A Wii Players Conundrum

I am now confronted with a serious problem. I have been playing FPS shooters on the Wii for years. The muscle memory in my hands and fingers know just what to do to make my character perform the way I want him too, using the Wiimote and the Nunchuck on the Nintendo Wii. And now, Nintendo has decided, in the creation of their next generation console, to go back to a game pad approach for the controls on the new system. We have been told this new system will be backwards compatible with Wii games, to include Wiimote and Nunchuck use. However, new FPS shooters on the new system will invariably require the use of the new control scheme, and my hands just are not wired for that right now.

I do have Monster Hunter Tri (MHT) for the Wii, and I use the classic controller for that game, so at this point, I am wondering if I can map the controls on the classic controller for Conduit 2 (the latest FPS for the WII) to match, as nearly as possible, the way they are mapped for MHT.

My other thought, since an Xbox 360 snuck its way into our house some time ago, is to play Black Ops on the Xbox endlessly, until my brain begins rewiring muscle memory into my hands and fingers for an FPS game using a game pad. This seems to me to be my best hope. I have played Black Ops on the Xbox a few times, and I suck at it, for this very reason. However, it may be time to bite the bullet, figuratively and electronically, until such time as my hands figure out what they are supposed to do without me thinking about it.

For those interested in learning a bit more about muscle memory, follow the link below to read a Wikipedia article relating to the subject.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_memory

Nintendo Fans Wish List Becomes Reality?

So Nintendo fans are getting a new system. Release, according to IGN, is slated for April 2012. Currently the new console project is known as Project Café. There is also speculation that it will be known as the Nintendo Stream upon its release. I was all set to write a piece about what Nintendo fans should get in a new console, based on an article IGN put out a few days ago that addressed a storm of rumors about the new system. That article can be seen here: http://wii.ign.com/articles/116/1164332p1.html.

I was going to talk about controllers, Wiimote compatibility, hardware design, and the opportunity that Nintendo has to get this right and blow Xbox and Playstation out of the water. Based on a more recent article just put out by IGN (http://wii.ign.com/articles/113/1135489p1.html?RSSwhen2011-04-27_184200&RSSid=1135489&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ignfeeds%2Fwii+%28IGN+Wii%29), it appears that Nintendo does, in fact, know what they are doing and wants to get it right.

So……at this point, all that is left to me is to voice my desire to see at least one hard-core game released with the new console, either by Nintendo or a third party developer. More than likely, Nintendo will release a Nintendo game with the console, but I am afraid, as good as they can be and have been, that the game will lean more towards a family friendly game approach. What I, and many Nintendo fans would love to see, is a hard-core game that maximizes the power of the new console, to show the world what we Nintendo fans have known for years, and that is that Nintendo is the way to go. As a Nintendo fan, I would love to see Nintendo leave Xbox in the dust with the release of a beast of a hard-core game upon the release of its new console. Then all of us in Nintendo Land can say……"Na-na-na-na-na-na."