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They're pushing what the Wii can do as a console technologically, but they're not pushing anything anywhere else. It looks like every other FPS ever made, and appears to bring absolutely nothing new or refreshing to the table. It's going to be totally awesome for people that already own Wiis, but nobody's going to go out and jump on the Wii wagon just for this game; the idea that it's going to even put a dent in the outcry for more "hardcore games" is ridiculous.
People aren't going to stop playing their 360s and their PS3s for this. This won't even make a ripple in the gaming populace. I mean, congrats to all of us who already own and support the system, but nobody else is going to give a fuck. The game's not "inspiring" or "audacious," though. It's generic. Boring. Overdone. It's the same old shit with waggle controls--exactly what "hardcore gamers" are bitching about in the first place. It only serves to further the idea that the Wii is established on a gimmick--that it can't chug out any game worth a shit on its own, it has to take half assed ideas and stick a sensor bar on them. That's exactly what this game is. On any other system, this would fail. On the Wii, though? It's "inspiring."
Look at Fragile. Look at Fatal Frame 4. Look at MadWorld. Look at Muramasa: The Demon Blade. That's what the Wii fucking needs, right there. These are games that I'd play no matter what system they were on, because they look like good fucking games on their own fucking merits, and they're Wii exclusive. They're not just boring ass, stale rehashes of an already sickeningly overdone genre hyped up solely on the fact that they're on a system with little else to its name.
The Conduit isn't the Wii getting serious. The Conduit is another handful of developers just pissing on their own hands.
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