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Speaking at the Leipzig GCDC, Lionhead's Peter Molyneux has warned that motion-sensing controllers such as the Wii remote could leave gamers exhausted unless developers think creatively.
Molyneux's speech, titled 'Combat - Time to Evolve?', focused on the problems with traditional combat games, and suggestions for how to improve them - such as getting rid of hit points, allowing for one-hit kills, and letting characters use items in the environment around them.
When asked by an audience member how he thought these ideas might work with...
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genda 5 years 9 months ago
Nintendo has made some major changes to the control scheme for the Wii version of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Speaking to Japan's monthly Nintendo Dream publication, producer Shigeru Miyamoto revealed that the game will now allow players to swing the controller for sword slashes!
See some real footage of Madden 07 for the Nintendo DS.
Madden NFL 2007 now features the gameplay on the lower screen, with the top screen handling the overhead X's and O's map representation of the gridiron.
The site used to be home to Weyerhaeuser Corporation, a forest products company, but Nintendo now owns the domain Wii.com.
how much money they shelled out to the good people at Weyerhaeuser?
If you happened to have your entirely cynical hat on, you could probably get away with describing Nintendo's forthcoming Wii version of Zelda: Twilight Princess as nothing more than a GameCube port with fancy new controls shoved on top.
In fact, speaking to Nintendo Dream magazine, Shigeru Miyamoto described the game's transition from 'Cube to Wii as "an interesting experiment". It seems that following the success of Twilight Princess's bi-polar development, the Nintendo luminary is keen to remake existing GameCube titles, adding full...
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What does that mean for the game market? People are willing to try on a game handheld that is considerably less in the graphics department but high in gameplay and innovation part. We see a paradigm shift towards gameplay as opposed to high graphics.
Nintendo DS: 22.9 M
Japan - 10.3 million
US - 5.8 million
Europe - 6.2 million
Australia - .2 million
Canada - .4 million
PSP: 13.37 M
Japan - 3.9 million
US - 5.1 million
Europe - 4 million
Australia - .15 million
Canada - .4 million
The idiosyncratic basics of Nintendo's Wii handset have been well-documented at this point. Designed separately by studios in Australia, the U.K. and the U.S., the THQ games exhibited many of the maneuvers seen in other companies' previewed Wii software. Punching and kicking in "Avatar," a four-character bird's-eye-view brawler, is triggered by combinations of pressing buttons and waving the Wii remote, which in this case needs to be pointed at the screen like a TV remote. In a rampage mode of "SpongeBob," a jostle of the Wii remote results in...
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In a new interview with major North American newspaper USA Today, Nintendo of America’s recently promoted president and chief operating officer Reggie Fils-Aime has commented on a number of features of the Wii’s imminent launch, including confirmation of free online play.
When asked about the pricing model for online use of the Wii, Fils-Aime commented that: “We will offer online-enabled games that the consumers will not have to pay a subscription fee for. They'll be able to enjoy that right out of the box. The Wii console is going to...
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Motu 5 years 9 months ago
Nintendo's new Wii console could be yours later this year for less than expected. Tokyo-based Nikko Citigroup has issued a report on Nintendo's rising stock price, and between all the jargon is the financial institution's forecast that the Wii will carry a Japanese price point of 19,800 yen.
Current exchange rates would put an equivalent US price at $170.00. However, console prices rarely convert according to exchange rates. At most, we can probable take this report to indicate an anticipated US price of under $200.
Nikko Citigroup...
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Valmort 5 years 9 months ago
Apparently, a trusted person at the IGN Insider forums, who has been right before about a speaker in the Wii controller, has dropped a few pieces of information.
“…voice communication will be via wireless, head-mounted microphones…”
“Some peripherals for the DS will be compatible with Wii and vice-versa.”
“Many Nintendo first party games (specifically games designed for a younger audience) will feature a new system currently being developed by Nintendo called ‘voice to text communication’.”
“The system works...
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