Pre-Pre-E3 Wii thread

Apparently some guy at Nintendo Of Canada, while making an interview with a canadian radio show, confirmed that the Revmote will have force feedback.
You can listen to it here (it´s in french)

Someone at the mozlapunk boards translated it (http://www.armleg.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4030) - he basically says that Nintendo found a way to build in force feedback in the revmotes without draining too much battery life, which was a problem at first.

While this is not that big and not very surprising - it´s still good to know that they managed to design a wireless controller with force feedback and reasonable battery-life. The feedback will definitely help their ambition to make games more immersive.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Nintendo Wii
I think it´s a funny name and I laughed as well. It´s simple, it´s memorable and it´s really really weird - sounds exactly like Nintendo wants it to be.


That being said I think it is a decent name - the logo seems cool to me and I like the idea of the i´s acting as revmotes in the animation. It is probably too weird as a name and it sounds pretty silly when spoken out though, as mentioned by others as well.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Technophile

Wiimote

just realized how hilarious that sounds

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

Well if that is what the Wii is capable of (considering we add some background and other stuff to that black scene) then I would be really suprised. It looks great.

I doubt it though

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by RushJet1

actually, i'd bet that any of the current consoles could do that- rendering a good-looking human isn't hard when hardly anything else is being rendered at all. i mean look at it! you've got a curb, and a couple of trash cans around. not exactly difficult for the graphics processor.

Yes, that´s what I actually ment - one single character model shouldn´t be a problem to render - but if you add more background objects with detailed textures and models and maybe other characters to it I think it could get critical (if we assume that the specs that IGN posted are real).

Not that I care that much about graphics, I just say that I would be surprised if wii games could have graphics like that.

I was speaking idiomatically.

whooa! freaking Metal Slug for the Wii - now that was unexpected! I can only speak for myself but now every doubt is gone - I´m gonna get one of those things for sure. What would be even cooler would be an online mode but I think that´s unlikely.

I´m also eager to know what SNK (or what´s left of them) thought out for the controls with the Wiimote.

And I agree that polls concerning the 3 next-gen consoles on the Internet are pretty biased, but someone made a poll with developers and the ones who were most interested in Nintendo´s E3 presentation this year were still in the majority. (I think the poll was on Joystiq too, I´m not sure..)

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?