Nintendo Wii Enters the Arena Against PS3 & Xbox 360 (Link)

It's a warm winter already in the US, thanks to the game console war between Sony PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Xbox 360. And now we have another challenger, Nintendo Wii which was launched yesterday.

According to PC World article, Nintendo is trying to expand the gaming audience to new players and is positioning the Wii, which lacks high-definition graphics, as a console on which the whole family can have fun. At the center of this strategy is the "Wii-mote," a television remote-control-like wireless controller that includes motion sensing.

With the controller Nintendo wants to simplify gaming so that people who have never touched a console game might give it a go. In "Wii Sports," a launch title being bundled with the Wii, there are no complicated button sequences to learn. In a tennis game the Wii-mote is swung like a racket and in a boxing game thrown like a punch. Hold the remote in your hand and simulate bowling a ball and you've got the hang of the bowling game.

The console also features an online service called Wii Channel. It automatically downloads news and weather, includes a sticky notes-like message service that can be used between family members and allows access to the Internet through a version of the Opera Web browser. Game downloads are also included through an online store.

At $250 it's half the price of the cheapest of the two PlayStation 3 consoles and it is available in greater quantities than the PS3 during the crucial holiday season in the U.S.

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