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23rd
OCT
Next Gen Wii Could be Smaller, Cheaper
Posted by Mavrik | Filed under Gaming
A few Wii 2 rumors are floating around: it might have HD and a new controller, and could arrive next year. Now in an interview with Popular Mechanics, Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto says it may also be more compact and cost-efficient.
“While we don’t have any concrete plans for what we’ll be doing with hardware in the future, what I can say is that, my guess is that because we found this interface to be so interesting, I think it would be likely that we would try to make that same functionality perhaps more compact and perhaps even more cost-efficient.”
And as for things like DVD playback without a hack? A glimmer of hope:
“I think originally video-game systems were viewed as a toy, and they were something you played with…As time goes on, I think we’re going to see how the system of the video-game console and this interactive interface is going to gradually bleed in to other elements of, say, home electronics and daily life.”
Check out the full interview at: [Popular Mechanics via TechRadar]
22nd
SEP
No More Heroes 2 is last installment on Wii, next game on new Nintendo platform [Bwah?]
Posted by Mavrik | Filed under Gaming
Clarifying an earlier statement that No More Heroes 2 would be the franchises’ last installment on the Wii, creator Suda 51 told 1UP that the upcoming sequel is “the last iteration for this current platform.” Suda believes there will be a “Wii 2,” and he’d like to do another “game in the series on the next Nintendo platform.”
This is interesting not because of No More Heroes, but because there have been a lot of rumors circulating about a possible Wii 2 appearing around 2011. Nothing conclusive has been revealed, but as most leaks go in the gaming industry, there tends to be some truth to it. So I guess Nintendo is going to go ahead and release a new gaming system in the near future while Microsoft and Sony are attempting to lengthen their consoles’ life cycles by releasing their motion-sensing add-ons.
12th
AUG
Nintendo Giving Themselves a Year to Figure Out WTF to Do With Wii Vitality Sensor
Posted by Mavrik | Filed under Gaming
It looks like the Wii won’t be sensing vitalities for a while. Nintendo President Satoru Iwata says they “would like to deliver the actual product not too late in the year next year.” I suggest you pick up yoga. [Joystiq]
Tags: Nintendo, Vitality sensor, Wii
18th
JUN
Zero Punctuation bursts the E3 Bubble [And I Agree Almost Completely]
Posted by Mavrik | Filed under Gaming
I say almost completely because he gets super negative near the end when he talks about the 3rd party games (granted that’s what made zero punctuation what it is: the constant bashing). Everything he says about Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony is pretty true though.
Tags: Consoles, e3, Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony, Zero Punctuation