We’ve gotten Wii Sports, Wii Play, and Wii Fit, all part of Nintendo’s strategy in expanding the market. If you’re like me, though, you’re wondering when we’re getting that conducting game that Shiggy showed off at E3 2006. Luckily, Wii Music is on the horizon, according to the New York Times.
Mr. Miyamoto’s work is evolving from a reliance on invented characters and fanciful, outlandish settings like Mario’s Mushroom Kingdom or Zelda’s mythical Hyrule. With games like Nintendogs (inspired by his pet Shetland sheepdog), Wii Sports, Wii Fit and coming next, Wii Music, Mr. Miyamoto is gravitating toward everyday hobbies: pets, bowling, yoga, Hula-Hoop, music. It is as if an artist who had mastered the abstract had finally moved into realism.
Nintendo is expected to release more details about Wii Music this summer, but the basic concept is that while popular music games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band allow players only to recreate canned tunes, Wii Music will try to enable users to capture the feelings of composition and improvisation.
TIME takes things further and confirms the game for later this year, possibly as part of Nintendo’s holiday push. All those other games came bundled with Wii hardware. Will we get some kind of Wii guitar with it? Looks like we’ll find out at E3. Ahem.
