So, today semi-confirmed rumors came out that Nintendo's supposed to be announcing the successor to the Wii at E3 this year, for release next year. This for instance:
Quote:Nintendo's Wii successor is set to utilise an entirely new controller and will be more powerful than Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, well-placed international industry sources have told CVG.
CVG sources understand Nintendo plans to officially unveil the console, which will feature full HD visuals and graphical capabilities beyond Sony and Microsoft's current hardware, at E3 this June.
Leading games publishers have already been briefed on the new console, we understand, and launch titles from third-party developers are in the works right now.
What's most exciting about the Wii successor however is its all-new controller, which industry sources have indicated is not simply an upgraded Wii Remote, and will even feature a built-in HD screen.
Our sources did not specify whether or not the controller displays will feature any other functionality, such as that of the DS's touch screen, but it's easy to imagine the sort of innovation an extra screen could bring to Wii 2 games.
"Nintendo's plans sound unreal," one source said. "Publishers are already planning launch titles and it's all very exciting.
"The hardware is even more powerful than current HD consoles and backwards compatible with Wii. The controller will be all-new and has a HD screen on it."
We're told Nintendo plans to launch the Wii successor in late 2012, which lines up with earlier reports from other games media.
Asked to comment on today's reports earlier, a Nintendo of America spokesperson issued a straight "no comment".
Of course, this isn't THAT surprising. I was thinking that Nintendo would probably first talk about their next console this E3, it would make sense. But now there's some confirmation that that may indeed be the case. We'll see though, this is Nintendo so you never know what they're doing for sure...
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I improved the quote tags a little bit.. I was thinking that the quote tags from the blender artests website looked awesome, and ours suck.. So I added a visually appeasing quote button to the editor and BB code..
So for example:
[PHP][QUOTE2=Some Guy]I made tacos![/QUOTE2][/PHP]
produces this...
[QUOTE2=Some Guy]I made tacos![/QUOTE2]
Enojy!
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Solving the issues of jumping into the distance and gauging where you are going to land is a great use for 3D. Up until now, you had to use other cues to figure it out, such as a spot shadow under your character or simply reusing the same jump distance to a block you're already familiar with the size of.
This is basically my attempt to gather a list of all the cliche montages we can think of. Most of them are going to come out of the 1980's...
Let's see... There's the classic "training montage" just like in Karate Kid and Rocky.
Who can forget the "starting a business in a broken down warehouse" montage as in Ghostbusters or Short Circuit 2?
There's the "cramming for the big test" montage, usually done in the later half of a frat house movie after the "partying and driving the dean nuts" montage.
The 90's had some montages it made all it's own though. Just about every teen movie had the "waking up and getting ready for the day" montage as the opening credits. There was also the "let's try to get rid of the new person we can't stand with a bunch of pranks" montage, and it's close cousin, the "we keep trying to prank this new guy but it keeps backfiring on us" montage.
Ah the 2000's... 2000's will go down as the decade of "gritty and super dark", but I can name at least one montage that belongs right there. You know the "shadowy guy preparing something really bad" montage, usually done with a lot of jump cuts to clattering metal things shortly before jump cutting to some drowsy person waking up somewhere bad. There's also the "putting together a bomb" montage.
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Thing is Thelmas Notifier Widget was only intended to be download by the people who work at Thelmas (it only has 5 active installs), making it probably the worst performing app on the market today.. Where as my "Where my cat at!?!?" app has over a 400 times more downloads.. Nearly 2,000 right now..
I expect that in all likelihood this will be the next of the many first party published Wii games to never see a Western release, but in the slight chance that it ever does come out here, here's the first video... hack and slash action-RPG, but not from Monolithsoft like some people thought it would be (based on the title and promo website).
It looks okay, but not great. Graphics have some issues (poor textures...), but who knows, perhaps it could be fun.
For anyone who wonders why I (and many other people) are skeptical about us getting it, here's a list of reasons why... Wii only, though the DS list would be just as long. All games were published by Nintendo in Japan, and some are first party developed too.
Europe but not the US: Disaster: Day of Crisis, Another Code R (Trace Memory 2)
No Western markets: Xenoblade (there are hints we might see this), The Last Story, Zangeki no Regenliev, Fatal Frame 4, Captain Rainbow, probably more
