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Sony didn't really "create" the 3.5in floppy. They really only introduced the form factor. The guts of the floppy were created much earlier by IBM. They also didn't partner with Philips until 9 years after the prototype CD was created. Reaching further into the depths you can even find that they didn't even create the Playstation on their own. http://www.nintendowiifanboy.com/2007/06/07/original-nintendo-sony-playstation-prototype-found/ Sony is about as innovative as a rock.

I was shocked to learn recently that my Nintendo Wii has a wireless controller! And that my "Wii" game collection is actually just pirated Gamecube titles repackaged for the Wii!

I'm so embarrassed.

"Under heavy pressure from whom? Xbox Live subscriptions are up, beating projections (I think Moore said they crossed the 7 million subscriber mark at E3). The only people I've seen who care about the price of Live are those coming from an environment without a cohesive online story (Sony fanboys, mostly)."

Xbox Live is certainly a supperior offering to anything found on the Playstation or Wii consoles, but I think the numbers have beed fudged a little bit. Because there are two different Xbox Live service levels, one of which is free, it makes me wonder exactly how many of these subscriptions are paid for and how many are silver members. The Nintendo DS supposedly has had around five million unique users connect to their online service. There have been about five million virtual console sales on the Wii to date.

However, these numbers really don't tell us much useful information. For starters, we don't know how many of those Xbox Live subscriptions are gold memberships. We also don't know the amount of content purchased or arcade game sales either. Without more information Xbox Live could be pulling in money hand over fist, or it could be something that's barely scraping by. The Nintendo DS number doesn't tell us how many regular online users there are. For all we know the vast majority tried it out a few times and then quit playing online. The Wii numbers don't give us a good idea of the number of unique users that have purchased a game. I've bought around ten VC titles personally and if that's how it generally plays out, maybe only half a million Wii owners buy VC games.

Without better information it's pretty stupid to say that Xbox Live is a huge success for Microsoft. Unless they produced a report on exactly whith parts of their gaming division are profitable, we can't really determine if Xbox Live is a money maker or if it's bleeding money just like most of the division. In 2004, they had surpased the one million subscriber mark, which is significant because all subscriptions were paid at that time. However it still didn't indicate whether or not that was total subscriptions or active users. However, even if they're not making money from gold memberships, they still do sell arcade games and other online content now, but I haven't seen any figures on this information to indicate how successful it's been.

Keep in mind that any numbers that come from a company are usually deceptive in some way or another.

Nintendo's composer, Koji Kondo, accually uses music as another way to give feed back and interact with the actual game play, insted of a static back ground music. He covered about this topic in GDC this year(report from WiiFanboy).

I haven't played TP yet, and there will always be a room for a better musical synthesizer. But if these are the reason for not using a orchestral score, I'm interested and hope to see more games exploring this feild.

Suprisingly while playing Wii sports a message pops up every half hour or so between games suggesting you take a break. It's accompanied by a picture of a Wiimote on a table next to an open window. Which either suggests you jump out it or actually go outside. Here's a page with a screen of it.

I have already implemented this solution so I should be safe.

Just for Wii news, but there are better sites for that as well.

http://www.nintendowiifanboy.com/ rocks.

Wiifanboy is saying that Canadians won't be able to pre-order til Monday.

I'm gonna head over to EB at lunch just to check it out anyways.

I would rather line up on the 18th though. It'd be much more fun. I would imagine that a lot of the people in THAT line up would have a DS with them. That would be some fun wifi gaming :)

Which makes me wonder, why they still came up with something that's clearly designed to live vertically. Something with the form factor of the typical DVD player or set-top box would fit in amongst many people's setups even easier than the Wii in its standard orientation.

Spoken like the truly uninformed. I guess this is /. so I shouldn't expect much :)

Watch this, and watch how Matt takes the Wii out of the vertical stand, and lays it flat. Hmmm ... even has rubber feet so it can lay horizontally.

Metroid Prime 3 isn't on the Japanese launch list, unfortunately. It's still not a bad list, as long as Red Steel is reasonable and Elebits is as much fun as it looks.

Rumor has already been denied.

Maybe the submitter also submitted this to nintendowiifanboy.com, but if not he just lifted the summary and made no reference to the source.

http://www.nintendowiifanboy.com/2006/06/20/footag e-of-every-wii-game-at-e3/