I have had the pleasure (thanks to gamestop down the street) to enjoy the wonder and awe that is the Wii, I played ExciteTruck!! It was alota fun, I almost couldnt stop playing it; if I wanted I could have played through the whole game (yeah, it was no demo, full game) but the manager said there were others wanting to play anyways it only strengthened my need for the Wii! On a side note I also made a Mii, mind you I didnt have to capabilities to make him just like me cause choices were limited for what features I could add to him, but yeah awesome awesome stuff!
-no six face button controller. This is a huge, huge problem, in my opinion!
-Classic Controller: analog stick is in the lower position, d-pad in the upper position -- a design as bad as ever. GC controller: small d-pad... Both: analog stick that doesn't feel like an N64 one, and I prefer the N64 stick's design and feel. Particularly for N64 games...
-Z button looks like perhaps the worst placed controller button of all time, and N64 games use it constantly (and it's almost as bad on the GC pad... remapping allowed? Please?). This could be really problematic.
-$10 game prices -- as a minimum. Ouch.
I've been seeing similar lines in other ads online as well, not just Toys R Us here. This leads me to believe Nintendo is the one that came up with this sort of statement.
You need a TV to play Wii games. Turn it off and you may find that while you can still technically play the game, your information feedback will be vastly reduced, which may result in an inability to play proficiently.
I know what they are trying to say, this is a sort of "get together with the family and stop watching the idiot box" gamble that countless companies have used before. Make it a game night! Yay! Pfft. Too bad this only shows marketting people are SO out of the loop they only dedicate clock cycles to the actual ad itself and little details like HOW THE MACHINE OPERATES.
Okay there's this weird one with eggs, and "Sixaxis" in the background. I THINK it was attempting to talk about the motion sensing controls in Sony's controller. It begins. For all the work Nintendo put into their controller, it all comes to naught if Sony gets to the "average consumer" (the ones who have no idea what's been going on this whole time) with this new innovation (even if their's is half baked) first (that is, lets them know it exists first), all Nintendo's efforts will be for naught.
That said, Sony has no idea how to advertise any more. I have no idea what's going on here. There were spinning eggs, but at no point was it made clear to the average consumer that "Sixaxis" is a motion sensing controller.
So long as Nintendo has a large enough advertising campaign that it's made clear what their controller does, they have nothing to worry about from this.
I've been listening to his music for some time now and, thanks to the power of iTunes, I've been browsing through some of his albums that I don't have. He really puts out some amazing music.
"So what kind of music does he create?", you are probably wondering. Well, it's best described as "ambient soundscapes", but it's way more than that jazzy stuff you get off that one shelf they have in Wal-Mart with all the weird CDs jumbled together on it. It's really hard to truly describe his music, because it doesn't really conform to what we traditionally think of when we hear the word "music".
Lately, I've been using it as background sound for when I write and it's basically been a constant inspiration to me in that respect.
As I said before, one of the greatest trailers ever, and a great opener too... this will be unbelievably good. Unbelievably. Possibly even better than we expect? For anyone who likes Ocarina of Time's gameplay style, at least, and I think that includes everyone here...
Has anyone seen those? I mean the one with the rubix cube is okay but the one with the baby doll is so freaking frightening, if I was like five or six years old I'd be afraid of that damn thing just because of that commercial.
