Wii to be featured at Nintendo's Emo tour

by Blake Snow on Sep 19th 2006 12:30PM

Nintendo formally announced that playable Wii units will be open to the public during the company's music Fusion Tour this fall. Today's press release informs:

"Starting Sept. 27 at each of the tour's 35+ stops around the country, multiple Wii consoles will be hooked up and ready to play ... Some of the Wii titles scheduled to make the rounds on the tour include Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, Wii Sports, Excite Truck, WarioWare: Smooth Moves and Activision's Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam."

Hawthorne Heights (pictured) is headlining with additional bands including Relient K, Emery, Plain White T's and The Sleeping. Playing Emo while getting jacked by a giant Wiimote looks like it hurts.

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Weee.. Crappy Emo music seems perfect for swinging your arms around like a freak. Isn't MS doing something similar with it's Gears of War MegaDeath headlining tour?

"Wii to be featured at Nintendo's Emo tour"

ZING!

Maybe they'll unvail a new demo where you can virtually slit your wrists with the Wiimote!

Love the article title. Why would Nintendo want such whiney bitches to front their show? If you want to gain audience acceptance, 12 year old boy suburbanite pussy punk isn't the way to go.

Is it just me or does this guy look like someone just gave him a wedgie?

I think the logic behind this is again to reach out to new markets. None of the emo kids I know have any video game systems. If Nintendo can convince them to start picking up video gaming, then it's yet another new market for them.

Yeah, I wouldn't be caught dead at it myself, but I can see why Nintendo would want to go there as part of their corporate strategy.

Now, whether or not it'll actually work... quite possibly. Like I said, I know some emo fans. I've had them more frequently of late ask me about video games, and the prospects of upcoming consoles. At first, they were asking mostly about the PS3 because of brand recognition - they knew of the PS2 and figured it would be just a continuation of that. But now, they're more and more asking about the Wii.

It's not where I'd put my promotional efforts, but it's not unreasonable to think it could work.

I'm no fan of emo, but that's what the college kids are into these days...

I'm old school and love all Megadeth even though most of there stuff since 1992+ has been crap...

I'm still getting a Wii and not 360 and it's coming to a place about 40 minutes drive from me. I can ignore the music and play the Wii in early October...sounds very tempting...

Im waiting for the Wiimo pun.

Emo is Japanese for potato.

This has been a running promotion tour Nintendo's been doing for a few years now, it's not something new just to promote the Wii. Yeah the bands are always popular emo/pop rock suckage, but guess what, a lot of people listen to that crap. So they get people to go to the shows and try out their games. It's a good deal.

im def going to this concert in VA beach. i like this kind of music and i've been playing games for a WHILE now. so 32_footsteps u have no idea what you are talking about. the kind of music people listen to has nothing to do with wether or not they play video games...that's just ridiculous. nintendo is just promoting their new console in a non-traditional way.

"wouldn't be caught dead..."

Footsteps, you're obviously not emo, because otherwise being caught dead at any event, anywhere, would be the fulfillment of a lifelong dream.

"I wish I was dead... uuuuuggghhhh"

I've had my tickets for a while now for the Cleveland show? Hawthorne who? I've been planning on going just to get my paws on a Wii. :D

I'll go if i can get in a chicagoland for under $15-$20. I dunno how much tickets cost, but it would be worth it to play wii. the music? I'll bring my mp3 player.

And I thought Microsoft had poor taste in music with it's Artist of the Month. At least Jessica Simpson is easy on the eyes, and they got it right last month with some Audioslave. Myspace called, they want their bands back.

Best shirt, ever...

"I wish my lawn was emo so it would cut itself."

Didn't you know that playing video games is so emo? You're only emo if you listen to whiny pop punk and sit in your room being depressed and playing video games.

uhm Emo kids are a disgrace to mankind.

'JEEZ MY LIFE SUCKS, MY GF LEFT ME, BRB SLITTING WRISTS'

Get over it. People live in poverty and have no food in Africa, you don't see them slitting their wrists and hoping that they were dead all day.

the music you refer to when you say "emo" is crap, but bands like hawthorne heights are not emo

the genre of emo has been dead for a good 15 years

check out http://www.fourfa.com so you ignorant idiots can educate yourselves (the fashion section of the site is a joke)

I'm shocked... SHOCKED to find gross generalizations about groups of people on the internet. This goes against everything I cam toe learn and believe about the excepting community that is online gamers.
*end sarcasm*

I can't wait! I hope I can get the cash to check this out. Sounds like a good deal of fun.

Makes more sense to have the System at Kiosks in Target, Wal-Mart, and in Malls. In fact if I was Nintendo I would have the Wii out in the middle of the malls in between the stores where they have little stands and so forth. That way people walking around would see the Wii.

That would give it more exposure than the Fusion Tour. How many grandparents and non-gamers are going to be at the Fusion Tour.

Furthermore many of us gamers who havent made our mind up yet if we are going to consider getting the Wii want to try it out. I am in that bunch. I am happy with my Xbox 360 and am not sure if I will get the Wii.

I think people are starting to confuse their gothic and emo stereotypes, since it is the new "sad / upset teenager" categorization.

Let's face it people, these are just going to keep coming along every generation, and the less you understand it and the more you hate the music: it means you're getting old. It starts as soon as you get out of high school.

Teenagers will ALWAYS be upset (over not being dead, over civil rights, over whatever), and then they will start fashion trends based on this.

I'm not going to say a word on the music or anything, since theat's all personal preference...but a friend of mine went to last year's Fusion tour to see Fallout Boy and Panic at the Disco (and see Legend of Zelda, duh) and was pretty impressed with the event.

Heh, my cousin persuaded me to take him to the Detroit show. My exact words, "Can I bring my CD player?"

Too bad they'd probably confiscate it.

Blah Blah Blah... My life is horrible... Whine Whine Whine.... look at my hair.... Blah Blah. Wow Emo is great!

Eh, I won't bring my CD player regardless of confiscation. I'd give their music a chance rather than refuse to accept that which I haven't experienced.

I feel sorry for those who can't enjoy a little something from each genre. The playlist I'm listening to has: My Chemical Romance, DMX, Metallica, Reel Big Fish, Def Leppard, and Queen. All of which are in that order in the middle of my playlist.

I've had tickets to this for a month or so, I don't give half a damn about the bands I just wanna play the Wii, and I shall do so the entire time. I'll bring earplugs or something. Horray free tickets!

Hmm, wii + emo.

Interesting...

Are you guys talking about Emo or Country? lol

"7. Emo is Japanese for potato."

WRONG #7! Jagaimo and Imo are words for patato in japanese! Not emo! Ahahahah >>;;

Wait, I don't know what I'm talking about? All I said was that none of the emo kids I know have video game systems. Unless you've found all the emo kids I know, and conclusively proved that they do have a video game system amongst them, I'm fairly certain I know exactly what I'm talking about and have asserted nothing that I can't back up.

As for people getting on emo... I'm personally of the belief that people don't have issue with emo per se (really, it's not all that different than alt rock in the 90's). People have issues with emo kids (who are much different than the alt rock fans in the 90's). I could easily listen to My Chemical Romance. But I couldn't stand listening to a fan of the band talk about them for more than five seconds.

You know, back in my day, people who were depressed, wore alot of black, and cut themselves were called Goths.

(P.S. Back in my day was about 3-5 years ago.)

I'd rather see a Nintendo show that is catering more to say, my parents generation. I see the Wii as an "easy listening" system, and would love to see Michael McDonald/Christopher Cross on the bill. Listening to McDonalds husky/yet of-so-gentle vocals whilst swinging around a wiimote would be a dream, for me at least.

I'm suprised no one has connected the previous Wii article with this one. In the previous article, Iwata said, "Selling the Wii is like selling cosmetics for men." Well, there are few places where there are as many guys wearing eyeliner than an Emo show, so I think I am beginning to see a trend in Nintendo marketing.

I'd talk about my parent's generation and the Wii, but that's just giving me horribly funny images of Pink Floyd's The Wall for the Wii. Move your Wiimote in time with the hammers, play a shave-off-your-hair-and-nipples minigame using the remote as the razor, and dodge the schoolteachers who try to turn you into hamburger.

Though now that I think of it, the idea of watching people drop acid, smoke up, and trying to play the Wii might be unintentionally hilarious.

@Andrew

Wow! I had no idea that anyone even remembered what REAL emo is nowadays. I wouldn't say emo has been dead for 15 years.. maybe somewhere between 5 and 10 years. I was still going to punk shows in 2000 with some popular emo bands. And the Romulan look was still in at those shows.

"Let's face it people, these are just going to keep coming along every generation, and the less you understand it and the more you hate the music: it means you're getting old. It starts as soon as you get out of high school."

Wrong. Music has just gotten progressively worse over time.

Yeah, Nirvana was pretty pathetic compared to, say, Queen or Pink Floyd, but they're light years ahead of the utter shit permeating the airwaves today.

I can't wait to see how awful music is in 2015. Sigh.

Nintendo's additional events to get a larger non-gamer audience will be:

Ger-Wii-atric Tour: retirement communities and funeral homes.

O.B.G.-Wii-N. Tour: gynacologists offices and tanning/nail salons.

Qu-Wii-R Tour: gay bars and catholic church confessionals.

This is the perfect place to market the Wii, you guys aren't looking at the bigger picture.

Walked into a Hot Topic lately? There's an entire wall of old school Nintendo shirts in most of them. XBOX and PS2 aren't cool, but playing the classic NES definitely is, and the Gameboy and even to a certain extent the DS have their audience with this crowd.

So show them a new console that can download tons of classic games with mommy and daddy's hard earned money? Buy it they shall. Make it so the bands they adore endorse it, and you have yourself a brilliant marketing ploy. Just because these aren't the hardcore gamers you want to be associated with, doesn't mean anything to Nintendo. These are the kids who will buy this thing, Hot Topic says so.

29. "WRONG #7! Jagaimo and Imo are words for patato in japanese! Not emo! Ahahahah >>;;"

Wrong it would be 芋 or じゃが芋

Emo is the most monstrously gay thing to come around since Goth! Good lord! Its hilarious that nintendo is going to sponsor this - Emos are the biggest losers in teh world and guess what, playing 'fun', bright coloured kiddy games about princesses and toadstools is not going to fly, when the other Emos find out they will be ostracized, so this is going to flop!

Odd... none of those bands are emo.

@KR

You're an idiot. Good music is out there. You just have to find it. If you keep getting your music spoon fed to you through the radio then you will always have this ridiculous point of view. Start by clicking on the link or my name. You're welcome.

Yours Truly,

Help Line

www.purevolume.com/helpline

Worst. Photoshop. Ever.

This is really weak, Nintendo...

I'm going to the Fusion Tour next friday in Detroit, and i'm going only for the games, not the music.

"38. 29. "WRONG #7! Jagaimo and Imo are words for patato in japanese! Not emo! Ahahahah >>;;"

Wrong it would be 芋 or じゃが芋"

Oh pfft, dont get all Kanji and hiragana on me :<
Even if its 芋　Or いも or じゃが芋 or　じゃがいも its still all the same in the end!

Its still the same word, just romanized.

Why, azn_1080p, I wouldn't say that at all. I've never had the urge to suddenly have sex with other men after listening to an emo song. Nor have any of my friends (of either gender, really - emo is not makeout music). I do have to ask why you'd say that - do you suddenly want gay sex upon hearing an emo song? If so, I'd recommend you sort your personal preferences out before complaining about music.

As for music today... I dunno, I think it's in a better state than it was 5-10 years ago. We managed to survive a bubblegum pop flareup and are heading back towards actual rocking out. My recommendation is check out the local scene, and see if you can get hook-ups from other local scenes.

I'll give a head start for anyone interested in a band local to Boston. They're called Bang Camaro. If Harmonix has any sense, their song "Lady Lightning" will be in Guitar Hero 2. If nothing else, you have to give props to a band that features 14 lead guitarists who also sing.

it's ironic because emo music sucks, and the wii is awesome

Hawthorne is headlining Relient K? Fuck that.

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