A little while back people were getting excited about a few copyrights Nintendo posted, well I emailed them to find out what was up. Apparently, nothing much!
The "Wii Handle" is allegedly just the Wii Zapper- major letdown there considering most were hoping this was Nintendo's answer to Msoft's Gamertag.
When inquired about the "Soma Bringer" I was told there are no plans to bring it to any Nintendo platform. Hit the jump for the full reply email. Check back here for more on Wii Magic and other patents Hello and thank you for contacting Nintendo,
Just to let you know, there are no plans to bring Soma Bringer to any of our systems. Will it happen in the future? You never know what the future might hold, so keep checking our website's news section (www.nintendo.com/newsmain) for the latest information and announcements.
Once a game has been officially announced, our website's Game List (http://www.nintendo.com/gamelist) represents the best place to find the most accurate release dates. Once there, click "Show advanced filtering" and use the dropdown menus to narrow your search based on system, publisher, number of players, etc.
When you have filtered your search, click on the game's title to see all the available information. If what you seek is not yet available, please check back later. When there is new information to share on announced games or other upcoming products, our website is the best official source!
Remember, any posted release dates are estimates and subject to change. As a product's estimated release date approaches, you may wish to check with your local retailers to see when it may be available in your area.
Now, there is a "Wii handle" in development. It's called (tentatively), the Wii Zapper. So far, there is no release date for this accessory. When it is, our website (www.nintendo.com) will be the best place to find it.
By the way, while you are at our site, be sure to check out the My Nintendo section. Not only does this allow you to monitor the progress of any repairs or part orders that you may have, it also gives you access to the Nintendo Forums where you can interact with other players. Here you can discuss games and systems, and possibly obtain key game play information. Take a look. I think that you will find it helpful.
Nintendo of America Inc.
Name has been removed to protect the innocent
Friday, September 7, 2007
Nintendo clears up some of those mysterious Patents
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Metroid 3 Media Blowout!
Friday, August 3, 2007
Smash Bros Adventure mode revealed!
Adventure mode is nothing new to the series, I was pretty impressed that they squeezed one into Melee. While it was nothing spectacular, It didn't have to be- it was bonus material to one of the greatest multiplayer games in existence. Well, all that is about to change. At the Ssbb official blog they've released the above teaser, as well as some details about the new fully realized side scrolling adventure mode. Apparently they went all out, including a story that deals with character development and histories. If it lives up to what their saying every Nintendo fan in the known universe may suffer from a total and instant implosion of the brain, simultaneously upon its launch.
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Hidden Messages in Metroid Prime 3
I was watching some e3 videos over at IGN this morning and, being Canadian, spotted some French during a simulated boot sequence (along with 'Wii Format' . I quickly ran it through dictionary.com's translator and found some interesting results.
Hit the jump for more...
I have no idea why there is a huge gap here...
Needless to say this piqued my interest so I further investigated...I found some text that seemed to be German, so I ran that through the translator.
I split up "andrayda" into "an dray da" which, in german, gave me 'in dray there'
?
According to dictionary.com:
Dray
–noun
1. a low, strong cart without fixed sides, for carrying heavy loads.
2. a sledge or sled.
3. any vehicle, as a truck, used to haul goods, esp. one used to carry heavy loads.
–verb (used with object)
4. to convey on a dray.
–verb (used without object)
5. to drive or operate a dray, esp. as an occupation.
6. to convey goods by dray, esp. locally or for short distances.
In all other languages available in the translator dray brings out nothing. So are they talking about a sideless cart, or is there a character named andrayda?
I came across another seemingly German word near the top of the sequence: kämpfen, translated?
To fight
You die if your
I was getting annoyed with the IGN video because it wouldn't let me pause a precise times, so I captured it as a .mov and further analyzed. I was able to go frame by frame and see more of the message. I found another word, moriaiiiii.....i that I recognized from Italian class.
After watching the whole video through again it becomes obvious that this is her ship analyzing her dream: "Neurological readings indicate"
After this sequence we are brought into her dream where a bunch of phazon containers(presumably) explode, the last of which reveals Dark Samus emerging, fully charged. Samus then wakes up in her ship, from the nightmare.
I think it's time we took a look at the numbers here. Being a graphic designer (who is actually siting at work right now...) I began playing with the numbers as colours.
Following 'to fight' is 000DBB - brings up a dark blue similar to 'this one'. Could it represent Dark Samus? Fight Dark Samus? Seems perfectly logical to me...
The next sequence of numbers is 9A723E, revealing an organge-brown not unlike that of Samus' Varia suit. So a fight between the two? Or perhaps within herself? The theme is Corruption after all.
9FF19B is a minty green which, to me means nothing - I'll stop bothering with this line of numbers for now.
There are a lot of #'s that frame the word DANGER, followed by 'overrun'- Seems like a struggle to me, especially since it's followed by 'You die if your' which is followed by a series of numbers as well. 9FF19B reveals a bright purple in Adobe illustrator. Purple played a huge role in MP2:Echoes. It was basically a monochromatic colour scheme for the entire dark side of Aether, in which the very atmosphere hurt you. So maybe this reveals part of the message?
'You die if your Purple?' fully corrupted? We do know this is a game mechanic but the phazon is usually blue. The next 6 numbers bring up gray, no meaning to me. Stop.
Alright well, I'm getting a bit tired of all this number business and so I think I'm going to work on Andrayda again, Latin seems to be the only reasonable language, or maybe Greek.
I tried Latin and get nothing again so I broke it up and:
This doesn't work. Despite it being a game that relies heavily on corridors the sentence just wouldn't make sense...
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Friday, July 20, 2007
Rockstar ports another game to Wii (and 360)
It's Bully. Not much to say about that, the game never appealed to me. I guess Reggie wasn't kidding when he said they were working closely with Rockstar to get some games on Wii.
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Rockstart bringing Table Tennis to the Wii
Dtoid is reporting that the rumours have now been confirmed. Rockstars critically acclaimed Xbox360 game is getting ported over to a system that it might actually be fun on. Sweet, still won't buy it. I am curious though, as to how the graphics will turn out, hopefully Rockstar can do better than Manhunt 2 because that is just one ugly Wii game.
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Endless Ocean is gorgeous, relaxing, boring?
The first trailer for the underwater sea exploration game formerly known as 'Forever Blue' (a title I prefer) was shown yesterday at e3 and the graphics are stunning, I can't wait to learn more about this game, there is a lot of potential and right now it seems that they only want to show us how it looks because...well...it looks good- but boring. The game supposedly lets you dive with a friend via Nintendo's WiFi Connection. It's a pretty cool idea, just hope it holds my interest. Oh- and as appropriate as the music was, it was still horrible and cheesey. Game music should never have lyrics, who develops this SEGA?
And here is the rest of it.
MORE METROID 3!
A pretty awesome Developer Walkthrough there, game looks better everytime I see something new...which is almost every time I hit refresh...I love e3. Hit the jump for more.
Wii Fit unveiled!
This is just crazy. Watch Reggie introduce a new game, and some weirdo hardware.
Hit Gametrailers.com for more
Mario Galaxy Videos - masterpiece
The Bee Mario power-up is probably the greatest thing to happen to Mario since the Tanooki suit. This game looks to merge the styles of Classic Mario titles and Mario 64 better than any other Mario game out there. This game truly looks like it could surpass the first 3d Mario in terms of fun, and that is no small feat. Hit the jump to see a new trailer aswell!
Metroid Prime 3 Trailer
I never thought that I'd ever be wishing for the end of summer so hard.
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Metroid 3, Mario Galaxy Screens
Here! Mario is looking incredible, Metroid...I really need to see in motion.
Nintendo Press Conferece - LIVE
Kotaku has a live feed up right now and I'm jacked in. The guys are just getting in now (11:37am) and the event is set to start at in a half our. Happy music in there... 3 huge screens span the stage, giant NINTENDO Logo projected across all three, really wish I was there...
Hit up the jump for the rest of the show!
starting!
montage showing all positive press News, Colbert Report, South Park, Talk shows, high lights DS and Wii. Showing lots of homebrew stuff, cool.
Lots of web vids, nice sense of community coming through. Awesome music too wow.
REGGIE TAKES THE STAGE! Deja Vu!
Reggie's happy, he said so.
Celebration for all- this e3 is a turning point for game industry. Coming out party of the industry, finally clear that games will be seen alongside tv, movies and music as an entertainment staple. Everybody is a gamer.
Lots of stats about industry growth...up 114% in Japan...whoa.
Reggie says this is due to the 'expanded market' thanks to DS and Wii.
69% of ALL industry growth comes from Nintendo products.
portable play v. console play = 50/50 in 06
DS accounts for a quarter of ALL hardware sales in the US
reaching older gamers
numbers show unprecedented growth for Nintendo
reaching female gamers
Nintendo brings in 33% women
industry = 20% women
95% gamers are 6-24yr old males
65% of 29-43 yr old people play wii regularly
1 in 8 senior citizens play regularly
many firsts in game history.
DS reaches 40million months ago world
Wii sold out for all 33 weeks of its life
Wii poised to become #1 worldwide very soon. Nintendo NOT a fad Nintendo IS the future.
60 american games in wii catelog
over 300 for DS
another 140 + 100 for Wii by the end of 08.
14 of the top 20 wii games from 3rd parties. 3rd party sales more than half unit volume.
VIDEO
Highlighting community/fan videos showcasing a worldwide love of nintendo and dedication of their fans. Nintendo shortcuts videos shown (clips)
DESTRUCTOID
Wii Fanboy shown
among other blogs...
INCREDIBLE ZAPPER SHOWN! OZZI STYLE!!
looks so intense. one of those model commercials.
RE: Umbrella Chronicles playable this week using the Zapper shell!
Capcom not alone. SEGA bringing Ghost Squad to Wii, shows gameplay.
Another Medal of Honour game using the zapper? 30 player Multiplayer?!??
Wii zapper game being made within Nintendo...
Zapper with game for 19.99!!!!!
like swords??? Soul Calibur Legends shown- meh...
Wrestling game being shown, double meh.
Ninja Gaiden DS shown, brand new stylus gameplay
are you deep? Try square enix!
Dragon Quest Swords shown shortly
MARIO AND SONIC AT THE OLMPIC GAMES
4 player multiplayer, sweer trailers, Mario keeps up with Sonic pretty well. Must be all the carbs....
SMASH BROTHERS!
Reggie talks about the sites updates, giga bowser, controls.
DATE - December 3rd 2007!
best smash bros ever- BY FAR!
another Video.
TheHylia.com people speak about their 'hardcore view' on games DS = cell phone, must have at all times.
say Wiisports made them realize the Wii's potential
talking about Metroid and Zelda love.
Their on stage to play new games! Bill Trinen is back! love this guy.
PHANTOM HOURGLASS - all touch mean trimmed down experience? NO!
guy takes notes on his map with ds touch screen. Touch control revolutionizes items like grapplehook, some really great possibilities. Make tight ropes, beat on enemies, grab items, swing. Wow....
graphics are really impressive. Bill says LoZ:PH is his favorite Zelda ever. Says Japan agrees- best selling Zelda (JPN) in a while.
Hardcore and casual gamers both love it.
METROID PRIME CORRUPTION!!!
game looks nice, battle sequence...
Lock on free aiming.
Lock on = orbit point, shoot anywhere while circle strifing.
Hyper mode;
too long and you get corrupted, balance ultimate power with ultimate price.
Graphics are hard to tell, doesn't look too much better than prime 2 from what was shown.
12:30 mark
Online? We're serious
Video showcasing DS chat, Mario Kart, Web Browsing, Wii channels.
MapMii? Shows Wii owners on a map? Not sure if this is new channel.
5.5 million using NinWi-Fi service, none have paid.
VC= 5.6 million downloads
112 games already
WiiWare
unique downloadable content
NEW CHANNEL COMING
Check Mii out channel
post Mii's other users can vote on it...
let down...
sure but will nintendo get serious about online play? talks about Pokemon (online and DS connectivity, bleh)
Talks about Mario Strickers Charged,
want more? EA's titles come online, Madden 08, FIFA 08 The experience will not be dumbed down for the Wii, exclusive Mii modes
Squares Dragon Quest Monsters Jokers - online.
Activisions Guitar Hero III online, exclusive wireless controller?
new announcement;
MARIO KART WII ANNOUNCED!!! ONLINE FIRST QUARTER NEXT YEAR!!!
grahics are pretty nice, very smooth. More racers, more fun? Stay tuned....
Variety of control choices: Wii Wheel shown, lame peripheral?
Comes with MKWii
expanded audience video:
retirements homes shown, elderly talking about how much they like Wii and DS. CheapyD!
Kotaku shown!
SUMMA!
-FEED DEAD?!-
now I have to stare at Summa's ugly mug...
okay, the video started over from the beginning of the conference but I've skipped ahead and the expanded audience video is playing again, fingers crossed...
cheapyD again...
Kotaku again...
Summa again - STOPPED!
SUMMA KILLED MY FEED !!!!
OKAY - Kotakus feed is running, quality is hurtin though and no nice multi angle...
Iwata is talking... casual gamers again...
Best game design is open to all skill levels. Miyamoto is coming out to show off a new title. Don't know if it's the feed or Iwata thats making it hard to understand...
There is video lag, audio continues on...Fixed! This guy is missing alot their showcasing Mario Galaxy but I can't see ANYTHING!,
people talk about games Brain Age 2.
Reggie talks about it now. New games/challenges, says it's really hard to purposely loose at Rock Paper Siccors Aug 20 date
Mario Galaxy!!
says its the first worthy successor to Mario 64.
Running upside down.
I think something is seriously wrong with this video, I can hear but the video is WAY behind
NOVEMBER 12 date for galaxy???
Nintendogs, brain games, wii sports help expand.
Nintendo Just getting started with these types of games
Puzzle games..EA' s MySIMS
uh...I think the internet just broke...
clearly way too many people watching, the show must be coming to a close soon, we're hitting 1:00
I'm still left without any video- trying gamespot now.
OKAY Kotaku just came up again, sound only though, I guess it was another video. Introduces WiiFit
a health game? I can't see anything so....
Some technoesque music and whistleblows, music seems to be affected by performance as it sounds to be changing dynamically.
1UP FEED IS BACK! WiiFit comes with a FOOT PAD!!! looks like some really impressive hardware actually... playing a monkeyball style game with your feet!?
Miyamoto is taking stage,
"Have you all been getting your sweat on lately?"
Felt that Health must be included in the Wii library inorder to appeal to the family and mass market.
The pad can read your balance and actually measures how balanced you are while stretching inorder to grade you..
Step aerobics showcased. Sort of like DDR...for old people...
Seems to be getting faster, could be fun...
Twists, again shows you how balanced you are, to make sure you are doing the exercise efficiently. They really went all out here.
OVER 40 activities!
Hes talking about the pad. er - The 'Wii Balance board' It measures your weight, your balance shift, will also be used with later games to interact with not only your hands but also your feet- quite awesome. Wireless like the Wii remote, no need to attach.
MIYAMOTO IS GOING TO BODY CHECK REGGIE!!!
oh...they mean their going to check his body...
jokes all around about Reggies weight and such, pretty funny banter.
Wii is measuring him...
shows a shift in his balance.
Creates charts like Wii sports and you can track your progress for months and compare with your family and friends...This may actually be incredibly usefull.
Weird feeling to be sold on something after rolling your eyes at the announcement not more than 10 minutes ago.
Mii integration is pretty funny. It measures your BMI and Mii will grow.
Reggie says muscle is heavier than Fat, Miyamoto says 'nice excuses'
both of them are competing in a 'soccer header competition' You lean to make your Mii hit the ball, pretty wild!
You have to avoid things like panda head and cleats! crowd laughs.
REGGIE WINS! OLE OLE OLE (music plays, not my idea)
Reggie's closing statements
Nintendo's moment to lead:
Market shares increasing is secondary goal
Primary goal is to steal your leisure time for games, stop you from consuming entertainment, want you in the game, future belongs to all of us.
We won't just be happy, we will be satisfied.
THATS IT!
Pretty exciting, some really odd surprises, can't wait or the hands on stuff...
Nintendo Press Conference - UPDATE
e3 is finally upon us! And while it seems we've missed Microsofts show, it looks like I'll be blogging Nintendo's conference as I watch it stream live via 1up. Nobody is really sure what to expect, but I know what Wii needs- a deep hardcore game that looks half decent.
It starts at 9:00am PST
UPDATE: It would seem that the show will start 3 hours from now, nuts...
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
First NiGHTS Footage.
A pretty cool trailer was revealed today, being the first day of e3 expect a lot of media. The trailer is the first glimpse of NiGHTS in motion which fans hoped would be enough to make the hideous graphics shown in the screen shots ignorable. I don't think it does. A lot of it is prerendered and the voice over has a decidedly Disney feel, but the gameplay shown doesn't really get me very excited...Not at all really.
Friday, July 6, 2007
New Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles trailer
Good old Destructoid has brought this little gem forth. A gorgeous new trailer- and when I say gorgeous, I mean this game looks absoloutely incredible . Graphics keep looking better, see that scorpion?? that giant Tarantula?? I can't get enough of this. To find the trailer follow this link and click the buttons that say 'NEW' I can't understand why the trailer is all in English and yet the site is all in Japanese...
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Forever Blue Screens - wow.
GoNintendo took a peak over at NeoGAF today before I got a chance to. Oh well, I like what I see These screens along side the Metroid ones really have me excited for these second generation Wii titles. Looks like we're finally seeing a definite improvement in graphics. GAFfers speculate that the taped an extra xbox onto the Wii. Bravo.
Hit up GoNintendo for more gameplay details.
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
No More Heroes Preview on X-play
Courtesty: X-Play: The MusicalMETROID 3 BLOW OUT!
Firstly, here are a plethora of beautiful screenshots over at neoGAF
GoNintendo has also posted this interview from GamePro which promises a very, very polished experience, no online multiplayer, and epic music. This second interview from Play Magazine
Is more of this same, but has some other interesting tidbits about the games development and what not. I could not be more excited for this game. Go out and play the other two if you haven't and slap down a pre-order for corruption because it sounds like it's going to be the best yet.
Monday, July 2, 2007
Metroid Prime 3: DELAYED!
Luckily it's only a week (Aug 27). This is my most anticipated game right now, so it still blows. Nintendo tried to hide this little detail in a press release which revealed that Phantom Hourglass will be coming to North America on October 1. Hit the jump for the alternative image for this post.
via GoNintendo
