I don’t ever like to be too harsh with my opinion, butWii Musiclooks like vapid trash. Hey, Icouldbe wrong, but I get a kind ofvapid trash-esquevibe from it somehow that I just can’t seem to shake. Design legend Shigeru Miyamoto knows more about it than I do, however, and has stated that his new pantomime horse is “more interesting than a videogame.”
MTV’s Stephen Totilogot the wordfrom the man himself:
At a Nintendo developer’s roundtable event this evening in Los Angeles, a German journalist asked Nintendo designerShigeru Miyamotoif it would be more appropriate to call “Wii Music,” which lacks goals and points, a” toy” rather than a “video game.”
Miyamoto replied tersely: “Yes, that’s right. And that’s why it’s more interesting than a video game.”
I hadn’t seen that side of Miyamoto before! Could it be — in this case as in so many before — that he’s right? Are we too hung up on traditional video game constraints to appreciate something more free-form?
Maybe I was wrong. Maybe moving my hand around to such epic tunes asYankee Doodle DandyandTwinkle Twinkle Little Staris actually a fascinating and rewarding experience. We all saw Miyamoto’s little face at the Nintendo press conference, he waslovingit. Either way,Wii Musicis going to make millions of dollars on name value alone, no matter how worthwhile it actually is. Kind of like Paris Hilton.
