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Best Day 1 Tech Demo
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Poll numbers are mad crazy. Wii sports was huge because it was so accessable i knew really old people who had a Wii just for that game. Heck, my dad even had one. He wouldn't buy a PS5 for astros playroom.
Astros playroom is a fun game, and its use of the haptic feedback and the resistive button stuff is great, but these are advances in hd rumble and the stuff ms put in their controller last gen. (To a point) albiet good examples...
But nobodys dad is rushing out in mass to buy a PS5 cuz they heard astro was a game changer.
Astros playroom is a fun game, and its use of the haptic feedback and the resistive button stuff is great, but these are advances in hd rumble and the stuff ms put in their controller last gen. (To a point) albiet good examples...
But nobodys dad is rushing out in mass to buy a PS5 cuz they heard astro was a game changer.
like, enhanced HD rumble, cool..I get it
but the Wii had MOTION CONTROLS.. when you swung the wiimote and moved your tennis racket, bowling ball, baseball bat, whatever, it was just transformative. You think the PS5 and Xbox Series consoles were hard to find? Try finding a Wii when it launched.
but the Wii had MOTION CONTROLS.. when you swung the wiimote and moved your tennis racket, bowling ball, baseball bat, whatever, it was just transformative. You think the PS5 and Xbox Series consoles were hard to find? Try finding a Wii when it launched.
I hate it every time someone makes an age generalization like this. I'm 35, I had a Wii at launch and Astrobot is just a better game. You don't need to go around making up excuses or theories as to why people don't always agree with you.
Definitely. My grandparents(RIP) were obsessed with it and grandpa bought a Wii just to play bowling.
Astro Boy is the more impressive Tech Demo.
I'd rather play Wii Sports in 2020. It's a really fun game.
I'd rather play Wii Sports in 2020. It's a really fun game.
Astro's Playroom is a phenomenal experience and some of the most fun I've had with the PS5 thus far, but Wii Sports is the clear choice here. Like, I'm not even sure how you could even argue against it.
Okay wow I actually Ctrl+F'd all the posts in this thread up to this point and:
You are the only person who posted any sort of reply suggesting it is Astro that does the tech demo thing better, at least as far as I could find. I personally disagree but I can see people being wowed by different things.
Clearly anonymous polls should just not be trusted though.
You are the only person who posted any sort of reply suggesting it is Astro that does the tech demo thing better, at least as far as I could find. I personally disagree but I can see people being wowed by different things.
Clearly anonymous polls should just not be trusted though.
Meh, of course there will be outliers, but I still think if you had the ages of the respondants the Astrobot voters would skew much younger.
Also while I personally would enjoy sitting down and playing astro bot more, I don't think it's the better game. Wii Sports hit a much broader audience in a way that no game before, nor any game since then, has. It was so well designed that it transcended the typical gaming audience. Just because we as enthusiasts would rather play Astro Bot doesn't discount the fact that Wii Sports being able to resonate with such an incredible breadth of people makes it an absolutely masterfully designed game. In a list of the top games of all time, a case could be made for Wii Sports to appear, but Astro's Playroom wouldn't even remotely be a part of the running.
Seriously! People are just hyped up on the new thing. Wii Sports was a game people were so in love with, they wouldn't buy any other games for the system.
I don't even know how to respond to this. Like, motion controls were the tech they were demoing, not HD graphics.
Wii's 'motion control' strength was in pointer/cursor controlled games, not accelerometer stuff.
Wii Sports didn't even have good SD graphics. Any number of PS2, Xbox and GameCube games had better graphics many years earlier.
Wii's accelerometer wasn't able to interpret any respectable nuance of motion, only with Motion Plus added and good software like Skyward Sword did they elevate 3D games beyond analog sticks and buttons.
Wii Sports didn't even have good SD graphics. Any number of PS2, Xbox and GameCube games had better graphics many years earlier.
But as a functional showcase for motion controls, it was a great tech demo.
Wii Sports sold the entire platform. Like, it's the reason the Wii became the juggernaut that it was.
If we're talking "Which one best demonstrates the appeal of the system's unique controller" it's unquestionably Wii Sports. Literally anyone could pick up Wii Sports and immediately understand the appeal.
The same cannot be said of Astro, as neat of a game as it is.
If we're talking "Which one best demonstrates the appeal of the system's unique controller" it's unquestionably Wii Sports. Literally anyone could pick up Wii Sports and immediately understand the appeal.
The same cannot be said of Astro, as neat of a game as it is.
Wii Sports sold consoles to people who never really owned one in their life.
Why the fuck is this even close?
Why the fuck is this even close?
Astro is way more enjoyable and actually the sole reason I bought a ps5 at launch.
Overall it will 'sell' more as like playroom it will be on every ps5 whereas wii sports stopped being packed in after a year or so.
However impact wise you can't argue with wii sports it was the grandma game. Heck my dad bought a wii for it and never bought another game and he's hated games since broken sword 2
Overall it will 'sell' more as like playroom it will be on every ps5 whereas wii sports stopped being packed in after a year or so.
However impact wise you can't argue with wii sports it was the grandma game. Heck my dad bought a wii for it and never bought another game and he's hated games since broken sword 2
Man I love Astro. It does some really dope shit and though I haven't finished it yet it is an amazing product. Polished to a mirror shine, great variety and it's beautiful on top of that. But I have to roll with Wii Sports. That shit had everybody hooked and it was because of how they sold their tech in an easy to understand package. Buy this, it comes with this, swing your arm like this and...look at that, you're bowling. People were fucking floored by it. It was basically magic for a lot of folks.
Wii Sports was a worldwide phenomenon. I think I'll go with that.
Poll results are hilarious though lol.
Poll results are hilarious though lol.
Plz add Cyberpunk 2077 to the poll. It gets my vote for best tech demo.
I look forward to playing the finished game
I look forward to playing the finished game
'Design, had next to nothing to do with the appeal it had to nongamers. It was all about the way it aped things they were already familiar with both in terms of the activities available and the way you used the controller to perform them. It didnt hurt that the wii was a very cheap box that everyone and their dog could afford to pick up without feeling too guilty.
Tech showcases sure, tech demo's no... Because they're not demos!
I'm not even a huge fan of Wii Sports, but c'mon, it's debatably the game of the 2000s decade and maybe the most accessible game ever made to that point while inspiring numerous knock offs.
Pretty sure this board skews quite old, actually. I'm guessing this is more of a "hardcore vs casuals" thing.
I like Astro Bot, it's cool. After finishing it I will never play it again. I played Wii Sports for years.
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The fact that this is even being asked, let alone seeing Astro Bot being so close to Wii Sports in this poll is the ultimate proof of how ridiculously Sony slanted this forum is.
Astro bot is a fun little tech demo that you play while waiting for Spider-Man or Demon's Souls to install. It's full of charm, and there are some very cool effects with the adaptive triggers and haptic feedback, but the game itself is very short with very little reason to return to it. Astro Bot is a cool bonus you get with your PS5 not the main course.
Whereas Wii Sports was an international phenomenon that was all over the news, being used in retirement homes, appealed to non-gamers, and really overall instantly sold the vision of the system Nintendo was making. The Wii was such a huge success in large part due to Wii Sports.
Wii Sports is the better tech demo by a long shot.
Whereas Wii Sports was an international phenomenon that was all over the news, being used in retirement homes, appealed to non-gamers, and really overall instantly sold the vision of the system Nintendo was making. The Wii was such a huge success in large part due to Wii Sports.
Wii Sports is the better tech demo by a long shot.
Wii Sports was like The shit in 2007 even tho i didnt really like It. It was on stuff like The Tonight Show, Morning shows etc. Also the poll really shows how much the forum reaaaally favors Sony, like damn. I am sure i would personally favor Astrobot as a game but it's not even close when it come to mindshare and so on.
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Best quality game? Astro.
Most impact/ influence? Wii Sports.
It's a weird comparison to make, honestly, because it's almost like Wii Sports went viral. It was the right environment and market at the time for it to explode.
As for which game debuted the featureset of the console better. I have to give it to Astro because it the features it promotes are varied and far more difficult to convey. Not to mention, the more I played it, the more features I realised it highlighted. Cards, tips, speed run notifications. This in addition to the suite of dual sense features. It's an incredibly tightly crafted game.
Most impact/ influence? Wii Sports.
It's a weird comparison to make, honestly, because it's almost like Wii Sports went viral. It was the right environment and market at the time for it to explode.
As for which game debuted the featureset of the console better. I have to give it to Astro because it the features it promotes are varied and far more difficult to convey. Not to mention, the more I played it, the more features I realised it highlighted. Cards, tips, speed run notifications. This in addition to the suite of dual sense features. It's an incredibly tightly crafted game.
Going by that metric I would say it's a tie. Both games perfectly showcase what each controller can do.
