Wii Music

[pentomino]

I just saw the Wii Music preview. YouTube: drums and then sax, sax and then full bandThe drums looked neat, and sounded great. I've played the Guitar Hero drums, and it's fun, though I didn't quite get used to the bass pedal's placement. And it's a large, cumbersome thing to have lying around the place. This looks like a good lightweight

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[mmcirvin]

This looks... not that impressive.

I'm a little more excited about the Motion Plus attachment, which could make it possible to write swordfighting games for the Wii that don't suck. Basically the thing adds a gyroscope in addition to the accelerometers, so that the Wiimote can actually sense spatial orientation accurately, instead of just orientation relative to the vertical and acceleration. Of course this is contingent on somebody actually writing some good software for the thing.

[pentomino]

Apparently Wii Sports Resort has fencing. I'll leave it to you to find the video, since I'm mobile now.