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Everybody Votes on the Wii

Posted by Zonk on from the it's-like-democracy-only-more-efficient dept.

Wired's Game|Life blog has up a post pointing out a surprise from Nintendo: a cute voting application now available on your Nintendo Wii. Unannounced and easy to understand, Everybody Votes appears to be attempting to gain a gestalt view of the Wii-owning population. The app gives you several multiple choice questions to answer, and allows you to submit your own. Chris Kohler hopes that this might be the beginning of downloads for small, entertaining programs Nintendo fans may have never otherwise seen. "If you've ever been to an E3 or read about Nintendo's booth, you know that they often show little demos or applications that never get released. Well, with Wii, it seems that we might actually start seeing those little experiments thrown out to the public. Since Nintendo as a game developer uses this first-prototype-something-fun style of design, we could see all kinds of things that ordinarily wouldn't ever make it out of Nintendo headquarters." I personally hope we get a full-fledged version of the conducting game that Miyamoto used to demo the system at last year's E3.

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  1. Conducting Demo by bad_fx · · Score: 4, Informative

    I hadn't heard of it, so I just had to look for it: Here's a link to the aforementioned "conducting game" demo by Miyamoto:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwzmnAOf1C8

    kinda cool.

    1. Re:Conducting Demo by Whiney+Mac+Fanboy · · Score: 4, Informative

      And here's a youtube video of Everyone Votes (I linked to the shortest of many, many everyone votes vids on youtube).

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  2. Wii Music by Bob54321 · · Score: 5, Informative

    I personally hope we get a full-fledged version of the conducting game that Miyamoto used to demo the system at last year's E3.

    I think you are talking about Wii Music.
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  3. Re:Missing option! by Tainek · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well the board at the moment has two options per question, but if you look at its shape, there are two sections behind that could be used, so i would say 4 is the likely roof

  4. No notification?? by MindStalker · · Score: 4, Informative

    Article stated there was no notification and that it was simply discovered in the Ship. I got a nice Wii message from Nintendo telling me about this.