Nintendo Wii Information, hardware, games discussion

[bryan_05]

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Dunno if this was posted.....

http://revolution.ign.com/articles/703/703727p1.html

I'd have to see it and try it to like it b/c it sounds pretty complicated

[KillRoy]

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I'd have to see it and try it to like it b/c it sounds pretty complicated

Its not complicated.. Instead of pushing buttons you`re flicking your wrist. Thats the only difference.

I think controlling your player will 'FEEL' a lot more natural with this scheme but it will be interesting to see what the final product is like.

[countryboy]

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I can't wait until E3 so that there is something more to talk about than the name.

[bryan_05]

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Its not complicated.. Instead of pushing buttons you`re flicking your wrist. Thats the only difference.

I think controlling your player will 'FEEL' a lot more natural with this scheme but it will be interesting to see what the final product is like.

And I've been pushing buttons to play games for 17 years so flicking my wrist and running w/ a joystick or however the hell I run sounds much more complicated. I'm sure it won't be too hard once I try, but initially sounds complicated.

[Miles_Yuhas]

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I dont think i will be getting this right a way but damn, red steel sounds sick. It just sounds flat out more fun that moving a thumbstick and pulling a trigger.

[KillRoy]

Re: Nintendo Wii (Revolution) Information, hardware, games discussion

And I've been pushing buttons to play games for 17 years so flicking my wrist and running w/ a joystick or however the hell I run sounds much more complicated.

Well running is not going to change that much. You`re still going to use the analog stick to run but special moves like spin move, dive, hurdle etc...etc... will be just a flick of the wrist.

It won`t be hard after you try a few games. Atleast I don`t think it will be.

[Flawless]

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Wii Reactions: Developers Comment

http://gamasutra.com/features/20060501/sheffield_01.shtml

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[Flawless]

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New Pilotwings for Wii

Friends of mine tell me Pilotwings is absolutely perfect

http://capnsmak.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=6981379&publicUserId=4561231

Sure, not everything companies do on the Revolution will be great (honestly, I've tried playing an FPS on it and I don't find it an improvement over today's controllers), but there will be some games that really show the universal appeal of the console.

[Flawless]

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Nintendo gave TIME the first look at its new controller--but before I pick it up, Miyamoto suggests that I remove my jacket. That turns out to be a good idea. The first game I try--Miyamoto walks me through it, which to a gamer is the rough equivalent of getting to trade bons mots with Jerry Seinfeld--is a Warioware title (Wario being Mario's shorter, fatter evil twin). It consists of dozens of manic five-second mini games in a row. They're geared to the Japanese gaming sensibility, which has a zany, cartoonish, game-show bent. In one hot minute, I use the controller to swat a fly, do squat-thrusts as a weight lifter, turn a key in a lock, catch a fish, drive a car, sauté some vegetables, balance a broom on my outstretched hand, color in a circle and fence with a foil. And yes, dance the hula. Since very few people outside Nintendo have seen the new hardware, the room is watching me closely.

It's a remarkable experience. Instead of passively playing the games, with the new controller you physically perform them. You act them out. It's almost like theater: the fourth wall between game and player dissolves. The sense of immersion--the illusion that you, personally, are projected into the game world--is powerful. And there's an instant party atmosphere in the room. One advantage of the new controller is that it not only is fun, it looks fun. When you play with an old-style controller, you look like a loser, a blank-eyed joystick fondler. But when you're jumping around and shaking your hulamaker, everybody's having a good time.

After Warioware, we play scenes from the upcoming Legend of Zelda title, Twilight Princess, a moody, dark (by Nintendo's Disneyesque standards) fantasy adventure. Now I'm Errol Flynn, sword fighting with the controller, then aiming a bow and arrow, then using it as a fishing rod, reeling in a stubborn virtual fish. The third game, and probably the most fun, is also the simplest: tennis. The controller becomes a racket, and I'm smacking forehands and stroking backhands. The sensors are fine enough that you can scoop under the ball to lob it, or slice it for spin. At the end, I don't so much put the controller down as have it pried from my hands.

John Schappert, a senior vice president at Electronic Arts, is overseeing a version of the venerable Madden football series for Nintendo's new hardware. He sees the controller from the auteur's perspective, as an opportunity but also a huge challenge. "Our engineers now have to decipher what the user is doing," he says. "'Is that a throw gesture? Is it a juke? A stiff arm?' Everyone knows how to make a throwing motion, but we all have our own unique way of throwing." But consider the upside: you're basically playing football in your living room. "To snap the ball, you 'snap' the remote back toward your body, which hikes the ball," Schappert says. "No buttons to press, just gesture a hiking motion, and the ball's in the hands of the QB. To pass the ball, you gesture a throwing motion. Hard, fast gestures result in bullet passes. Slower, less forceful, gestures result in loftier, slower lob passes. It truly plays like nothing you've ever experienced."

[Admiral50]

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That sounds so friggin' awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jmood88]

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Good information. What doesn't make sense is the fact that the reporter thinks that you would look like a loser playing with the regular controllers but you won't look stupid jumping up and waving your arm around.

[Blaxican8504]

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That sounds so friggin' awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!

It really does. I really want to see some videos of someone using it.

[Flawless]

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SEGA announces Sonic's charge onto the Wii console.

His first solo adventure since the original Sonic The Hedgehog™ in 1991.

http://www.sega.com/e3/2006/announcements_tp.php?item=pr_20060509a

[CaptainZombie]

Re: Nintendo Wii (Revolution) Information, hardware, games discussion

1-Does anyone know if the Wii will still play Gamecube games + downloadable NES, SNES, & N64 games like promised?

2-Is it true that the Wii uses SD cards for storage?

The controller looks cool, going back to the SNES design.

[SoMiss2000]

Re: Nintendo Wii (Revolution) Information, hardware, games discussion

1-Does anyone know if the Wii will still play Gamecube games + downloadable NES, SNES, & N64 games like promised?

2-Is it true that the Wii uses SD cards for storage?

The controller looks cool, going back to the SNES design.

That's the controller I want. not interested in the new one, I think.