Last week we reported that the first Wii gun controller had been made available, and now third-party peripheral manufacturer, Core Gamers, has unveiled its offering: the Wii Blaster. But how useful are they?
The current selection of shooting games on Wii - Red Steel, Call of Duty, Far Cry - not only use the Wii Remote as a gun but also make use of buttons that would appear not to be reachable when using these gun adaptors.
Nintendo told CVG: "A peripheral is only as useful as the software it's supporting," and apart from the simple shooting game in Wii Play, there doesn't seem to be anything else these gun controllers would work well with.
Nintendo unveiled its own Wii Blaster at E3 last year and hasn't since mentioned it. Is it being held back until there's software for it?
"What was showed was a prototype," said Nintendo. "We're not announcing any further details at this time."
As I said in the thread to last weeks report, these 'peripherals' seem to be just plastic shells that offer nothing not already possible with the standard remote. I also predicted long before the wii was released that we would see a load of pieces of plastic tat to clip onto the remote (i.e. tennis raquet / golf club) although I expected them to be bundled free with games.
at least the nintendo blaster plugs into the wiimote's port and offers extra input options like a thumbstick
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You needed to contact Nintendo and make an article to realise this? Sheesh, you let me down more every single day C&VG... You should have posted all this the first time you mentioned the peripherals, if you had to mention every pos like that at all.
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