Quote Originally Posted by Depression Moon View Post
What's wrong with Marcus
He just rubs me the wrong way. He's not snarky and witty like Butler. He's just plain obnoxious. Do you know anyone who watches him and thinks, "That kid is cool. He makes me want to be cool like him and own a PSP."? The way Kevin Butler makes fun of stuff like Kinect is almost tongue-in-cheek. The way Marcus puts down things like the iPhone is childish and silly on the face of it.

Is there a specific demographic he's trying to appeal to by being extra "black?"


I think if Microsoft really wants to target the casual Wii audience, they need to sell the 360 Kinect bundle for less than the $300 they're asking now. A Wii is only $200.
$300 isn't significantly more than people paid for their Wiis at launch. That was then and this is now. If it's like one of my hypotheses... the target audience of the Wii might be looking for something new and fresh 5 years later. The price probably isn't that much of a killer.... except for...

My second reason is because of the current economic state of the country. I just don't see too many buying it because of that reason.
I could almost see this being a problem, but I'm sure there are plenty enough people in the soccer mom Wii demographic where economic hardship isn't a big enough factor.

Hell, I the school where I teach is 90% impoverished and damn near everyone has an Xbox and a PSP even if they don't have nice clothes and are on reduced lunches. That's probably because...

Apparently recessions don't affect entertainment things like video games, movies, music, etc. too much. :P People need their fun time to get over the stress of being poor, I guess.

Moving and aiming seemed to work perfectly well in Metroid Prime 3, but that's actually the only game with FPS controls I've played on the Wii.
Yeah, I was thinking this too. I don't like pushing at the edges of the screen, but with a few better uses of a D-pad in conjunction with an analog stick (both available together on Move I think) one should be able to move pretty easily and still get the drastically improved precision of aiming from something like Move over straight analog stick aiming. Of course I still can't imagine it being better than M&KB as far as accuracy goes just because of the smaller motion needed to get that accuracy. I could be wrong though depending on how good the tech is (I've not tried Move).