It's not every day that the president of a videogame company decides that he wants to explain his new console to you - but it's not every day that a company creates a console like Wii. So Satoru Iwata has interviewed his own creators to explain, in his words, "Why is Wii the way it is? What kind of idea was the basis for the development of Wii?"
In the first interview of a three-part series, he talks to Genyo Takeda, head of Nintendo's research and development division and coordinator of the
At a press conference in New York this morning, Nintendo confirmed the juicy details you've been dying to know: Wii will ship in the United States on November 19 for a retail price of $249.99 - and surprisingly, Japan won't get the machine until December 2.
Your $250 buys you the console, one controller, one Nunchuk (yes, that's the trademarked name for the wired analog-stick attachment), the cables to connect it to your television, and - refreshing in this day and age - a pack-in game. Wii
Nintendo's Wii will feature an interactive weather map updated with info from across the globe, an up-to-date news 'channel' accessible from the console's main screen, and will enable you to browse the internet on your TV.
To see these eye-opening special features in action, check out these Nintendo links: the official Japanese Wii website (good luck), showing the weather system in use; and the Wii features lowdown on Nintendo's official site.
You can also see a huge Wii games preview that
Thursday 14 September 2006
Nintendo's Wii will feature an interactive weather map updated with info from across the globe, an up-to-date news 'channel' accessible from the console's main screen, and will enable you to browse the internet on your TV.
To see these eye-opening special features in action, check out these Ninty links: the official Japanese Wii website, showing the weather system in use; and the Wii features lowdown on Nintendo's official site.
You can also see a huge Wii games
Thursday 14 September 2006
Nintendo's new Wii console will launch in the US on 19 November, and will cost $250 (roughly £133), it has been announced.
Every Wii will come packaged with a copy of Wii Sports, featuring tennis, golf, baseball and bowling minigames; new games will cost $50 (£26) and Nintendo's downloadable Virtual Console titles will be priced between $5 and $10 (or roughly £2.60 and £5.30).
This comes after The New York Times posted an article online - and
XPS3
Been wondering how PS3's online service can hope to compete with Xbox Live? We sure have. Looks like the answer has arrived: Next Generation reports that Xfire, a popular PC online game browser and chat system, is prepping a PS3 version - one that will be compatible with the upcoming Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom, according to leaked info. Sony: making a smart decision today. If you can't develop it yourself, just buy it. When asked for comment, Ken Kutaragi, President and CEO of Sony
Toe Jam & Earl, Ecco the Dolphin, Golden Axe and Altered Beast are among seven classic Sega games confirmed for Wii's Virtual Console, according to the official website for the Entertainment Software Rating Board.
The other classics listed are Columns, Sonic the Hedgehog and (the considerably less popular) Ristar. But, of course, this ESRB listing doesn't guarantee the games will appear in the retro games line-up for Virtual Console on Nintendo's new
We've covered Splinter Cell Double Agent to death, but here's one dangling bit of news we can happily announce - super spy Sam Fisher is heading to Wii for the holiday season. What kinds of hand-motioned enhancements can we expect? Right now we hear you'll get to pick locks by jiggling the remote, but beyond that, Sam's keeping his secrets
Sony - bad at hardware. Official.
Don't take it from us - according to one of Sony's top executives, it is. Our brothers at Next Generation report that Ken Kutaragi, the man known as the "father of the PlayStation," has admitted that the component shortages - which have slashed the number of PS3s available at launch to next-to-nothing - prove that "Sony's strength in hardware is in decline." First, he told you you'd need an extra job to buy a PS3. Then, he compared it to a fine dinner in a
Monday 11 September, 2006
A recently leaked list of 26 titles to be supported by Wii's Virtual Console at launch - originating from a Nintendo fan-site's "trustworthy source" - has been dismissed by Nintendo after we contacted the games giant for comment.
"This is complete speculation - we know that everyone is as excited as we are about the pending launch of Wii and as a result there is a lot of speculation and rumour," we were told by a Nintendo spokesman. "Please be patient, as all will be
