Sep 15
Wii Sports 2 On Pause, More Innovation Coming
Japanese Nintendo President, Saturo Iwata, has revealed some interesting information on Wii Sports 2 in an interview with a Japanese gaming weblog.
“We’re not going to take such an easy way, not by including seven new sports in the game since Wii Sports has five,” he said. “We’re not closing our doors to the possibility of a sequel, but it’s definitely not coming out soon.”
I guess Wii Sports 2 isn’t exactly what Nintendo has in mind now. I’d actually love to see a sequel with new additional sports games, but I guess that won’t be releasing in the near future.
Itawa also spoke upon Nintendo’s brain training and cooking games that are becoming very popular. Nintendo would like to hold these types of games from being released, for the time being, in order to come out with more original and non-traditional titles with the same innovation in the future.
I love the way Itawa is thinking, but I’m kind of disappointed at the same time. I would love a Wii Sports 2 and more brain training and cooking sequels (I’d only enjoy Brain Age, Big Brain Academy, and Cooking Mama sequels), yet at the same time I hate seeing a million clones being released and a new genre being turned to crap so quickly because of it. Glad to see Nintendo is ready to bring more innovation though.
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Wii Sports was a hell of a package, but the problem was that the ceiling was relatively low on the replay value.
You can only play tennis for so long, even with three other people, before you kind of max it out. That’s how all the games in Wii Sports are; great fun, very low learning curve, quite a lot of depth for such simple games, but ultimately repetitive.
I would love to see a sort of Wii Sports expansion pack, with more golf courses, maybe some more tennis courts, some miniature golf maybe, and perhaps some new sports. My friends and I always talk about how fun a Wii frizbee game would be.