planning on ripping off what made the Wii Remotes so popular in the upcoming months. These may be better or worse but we have Nintendo to thank for being the mainstream originators.

The potential of this Wii Remote device was great and could be considered a very good attempt to add a mouse like way of manipulating a video game. Admittedly there are several Nintendo Wii titles that do use the Wii Remote as a gimmick but, luckily, the Wii Remote is also considered to work very well and only adds to a video game experience.

Nintendo not only held its own during this section of the modern console wars but preformed outstanding as they beat out their completion for a quite a while. While other consoles are now attempting to catch up on Nintendo’s success in the motion control arena, Nintendo has the advantage of being able to stay one step ahead.