Seventh-Generation Gaming: The Nintendo Wii System
In the video game market, companies consistently compete to offer the best possible system with the most potential. In other words, technological corporations do not spend years in development only to release a system that has been done before. Many of the current gaming systems on the market have targeted older gamers, especially boys. They focus their games on the biggest explosions, the most violence and the real-world dramas of sex and drug use.
The Nintendo Wii system is proud to target a broader audience than any over the other seventh-generation systems currently available. While it still offers some of the action and adult content of other systems, it also boasts a wide array of family-fun games. The uniqueness of the Nintendo Wii system allows for it to take video gaming to a new level. No longer are sports games simply imitations, the players can actually act out the movements associated with specific sports. The Nintendo Wii system has revolutionized the way the world looks at video gaming, and now it is up to the other companies to catch up.
An Experiment Gone Perfect
For the engineers behind the Nintendo Wii system, ingenuity was the key. The company admitted that power is not everything in the video gaming world, although it was the only company to believe such a statement. While other consoles aimed at accelerated graphics and complex storylines, the designers at Nintendo decided to take a step back and focus on finesse. A few years later, the Nintendo Wii system owns the stage.
From a financial stand point, the Nintendo Wii system has been a huge success. But more importantly, in the video gaming world, it has proven that power truly is not everything. It is still impossible in many regions to buy one of these systems, and the obsession does not appear to be slowing down. Once again, the company does no intend to compete head-on with other consoles on the market. Those gamers, in love with first-person shooters and other action-packed games, will probably never be attracted to the system. However, the Nintendo Wii system does attract new gamers, especially parents and entire families who otherwise felt shunned by the violence of mainstream video games.
The new console offers these new gamers outlets not offered by other companies: family-friendly games for all ages that focus more on physical movements and visual skills than complex reasoning or button-pushing. Because of the Nintendo Wii system, more individuals are playing video games than ever before. And parents no longer have to fear the adverse effects of video games. These games are educational, social, and even physically captivating.
