Today in Joystiq: April 11, 2007
by Ross Miller 
{ Apr 11th 2007 at 11:58PM }
Joystiquery
Gene Simmons rocks Times Square with Guitar Hero II
News
Gamestop/EB sells Wii for low price of $549.92
Mortal Kombat II bloodies up the PS3 April 12th
Guitar Hero II song packs now Live, pricey
Stephen Colbert's Tek Jansen opens chrono-rift in XBLM
GameStop: Battle is between Wii and PS3, Us: WTF?
GTA IV briefing in Game Informer, multiplayer and more
Does Super Paper Mario have future DS connectivity? No
Uwe Boll responds to 9/11 'Postal' criticism, pats himself on back
Make that Apple TV a gaming emulation station
Ouendan 2 release date, partial song list revealed
Blowing on the DS sucks (or: the huff-and-puff games)
Zelda: Phantom Hourglass hits Japan in June (this June)
Sony considers incentives for commercial PS3 use
Jeepers creepers, Nintendo wants to train your peepers
Greek interview reveals new Wii games: Music, Health Pack
R.I.P. PlayStation 3 20GB is officially no more
Dragon's Lair may foil your Blu-ray player
Pac-Man VS coming to DS via Namco Museum
Foxconn production: Not enough for Wii, plenty for PS3?
Ninja Gaiden DS out in Autumn, says Itagaki
Halo 2: Desolation and Tombstone map pack photos
Perrin Kaplan expects Wii shortages to 'last for some time'
Massachusetts tries Jack Thompson's failed Utah game bill
Wii Opera browser's final version available
Rumors & Speculation
EGM: "Word is another Halo game is in the works."
Analysis determines publisher strengths in console war
Culture & Community
It's fun to Wii at the YMCA
Bartering in Warcraft, trading mounts for mounts
Guinness to legitimize couch potatoes with video game records
Orangutans play video games; apocalypse nears
Guitar controlling Halo -- Radicalness: 1, Usefulness: 0
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Pikachelsea @ Apr 12th 2007 12:11AM
"Just a reminder that console-portable connectivity was out there long before Nintendo did it."
Just putting a product "out there" isn't much of an accomplishment. If it actually catches on and becomes a standard, that is something worth noting. I don't see anyone walking around with their miniscule dot matrix Dreamcast/Sony portable things.
delldude420 @ Apr 12th 2007 10:53AM
supergameboy for snes, and gameboy/gbc transfer pak for n64?
im sure those came beforte, also add the fact sony didnt have a handheld system.
Rubang B @ Apr 12th 2007 12:45AM
In Japan there was a Super Game Boy 2, which had a link cable port on the side, so you could either use 2 TVs, 2 Super Nintendos, 2 Super Game Boy 2s, 2 copies of the same game, and a link cable to play multiplayer. OR... 1 TV, 1 SNES, 1 Super Game Boy 2, 1 regular Game Boy, and a link cable to play multiplayer. Crazy stuff.
Bluebreaker @ Apr 12th 2007 12:58AM
Was gonna say Super Gameboy but was beaten to the punch.
solidunit @ Apr 12th 2007 12:59AM
Super Gameboy did not have SNESgame-to-GB/GB-to-SNESgame functionality. Only the GB transfer pack had a similar idea, but that was just for Pokemon Stadium.....which came out AFTER the Pocketstation in Japan.
I actually imported a Pocketstation way back when and used it in the US version of FFVIII. What sucked is that many Japanese games that had Pocketstation support had it taken out for domestic releases (because the Pocketstaion was never actually released in the US). My only problem with the Pocketstation (and the VMU for that matter) was that they ate up batteries like crazy.
NintendoFanbot @ Apr 12th 2007 1:54AM
"Just a reminder that console-portable connectivity was out there long before Nintendo did it."
Uh-huh.
In other news, Nintendo is slammed for coming up with gimmicks.
Diman @ Apr 12th 2007 2:00AM
Damn right, no need for gimmick up in this hell fest.
OMFG Sony copied, it's sheep season!
flamecannon @ Apr 12th 2007 2:28AM
Pocketstation and VMU connectivity is hardly comparable to transfer pak connectivity. That's just silly.
Poisoned Al @ Apr 12th 2007 5:15AM
Ugly little bugger isn't it?
JodyAnthony @ Apr 12th 2007 9:25AM
who cares who had handheld to console connectivity first? does that really matter for anything?
JodyAnthony @ Apr 12th 2007 9:26AM
heres a shocker: handheld to console connectivity has always sucked, no matter who had it first, second, or third.
solidunit @ Apr 12th 2007 10:07AM
Its not a stupid idea. The only modern example I can think of is the PS2-to-PSP / PSP-to-PS2 connectivity of Madden (I forget which year); the idea was that you can play the same season in franchise mode on either device by syncing back and forth. That's pretty cool!
I hope more developers take advantage of this concept in the future. On a different scale, I can imagine a PS3 Final Fantasy game with a downloadable PSP Triple Triad-esque card game that allows you to unlock rare items and whatnot.
lupos @ Apr 12th 2007 10:43AM
Does the turbo express count? It used the exact same games as the home version.
NintendoFanbot @ Apr 12th 2007 12:04PM
@ JodyAnthony
Connectivity inspired the DS. :)
Extinction @ Apr 12th 2007 5:37PM
@16 Supergameboy didn't count. It's not connectivity. It's not a console GAME interacting with a handheld.
And as was said before, the Transfer pack came out after. Not only that, but it was not a console game interacting with a HANDHELD. It was a console interacting with the game only. It didn't get access to the screen, which was the whole point
Extinction @ Apr 12th 2007 6:09PM
@16, Pocketstation IS the handheld system.
Rex Dart @ Apr 13th 2007 8:05AM
@16
Quit talking to yourself.
MrTroy @ Apr 13th 2007 4:07PM
Oh yeah!? PCs had it long before consoles.It was called networking a laptop to your desktop. Beat that!