Are sports like golf being lost to computer games?
March 24th, 2009 Senior Golf
Sporting games can appeal to anyone at all which is a huge problem for the real sports as they really only apply to the people who actually play the game itself. Are the comuter games getting close to the real sports or is it just me? Do you burn the same amount of calories playing them on a game? The real answer to this question is . . . perhaps. Obviously if you are buying say a golf game for the 360 or PS3 it is not going to do anything apart from save you money on one of those electric golf trolleys.
The only real aspect of the golf game that you are going to lose out on if you were to purchase a computer game on the Wii is the waking part. To be fair most of the pro. Game devlopers are always looking to improve the games they are making and this has become more of a competition than anything and the Wii is taking advantage of this by using its powerful motion sensing technlogy. When you’re playing golf it feels like you are playing golf and the same goes for tennis and any other sport where you only really use your hands. The brand new attachment for the Wii, out later this year, means that motion sensing technology is going to propel even more forward. This is going to mean that game devlopers are going to try even harder to make the games more realistic than ever before. So is this really having an affect on anything? It's a great way to save some pennies in the long run if you cant afford to go out and pay to play the sports. No need to even be dressed in your best golf gear to play golf on any of the consoles, a great idea.
I really do love games, but I personally think that they should stick to making the games that people that play them like and leave the sporting ones out of it. Some sports like golf involve huge talent and it would be a shame to see less and less of that develop over time because of computer games.
So next time your stuck between going out in the rain for a round of golf or plugging in the Wii for a bit of a game, stop and think, the real thing is always better so charge up those golf batteries and get playing!
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