Pre-Pre-E3 Wii thread

Originally Posted by WraithTwo

Don't play the "no one has a HDTV lol" card, it just doesn't work. HD will get pretty popular pretty soon, and it will be a big deal to many people.

That said, I personally don't give a shit about HD, and I think that the Rev is going to fucking rule (especially if it releases at 99-149).

My biggest concern right now is the virtual console support. How well will Nintendo support it, how much, and who will they get on board are all topics that can turn the console from a good idea, to fucking paradise.

- WraithTwo -

As a person who's job entails selling HDTVs and their parts, I'll tell you right now that purchasing them at the moment is not feasable. They're overpriced, unstreamlined, require pricey, pricey cabeling and make your none-HD material look worse than your SDTV does. Yeah, they're definately the wave of the future, but there's just no reason to buy them now when the future models will be a lot better, cheaper and have less compatibility issues. Therefore, I can totally see where Nintendo's coming from with the exclusion of HD support from the Revo.


While I'm sure that it won't last this way, at moment, a lot more people are still buying regular ol' TVs as opposed to the sexy HD sets we have. I guess it all depends on how rapidly HDTVs become more affordable. Yeah, Nintendo took a risk by excluding the HD support, but so did Sony and MS by including it. I guess I'm not really sure which side to call out as the one that's gonna get backfired just cause it can go either way. So, as of now, both startegies are valid.

Anyway, enough of that blabbering. I was curious if the various colors that they showed the Revo in during last year's E3 were confirmed for launch or not. I mean, as slick and sexy as the black one is, some of us fags here may want to go with something a bit more bold.

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Originally Posted by RABicle

Get out. No one cares about RPGs. THis is a gaming Revolution, I don't want to play RPGs anymore. Grubdog was talking about games worth looking forward to.

Um some of us Revo anticipatores care about RPGs a lot. I can't wait to see how the new controller will change RPGs. Just cause Revo's all about new ways doesn't mean it has to reject everything old!

How ya doing, buddy?

So are you guys buying into that 20 games at launch (window) news? How long is a launch window anyway? What signifies it's end?

I'll personally be very, very happy with my Revo for months to come if it launched with one, new, true Super Mario title, a new Super Smash Bros, and a hefty RPG title.

-EDIT-

Oh and while I'm at it, (I know we've had way too many of them) but I think the Revolution seriously needs a Mario Party title somewhere down the line due it's controller's set up.

And on a different, but pretty cool note:

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I reckon, and this is a real personal point of view, the greatest innovation in hardware won't come from the next graphics processor, or the next processor, or the next console, or even the next PC. Someone, somewhere will come up with an input device that enables us to do games that we haven't even imagines before ... somewhere, someone is going to come up with a second-generation controller because, I would argue, the controllers we have now were designed to actually move around 2D worlds, and they've been hybrided for 3D worlds, and they're still not good enough, and the number of times you have to go through and re-jig your game because of the controllers.

- Peter Molynuex

http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/10/mo...olution-in-04/

How ya doing, buddy?

Yeah, it's just ironic that after he states this, Nintendo shows the Revolution and his studio gets bought by Microsoft.

But hey, if he really wanted to, I'm sure he can find some sort of a loophole like creating a new sideteam with which he'd make games for the Revo or something...

How ya doing, buddy?

-RUMOR-

NiGHTS probebly coming to Revo. [According to Famitsu]

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I think if any modern console deserves NiGHTS, The Revo would be it. The control scheme seems perfect.


On a totally different note, I wonder what Revo's official name will be.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Except that Nintendo has already stated that Revolution is not the final, official name for the new console.

Personally, I agree that "Revolution" is good enough of a title but meh...we'll see how it holds up compared to whatever Nintendo decides will be the official name.

Anyway, is the team that made NiGHTS still actually together? I thought after Sega's downward spiral, pretty much all the talent spread around and left. Or perhaps the same people reunited to form a new, none Sega team to create the sequel for NiGHTS on the Revo but with a different name?

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

OK Katamari's freaking awsome so I can't really write him off, but what the hell's wrong with him? The controler's the focus of the Revo because it IS a big deal! If he can't see that then that only shows how close minded he is.

Oh wait! That's right, the latest Katamari on the PSP had shit controls!

FELIPE NO

I also love how these people that write off the Revo controler seem to completely ignore the fact that a traditional shell exists which allows for "normal" gameplay. =/

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

I'm sure it would have turned out much better on the DS. The touch screen would have been a much better dual analog subsitute as opposed to that single "analog stick" thing.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Maybe if it was side-scrolling and sprite-based? You'd still have numerous places to go by the levels offering multileveled platforms to hop on and off of like houses, clouds, airplanes, floating islands, etc.

If he really wanted to, it can work. But whatever, the guy doesn't even seem to really like videogames anymore considering he wants nothing more to do with the game and has moved on to playgrounds. So, I guess his opinion doesn't reallly matter.

Oh just wondering: Has it been confirmed yet by Nintendo that you can use two revmotes together for one game? Like say for fishing, you'd use one revmote to represent the fishing pole and hold the other one horizontally to reel the fish in? Or is this still mere speculation?

I was also wondering the same thing about it doubling as an NES controler when held sideways. Has this been confirmed or is it just an idea thrown out there? It's kind of a big deal because in order to do so, the Dpad will have to self calibrate depending on how you hold the controller.

How ya doing, buddy?

Are they trying to not make these pics believable? Even if the photoshop work was good here (and it's not) the style and look of the worlds really doesn't live up to what a Mario game should look like! (Especially the second one)

"PHOTOREALISTIC! PHOTOREALISTIC! THAT'S WHAT MAKES THINGS BELIEVABLE! DISREGARD STYLE!" =/

Anyway, has a Mario game even been confirmed for launch? Who says Nintendo won't pull another Luigi's Mansion?

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

This new name is TEH AWSOME.



It's so offbeat, quirky and ridiculous that I just can't bring myself to take it seriously. I always thought "Revolution" sounded kinda uncreative, typical and...cliche. Yes, yes, I know cause the controler's revolutionary and all, but it always made me think of some underground resistence for a greater cause or something. :/ I like Wii. The "ii" to be exact. Well the fact that they're suppose to be little people. The video showcasing the logo on Nintendo's site was pretty sweet. I think that's pretty nifty and it makes for a damn spiffy logo. Remember guys when Nintendo first show the DS, people bashed it left and right. When they first showed the Wiimote (get used to that) people ,again, bashed the hell out of it. But now, for the most part, both of those are held in high regard. I think the same will happen with Wii. Since the system itself isn't going for that SUPER POWER BADASS MONSTER image, and instead it's aiming to show just how different it is, I think the name fits.

Originally Posted by of pom

Oh, its not that bad. But here come pages of WELL I THOUGHT THE REVOLUTION WAS PRETTY GOOD YOU KNOW.

Just say its Wii and discuss the console more :\/

Wow Pom, I thought I was gonna have to go through a lot more "ZOMG TEH NAME SUCXXORS" posts before I saw another one that actually likes the name.

I'm only buying my Wii from a store where the clerk responds by saying "Yes, we have Wiis in stock" when I ask them if they do.


-edit-

Y'know, the more I think about it, the more apperant it becomes to me that Nintendo's seeming a lot like the Apple of the gaming world this upcoming generation. Kind of an underdog, a little ridiculed, but a company that's churning out really sexy looking and different products with charming quirkiness.

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

Yay! More Wii lovers! ^^

I was speaking idiomatically.

Hahaha. I don't mean to rain on everyone's parade, but we seem to be taking the name a lot better here at gamingforce as opposed to other places. I mean look at what's popped up. I guess it was invetable.




-EDIT-

Yeesh, look at the comments section on these places

whine whine whine

bitch bitch bitch

moan moan moan

I don't really get the big deal. I still think the name's awsome. In fact I dare and say that I think it's best name outta the 3 console names for this upcomign gen. Oh well I guess most people still have to get used to it.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by AcerBandit

God the marketing of this is going to be horrid.

"Why have a weekday when you can a wiikday?"

"Turn a regular weekend into a wiikend!"

Guh.

Oh come on now, what makes you think they're gonna resort to puns? I think they'd focus more on the "ii" looking like/being players, which I think is pretty neat.

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Originally Posted by AcerBandit

I liked the commercial. But marketing is marketing whether it's advertisements or word of mouth. And the current buzz isn't all that positive.

Hey now, you can't hold Nintendo responsible for what the consumers not affiliated with them say or do. Sure they used it once in the press letter. It was almost cute. But that's it. I definately think they'll go more like the video rout which rocked.

Speaking of marketing, I wonder if they'll say out loud "Nintendo Wii" during commercials for Wii games, cause that'd be awsome.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

OMG is that an official logo?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I wonder if you'll her a "weee" sound when you power up the Wii. I dunno if I'll ever get over the novelty of saying it and hearing it out loud.

"Does anyone here speak Japanese? Please tell me wii is something in Japanese... like... Electronic Gadget or something. (The Wii Has Wi-fi.) Say that five times slow!"

While my Japanese is VERY limited, I've been dabbeling in it and taking classes for a while now. And I have not come across the word as to mean anything yet. I will say though, it does seem like this name will work so well with Japanese marketing.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I can seriously say that I absolutely feel that Wii>Revolution. "Revolution" sounds so bland in comparison.

So far things seem to be looking really good for Nintendo. (knock on wood).

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Originally Posted by Grubdog

... and it's only just the beginning.

http://1up.com/do/feature?pager.offset=3&cId=3149198

Jeez I don't even know what to expect anymore! I'm really excited though!

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

Originally Posted by sprouticus

Jesus, THERE'S MORE? I don't even know what to expect this time around... I think we all kinda figured that we would get gyroscopic gaming in one form or another, but what the hell could they pull out of their hat this time?

It was a very smart move to announce the name of the system now, considering they have somethng else up their sleeve for E3. Go Nintendo!

Y'know now that I think about it, I remember reading somewhere that the nunchuku attachment probebly has an acceleration sensor. So if you push it forward, you move forward. It could have been a rumor so not sure.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Grubdog

That was also mentioned in the same article, so even if that turns out to be true, it's not the big remaining secret.

Yeah hopefully that's not it. I hope that it's actually something substantial though and not a small, little feature that there'd be no point getting hyped up over. It's kind of hard to imagine that after everything revealed when it comes to Wii's attributes, there's still a truly significant unnoted feature, but so far Nintendo has been on a roll, so we'll see.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by WraithTwo

BTW guys, the Wii is so awesome that it has inspired me to waste a couple of minutes in paint....



As if the DS's own slogan wasn't bad enough....

- WraithTwo -

If you were trying to make it look phallic you almost got there. If you think of it as going in the other direction, the DS screens look like buns and the Wiimote looks like....well, it's about to penetrate.

-EDIT-

OK your little photoshop session has just made me think of something that might make this post worthwhile. They STILL haven't explained what the "home" button on the Wiimote's for have they? I bet this new secret has to do with that!

FELIPE NO

OK so apperantly Wii is suppose to be a fake name that Nintendo put out to generate some buzz only to reveal the real name at E3.

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Crazy? Here is the first clue, “By letting the gaming community vent now about the name, they will be less distracted as launch titles for the system are announced and initial reports about what it’s like to play the games begin to come in.” Allowing your audience time to vent is not SOP in a name announcement, and also telegraphs that Nintendo knows what a stinker this name would be. Second, it’s not possible to engineer a worse name for this product.

Wow I love the objectivity of this article. :/ Nevermind that Nintendo anounced the name now in order to give gamers time to soak it in because it's actually different and creative as opposed to "bad".

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Given that their video game audience is the same demographic as Punk’d, this whole campaign is perversely elegant. Except of course for failing to make the illusion complete by registering a TM for Wii.

Right. Because, y'know, Nintendo's target audience, all age groups and both genders (everyone), happens to be Punk'd fanatics. Apperantly Punk'd is the absolute global, and universal, common denominator for humanity. :/

Obviously the author of this article hates the name. That alone discredits his article. However, the fact that Nintendo hasn't registered a TM for a Wii is a bit alarming. If this indeed turns out to be some elegant scheme to generate some buzz and change the name, I'll be pretty dissapointed. I mean yeah, it's only a name but I've come to really like it.

Oh you can read the blabbering here

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Originally Posted by russ

So what you're saying is that if I registered Wii as pretty much anything I wanted for myself, right now, I could prevent Nintendo from releasing it under that moniker and perhaps they would have to choose something good, like N5 for instance?

Or Wiii. You never know. Considering how zany Nintendo's been lately, I wouldn't push it.

Jam it back in, in the dark.