Nintendo Press Conference (discussion and live stream)

It feels like the background noise is getting louder

At least the dance music choices are pretty good. It would be just AWFUL if you had to sit and wait with horrible music to boot.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

God damnit. I was doing fine till the tennis presentation with Miyamoto, the feed just died on me and isn't connecting now. I'm not even going to try it anymore, so sick of that advert. I'll just download the whole show later and watch the rest.

How ya doing, buddy?

I absolutely loved how they had crappy players demoing the games, made it much more believable it was actual gameplay. I was laughing my ass off in delight when he kept shooting with the shotgun and missing.

Also, the second a downloadable video is available, I want links.

EDIT:

I thought I saw a renamed Ouendan amidst the DS game lineup, but someone in chat said no and I'm doubting they knew what they were talking about. Can anyone confirm this...........

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Originally Posted by Infernal Monkey

Starfox ahoooy.

Oh MAN. Keep it Arwing missions, Arwing mission. Land Master is fine too, but no on-foot sections. It's too easy to make awesome, MAKE IT SO.

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Looks like touch screen buttons for looping and u-turns, and a meter for the brake. Meh, hopefully it works.

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The controller itself looks a bit iffy, but the dpad and face button placement looks wonderful.

Playing the Virtual Console just got so much more appealing.

How ya doing, buddy?

The remote's speaker is troubling me a little. I see the potential, yes I do. Imagine a 3D adventure/thriller title, and a character leans close to you to whisper something, and you hear it from the remote, so you need to physically lean closer to it. Or a game where you carry a watch with a video system and you get messages through it and physically have to listen in on your wrist.

But me, I play using headphones. My TV's speakers are pretty shitty and using headphones lets me cut out all the rest of the noise in my house, not to mention play at night without waking everyone.

I just really, really hope there is an option in the games themselves to switch off the speaker usage (instead of a simple off switch on the controller), that would route all remote speaker sounds to regular speakers (headphones).

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by AcerBandit

Also how is that connected to the Wii? Is it an attachment still or does it connect to the cube ports?

That's an intriguing question. If it works on the cube ports, would that mean it works on the cube as well? *tummy going pitter-patter*

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Originally Posted by Technophile

I was also hoping that they would comment on PS3's controler's last-second, motion-sensing inclusion. O well. It seems like the conference still didn't answer my main questions, but I'm still hyped.

To clarify, it doesn't detect motion, it detects tilt. Think of it as using a GBA with Wario Ware Twisted as a controller.

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Originally Posted by Technophile

Yeah I just read numerous articles that state how it's baiscaly the same ol' playstation remote but with the vibration feature nixed out in favor of very, very dumbed down wiimote-like functionality. (sensing tilt while remaining oblivious to actual 3D movement). I still think it was very pethatic of Sony to do this. It's like the feature is half-assed and it's not even what they're geniunly exploring in the first place. As if they merely, & quickly, threw the half-baked idea in there just to take a shot at Nintendo.

It serves its purpose though, most Sony apologists are already telling themselves the Sony controller one-ups Nintendo, and considering how many people are still insisting on staying oblivious to how the Wii controller actually works, that might be enough. =/

There's nowhere I can't reach.

The dpad looks off center a little, that might be a bit awkward =/
It's understandable since they want the twin sticks in there too, but the whole thing looks cramped. They could have simple made a SNES pad replica and I'd be perfectly happy.

The dpad itself and the face button placement are still so dreamy. I can't wait to try that.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by devilmaycry

BTW I hope they come to sense and do a black/gray version of the console since my experience tells me that pristine white devices that are so 'manipulated' like a gamepad gain countless stain in a blink.

I'm sure Acer came up with the colors all by himself, and it's not like Nintendo ever provides their consoles in different colors.

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Originally Posted by devilmaycry

You never know... they've just picked the 2nd lamest gamepad ever (saturns 1st model pad was the crappiest) and made it worse, so don't be so sure.

No, you see, they've already showed the color range, last year, and every console (besides Virtual Boy) they've released since the Game Boy Pocket has been available in multiple colors.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I think they felt a bigger secret was the Wii Connect 24 thing. I'll just unplug it for the night anyway, but it's a nice concept.


Also:



Sorry, Sony and Microsoft are done, why lie.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by soniclover

They aren't done unless Nintendo can actually attract the Mainstream crowd with all of this. Last time I checked, Nintendo still isn't considered 'cool' by the masses.

Videogames in general are not considered cool by the masses, no matter what EGM or TV adverts try to tell you.
It was a joke, for pete's sake. As if even a ridiculously overpriced and money-losing console would even dent Sony, much less Microsoft.

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Originally Posted by soniclover

How was I suppose to know that was a joke? I don't know who pete is. ;_;

I thought the glaring Megalith speak was a less than subtle hint, but I guess not

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Also, anyone interested, there's a 400x300 video of the whole Nintendo conference for download at
http://www.vgpro.com/file/15549_e320..._800k.wmv.html

There's direct downloads, but I used the torrent with 114 seeds, so dunno how the speeds are for those. The torrent came fast.
Although I have no idea why the page says it's 385.4 MB (404121190 bytes) when the file in the torrent is 260MB.

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Still no sign of the hi-res press conference video? Come on you IGN insiders, upload, upload

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Wow, that gun looks awful. I hope they're not seriously going to go with that, so awkward. Anyone who's ever used a gun will be weirded out with having the "barrel" so low =x

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I certainly won't be RE5. Nintendo's console might easily end up a dumping ground for spinoffs and "sidestories" like the GC did (besides Capcom's input of course). I doubt any of the major thirdparty franchises will be moving to Wii anytime soon, but if the spinoffs are good, who's to complain.

That said, I haven't read the E3 reports, but from what I've followed, I've yet to see a single Konami title. Has Konami announced anything actually noteworthy for the Wii yet?

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Waaait wait wait, don't tell me the classic controller plugs into the wiimote and requires batteries, god no

EDIT:
Oh dear lord it does


Rats. So these things work on regular batteries instead of coming with a rechargable one?

I was speaking idiomatically.

I dunno, lower development costs and more approachable development didn't exactly help the GC, despite what everyone thought.

If a developer feels a console won't reach their intended audience, they just won't bother, sadly. The business being as shallow as it is (as exemplified by the multiple naysayers in this thread as well), Nintendo may still risk being branded "for children" and this will sadly scare the living daylights out of most publishers.

Originally Posted by HazelGuy

I wouldn't worry about it. From what I understand they are rechargeable, with a very very long lasting battery 50-100 hours per charge.

If that's true (or even close to accurate), that's pretty comforting to know. So any news on someone uploading the hd video of the conference or my question?

Originally Posted by Qwarky

That said, I haven't read the E3 reports, but from what I've followed, I've yet to see a single Konami title. Has Konami announced anything actually noteworthy for the Wii yet?

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and features a button layout reminiscent of Sony’s DualShock design.

Idiots.

The analogue stick placement is similar to the Dual Shock. The button layout is identical to the SNES controller's setup, which the Dual Shock then copied.
Last I checked, an analogue stick is not a set of buttons and it utterly confounds me why they'd acknowledge the shape of the pad, but fail to acknowledge who made the layout in the first place.

Goddamn misinformed "information". It's crap like this and the guy on the news talking excitedly what a revolutionary concept the Dual Shock 3's movement sensor is that pisses me off. IT'S NOT EVEN A MOVEMENT SENSOR, IT DOES NOT DETECT MOVEMENT YOU ASSMONKEYS.

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Originally Posted by devilmaycry

Region free wont happen bacause of the incompatibilities of PAL/NTSC and that's something no costumer support wants to deal with.

Bullshit. NTSC compatibility has not been a problem in Europe for years because virtually every TV here can easily display both 50 and 60Hz image and no American would ever import a European game anyway. A lot of PAL releases offer a 60Hz option too, so Americans would still be able to play those particular titles if they really wanted.

I don't see region free happening for Nintendo, but it would be a dream come true if it did. There really are no other obstacles left other than publishers being greedy.

How ya doing, buddy?

I just got the new issue of Edge today (their e3 report took forever) and there was something I hadn't seen reported elsewhere, regarding the Virtual Console and the controller.



If this is to really happen, I for one would be extremely happy, while I'd guess a good quantity of people would feel extremely ripped off about even more separately sold add-ons.
Great (possible) news for retro nuts in either case.

How ya doing, buddy?