Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

Perkunas · Post by **Perkunas** » Mon May 22, 2006 5:11 pm 0

Stevo wrote:That Red Steel demo shows how good the
controller wii be for FPS games...........
Excellent

Seems like they were working on a GameCube kit...

aureole · Post by **aureole** » Mon May 22, 2006 5:54 pm 0

Agreed: I rarely use strafing in any game I play: I guess I've never really got the hang of it.

Stevo · Post by **Stevo** » Wed May 24, 2006 1:01 pm 0

http://www.megagames.com/news/html/cons ... ming.shtml

The Nintendo controller will feature a microphone and will store a user phonebook/address book while it will be used as a VoIP phone and will help gamers communicate while online without the need for a headset.

Nintendo's controller surprises keep coming in and as the details are revealed so is an underlying theme to the company's plan for the device. The new details mention a microphone built-in to the headset which will allow the controller to be used as a straight-forward VoIP phone. The news also mentions that users will be able to use the phone for video calls although it does not clarify exactly how a camera will come into play in the setup. The interesting news however, relates to the phone/address book details which will be stored on the controller suggesting that Nintendo expects each user of the Wii in the household to own their own Wiimote.

The inclusion of a microphone built-into the controller, along with the speaker announced at E3, will also offer gamers more freedom during online play as they will be able to communicate with fellow gamers without the need for a headset. This makes sense as most images we have of people playing with the infamous device, show them standing up and at some distance from the console.

Just when you think Nintendo has no more Wii related mysteries the company hits you with another one and this time it is the addition of Wiichannel.com to the list of Nintendo owned domains. Rumors of a Wii dedicated interactive channel that will carry animations, games and game trailers, TV shows and other audio/visual content have already started doing the rounds but as most of us have found the hard way, Nintendo is not playing by the book on this one; so expect nothing and anticipate everything.

It keeps getting better and better

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Wed May 24, 2006 2:35 pm 0

O_O

In the words of John Crichton Hell YEAH

I hope they partner for some of the content/services though, rather then going alone. If they get Itunes on board, that would be a score for them.
Apple might do it out of the "my enemys enemy" theory.

umm..wait a sec...wheres the source for that news?

Cadmium Lemon · Post by **Cadmium Lemon** » Wed May 24, 2006 2:46 pm 0

Wiichannel - straight to your mouth.

Nintendo = win.

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Thu May 25, 2006 5:03 am 0

So..umm...no independent confirmation yet?

I mean, a mic seems very likely indeed, but that doesnt make this news true...

Stevo · Post by **Stevo** » Thu May 25, 2006 5:51 am 0

http://nrevolutiona.blogspot.com/2006/0 ... phone.html

http://wiichannel.com

These links were in the above link under the download tab

Marius · Post by **Marius** » Thu May 25, 2006 7:17 am 0

"Let's Wii together, right now, ooh yeah, in sweet harmony!!"

Atty · Post by **Atty** » Thu May 25, 2006 9:08 am 0

In other news, Kotaku are reporting that strong halogen lights can interfere with the Wiimote's sensor.

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/top/haloge ... 175891.php

It doesn't say how severe the problem is, but I'd imagine that only a few homes would have halogen lighting in them.
Shop floors, however, could be a different story.

Post by **Snakey** » Thu May 25, 2006 9:13 am 0

Not a problem, most shops already have a special room you can go in to Wii.

A Black Falcon · Post by **A Black Falcon** » Thu May 25, 2006 9:59 am 0

Seems like they were working on a GameCube kit...

The development systems, or some of them, were shaped like Gamecubes... yeah, seems so. But does that actually make them Gamecubes? Not necessarially...

Kemper_Boyd · Post by **Kemper_Boyd** » Thu May 25, 2006 10:29 am 0

A Black Falcon wrote:
Seems like they were working on a GameCube kit...
The development systems, or some of them, were shaped like Gamecubes... yeah, seems so. But does that actually make them Gamecubes? Not necessarially...

But if it's not just a turbo Cube why would you even go to the effort
of putting it in a Cube case? It makes no sense to me that Nintendo
would do a board to fit the old case.

My guess is that particular generation of development box is a Cube
with a faster CPU and more memory and nothing more. That'd be
relatively easy to do and save Nintendo doing a new board design
just to kick start development. Later on they can follow it up with
something closer to the final Wii design.

Post by **Snakey** » Thu May 25, 2006 10:34 am 0

It's just a cube. K? It's not a big deal. Really.

Samus · Post by **Samus** » Thu May 25, 2006 11:04 am 0

Snakey wrote:It's just a cube. K? It's not a big deal. Really.

Didn't know you're allowed to talk abt this now. Well, some other developers have described it to be between Xbox and 360 in the "power" department, not that it really matters, just wondering..

Anyways, here's the latest SMG clip, same surroundings of course but the picture and sound quality are both excellent!

xav · Post by **xav** » Thu May 25, 2006 11:12 am 0

Stevo wrote:http://www.megagames.com/news/html/console/nintendosurpriseskeepcoming.shtml

The Nintendo controller will feature a microphone and will store a user phonebook/address book while it will be used as a VoIP phone and will help gamers communicate while online without the need for a headset.

This also makes a bit more sense of the "always on" aspect - if it acts as a VoIP phone as well then it will be more useful if you can also phone people when their Wii is "off".

Knowing Nintendo it will be a closed VoIP system for Wii (and DS) owners only. It'd be nice if they used open protocols to interact with other services, but I don't see that happening. Perhaps they could also subsidise the cost of the Wii by acting as a VoIP<=>PSTN gateway and charging for the privilege. I don't see that happening either, but it's fun to speculate