Posts Tagged ‘Wii’

DateApr 3, 2007
Wii are the champions?

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) Once a dark-horse contender, the Wii has outsold both its competitors in recent months. According to sales data from the NPD Group, the Wii sold 335,000 units in February to the Xbox 360’s 228,000 and the PS3’s 127,000.
Of the three new-generation game consoles, the Xbox 360 has sold the most at 5 [...]

DateMar 31, 2007
Sonic and the Secret Rings

Did you hear the news? Sonic the Hedgehog for the 360 and PS3 is a terrible game. Hey, I can’t make this stuff up. But instead of porting and dumbing-down an already bad game to Wii, Sega opted to create something new for Nintendo. Sonic and the Secret Rings foregoes the adventure aspect of late [...]

DateMar 20, 2007
SSX Blur

Whether you love EA or hate EA, their strong support of Nintendo’s latest console can only mean good things for Wii owners in years to come. Worn out and overused franchises from last generation now have the potential to be revitalized and made “new” again. Until four years and five SSX games later… Knowing a [...]

DateMar 9, 2007
New Wii Channel on the Way: Popularity

Another revelation to come via Miyamoto’s keynote today at GDC, the newly announced “Popularity” Wii Channel is coming soon. There sadly wasn’t much as far as details go for the channel, but from what was gathered is that it will be a Mii focused. Apparently, Mii creators will be able to vote on others Mii’s [...]

DateMar 9, 2007
Super Mario Galaxy Confirmed for 2007

Today during Shigeru Miyamoto’s keynote at GDC, he took the time to debut some stunning new Super Mario Galaxy footage. After the trailer played he went on to say that we’ll be seeing the title by the end of the year. Great news, as you can never be skeptical enough about when Nintendo’s first party [...]

DateMar 1, 2007
Wii-kly Update: Three New Titles Added

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Nintendo 64, 1 player, 1,000 Wii Points): The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time reveals the genesis of the fantasy land of Hyrule, the origin of the Triforce and the tale of the first exploits of Princess Zelda and the heroic adventurer Link. Vibrant, real-time 3-D graphics transport [...]

DateFeb 22, 2007
Nintendo Details 2007 Roster for Wii

Yesterday, Nintendo held a press conference in Japan regarding their 2007 Wii release schedule. What’s on track seems to be a hearty amount of content for both core and casual audiences. Some of surprise titles include Animal Crossing, Kirby, and Donkey Kong Barrel Blast, as none of those were previously slated for a 2007 release. [...]

DateFeb 21, 2007
Chicken Little: Ace In Action

When the Wii’s pointer was unveiled and gamers slowly came to grips with it, it became obvious that one of the genres that would greatly benefit from it were shooters. With the ability to easily aim at anything on screen, it was clear that shooters would be a big part of the Wii’s library. Loosely [...]

DateFeb 20, 2007
Wii-kly Update: Four titles across SNES, NES, TurboGrafx16, and Genesis

Feb. 19, 2007
Today Nintendo adds four new classic games to the popular Wii video game system’s Wii Shop Channel. The games go live at 9 a.m. Pacific time. Nintendo adds new games to the channel every Monday. Wii owners with a high-speed Internet connection can redeem Wii Points to download the games. Wii Points can [...]

DateFeb 15, 2007
Everybody Votes Wii Channel Launched

As if I needed another reason to hear other peoples opinions on matters when I have the internet readily available to me. Wii’s recently launched “Everybody Votes” channel is hoping to provide even more opinionated information from, well, everybody. Or, in this case, Wii owners. So, how does such a channel work? Questions will be [...]