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09/15/2006 Entry: "All about Wii"
 superseth |
All about Wii:
Also, in case you haven't been reading the links above from gamespot, here is what is going on with the Nintendo Wii: Release Nov 19th for $250 with a controller, analog stick attachment, Wii Sports game with important things like boxing and tennis, and a Wii. Wii will be region free in theory, meaning you can play games from japan without trouble. Wii cannot play DVD's Wii will have 512mb of storage internal, and use standard SDCards for additional Wii storage, just like a digital camera. This means you dont need to buy anything other than the box to fully play somethign, it comes with all you need to play Wii sports until you drop. If only there were 2 controllers included it would be perfect, but you can get one separate and you will still be spending less than a 360 without hard drive, which can't even save games and has no included game. Wii costs so little to make that they are already making a profit on the console at launch. Code written for Gamecube (read - game engines) run with minimal porting as it is essentially a faster gamecube in terms of hardware, meaning that people already used to developing for GCN can switch over and develop games at about the same cost and simply upgrade tech, making Wii games about 50% the cost of 360/PS3 games, in theory. Also, since the hardware is really just an upgrade, 100% GCN backward compatibility. Also virtual console launches with the Wii with (This is translated from Yen so might be false) NES games at $5, SNES at $8 and N64 at $10. This is a great deal as long as I can back them up or the fact that I bought it is stored in my profile like steam. Then there is little reason to go buy the real copies as NES games cost about $5 in real life, and that is without shipping. If every SNES game they have is $8 (and why not, it costs nothing to make copies of a digital download) I will go insane because I can finally get Super Mario All Stars and Super Metriod without spending $25 each. The only realy downer here is that the online mode is not launching iwth the system really, as no online games are going to be happening at release. I hope they fix that soon, as its the only thing other than useless HD support that Xbox 360 has over them. Somehow I it worries me that I have so little to say about this trip I am on, but so much to say about the Wii. Posted by superseth @ 11:57 AM PST |
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