Two SKU's for $499 and $599, Sony's online component looks exactly like Xbox Live, and the they ripped off the Wiimote by adding in tilt sensors to the Dual Shock 3.
As far as I can tell from what I've been reading, all those great things about Vista that were supposed to make it worth getting are either being pushed to the version of Windows coming AFTER it, or being ported to XP due to their great demand.
Except for the visuals, those should be... shiny...
So why should I bother updating? Security? Turns out MS is trying to update security but is doing it the classic "very annoying and demeaning warning dialog" way.
MS, either get these issues fixed or I'm just not going to bother buying your new OS. It's too expensive to justify that sort of money on it, and since you seem to be planning on releasing an XP version of things like the Windows Defender, IE7, and DirectX10 anyway, my future games are going to be working just fine in XP anyway.
Quote:$249 Price tag
Virtual Console (we knew this)
3d Controlle (we knew this)
ALWAYS online (console is always online, even when OFF)
Built in speaker on the controller
Quote:-No improved graphics on Virtual Console (as in, they aren't redoing the models, doesn't talk about framerates and such).
-TG16 will have it's 1st party games out at launch, 3rd party will come later as demand increases.
-Estimated prices for the VC are "a few dollars for NES, $5 for SNES and $10 for N64"
-VC games are pro-scan enabled.
-$250 "seems appropriate"
-More 3rd party exclusives than the Cube
Quote:-Zelda is 80% complete, delay was for graphic tweaks, wii functions and because they want the game to be measured on a scale of 1 to 120 instead of 1 to 100.
-NO SWINGING THE CONTROLLER for the sword, you just press a button. There are some cases where you will swing though. Reason = you'll get tired too fast
-Controller does sound effects
-Widescreen on the REV only!
-Navi is only when you play on the REV.
-Something with online is planned but no battle mode.
-More dungeons than OOT already
-More items too
Quote:Metroid Prime 3 - No launch for you! 2007 release
Godzilla (atari) and Snoopy vs the Red Baron (namco) announced
Quote:Mario Revolution - Fall 2006
Smash Bros - Fall 2006
Dragon Quest Swords for Wii, FF:CC for Wii, FF:CC for DS.
Quote:Ti Dragon Quest Wii!!!!!!
They just showed DQ Wii footage. Its called DRAGON QUEST SWORDS. Launch title. Plays like Kenshin DQ. Subtitled The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors.
Quote:New Crystal Chronicles for DS and Wii
Final Fantasy CC Ring of Fates : four players on DS
FFCC The Crystal Bearers for Wii.
Also FFXIII for PS3...
Quote:Looks amazing. Female main character. Looked like prerendered video, except it was realtime. Dramatic actionpacked battles with crazy camerawork.
Looks amazing. Female protagonist. Dramatic battles with amazing cinematic presentation.
They're also doing a mobile game based on FFXIII. It's a multiplayer RPG -- players can 'join forces in the battle against evil.'
Producer Yoshinori Kitase
Director Motomu Toriyama
Quote:May 8, 2006 - If you're both a Nintendo and a Square Enix fan, you might want to have a seat. Sources close to Nintendo tell IGN that the publisher of the acclaimed Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest franchises is in development with not one, but two titles for the Big N's new generation Wii console. The games will allegedly be unveiled to the world prior to the Electronics Entertainment Expo 2006 at today's Square Enix pre-event media conference, which begins shortly.
Warioware confirmed for Wii, Tennis game
May 7th, 2006
If your a Warioware fan or even not the game has been confirmed in the Time Magazine May 15th issue which makes Warioware a must have game, read the excerpt below:
“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.”
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Non gameplayers playing Warioware, Zelda and (Mario) Tennis???
I say mario tennis because.... well shit i just realized that it could have been Sega's Virtual tennis....
"When you play with an old-style controller, you look like a loser, a blank-eyed joystick fondler."
hahaha :D so this is how non gamers view us.... hmmm... 'fondler'....
In other news, much more boring looking countdown timers to the three big press conferences are on Gamespot. 17 hours to the first one, the Sony conference...
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