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Nintendo - "Everyone is a Gamer"
There's nothing that excites gamers like statistics; pie charts and graphs dominated the opening of Nintendo's E3 conference. Fortunately, the event had more than just business to discuss. They unveiled a 'Wii Zapper' housing that allows the Wiimote and Nunchuck to combine into a light gun, which will retail for about twenty bucks. They showed off a number of third party titles to prove the outside-the-company commitment, such as a Soul Calbur and Medal of Honor (which will be playable online) designed specifically for the console. Hardcore gamers were the focus of the early portion of the conference: Smash Brothers Brawl has a launch date of December 3rd in the US. They heavily hyped online play, with several EA titles and a Pokemon-like Dragon Quest title. Mario Kart for Wii will be launching early next year, will be playable online, and will have a Wiimote driving wheel housing packaged with the game. With the hardcore discussed, the attention shifted to mass market games. A new channel, 'Check Mii Out' will allow for a HotorNot-style voting mechanism and contests to make the most realistic celebrity Mii. There was much discussion of the Nintendo approach to expanding audience; Super Mario Galaxy was brought up as bridging that gap, as a second player can 'assist' the primary player in various ways. Galaxy will be launching on November 12th. Targetted more directly at this 'outside the norm' group was WiiFit, which uses a dedicated device called the Wii Balance Board. It allows for a daily exercise routine, can track data over time (and compare it to other family members) and includes some simple minigames like a soccer heading game. The press conference ended with Reggie Fils-Aimee revealing Nintendo's goal to make videogaming one of the pre-eminent forms of entertainment, across all age groups.
There's nothing that excites gamers like statistics; pie charts and graphs
That's just outreach to all the hardcore gamers in accounting, obviously. Feel welcome guys!
Think of the Children; Sleep with your Sister
The proper reference is Voltron.
Or Beowulf clusters if you want to strech it out a bit.
"I think an etch-a-sketch with an ethernet port would beat IE7 in web standards compliance."
Depends. Do they grow 50 stories tall after they link up?
Javascript + Nintendo DSi = DSiCade
And some people thought the PS3 cost an arm and a leg
Does Anyone Really Use Their Wii Anymore?
Are you kidding? In some days I have to fight people at home to play on a PSOne! We would kill one another if we had a Wii...
So say we all
Some of us find the abstract concept of "outside" very fascinating. Maybe one day we can design experiments to yield observable results that might prove the existance of "outside". Until then, we can only speculate as to its nature.
Thunderclone: ONE MAN ENTERS! TWO MEN LEAVE! ONE MAN ENTERS! TWO MEN LEAVE!
...not much of a stretch. I would be inclined to disagree...Maybe if it was an FPS where you rode a heavily-armed Segway around...
Actually, that sounds like it might be fun.
"Ladies and gentlemen, my killbot features Lotus Notes and a machine gun. It is the finest available."
Yeah, if you have friends.
You types creep me out.
I got my Linux laptop at System76.
Kill the non-believer!
Just because you can, does not mean you should.
Vagina.
(Posting anonymously because not everyone will get it, and I don't feel like being marked Troll today.)