Here’s some background. These two chums are a shamisen-playing duo in Japan, called the Yoshida Brothers. Sound familiar? It should. This song is called Kodo. A remix of the song is used in the Nintendo Wii commercials in America. The ending sequence in each of the Wii commercials is based on the remix’s name, “Into the Sun”.
Interesting, huh?
Today’s update revealed a new projectile weapon, the Cracker Launcher. It launches highly explosive firecrackers. You are able to walk and even jump while shooting, and you can tilt the gun with the “control stick” (c stick?). Stay tuned.
In November of 2005, Nintendo dipped its toe into the pool of online gaming, with the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection on the DS. Since then, the online service has reached over 5 million users worldwide and those users have accumulated a whopping 200 million game-play sessions. About 65 DS titles support the Wi-Fi feature, and according to Nintendo, the 5 best sellers (in no particular order) are Mario Kart DS, Animal Crossing: Wild World, Metroid Prime Hunters, and despite the recent release, Pokemon Diamond and Pearl.
“Nintendo DS gamers globally use Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection as an easy, fun place to find fellow players, all without paying anything extra for the service. The milestones represent millions of hours of fun and camaraderie despite miles between players,” explains the name-taker himself, Mr. Reggie Fils-Aime.
Other numbers continue to grow. In April of this year alone, the dual-screen system came out victorious, with 470,000 units sold in the US, an average of 16,000 a day (NPD Group). With its innovative features and game-play, the DS has also broken the walls of the typical gaming community. In less than 18 months, DS sales have jumped 42% among women, 127% in people between the age of 30 and 34, and 212% among people 35 or older (Nintendo).
Publisher Ubisoft was one of the first third parties to recognize the potential of Nintendo’s Wii console and back the platform with a wealth of titles. The company’s headlining launch games, Red Steel and Rayman Raving Rabbids, were both exclusively created for Wii and have in the six months since they released each become million-sellers around the world. However, many of the developer’s other efforts - all of them quick and unimpressive ports of previously released games on other systems - have faired poorly both from a critical and retail perspective. In an interview with leading German news magazine Spiegel, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot and European head Alain Corre admitted that the publisher was too quick to rush these titles to the market.
Remember these screens! Red Steel, you could have been the Wii’s GoldenEye 007
“We made mistakes,” they told the magazine. According to Spiegel, Ubisoft wanted to be first to capitalize on Wii and in its haste to release product it sacrificed the quality of the titles. Ubisoft has reportedly learned from its mistakes, though, and is promising that the quality of its forthcoming Wii projects will be significantly better.
Total Console is at it again with their new Wii Case mod/kit.
Shipping: Next week
Price: Unconfirmed until Monday.
Product details:
The ii Case HOT ROCK CASE is a new innovation in case modding technology. With a built in Digital LED thermometer, the HOT ROCK CASE is able to alert the user by changing the LED color when the Wii console reaches certain temperatures. Color changes takes place in 5 degree increments. For example, if your Wii console’s temperature reaches over 55 degree Celsius, the LED will display “RED” and flashing This will alert the user to turn off the console and check for problems.
Order at Total Console (they also have dozens of other case mods, LAN adapters, wiimote chargers, etc…)
Today’s update is a game play update which informs of the ability to use shooting items, e.g. the superscope while walking or even jumping.
source: here
Minor edit by SirVenom
I had my Wii hooked up to the computer, and decided to put up 9 uncut minutes of gameplay.
It’s hard playing on a small laptop screen! I would have won that match. Basically, I just wanted everyone to see the interface, menu options, WiFi, and an entire match.
“From its Friday release through the close of Sunday, Mario Strikers Charged Football was able to get almost 400,000 connections on the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection service. It was the #3 online game on Nintendo’s network for the entire week, competing with games that have been out the whole week or longer.”
And it’s only been released in Europe, it’s going to be one hell of a summer!
* Real-time ESPN ticker updates
* Online tournaments
* Worldwide quickplay multiplayer matches
* Promised roster updates not just for the 2008 season, but 2009 as well
* Mini-game party mode, with 22 mini-games
* Miis are used in minigames
So, I got a little bored with Mortal Kombat: Armaggedon today, enjoy!
PS. The Wii-mote motions that everyone is complaining about take about 10 minutes to get used to, suck it up people, they work great.
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