Sega: Wii won't last?

After a week of fairly gloomy news swinging down the corridors of the media, it seems 411 have more to add. They report that Sega's Vice President Scott Steinberg thinks PS3 will ultimately win in the end due to a lack of depth to the Wii:

"I am a little concerned about the creative depth of the Wii pool. I'm not sure if they will top out in 2008 or 2007. The Wii will start to look really dated in a couple years when developers get more value from the 360 and learn more and more about the PlayStation 3...how much value can developers and creative folks get out of this wrist motion two years from now, or 5 years from now, or 10 years from now? How can they design products that aren't too derivative of what's already out there?"

It's an interesting statement; once again really attacking the control methods of the Wii as a gimmick. The problem with this is that what every other console has right now really isn't innovative at all. The Xbox has a fairly decent pad with lots of buttons, and the six axis pad from Sony? Let's not get started on that late in the day, last minute rush to try and have a tilt sensor in there. It's essentially a slightly rougher to the touch PS2 pad that's wireless and tilts, but doesn't move in 3D space. If the Wii doesn't have depth and it's all a gimmick, this would only leave the Wii with the same as the competition - normal controls.

So long as third party companies continue to publish games on the Wii, it will probably remain very strong. Obviously Sega could cause considerable damage if they were to pull support, but realistically a lot of their games are aimed at the Wii audience, so that seems unlikely in the near future. The Wii had people actually buying Mega Drive / Genesis games again! Seems to us to be a case of 'talk is cheap, and opinions are like belly buttons'.