Official Wii thread

[Scotty]

yeah that's what my Mum always says "Asians just don't get fat", today while umpiring footy there were 2 Asians on 1 team.....................................and they were good

[Fitzy]

ive never seen a good asian footballer either

[Scotty]

that's what i mean i saw 2 today.

EDIT: wait Peter bell i guess he's good

[Fitzy]

he was born in south korea or somethin wasnt he?
but this is gettin off topic, is anyone gonna pre order a Wii when it is available?

[peaches]

Every thread i've been to is like you guys in an msn convo.
WTF at Peter Bell being asian, thats news to me. Anyways, the 'wii' sounds wiird. Not my style.

Anyways, i just got these N64 and SEGA and some other computer emulators with like 5000 rom games. Awesome, i've been playing Street Fighter and some other great old school games, addictive.

[J@3]

There, a fat Asian.

I've seen a fair few of them around.

[Pera]

Every thread i've been to is like you guys in an msn convo.
WTF at Peter Bell being asian, thats news to me. Anyways, the 'wii' sounds wiird. Not my style.

Anyways, i just got these N64 and SEGA and some other computer emulators with like 5000 rom games. Awesome, i've been playing Street Fighter and some other great old school games, addictive.

I got those games to.And they work great at the moment I'mplaying a game named exicebike it rocks .

[Fitzy]

thats a classic, ive got it on rom too

[Jugs]

Excite Truck is making its way on to the Wii.

[Bang]

I wonder how this Wii thingy will sell.I don't that many people are gonna buy this.

Have you seen the lines at E3? Have you seen all of the E3 coverage in Gamespot, 1up, or IGN? The consensus is that the Wii has "won" this year's E3.

what Super Happy Fanboy Wii website did you see that at?

http://games.ign.com/articles/709/709355p1.html

IGN's E3 awards, the Wee won 3 out of about 20 awards. 2 of them were for the controller and some peripheral thing. Yeah, definitely "won" that one.

Check IGN's video blogs, most of the editors agree that Wii won the show. Also check the blogs at IGN, they usually have the impression that the Wii won. The lines were long for a reason, and there hasn't been lines that long before. Think about it, if it wasn't that good or interesting, then why weren't there lines? I don't go to Wii fan websites..nor do I know of any. Nintendojo maybe? But I haven't gone there for ages. Plus there weren't that many outstanding games in the Wii booth, but the consensus was, even just basing on the awards, that the controller works.

Ok, does everyone forget the fact that the Wii also has a normal controller?



and just for the heck of it, another shell:

[The Other Kevin]

The first one isnt for normal games genious. It's for the classic ones.

[J@3]

Check IGN's video blogs, most of the editors agree that Wii won the show. Also check the blogs at IGN, they usually have the impression that the Wii won.

Right, so if they all agreed at IGN that the Wii won, why did it only get 3 of the awards and I want quotes, prove what you're saying for once don't just make claims. The only reason anyone would be impressed with the Wii is because expectations would be at ground level.

[Fitzy]

i havent seen that normal controller but i think people would rather use the wii-mote

[Matthew]

For older games or not, that has to be the ugliest controller ever.

i havent seen that normal controller but i think people would rather use the wii-mote

Lol, wemote. I have to admit, the name of the controller is good.

[Bang]

Check IGN's video blogs, most of the editors agree that Wii won the show. Also check the blogs at IGN, they usually have the impression that the Wii won.

Right, so if they all agreed at IGN that the Wii won, why did it only get 3 of the awards and I want quotes, prove what you're saying for once don't just make claims. The only reason anyone would be impressed with the Wii is because expectations would be at ground level.

"Winning the show" might have been a bit biased on my part, but I posted this in a hurry since I had to watch some television in a hurry. However, it is clear that a lot of the video game editors are showing interest.

Ok fine, I'll find you all the quotes.

I'll start with the easy one, Matt Cassamassina, since he's the editor for IGN N64 -> Cube -> Wii

http://revolution.ign.com/articles/708/708558p1.html

"Nintendo hasn't always blown us away at E3. There have been some years we'd like to forget and we'd be willing to bet that folks from the Big N itself would agree with our sentiments. But as far as success stories go, E3 2006 belonged to the company. It had the hardware, the games, and the attitude, and we aren't merely stating so because we're the Nintendo editors. Just click on our Day 3 show wrap and you'll see that nearly every IGN editor queried is in agreement that the Big N took this year's event.

Really, how could it not? The Wii-mote performed exactly as Nintendo promised, opening up a new avenue for simpler, more intuitive games. Wii Sports Baseball was both graphically primitive and mechanically basic. And yet, the process of swinging a virtual bat with the Wii-mote was undeniably fun and entertaining in a manner completely impossible with a traditional controller. In a matter of minutes, using Nintendo's new pointer seemed almost second nature, as a round or two with its astonishing new platformer, Super Mario Galaxy, easily demonstrated. The company's revolutionary remote and by association the Wii console earned my pick for hardware of the show, besting Sony's far more powerful, but relatively uneventful PlayStation 3. "

OK, now moving on to IGN comics editor Hil-IGN

http://blogs.ign.com/Hil-IGN/ (he says "Wii wins")

OK, now moving on to the video blog I was talking about

http://media.games.ign.com/articles/693 ... ids_1.html

Watch day 3. The majority says Nintendo won, not just the Nintendo editors. For those of you who won't bother to play the video, which will be the majority, the editors who say this are: Doug Perry (editor for XBOX), the Wii editors, Chris Carle says it's a tie between Nintendo and Xbox, Erik Brudvig IGN guides editor, David Clayman (editor in chief) says that Nintendo showed that the controller works.

Moving on to Gamespot awards.

http://www.gamespot.com/features/6151435/p-10.html

The key here is not the quantity of awards, but Wii won best hardware, and this comment is important:
"While not completely flawless, the Wii-mote performed well enough to turn several GameSpot editors into believers. With fully functional hardware, it's no surprise that the Wii was the hit of the show. Attendees queued up in four-hour lines just to get into the Wii display area, and waited in even more lines to try out various games in development. "

More postive comments from Gamespot editors:
http://www.gamespot.com/features/6151046/p-2.html
http://www.gamespot.com/features/6151046/p-3.html

Some aren't too crazy about it, but the general impression is very positive.

The video of the line, if you haven't seen it yet:
http://www.gamespot.com/pages/profile/v ... TGo5bsMsz4

Peter Moore recommending the Wii:
http://revolution.ign.com/articles/707/707831p1.html

The reason why Wii did not sweep the individual awards is because they had 27 playable games, but a lot of them were not complete, only showing little portions of the game. Furthermore, a lot of the booth's games such as Duck Hunt, Tennis, and what not were only demos trying to show the capability of the Wii controller. Only a few of them were launch titles (around 8?). Hey, at least it's better than PS3 and 0 playable demos. Anyhow, they succeeded in what they set out to do, which was to show the potential of the controller, and a lot of people agreed, as you can see by those lines. BTW, even if you went inside, there were queues of 50+ people per game for the big franchises. In other words, there were tons of people playing inside the booth, Nintendo wasn't purposely limiting the amount of the booth to make it seem like there were only a few people. How do I know? I have a friend who went to E3. Since you won't believe me, I'll show you a pic that's likely not available elsewhere:

http://static.flickr.com/46/147231120_c ... 73.jpg?v=0
http://static.flickr.com/51/147230687_6 ... 31.jpg?v=0
http://static.flickr.com/48/147230723_7 ... 4a.jpg?v=0

(Notice there's that same booth person on both pics...I could post more if you still don't believe me.)

[Matthew]

Any new system generates interest from gaming fans. The only thing thats positive is their old game library. But I could just get those all on emulators, so it'll have to show me more if im going to buy it.

[Pera]

*try's not to laugh*
the controler looks nice actualy...for a piece of shit
Bang I'm going to ask you a straight question.Are you gonna buy this wii thingy?You are defending it so much,you almost act like you made it.So answer my question are you going to buy it?
Like I said before I would rather do something in real life, like getting in a fight for real,before playing a fighting game on the wii.

[Jugs]

How the fuck is that controller ugly and a piece of shit? Controllers dont need 7000 buttons like the fucking xbob to be good looking.

[Pera]

Just look at it.The places were the two anlog stcks are looks like its been cut out of a piece of paper.

[Bang]

All I'm asking for is that people at least give it a chance before laughing it off. That's just annoying. Yes I will buy it, for sure.

Look it's more like a mouse for the PC, except 3d not 2d movement. You won't have to move that much, only a few games would make you do that.

If you've ever tried a VR User Interface (um...probably not many people have used one) you would have a good idea. Let's say you have a program where you can see the human heart very accurately. You can zoom in and out by pulling in the remote and pulling out, you can rotate by rotating the remote. Now how is this different from a mouse? It is more precise and eventually it's a lot quicker. You could do that same thing this way...Click on the location with the mouse, move the mouse wheel up, use the right click button and move the mouse right and left. Yes it works, but zooming in by just clicking then pulling is much easier eventually. Plus it's much more precise if you set the sensitivity right.

You know when you move the mouse wheel and you can't get the pages to go down exactly as much as you want or when you use the mouse wheel during RTS and the zoom is sometimes not where you want it? Just think of that.

It is just a natural change from 2D to 3D movement. Remember how they used computers in minority report? Well 3D movement is a step towards that. I'm not saying the Wii, will be THAT revolutionary, but it is a step in the right direction.

[Fitzy]

i dont see anything wrong with it, its like a playstation controller

[Matthew]

How the fuck is that controller ugly and a piece of shit? Controllers dont need 7000 buttons like the fucking xbob to be good looking.

It only has 2 less buttons than the 360 controller.

The problem with it is the ergonomics. if you look at the xbox small, xbox360 and ps2 controllers, they are designed so the use can grip controller with the top part of their index or big finger. That controller looks like a kindergarten kid made it.

[Srbija]

Couldn't of said it better myself. The PlayStation/Xbox controllers are designed perfectly to suit the gamer.

[Jugs]

Good point, I just couldn't justify the 'looks' of it being bad, never attacked its grippage.

[Matthew]

How the fuck is that controller ugly and a piece of shit? Controllers dont need 7000 buttons like the fucking xbob to be good looking.