{"id":2339,"date":"2009-02-27T18:51:07","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T23:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=2339"},"modified":"2010-05-12T08:38:45","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T13:38:45","slug":"experienced-points-wii-are-the-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=2339","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: Wii are the Champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I own a Wii. (I mean I have one of my own.  There is <em>another<\/em> Wii in the living room, used by the rest of the family.) I never play games on it. I basically use it as an exercise machine with the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/comics\/stolen-pixels\/5717-Stolen-Pixels-61-Unfit\">help<\/a>&#8221; of WiiFit.  But I am glad the machine <em>exists<\/em>.  Even though the platform doesn&#8217;t really feature games that suit my taste<sup>*<\/sup>, I think the Wii will have a larger and more lasting impact on videogames than either of the other two consoles, and I think those changes will be for the better. And so I feel compelled to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/editorials\/op-ed\/5799-Wii-Are-the-Champions\">take the critics of the machine to task<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I expect most of the Wii critics are simply Xbox \/ PS fans who don&#8217;t like that their chosen platform isn&#8217;t justifying their purchase by way of sales numbers, and so I&#8217;m probably selling garlic to vampires with this one.  Still, I think it needed to be said.  I&#8217;m content to do all my gaming on the #2 and #3 platforms knowing that the seeds currently being sown on the Wii will probably pay off in the next generation.<\/p>\n<p><small>*<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sega.com\/madworld\/us\/index.html\">Madworld<\/a> looks pretty exciting, though. I&#8217;ll probably be grabbing that one.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I own a Wii. (I mean I have one of my own. There is another Wii in the living room, used by the rest of the family.) I never play games on it. I basically use it as an exercise machine with the &#8220;help&#8221; of WiiFit. But I am glad the machine exists. Even though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[155,67],"class_list":["post-2339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column","tag-experienced-points","tag-wii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}