If these attachments could provide a more realistic feel to, say, your tennis swing then I could see the usefulness. Unfortunately, the Wii swing and real swing don't feel at all the same... speed and weight are completely different, so these are really just gimmicks.
Speaking of which, I've gotta disagree with humpty... the wii-mote is as much of a gimmick as the original scroll-wheel of the ipod. i.e. not a gimmick, but a whole new way to make usage more intuitive and universally understandable.
"Product gimmicks are considered mere novelties, and NOT REALLY THAT RELEVANT to the product's functioning" - Wikipedia
Moron. Branding something as a gimmick based on its 3rd party peripherals, are we? That would make every system in existence a gimmick. EVERY system has has a useless or pointless peripheral that existed for nothing more than novelty.
Every good addition is first viewed as a gimmick. Rubmle? Gimmick, right? Except game developers have spent time to integrate the rumble into games in more intuitive ways.
By your logic, blu-ray is a gimmick for selling PS3s, and Xbox Live is a gimmick to sell 360s. Oh, and software is a PCs gimmick. Those clever bastards, we've all been duped.
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Nah, the wiimote isnt a gimmick at all, not at all.
lol
If these attachments could provide a more realistic feel to, say, your tennis swing then I could see the usefulness. Unfortunately, the Wii swing and real swing don't feel at all the same... speed and weight are completely different, so these are really just gimmicks.
Speaking of which, I've gotta disagree with humpty... the wii-mote is as much of a gimmick as the original scroll-wheel of the ipod. i.e. not a gimmick, but a whole new way to make usage more intuitive and universally understandable.
"Product gimmicks are considered mere novelties, and NOT REALLY THAT RELEVANT to the product's functioning" - Wikipedia
Moron.
Branding something as a gimmick based on its 3rd party peripherals, are we? That would make every system in existence a gimmick. EVERY system has has a useless or pointless peripheral that existed for nothing more than novelty.
Every good addition is first viewed as a gimmick. Rubmle? Gimmick, right? Except game developers have spent time to integrate the rumble into games in more intuitive ways.
By your logic, blu-ray is a gimmick for selling PS3s, and Xbox Live is a gimmick to sell 360s. Oh, and software is a PCs gimmick. Those clever bastards, we've all been duped.
@humpty
So... What if it is. How does it make the games any less fun? The bigger question is, how many people are going to hit themselves in the face with it?
$10 bucks on the tennis racket.