Wii Music disc to include licensed songs, Nintendo 'not really thinking' about DLC

Got homosexuality on the brain?

And someone rated this up?

I'm sure Miyamoto is very keen on changing the color palette to Shit-and-Concrete as soon as possible. Then he will replace Miis with buff Space Marines and remove all signs of female life. Would that make you happy?

Just wait for Captain Rainbow! Weeee!

Hurr hurr hurr Wii has no memory hurr hurr hurr. Grow some balls, drop $10, and buy a damn SD card. You know where the slot is, since you have to open it to sync Wiimotes and the balance board.

The wii has usb ports, I don't see why they don't just give us a 40gb external drive to hook up. They could charge like $100 bucks for it, ppl are stupid, they'd pay that much for a 40gb drive.

PA pretty much hit the nail on the head with Nintendo

http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/7/16/

Actually, Penny Arcade got it right for all three

@Shaq-Fu: We'd like more memory than 2GB (as the SD card slot doesn't support SDHC, which can easily be fixed in a software update). Not only that, but you can't actually PLAY content off of an SD card.

You are going to buy this trash? All you do is shake your wiimote. You don't have to play the instrument correctly (other then the drums), all you have to do is shake. How is that fun?

Seriously, Who votes this shit up? Thats like saying all you have to do to win Halo multiplayer is to jump around while shooting. Maybe we should wait to see the actual game getting more than 2 minutes of air time over an E3 conference. Or did you take the fact that the Wii has motion controls (waggle) and conclude thats how this game is going to work?

Your description of this game sounds just like GH or RB. Yet, somehow those games are "1337" and "Hardcore" while this is pointless. Not all video games need a point. Some, such as pokemon, AC, Wii Sports, are just fun little timewasters that you play when you want to have fun or have loads of time pass by in an instant

Peter: " all you have to do is shake. How is that fun?"

Shaq: "Or did you take the fact that the Wii has motion controls (waggle) and conclude thats how this game is going to work?"

REALLY??!?! You get to waggle the controller too?? Oh my God!! THATS FREAKING AWESOME!!!!

You TOTALLY make me wanna get this game now Shaq.... thank you!!!...................

deadpool would think that

How is that different from any game? I'm not defending this one, mind you, but every game is ultimately pointless.

There are very few things in life that aren't ultimately pointless really.

This post for example.

Doesn't that pretty much sum up ALL videogames?

OMG. As the #1 Electroplankton fanboy of all time, I completely disagree with you.

Electroplankton has good graphics for a DS game.
Wii Music is just plain ugly for any game.

Electroplankton has neat and intuitive controls.
Wii Music just has you shake the controller and make music.

Electroplankton has cute little plankton.
Wii Music has disgusting Mii's that look like the unborn children of Michael Jackson and Sam Cassell. (I think Miis are VERY ugly).

Electroplankton has you create music totally unique to you, some of it can sound good and some can sound bad.
Wii Music just makes a nice song as you shake the controller.

And I understand where you are coming from when you say that EP is useless, but it wasn't meant to be a full fledged game. It was one of the first DS games and was really just to show the capabilities of the DS (and it really showed it well, it's a very polished game). Wii Music is just a really lame cash in. Honestly, Wii Sports and Wii Play have more going for them because they require some sort of ability. You could attach the Wiimote to a dog and it would score the same as a professional musician.

/rant

No DLC? How am I supposed to complete the "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" album?! I want "Old MacDonald Had A Farm" and "The Alphabet Song" or there will be hell to pay!

I'm Nintendo's target audience and I will fill my diaper unless my demands are met!

Yeah, but it seems like you'd need a lot of space to store videos too, although it's probably going to be similar to the way it saves Brawl replays where it records keypresses and not the actual video.

Hell at least Donkey Konga looked waaay more fun then this and actually was innovative using a special konga set.

This....this is just a sad attempt to a music game.

DS is getting Korg DS-10, which is a DS version of their popular MS-10 synthesizer. It looks to be the most amazing and complex piece of DS software.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQcp2Mkt_-A&feature=related

> Microsoft showed off FFXIII, Portal: Still Alive,
> Fable II, and Gears of War 2.
>
> Sony showed off God of War III, Killzone 2,
> Resistance 2, inFAMOUS, MAG, and Resistance PSP.

Those games all look exactly the same and they all play exactly the same way as Unreal Tournament 10 years ago. The only difference being that those new 1st person gaming engines might output a few more pixels per second.

So what, who cares about flashing epilleptic explosion animations? It's pretty much dumb to constantly just shoot at stuff. All those games most probably use the same underlying 1st person gameplay engines as Unreal did last century. Only slight AI improvements and slight animation smoothness is the only difference. All those 1st person storylines all feel more stupid one then the other.

On the other hand, Nintendo really invents new ways to have fun with video games. I am extremely impressed that my grand parents use Wii Fit everyday. And I am also having extreme fun at beating all of their Wii Fit game records each time I go to visit them. Wii Music will change the way people view video games. There is no points you can earn when you play music, be it on the Wii or in reality. But you can score by making it so that the music sounds better. That is the only goal. The orchestra conductor has a huge influence on the musical experience, and thus Wii Orchestra mode is a very very impressive experience.

That's a terrible argument, you know.

"Burgers are still being made just as they were being made ten years ago. But now, we've gotten rid of the burger entirely, to appeal to vegetarians! Burger fans should totally love this."

I've been gaming all my life, and Nintendo's new direction might be exciting for someone who's never gamed before, but for those of us who are actually GAMERS, the PS3 and the 360 have much more to offer.

Now, I liked how you picked and chose games that have shown just how much gaming has matured and evolved as the backing for your argument. It actually made me laugh.

@Charbax

Wii music looks like complete trash!
It's set up so that you don't actually have to play the game to "play the game". You waggle a controller and music comes out. Are you saying this ISN'T a step backward? Because I'm pretty sure I had a toy that did the exact same thing as wii music when I was a baby. It's a child's toy on a grand scale.

The wii isn't inventing a new way to look at games, it's insulting anyone with half a brain. With wii music Nintendo is simply letting you wave a wiimote and randomly pull notes out. There's no sense of accomplishment, no artistic depth, no story, no nothing. It's a throwaway game and nothing more. It will change nothing and add nothing to the medium. Nintendo is certainly supporting the notion that games are nothing more than child's things.

This mass market appeal they're after is only going to strengthen that stereotype and throw more parents up in arms when they see their kids playing M-rated games on the system along with wii music. I'm not saying games aimed at children don't have their place I'm simply saying it should not be the focal point of the company if they want to advance video games as a medium and/or please their fans of years.

All true. They tout all of this as revolutionary, but it really isn't. It's people like Chorbax that THINK it's revolutionary that gives Nintendo the right to make "Wii Sports: Resort Edition" and "Mario Kart: Wii Edition. NOW WITH A REAL WHEEL!"

People like you keep Nintendo alive. This doesn't HELP gaming. Did you see that freakjob giving the presentation (not Reggie xD). She's the kind of mother that's going to say "Metal Gear Solid 4 caused my baby to pick up a gun and shoot people, ban it from the shelves!"

And another thing: YAY, ur grandparents can play videogames. That really shows improvement in technologically advanced games.....(not that i have anything against old people, but my grandma couldn't play Ticket to Ride)

Yeah, screw open forum and discussion. We should just never express opinions or even bother forming them because in the end, we are all dead anyway. NIHILISM FOR THE LOSE.

No, you just need to stop bitching when Nintendo doesn't announce StarFox and shit. Nintendo is a multi-billion dollar corporation, they aren't going to be influenced by a couple of whiny 14 year old girls on Joystiq.

You also need to stop this whole "I do not find this game appealing, therefore it is quite bad" shit. Nintendo has a target in mind, and if you aren't in that demographic, DONT FUCKING BUY THE GAME. I have never once had Reggie send over a 31i73 squad of ninjas and make me play Mario Galaxy or Wii Sports. I choose to do so myself, and had fun. Don't find games like that fun? DONT FUCKING PLAY THEM

Stop acting like its the only game you can buy on the Wii, or that your opinion is greater than anybody else's and companies should do as you say. Like Shaq Boll said, Miyamoto isn't a fucking retard, and when this game is released, I foresee all of you bashers eating your words.

This is coming from a man(?) with 16 comments, and then goes and eats a bowl of cold hard irony. You claim that I spam people with shit, then go on to do the exact same thing. But then again, what do you expect from the lovechild of xXFenixXx and tmacjordan?

*This just In* apparently, there are these things called "third party developers" that also develop games for consoles. Crazy right?

Sony had the best press because I'm now interested in a PSP, Nintendo is 2nd because they at least announced something, and Microsoft is 3rd because they showed what we thought they would. There is only so long I can consider a company being late to their own party (XBox price cut, RE5 co-op, etc) cute.

Sooo your expression your "opinion" about bashing her for giving her opinion on the game... I think you just went on a 20 minute rant for noo reason what so ever.

But I'm sure you'll write another essay and a half on why I'm wrong also.