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Best Day 1 Tech Demo
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Wii Sports. I love Astro and I love platformers, but as far as market penetration and influence on a systems ecosystem, these two are worlds apart. They're not even remotely the same, to be honest, Astro is still a gamers game, Wii Sports is something anyone can love.
Wii Sports sold a platform and while Astro is great, it didn't embody the spirit of the PS5 as a whole. It's Wii Sports, which managed to capture the age 5-85 Nintendo was aiming for.
This board will lean Astro because it's more of a video game, but that doesn't line with the masses.
This board will lean Astro because it's more of a video game, but that doesn't line with the masses.
It's wii sports, we still remember wii sports, we probably won't remember astrobots playroom at the start of the next console gen.
Astrobot is neat but wii sports became a proper phenomenon.
Astrobot is neat but wii sports became a proper phenomenon.
I don't think any game that will come on PS5 that will use the full PS5 DualSense features to such extent. And the game is a mix of the history of PlayStation and all its games and events. I don't think of another example showcasing a console as much as Astro tbh.
It's not even Astro Bot Playroom, tho
It's "Astro's Playroom"
You slipping
Of course Wii Sports is a more important one but since the OP asked which one is better than the answer is clearly Astro Bot.
I love astro bot but the results of this poll are absurd.
The PS5 and its controller tech is neat, like a valuable addition to a well defined experience. The wiimote and its motion sports was a gamechanger, it opened up gaming to tens of millions of new people in a way that hasn't happened before or since.
The PS5 and its controller tech is neat, like a valuable addition to a well defined experience. The wiimote and its motion sports was a gamechanger, it opened up gaming to tens of millions of new people in a way that hasn't happened before or since.
This forum is anything but young lmao.
The poll is asking ''Best Tech demo'' not ''Bigger phenomenon'', if you count the impact then sure, Wii Sports wins by a large margin, but if you take into account only the quality of both games then things might change depending on the person.
OP also didn't ask which was the better quality game. I think as a wii sports was the better tech demo for what they wanted to showcase.
Astro Bot was an amazing platformer that's held down obnoxious motion controls, and I'm surprised a lot of people on this forum let that slide. Wii Sports is arguably the only the great motion controlled game for it's time and it basically skyrocketed the Wii into the masses, but it definitely lends itself to more party related environments and repeating the same sport over and over. Still Wii Sports for me for how much fun I had playing it with the family, which I don't think I'll be able to replicate with any upcoming games ever again :/
Wii Sports introduced a completely new way to physically interface with video games and expanded the interest of normal people in video games to a degree I don't think I'd seen before or after from a single game and the tech that it was introducing to the world.
The Dual Sense is immensely impressive and fine-tuned and Astro Bot is intentionally the most robust use of it, but I feel like it's ultimately just a range of great augmentations and refinements to the existing way we traditionally interact with games. It is nowhere near the impact that Wii Sports was for video games as a whole, even if the motion control format that it introduced to the world has largely been left behind. I have no doubt that that introduction via Wii may have been one of the biggest single points of surge of interest in video games in history.
The Dual Sense is immensely impressive and fine-tuned and Astro Bot is intentionally the most robust use of it, but I feel like it's ultimately just a range of great augmentations and refinements to the existing way we traditionally interact with games. It is nowhere near the impact that Wii Sports was for video games as a whole, even if the motion control format that it introduced to the world has largely been left behind. I have no doubt that that introduction via Wii may have been one of the biggest single points of surge of interest in video games in history.
I beg to differ, the game were intentionally made to showcase the "controller"
Could be because the question is "best" not most impactful? The Wii sports mini games may have been an inventive way to interact with games via motion, but they all also play like crap. Astro is just a great game.
Wii Sports demonstrated that an entire new input method was not only possible but extremely accessible. The effectiveness of this "tech demo" was so compelling that it made the tech that it was selling (the Wii) arguably the hottest piece of tech in gaming history. People were buying Wii's just for that game. I don't think many people's primary reason for buying a PS5 is Astrobot.
PS - This is yet another thread where the comments indicate one thing but the poll results are heavily skewed in Sony's favor.
PS - This is yet another thread where the comments indicate one thing but the poll results are heavily skewed in Sony's favor.
Have you considered that people are voting for the game they enjoyed most, not which had the biggest impact/influence?
Sometimes you need to step outside of yourself and consider more in context than your own enjoyment.
It's on the OP to clarify. As it stands, there's enough room for interpretation that a vote can go for which tech demo people enjoyed playing more or which one they felt had greater influence. I think asking the latter would be boring since it's unquestionably Wii Sports, especially given the PS5 only released weeks ago.
Wii sports, I recall long night bowling sessions with my parents in the basement when the Wii dropped.
Wii Sports. Motion control at that point in time was such a big departure compared to anything we'd seen. It also sold millions of consoles. Astro is great and it's a better game, but it's an evolution of the controller we've been using for years, while Wii Sports was a complete reinvention and broke into the mainstream.
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Get a grip, Era. Wii Sports was a cultural force. Astro is a better game overall, but doesnt accomplish what Wii Sports did on any level.
Even that's not a clear question haha. Wii Sports had to communicate an entirely new way to play video games. Astro just shows you how cool the rumble and triggers are.
Wii Sports had a much tougher task, and did it successfully, while Astro is impeccably made but exists solely to show off.
Whether you're asking which is more influential, or which executes its goal better, both are inarguably Wii Sports. The only debate Astro can win is if you're simply asking which people like playing more.
It's Wii Sports hands down.
Like, my grandma and grandpa played Wii Sports. My mom and dad, who were anti video games, played Wii Sports. It was brought into senior centers, rehabs, youth groups, etc . . . All because it was one of the most easy to pick up games of all time and it was a blast to play with others.
I bet that if you broke down the poll results the majority of those picking Astro Boy are <25.
Like, my grandma and grandpa played Wii Sports. My mom and dad, who were anti video games, played Wii Sports. It was brought into senior centers, rehabs, youth groups, etc . . . All because it was one of the most easy to pick up games of all time and it was a blast to play with others.
I bet that if you broke down the poll results the majority of those picking Astro Boy are <25.