You don't need original NES controllers or adapters. Holding the Wii remote sideways feels almost exactly like the original NES controller.
Personally, I couldn't disagree more. The Wiimote sideways does't feel like the original controller and that's a good thing. It has a superior D-pad, better buttons, is wireless, and unlike the original has smooth corners that don't agrivate your hand after hours of use. It gets the same effect, but in a much better way. On the other hand if I could get an adapter for my NES Advantage...
I know I'm a bit off-topic but why on Earth has Nintendo chosen such blank and unpersonal characters for Wii Sports as they, in my humble opinion, should have used their Nintendo characters just like in Mario Tennis? I mean, really, why? I just cannot think of a single reason.
As others have commented, the Mii's are user created, and are supposed to reflect themselves. (Sometimes to a very good likeness). The issue with putting Mario in there, is that you're controlling Mario. When you put your Mii character in there, you associate it with you, and the other Mii's created by your friends and family, get associated with your friends and family.
Quite simply you put yourself and your friends in the game, and experiance a greater sence of immersion (and enjoyment) because of it.
Indeed. You'd think that they would ask you if you wanted to enable that feature (WiiConnect24) when you were setting up the network configuration in the first place. Or maybe mention something about it in the manual.
Oh wait. They do.
Actually I remember telling it explicitly to do this, and I had to change 3 different settings.
1 was tell it to use WiiConnect24.
2 was to tell it to use the standby mode instead of 'power off' (You can tell if it's actually off, as the light turns red), and
3 to tell the Drive light to be "DIM" (vs. Bright or Off)
Last year at this time everyone was bashing how poor the XBox 360 launch and how expensive it turned out, many people even said "Why would you spend $400 on an XBox 360 when you can buy the more powerful PS3 (that comes with a Blu-Ray player) for less?"
Let's not forget how Sony Slammed Microsoft for botching a World wide launch (despite MS shipping greater numbers and actually making it world wide), and how they also Slammed the Wii for being 'just a gimmick' before adding tilt functions into their controller. I wonder how Sony's investors, (and executives) keep being "overly optimistic".
Correction: you are paying Nintendo. Opera is just delivering the browser. Either it was paid in advance or they get a cut. But it's the official Internet Channel on Wii and not just some random browser Nintendo figured they would port.
I made a correction to your post, I think that's what you meant to say. I do see where you are coming from, but I don't see this so much as a 'One lump sum charge' to Nintendo. As with everything that involves Wii points, you pay Nintendo. Nintendo gets a cut of everything for the distribution (IE: they are the publisher), but Opera would get paid per download much like Sega gets paid per download for any of their Genesis games.
I think it's reserved space for the firmware/updates/channels to use temporarily as a cache/download point/whatever. A 2GB SD card added to the system has almost 20000 blocks, so a completely free 512mb card would be about 5000 meaning about half is reserved.
I agree that it's likely reserved, but not just for temporary storage. (kind of like how the 360 reserves 7 gig of the 20 available). After downloading and installing the "Weather Channel" update this morning, I had the exact same number of blocks available.
(In reality, since its going to be free I can actually have the best of both worlds - but I'm not fooling myself that I am ever going to use my Wii to browse the net, I'm just not going to miss the chance to grab it for free).
Though I don't see this as being a desktop replacement for most web browsing, I can see myself using this browser for specific purposes. How about getting stuck in a game, then jumping to Gamefaqs? Or The WiiArcade done up in flash? Strongbad Email? I personally will watch the prior 'Heroes' episodes I missed from NBC.com on it simply because my couch beats my computer chair every time.
You are aware, I trust, that the desktop version of Opera (the one that runs on Windows, Linux, Mac) has been free for over a year, right? (I'm not trying to be condescending. Just in the last few days I've seen statements by people who honestly thought that Opera still charged for the browser.)
Opera does still charge for their browser. Opera for the desktop is free, but Opera 'for devices' (IE: Cell phone, PDA, etc...) is still a pay for product, and that's what this is. Until June Nintendo is paying for it as a promotion, but after that users who want it need to pay Opera.
My Xbox can show me the weather, youtube, movie trailers, and it can play just about every classic video game for the NES, SNES, Genesis, etc.
Ok, ignoring the fact that none of that is built in, or supported by MS; When did XBMC get a browser? (or as you put it youtube support?) I remember it being able to download trailers from Apple, the weather hookup, emulators, and shoutcast, but no browser. Can you elaborate more?
That's nice, but I'd still like some popular VC games. Why can't we have Super Mario Bros? Why can't we have RC Racer? Etc, etc, etc. I love my Wii to death, but it irritates me that won't give us some of the AAA titles.
Even though I do want other specific titles to be released (and the sooner the better) some of the VC titles would simply be overlooked if they dropped all their big guns first. Currently there are 3-4 games coming out every week, and I'm happy with that pace. Also if you haven't played Gunstar Heroes yet, you are doing yourself a dis-service. If you liked 'Contra', Gunstar Heroes is Hella fun.
I don't remember where I read this, but I think the virtual console games support suspend mode.
Most do. Currently I have 7 VC titles (at least 1 for each system) and I LOVE this feature. So far the only one I found that it hasn't worked far is Mario 64, but you save after every you get every star anyway...
Where do people get these wild figures for HDMI cables from? Sure monster cables are in that price range, but a normal HDMI cable is more like 10-20 bucks, or you can use the component cable that comes with the system for free. These arguments about people balking at the price after factoring in the most luxurious hdmi cables on the market are getting a little tired.
Though you can get cheaper HDMI cables, Sony's first party HDMI cables are Monster, and they are $99.99. Also I'd like to point out that the X-Box 360 Premium pack comes with Component. The PS3 ships with composite cables, despite their pushing "True HD". In all fairness the PS2 Component cables are supposed to work with the PS3, but they are not included.
We pay £1 per track, and you guys in the States pay $1 per track. I always wondered how on earth they...
a) justified that, morally
b) got away with it, legally
Part of the issue is that each country has different laws, currency, and Vat. So given the fact that they aren't going to adust their prices constantly due to fluctuations in currency they need to adjust it so that their price after VAT is somewhere close to our price before tax.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the VAT tax in the UK is somewhere around 17.5%, and your shops are required by law to display all prices including VAT. The US does not, we pay sales tax depending on the state we live in. So iTunes would be $1 per song + (0% - 10% Sales tax depending on the State)
France has a VAT of nearly 20%, and Sweden is pushing 25%. I'm not saying that's all of it, but that does change the numbers a bit, and part of the reason you pay more in Europe is they (your governments) are taking you over the coals in taxes.
The PS3 may launch in Europe but unless they get the supply issues resolved it is unlikely that any europeans will be able to get their hands on one.
Exactly, but they could then say they launched. I'm not sure why launching with a pathetic number of units is better than a delay, but Microsoft did it, and now Sony did it, so I must be missing something. Sony's "World Wide Launch" consisted of about 90,000 units in Japan and about 200,000 units in the United States. I have no doubt they will "Launch" in Europe in March 2007, but whether that means they will have over 100,000 units day 1 for the whole continent nobody knows yet.
Considering Sony keeps reducing promised shipped quantities, I suspect the launch will be light something like half a million units or less.
I wonder whether people who want a PS3 have simply "given-up" looking for one until they know supplies are more abundant.
I would guess it's more that the review scores came in and people are playing the waiting game. $600 for a PS3 + $60 for a HDMI cable + $60 for a game = $720 to play Resistance (The only exclusive game that scored well). If you are doing the waiting game for a console the less it costs, the easier it is to buy early. You need compelling exclusive content to drive sales, and currently the PS3 doesn't have $600 worth of it.
I'll go through this one more time. Your examples (tennis, baseball, drumming) are things you don't do in your living room, where your expensive TV lives. Also, while you may be able to play Wii Sports with not a lot of buttons, Wii Sports is not the only game people play. Rayman is big for instance, and requires you to do all kinds of wacky things with the controller (like whirling it around).
The original argument focused on Wii Sports, but let's count all the games that require (and I use that term pretty loosely) 'Enthusiastic use' (Violent movements) towards your TV.
Wii Sports Baseball (Pitching) - Which in reality you don't have to do. You can line up to the left or right of the TV, and still get the same effect. - No button pressing involved.
Madden 07 (passing) - A 'Bullet pass' in particular. Though you don't have to throw towards the TV, some people do. - Once again you don't press a button.
Rayman Raving Rabbits (The Cow Toss) - Funny you mentioned this one as I actually beat this game, and can only think of that mini game that reguired any potential 'toss into TV' motions. In general this is more natural to do while standing up, however even sitting down I'd be swinging the remote above my head and would land above the TV. I will give you the benefit of the doubt that you could play this sitting down and have a bigger TV than me. To throw the cow you have the remote gripped by 4 fingers and you press A with your thumb. Hardly fiddling.
Let's count the games that actually require you to release the remote... let's see it's... Zero.
In theory there are other gestures played in other games like tennis or golf where you can play and swing the remote violently and release at just the wrong time to cause damage. I have paused a game and wiped my hands off so the remote doesn't "get too loose in my hand", and in actuality I think some rubber gripping on the edges would be helpful but getting back to the intial discussion, you don't make 'Wild gestures' with the remote while 'fiddling with the buttons' which was the initial discussion.
Well, for one thing, these items (baseball bats, Tennis racquets, golf clubs, drumsticks) do go flying on a regular basis. But they are outside, on a green or in a court, not 3 feet from your plasma screen.
Secondly, there are no buttons that you are fiddling with while swinging your tennis racket or golf club, which certainly has an effect.
For Wii Sports you Do not 'Fiddle' with buttons while you are in game. Hell, 3 of them you can play without touching Any buttons.
Tennis - Though you can toss the ball up to serve by pressing the A button, if you gesture up with your racquet your character will throw the ball in the air.
Boxing - Uses no buttons what-so-ever for in game action.
Baseball - Uses no buttons what-so-ever for for batting. For Pitching, you can change your pitches with the digital pad before any pitching motion is ever made. You hand should be secure on the remote at that point. You actually can play a full game of baseball without touching any buttons if you don't mind only throwing fastballs.
Golf - Requires only 1 button be HELD during gameplay so the computer knows the difference between a swing, and a practice swing. Holding the remote so your thumb covers the A button, doensn't constitute 'fiddling'.
Bowling - Hold the remote securely with your thumb and forefingers to bowl. The only one that gets used during motion is the Trigger (your index finger) and that's a simple, press and release. Your thumb and rest of your fingers should easily be able to hold onto the remote.
Seeing shovelware titles like Cabela's Big Game Hunter and Barbie Horse Adventures making the cut while fantastic games like Psychonauts and Shenmue 2 were forgotten was a bad thing.
In all fairness. Barbie Horse Adventures made the list because it started to work after they made adjustments for GTA 3 to work. The underlying engine, is apprently very similar.
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Personally, I couldn't disagree more. The Wiimote sideways does't feel like the original controller and that's a good thing. It has a superior D-pad, better buttons, is wireless, and unlike the original has smooth corners that don't agrivate your hand after hours of use. It gets the same effect, but in a much better way. On the other hand if I could get an adapter for my NES Advantage...
As others have commented, the Mii's are user created, and are supposed to reflect themselves. (Sometimes to a very good likeness). The issue with putting Mario in there, is that you're controlling Mario. When you put your Mii character in there, you associate it with you, and the other Mii's created by your friends and family, get associated with your friends and family.
Quite simply you put yourself and your friends in the game, and experiance a greater sence of immersion (and enjoyment) because of it.
I think it was IGN UK that said Feb, 2007.
I have no idea, but I would love to hear the anwser when someone does try...
Oh wait. They do.
Actually I remember telling it explicitly to do this, and I had to change 3 different settings.
1 was tell it to use WiiConnect24.
2 was to tell it to use the standby mode instead of 'power off' (You can tell if it's actually off, as the light turns red), and
3 to tell the Drive light to be "DIM" (vs. Bright or Off)
By the looks of their Launch, line up they did!
Let's not forget how Sony Slammed Microsoft for botching a World wide launch (despite MS shipping greater numbers and actually making it world wide), and how they also Slammed the Wii for being 'just a gimmick' before adding tilt functions into their controller. I wonder how Sony's investors, (and executives) keep being "overly optimistic".
I made a correction to your post, I think that's what you meant to say. I do see where you are coming from, but I don't see this so much as a 'One lump sum charge' to Nintendo. As with everything that involves Wii points, you pay Nintendo. Nintendo gets a cut of everything for the distribution (IE: they are the publisher), but Opera would get paid per download much like Sega gets paid per download for any of their Genesis games.
I agree that it's likely reserved, but not just for temporary storage. (kind of like how the 360 reserves 7 gig of the 20 available). After downloading and installing the "Weather Channel" update this morning, I had the exact same number of blocks available.
I'm not supposed to say, but they are offering support for the 'Phantom Lapboard'...
Though I don't see this as being a desktop replacement for most web browsing, I can see myself using this browser for specific purposes. How about getting stuck in a game, then jumping to Gamefaqs? Or The WiiArcade done up in flash? Strongbad Email? I personally will watch the prior 'Heroes' episodes I missed from NBC.com on it simply because my couch beats my computer chair every time.
Opera does still charge for their browser. Opera for the desktop is free, but Opera 'for devices' (IE: Cell phone, PDA, etc...) is still a pay for product, and that's what this is. Until June Nintendo is paying for it as a promotion, but after that users who want it need to pay Opera.
Ok, ignoring the fact that none of that is built in, or supported by MS; When did XBMC get a browser? (or as you put it youtube support?) I remember it being able to download trailers from Apple, the weather hookup, emulators, and shoutcast, but no browser. Can you elaborate more?
Even though I do want other specific titles to be released (and the sooner the better) some of the VC titles would simply be overlooked if they dropped all their big guns first. Currently there are 3-4 games coming out every week, and I'm happy with that pace. Also if you haven't played Gunstar Heroes yet, you are doing yourself a dis-service. If you liked 'Contra', Gunstar Heroes is Hella fun.
Most do. Currently I have 7 VC titles (at least 1 for each system) and I LOVE this feature. So far the only one I found that it hasn't worked far is Mario 64, but you save after every you get every star anyway...
Though you can get cheaper HDMI cables, Sony's first party HDMI cables are Monster, and they are $99.99. Also I'd like to point out that the X-Box 360 Premium pack comes with Component. The PS3 ships with composite cables, despite their pushing "True HD". In all fairness the PS2 Component cables are supposed to work with the PS3, but they are not included.
a) justified that, morally
b) got away with it, legally
Part of the issue is that each country has different laws, currency, and Vat. So given the fact that they aren't going to adust their prices constantly due to fluctuations in currency they need to adjust it so that their price after VAT is somewhere close to our price before tax.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the VAT tax in the UK is somewhere around 17.5%, and your shops are required by law to display all prices including VAT. The US does not, we pay sales tax depending on the state we live in. So iTunes would be $1 per song + (0% - 10% Sales tax depending on the State)
France has a VAT of nearly 20%, and Sweden is pushing 25%. I'm not saying that's all of it, but that does change the numbers a bit, and part of the reason you pay more in Europe is they (your governments) are taking you over the coals in taxes.
Exactly, but they could then say they launched. I'm not sure why launching with a pathetic number of units is better than a delay, but Microsoft did it, and now Sony did it, so I must be missing something. Sony's "World Wide Launch" consisted of about 90,000 units in Japan and about 200,000 units in the United States. I have no doubt they will "Launch" in Europe in March 2007, but whether that means they will have over 100,000 units day 1 for the whole continent nobody knows yet.
Considering Sony keeps reducing promised shipped quantities, I suspect the launch will be light something like half a million units or less.
I wonder whether people who want a PS3 have simply "given-up" looking for one until they know supplies are more abundant.
I would guess it's more that the review scores came in and people are playing the waiting game. $600 for a PS3 + $60 for a HDMI cable + $60 for a game = $720 to play Resistance (The only exclusive game that scored well). If you are doing the waiting game for a console the less it costs, the easier it is to buy early. You need compelling exclusive content to drive sales, and currently the PS3 doesn't have $600 worth of it.
That's Interesting. Mine doesn't have a strap, but I guess that's my fault for buying a cheap one. D'Oh!
Actually that is standard, not exceptional. Exceptional is less than that.
The original argument focused on Wii Sports, but let's count all the games that require (and I use that term pretty loosely) 'Enthusiastic use' (Violent movements) towards your TV.
Wii Sports Baseball (Pitching) - Which in reality you don't have to do. You can line up to the left or right of the TV, and still get the same effect. - No button pressing involved.
Madden 07 (passing) - A 'Bullet pass' in particular. Though you don't have to throw towards the TV, some people do. - Once again you don't press a button.
Rayman Raving Rabbits (The Cow Toss) - Funny you mentioned this one as I actually beat this game, and can only think of that mini game that reguired any potential 'toss into TV' motions. In general this is more natural to do while standing up, however even sitting down I'd be swinging the remote above my head and would land above the TV. I will give you the benefit of the doubt that you could play this sitting down and have a bigger TV than me. To throw the cow you have the remote gripped by 4 fingers and you press A with your thumb. Hardly fiddling.
Let's count the games that actually require you to release the remote... let's see it's... Zero.
In theory there are other gestures played in other games like tennis or golf where you can play and swing the remote violently and release at just the wrong time to cause damage. I have paused a game and wiped my hands off so the remote doesn't "get too loose in my hand", and in actuality I think some rubber gripping on the edges would be helpful but getting back to the intial discussion, you don't make 'Wild gestures' with the remote while 'fiddling with the buttons' which was the initial discussion.
Stay on Target.
You play the drums outside?
Secondly, there are no buttons that you are fiddling with while swinging your tennis racket or golf club, which certainly has an effect.
For Wii Sports you Do not 'Fiddle' with buttons while you are in game. Hell, 3 of them you can play without touching Any buttons.
Tennis - Though you can toss the ball up to serve by pressing the A button, if you gesture up with your racquet your character will throw the ball in the air.
Boxing - Uses no buttons what-so-ever for in game action.
Baseball - Uses no buttons what-so-ever for for batting. For Pitching, you can change your pitches with the digital pad before any pitching motion is ever made. You hand should be secure on the remote at that point. You actually can play a full game of baseball without touching any buttons if you don't mind only throwing fastballs.
Golf - Requires only 1 button be HELD during gameplay so the computer knows the difference between a swing, and a practice swing. Holding the remote so your thumb covers the A button, doensn't constitute 'fiddling'.
Bowling - Hold the remote securely with your thumb and forefingers to bowl. The only one that gets used during motion is the Trigger (your index finger) and that's a simple, press and release. Your thumb and rest of your fingers should easily be able to hold onto the remote.
Maybe. But Viewtiful Joe came out for $40 and sold pretty well on the Gamecube. (Awsome game BTW)
In all fairness. Barbie Horse Adventures made the list because it started to work after they made adjustments for GTA 3 to work. The underlying engine, is apprently very similar.