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Posted by Colin
Nintendo Makes Gaming Accessible to People of All Ages and Abilities?
By Colin Geddes
March 9, 2007 – Cut and pasted from Wii.com “Nintendo wanted to create a controller that was as inviting as it was sophisticated” and it sounds like they have accomplished that! I estimate the majority of the global population would agree with that statement. However, I estimate around 8-15% of the population in fact could disagree. I’m referring to my fellow left-handed players out there who have purchased a Wii and have not been entirely considered in the game development cycle.
I bought my Wii after being seduced by playing Wii Sports for the first time. I was curious to see if Nintendo would remember that there are left handed players out there, and to my surprise they had. I created my left handed Mii with pride, bearing the likeness of my features. It felt so natural to swing my tennis racket, bowl a strike, and putt for a birdie all left handed. At the time I couldn’t ever imagine my Mii interpreting my left handed movements, and translating them onto the screen right handed…
Until I played games like Call of Duty 3, Red Steel, Twilight Princess, etc. I noticed immediately when playing that I was holding my gun/sword in my right hand, but in reality the controller was in my left. I stopped playing, flipped through the instructions, searched through the game menus, but I was unable to find any option to accommodate my need.
Unfortunately this is an issue that has yet to be resolved. I played through Twilight Princess in its entirety and I honestly felt neglected as I wasn’t able to feel fully immersed in Link’s world. Same goes for Red Steel—I couldn’t get past the feeling of tilting my gun on its side and seeing an awkward looking arm shooting in an unnatural position.
Statistics indicate only 8-15% of the global population is left handed, it is surprising that Nintendo wouldn’t accommodate us southpaws! Even Miyamoto, the man responsible for creating Mario, Link, Donkey Kong, and even the Wii console is left handed! I find it ironic how Nintendo boasts the accessibility of the Wii Remote for people of all ages, and abilities when clearly the left handed population has been somewhat overlooked.
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I thought about this before buying a Wii–I am left-handed too. However, I found playing TP and RS with my right hand pretty easy. I play Wii sports with my left hand though. I guess I’m just weird :S
We shouldn’t have to play with the wrong hand! If it can be changed in wii sports how hard is it to change in the other games? Just flip the character around. Sigh, I still love the wii.
Is there an unspoken law that says you can’t hold the wiimote in your left hand and the nunchuck in your right? Seem to me these games can easily be played left-handed without any software adjustments.
I’m left handed, and I always play with the wii remote in my left hand and nunchuk in right–but the character i’m playing with in the game is holding his gun with his right hand! that’s what i don’t like..! there is no option to change the characters hand from right to left.
i think that they should at least put an option in the games ingame options that allows you to change whether the character is right or left handed, how hard could that be, its not hard, its just that they haven’t considered it, damn, i took one look at the Red Steel commercial and i said that ill buy the Wii just for this game, but now, it doesn’t feel good.
I think that you guys might be just a little nitpicky; none of the other console controlers have ever even come close to being ambidextrous. The game characters have allways been right handed, it’s never been a big deal before why should it be now? I just think that you guys should be happy with all the great things that the wii already does. I’m right handed, but I have played some games with the wiimote in my left hand and it was just as easy as it was in my right hand and i have several other right handed friends who do the same. Who cares if the character is not holding the weapon in the correct hand? Think of all the girls who play video games and are forced to play as a male character, you don’t hear any of them complaining. Besides, this is not a console issue, it’s a game developer issue and lets face it, they still have trouble getting the camera angles to work well in many games. So it may be a while before they start considering left handed people.
Select the Profile button from the main menu and select your profile. Then, press the + button on your Wiimote. A list of options will come up and one of the options is to switch between left and right handedness. Glad to help ya!
have you ever tried NOT being so left-handed? i mean, that whole left-handed fad died out back in the 70’s man.
sorry, i had forgotten to add this other note:
1. when playing wii sports — you are YOU so you can be as left-handed as you want to be.
2. when playing as a character in a game like Red Steel or Zelda… you are the character… WHO JUST HAPPENS TO BE RIGHT HANDED!
ACTUALLY in everything but the Wii Link in Zelda is left handed but they mirrored the game because they made it for the Gamecube first. I’m not really concerned with what hand characters hold weapons in but in games like “Carnival Games” where you are simulating real movements and don’t have a left handed option it makes it almost impossible to play. On some of the games it doesn’t read the motion or just motions wildly. On a system that has motion sensors and tries to simulate sports and games in real life it should be availible to play lefty, I’m just not strong or accurate enough in my right hand.
I completely empathise with my fellow lefties. If you’re a left handed person, you ALWAYS use the left hand to use a TV remote. Its just the way its done, and the wiimote closely mirrors a tv remote in how you point it at the screen to use. Although I appreciate that the asthetics of having the nunchuck in the left with the control stick and wiimote in the right seem to be ‘as a controller is’, the gaming experience is completly different to using a regular remote and the natural position for a left hander to use in these games is reversed.
I purchased Bully a couple of weeks ago, and you have to swing the wiimote & nunchuck to punch.. there’s no option to switch which arm does which and to reverse the controls (which I think would be a very simple addition to the game) and it has made the game almost umplayable… each time I go to first person mode, I have to switch hands to use my more adept left hand for wiimote pointing, and then switch back after I exit the mode. It is very fustrating and is something I shall have to be weary about with future Wii game purchases
What kind of stuff are you talking about? I didn’t get a word of it! I’ve never understood people, who spend their time on commenting stuff like that.
Awesome! Ahahaha! Stop it, youre killing me! Anyway, I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought this is great.
Yeah, Twilight princess should really have a left hand option canonically Link IS LEFT HANDED! have a look at any of the other games… ok its kinda hard to tell in the originals… but I am left handed and agree with you 100%
I am right-handed, But my brother is and he finds it annowing
in the zelda series link has always been left handed but in twilight princess Wii version they mirrored it to look like hes right handed