Veteran games developer David Braben has warned that the Wii's popularity could come to a slow halt as people become bored with the novelty of it just like they did with Sony's Eyetoy PS2 acessory. According to Braben, it took around 18 months for people to become bored of the EyeToy, could the same happen with the Wii?

“We’re treating all three of the new consoles in the same way that we treated the PS2, so we’re putting PS2 games on the Wii and in some cases it’s just a token effort to use the controller. Ultimately it’s what you do with the gameplay that counts. And I think a lot of people are looking at the Wii, especially as it’s not a high definition machine, as a sort of party game machine. Certainly that’s how I’ve ended up using mine, playing Wii Sports and Wii Play, so a certain kind of game will do well on Wii and other kinds of games will do less well.

“What’s interesting is that people are talking about the novelty of the Wii as if it’s something completely revolutionary but actually we went through this same process with EyeToy, which allowed for gaming where you can stand up and do active physical things, but the EyeToy as a device lasted maybe eighteen months before people got bored with it, so that’s something that we should bare in mind with the Wii. We’ve got to keep doing new stuff to keep people interested.”