Wii News
« Previous EntriesJapanese sales data: Dragon Quest Swords nearly a sellout on Wii
Sunday, July 22nd, 2007Released on the 10th of July, Square Enix’s first offering for the Wii, Dragon Quest Swords, sold 305 thousand copies in the week of the 9th to the 15th of July, according to video game sales tracker, Media Create. According to reports, the shipment figure was 350 thousand, which means the game has all but […]
Wii takes steps towards virtual reality
Saturday, July 21st, 2007The Wii, for those who don’t know, is Nintendo’s next-generation gaming system that relies more on an innovative motion sensor controller than on graphics and processing power. The controller, which looks more like a television remote than anything else, has been used to replicate everything from a tennis racket, to a samurai swords, to a […]
Wii Therapy Catching On
Friday, July 20th, 2007From what I’ve heard, physical rehabilitation can be a painful and difficult experience. But some therapists are using Wiis to lighten the load.
“[T]he Nintendo Wii is winning fans in physical therapy by getting victims of accidents and diseases back on their feet. . . . Dana Ryan, Wake Med director of therapy, said […]
Mario Kart Wii held back for early ‘08 “void”
Friday, July 20th, 2007Nintendo holds onto Mario Kart to dominate the quiet post Christmas period.
The rumours were right about Mario Kart Wii showing up at E3 last week, they were wrong about it coming out this year - Nintendo tells CVG it has enough big games for Christmas and wants to hold something back for the typical New Year "void".
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Street Fighter heads to Wii
Friday, July 20th, 2007Hyper Fighting joins another random TurboGrfx shooter in Euro Virtual Console line-up.
The latest Wii Virtual Console update has just been rolled out across Europe, and there’s a treat in Street Fighter 2 Turbo: Hyper Fighting waiting for remote-waving retro gamers.
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EA Announces MEDAL OF HONOR HEROES 2 for the Wii
Friday, July 20th, 2007LOS ANGELES, Calif., July 17, 2007 – Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) today announced Medal of Honor Heroes™ 2, a new game from the critically-acclaimed Medal of Honor™ franchise designed completely from the ground up for the Wii™ from Nintendo and the PSP® (PlayStation® Portable) system.
It’s June 6th, 1944, and the war is in your […]
First Mario & Sonic trailer
Thursday, July 19th, 2007See the first footage of the two mascots battling it out at the Olympics.
Sega released the first screenshots of Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games at E3 last week, and now you can see the game in motion in the first trailer.
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Thank Mario 128 for Mario Galaxy
Thursday, July 19th, 2007The "core idea" of spheres and planets in Galaxy were created for Mario 128, says Miyamoto.
Mario 128 - the mythical sequel to Super Mario 64 - is one of the most talked about no-shows among Nintendo fans, but it turns out it wasn’t binned after all, because much of its concept was used to form Super Mario Galaxy, reveals Shigeru Miyamoto.
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New Mario Galaxy princess revealed
Thursday, July 19th, 2007A new princess character, Rosetta, turns up in Super Mario Galaxy.
Not content with Daisy, Peach and Pauline, Mario will be going gaga for a new lady friend in Super Mario Galaxy - a princess-like character called Rosetta.
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Wii about to overtake global 360 sales
Thursday, July 19th, 2007Nintendo’s Wii rockets past 9 million unit sales, could overtake 360 by September.
Despite launching almost a year after Xbox 360, Wii is now less than one million sales behind Microsoft’s big white box. At its current pace it could even overtake global 360 sales in the next few months.
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WiiConnect24 breaking Wii consoles
Thursday, July 19th, 2007Could this be the Wii version of the Three Red Lights of Death?.
WiiConnect24, a system built into Wii to keep the console constantly connected to the internet when on standby, is reported to be causing consoles to develop faults.
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Dave Perry: Wii appeal will wear off
Thursday, July 19th, 2007Gamers will "drop their Wii controllers" for the graphical power of PS3 and 360, he says.
Games industry icon and developer, Dave Perry, says that Wii’s popularity will eventually die down as gamers "drop their Wii controllers" in favour of the more graphically advanced experiences offered by Xbox 360 and PS3.
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E-tail slaps Wii Fit with $70 price tag
Thursday, July 19th, 2007With a US release date of Jan 1, 2008. Hmmmmmm.
$69.99. That’s how much Nintendo’s Wii Fit will set US punters back according to e-tailers EBGames and Gamestop
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Wii Game recalled because of word “Spastic”
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007 The other day I wrote about Nintendo recalling Mario Party 8 because there was a problem, “the wrong version of the disk due to an assembly error”. This must have been a big hassle as many copies were allready on the shelf, all shrinkwrapped and ready to go.
That was until someone noticed the word “Spastic” […]
Nintendo May Outsource, Increase Wii Production
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007Wiis may be easy go, but they certainly haven’t been easy come - it’s often been difficult to locate any at all. That problem may become a thing of the past, however, as Digital Spy’s David Gibbon reports, “Nintendo has approached two Taiwanese manufacturers as it plans to outsource Wii components in a bid […]
More Wii, Less TV
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007The Japanese are really big into the Wii and it shows not only by the fact that for every PS3 sold there are 3 Wii’s sold but also by the fact that people are playing more of their Wii and watching less TV.
An article from timesonline.co.uk recently published an article which goes into the problems TV executives […]
Wii Internet Channel lets hackers in
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007Hackers have reportedly found a new loophole in the Wii’s Internet Channel that could allow the running of unsigned, home-made code on the console.
Apparently the exploit lies at the heart of the Flash Player (the software used for watching Flash-encoded video - like on YouTube) embedded within the Wii’s web browser, and could allow the […]
Wii Likely To Dominate June Sales
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007It’s shaping up to look like the Wii dominated console sales again for the month of June according to analyst Michael Patcher. The Wii sold twice as many units as Xbox 360 and three times the amount of PS3’s.
The unofficial numbers for June in the U.S. are 435,000 Wii’s sold, 200,000 Xbox 360’s and 100,000 […]
Wii Gets NASCAR Wheels
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007A new report indicates that Nintendo will sponsor a NASCAR vehicle, and a look at the car’s hood confirms it - “Wii” is visible in large black lettering. Greg Biffle will be at the wheel, and a press release urges anyone who’s interested to “Look for the Wii-themed car at Watkins Glen International in […]
Game developers and publishers warming to Wii
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007Software houses that turned their noses up at Nintendo’s console have rethought their ill-advised positions and want to build for the Wii.