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Will Wright on Spore, SimCity, and the Sims

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TreeLuvBurdpu Avatar
TreeLuvBurdpu
Posts: 27
Posted: 04.19.09, 11:16 PM
The Wii controller has high bandwidth at the biggest bottleneck, the human/machine interface. For decades this area has been ruled by the button. Even advanced web design often looks like a collection of buttons that you can click.

Buttons are great. I still remember being a child when buttons started appearing everywhere, phones, stereos, tv's, and we were no longer so excited to press the one in the elevator.

But I have become a slave to buttons. My professional and social life can be expressed as a series of keystrokes and button clicks. The Wii controller and iPhone and Android improvements to UI are not minor revisions, and they do not come a moment too soon.
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adambl
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Posted: 04.20.09, 09:18 AM
Really interesting point. Never thought of it in terms of bandwidth before.
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John Johnson
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Posted: 09.07.09, 01:45 AM
I never fail to be awed by Wright's broad and complex grasp of gaming and it's cultural and anthropological implications, this video is fascinating on many levels.
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