Joseph Elwell

I plug a Microphone in for Boogie. I use the same microphone that I used on my PS2 Karaoke Revolution games.

I'd love a straight port. Resident Evil 4, on the Wii, was unbelievably good - and it was a port.

By the time Okami came out on the PS2, I had stopped buying PS2 games - even though Okami (and God Hand) both intrigued me, I was done. The Wii has brought me back to gaming and the timing for Okami is ripe.

In college we used to sit around and watch people play single player games. Some games work better than others, like Fear Effect. Think "walkthrough movies".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_Effect
Joseph Elwell.

"it also means that some dude isn't ... uh, stealing your Miis? What would someone even do to a Wii?"

Here's what they can do:
1. Turn your Wii into a zombie emailing spam machine.
2. Brick your Wii so it won't run anymore
3. Grab your Wii System id for malicious purposes
- like allowing some future banned Wii to reconnect to the Wii network.


1 is probably the biggest issue. This could seriously slow down gameplay and network access.

2 is relatively easy because it's known that applying a system update from the wrong region will brick you wii. So the hacker would merely have to write some garbage into the html file that lives on your Wii that controls some of the Channel UI.

3 demonstrates what might be possible if Nintendo ever bans modded Wiis like Microsoft did to the XBOX 360s. For a hacker, it would be relatively trivial to spood a legitimate version once Nintendo's countermeasure is released.

Peach loves Bowser!

"IGN Wii has heard separately that Nintendo is actively re-working some traditional games so that they are more accessible by casual players"

While I don't haven't heard about the game before this, I really hope that's not the reason it's being canned. I am a casual gamer, and if not for the Wii I would not have bought a console this generation. But that's no reason to exlude hard-core gamers. Surely there is a room for niche markets within the Wii gamer market.

If Nintendo is deciding to can games based on accessibility to casual players, I wonder if they would have canned Brain Games as being too niche. It turned out to be a runaway success on the DS. I think it's arrogant of Nintendo to assume us casual gamers won't be drawn into more complex games.

"IGN Wii has heard separately that Nintendo is actively re-working some traditional games so that they are more accessible by casual players"

While I don't haven't heard about the game before this, I really hope that's not the reason it's being canned. I am a casual gamer, and if not for the Wii I would not have bought a console this generation. But that's no reason to exlude hard-core gamers. Surely there is a room for niche markets within the Wii gamer market.

If Nintendo is deciding to can games based on accessibility to casual players, I wonder if they would have canned Brain Games as being too niche. It turned out to be a runaway success on the DS. I think it's arrogant of Nintendo to assume us casual gamers won't be drawn into more complex games.

It doesn't plug into the wii remote to take advantage of that mysterious voice encoder?

JOE. I have my arcade cabinets networked between a bunch of my friends. Each of us have an arcade cabinet in the house. This allows us to play MAME together, and compete/share our high scores. It is quite fun - although I can't imagine I'd be so good that sharing my score nationwide would be fun. ;) Especially if the games only tracked the top 20 or so - like most classics.

I turned WiiConnect24 off months ago. I move my console around a lot, and I've noticed that even after days of being "off" the unit is hot to the touch.