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The Wii Virtual Console Hands-On
Gamespot has a hands-on with the virtual console for the Wii. From the article: "Nintendo's Wii Virtual Console demo station featured five signature games from system's past: Super Mario Bros. from the NES, Super Mario World from the SNES, Super Mario 64 from the Nintendo 64, Sonic the Hedgehog from the Sega Genesis, and Bonk's Adventure from the TurboGrafix 16. The navigation menu only allowed us to scroll through the five title selection pages, so we didn't get a chance to select and download games to run."
Title should be 'The Wii Virtual Game Menu Hands-On'
This guy's the limit!
You like playing all games on one machine don't you? This is certainly one of the greatest assets of Wii.
How about this:
Nintendo releases its console early September for the price $200 shocking everyone with a low price and making for an incredible start, Nintendo barely manages to produce enough consoles for all people who wanna buy one.
PlayStation 3 starts selling November, and despite a good start sees its sales quickly decline as almost noone but the most hardcore PS devotees are willing to pay up the hefty $600 price for what is essentially a little better version of XBOX 360.
Sony's meeting huge financial difficulties with pricing and positioning Blue Ray, especially that PS3 turns out to be a massive failure and 6 months later is bought by Microsoft.
Microsoft promises to build on the assets of Sony and tells PS gamers that PlayStation will continue to be sold and supported until further plans are announced.
Nintendo is doing great, but the Sony+MS merger is not something they can go against, Sony+MS start pouring billions of dollars advertising their consoles, a new PSP-XBOX-PS3 interoperability kit is developed and distributed.
Nintendo lacks the hard cash MS has, and soon the innovations of Wii are quickly drowned in the ad campaigns and promotions MS does.
Late 2007, Microsoft buys Nintendo.
Late 2008, a new console is released by Microsoft: the XWiiPlay, which uses an advanced version of the Wii-mote, packed with a standard controller extension, and can emulate all Sony, Sega, Microsoft and Nintendo consoles in existence, including Virtual Boy.
Aaaah... dreams, dreams.
1. "Everyone" is made up of: Nintendo fanboys who will buy the console even if it were named "Happy Happy Fun Console", and those that think the name "Wii" is funny enough, and mock it incessantly on Slashdot.
2. Obviously, Wii is for the first set of people.
3. Nintendo is actually using the name "Wii" as a maturity test. They are using "Brain Age" technology to determine a person's maturity level by the number of penis/urine jokes made by people in the second set. Penis jokes identify a maturity level of roughly 10 years, Urine jokes - 7 years.
4. Everyone knows Nintendo consoles are for kiddies, so the Wii is suited to members of the second set as well as the first.
The Wii is for Everyone.
Q.E.D.