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well surprised no one else has posted anything about this ..
here's a few key points from their keynote ..
here's a few key points from their keynote ..
- Global shipments of Wii = 50 million, fastest selling hardware in history. So modest!
- Shocker: more 3rd party titles sold for Wii than any other platform last year. That is a LOT of shovelware, folks.
- Shows off slide of 3rd parties supporting Wii: Blizzard, Take 2, LucasArts, etc. Geez, nearly as many Balance Boards sold around the world as PS3 systems.
- "Complete storage solution for Wii." "WiiWare will remain a viable outlet for your games and ideas. Important for gamers, too."
Wii System 4.0 - at bottom of screen, there's an SD card icon that goes to a menu. Same
12-item-per-screen layout, but there are 20 screens per SD card. 240 games total.
Menu 4 can handle high-capacity cards -- support for 32GB cards (!)
- Final video about to kick in.
Train sounds.. it's Zelda on DS?
Zelda railroad building adventure with dungeon goodness.
OK, I guess they did show a new Zelda after all. I was wrong!
Link has the ability to control/create enemies and make them fight enemies. Railroad mechanic is an extension of Phantom Hourglass boat system -- riding a rail and shooting cannons
The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks is the title.
Available later this year.
Very Phantom Hourglass like, but hopefully with new and fresh ideas. The new weapons and skills look like a good start, but Link looks kind of odd in his little conductor's outfit.
Closing comments directed to developers.
And that's all, kids, go on home. Oh wait, you are home, reading this. FINE. I'll go home.
To summarize: New Zelda later this year. Final Fantasy IV: The After Years for WiiWare. Wii Virtual Console gets Arcade software (six launching in Japan, four here) and Final Fantasy (six in Japan, two or three here). As always, Nintendo likes to remind us westerners that we are lameasses who don't deserve nice things.
New Zelda looks better than my description probably makes it sound. Looks like a fairly traditional Zelda portable game, with puzzle dungeons and Phantom Hourglass-style touch mechanics. The train basically works like the boat in PH, running along the overworld (presumably on a rail defined by players). Enemy control mechanics look pretty nice -- link distracted a big Zora with a controlled shadow guard, then snuck around to hit it from behind.
Wii firmware 4.0 is available now, so go download that. Or at least sit and wait for Nintendo's servers to dish up content for you. I bet they're totally slammed.
- Shocker: more 3rd party titles sold for Wii than any other platform last year. That is a LOT of shovelware, folks.
- Shows off slide of 3rd parties supporting Wii: Blizzard, Take 2, LucasArts, etc. Geez, nearly as many Balance Boards sold around the world as PS3 systems.
- "Complete storage solution for Wii." "WiiWare will remain a viable outlet for your games and ideas. Important for gamers, too."
Wii System 4.0 - at bottom of screen, there's an SD card icon that goes to a menu. Same
12-item-per-screen layout, but there are 20 screens per SD card. 240 games total.
Menu 4 can handle high-capacity cards -- support for 32GB cards (!)
- Final video about to kick in.
Train sounds.. it's Zelda on DS?
Zelda railroad building adventure with dungeon goodness.
OK, I guess they did show a new Zelda after all. I was wrong!
Link has the ability to control/create enemies and make them fight enemies. Railroad mechanic is an extension of Phantom Hourglass boat system -- riding a rail and shooting cannons
The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks is the title.
Available later this year.
Very Phantom Hourglass like, but hopefully with new and fresh ideas. The new weapons and skills look like a good start, but Link looks kind of odd in his little conductor's outfit.
Closing comments directed to developers.
And that's all, kids, go on home. Oh wait, you are home, reading this. FINE. I'll go home.
To summarize: New Zelda later this year. Final Fantasy IV: The After Years for WiiWare. Wii Virtual Console gets Arcade software (six launching in Japan, four here) and Final Fantasy (six in Japan, two or three here). As always, Nintendo likes to remind us westerners that we are lameasses who don't deserve nice things.
New Zelda looks better than my description probably makes it sound. Looks like a fairly traditional Zelda portable game, with puzzle dungeons and Phantom Hourglass-style touch mechanics. The train basically works like the boat in PH, running along the overworld (presumably on a rail defined by players). Enemy control mechanics look pretty nice -- link distracted a big Zora with a controlled shadow guard, then snuck around to hit it from behind.
Wii firmware 4.0 is available now, so go download that. Or at least sit and wait for Nintendo's servers to dish up content for you. I bet they're totally slammed.
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