Hmm. Seems like he ie missing the boat a little bit? Much ado about nothing?
"I think it is cheating. You don’t have to go through the full motion. In Wii Sports Baseball, you could make a full throwing gesture with the Wii-mote to hurl the ball at the plate. Or, you could quickly flick your wrist to replace the full-blown motion."
He's complaining that little motions from your seat are just as good or better than mimicking, on your feet, the entire athletic motion of throwing the baseball? I would have expected this myself, and am not disappointed to hear it. In fact, I would be disappointed if it were the other way around - I never thought the big gestures seen in the commercials were anything but exaggerated gestures for commercials.
Then there's this complaint:
"Wii Sports Baseball has other puzzling deficiencies. For instance, when you want to throw a curve ball, you don’t actually motion it, as you might suspect. No, why would you want to use a gesture for a console whose primary purpose is to promote unique and innovative ways to play? To throw a curve ball, you first select it on the D-Pad and then make a standard throwing motion. Huh?"
Huh, indeed! What, does he want to be throwing the controller now, too? I guess I'm dim, but I'm not sure I see how, outside of throwing the remote, one would 'actually motion' a curve ball.
I'm sure there could and will be better implementation of the controller than these launch-special, bundled, controller demos, but these complaints strike me as a little too much. I haven't played these games yet, but it seems his expecations were quite different from what mine are. We'll see.
