david.dakota

Disaster = Left hook Fatal Frame = Right hook Earthbound = Knee in the balls

IGN are reporting some research by Neilson which suggest Wii is the least played console- averaging little more than 5 days throughout Dec (360 achieved 7.1 days). Does this suggest Wii's do gather dust after purchase? Once bitten, twice shy? It's surely worrying for Nintendo's future consoles- will this new market follow them?

I feel like I should respond to some points. Do you have to? Really? Honestly, you have to buy a game a week? But herein lies a problem. Say GAME buys 10,000 copies of HOTD and MadWorld and fail to make a profit after paying X amount per copy. When purchasing time comes round for Conduit or whatever, GAME will be crazy not to put pressure to reduce the wholesale prices. Knock-on effect is devs and publishers get less profits. Its not sustainable. Perhaps? But these are discussion forums - which it seems you frequent too. Seems Gordon Brown is quite happy to do that for me. Something he's yet to do for a valuable UK games industry.

1. Grannies won't buy it. It'd give them a heart attack. 2. Reggie thinks it has bad sound. It fails to have any 'tinky winky' music. 3. No need to waggle the remote like you're wanking a grizzly bear. Can't be played without getting RSI. 4. It doesn't have Mario in it. He can pimp any old toot. 5. Nintendo hate good cameras. Camera Obscura is leagues ahead of DSi weak snapper. 6. It'll make Miyamoto unhappy. He'll see it as 'following the same path as the competition'. 7. Iwata doesn't care. As long as the money rolls in. 8. It can't be completed fully in 47 minutes and 53 seconds. Too long. Too hard. (thats what she said, anyway). 9. Other than Charles Martinet and some twat at Nintendo Power there's no one to provide English VO. And they're too busy with the vast amount of voice in new Zelda and Mario. 10. Waiting for Microsoft to buy the rights. A great XBLA title. You heard it hear first. 11. Nintendo truly are mental. As mad as a bag of badgers, y'know.

Oh. I'm dreading what to expect, actually. We've heard nothing of Sin and Punishment, which is the only game i'm hyped for. If Nintendo don't deliver this year, i'll Dynamic Slash Iwata across the face and Miyamoto can take a Cosmic Walk off a cliff.

The fact you've probably opened this expecting a lawn mowing game is a sorry state of affairs, but thats been endlessly discussed everywhere else - except development managers it seems. Alleged bright sparks from a Denmark University have used the motion sensing and bluetooth tech to manoeuver a lawmower over an area of grass. Other possibilities mooted include "walking Grandma" (Nintengrans, anyone?) and personally i'd like suggest using the Wii wheel in the morning rush hour for a red/blue shell combo on that bloody Vauxhaul Cavalier in front.

Hudson. Onslaught.

There are some rumblings of a Euro release, fingers crossed. Some stores are listing it for 1 June. Reggie's taken our name, and kicked our ass.

Nintendo arguably has the widest range of IP in the industry, covering a vast number of genres. But notably, there are some big exclusions- Nintendo does not currently own any IP in the First - or Third - Person Shooter range, it has no current interest in sports. I'm sure there are a few more we can think of. So i present to the masses a new wish list in the form of The Great Big IP Generating Machine. With Knobs On. Is there a genre Nintendo need? What could they bring to table? Does one of Nintendo's familiar franchises need a reboot? Lets hear your thoughts.

This was always a game I fancied playing, buy never got round to it. Rented it recently, without the mic. Needless to say I couldn't get past the title screen.

"Wii Gamers Don't Buy Games". I keep hearing this, but is the problem larger than that? Gamers Don't Buy Games. It might sound strange, but the evidence is there. I don't recall the 'bargains' thread being so busy- especially with top-tier, new release games discounted so quickly after launch- and its not Wii, titles on the 360 and PS3 suffer the fate. Big new releases in the bargain bin (in fact, only Nintendo published titles hold consistently hold their launch prices- but even thats begining to change with WiiMusic now going cheap). Surely this is not good for the industry- just how can we expect publishers and developers to make money with games instantly reduced? Its not sustainable (more so in the UK, where the pound is so week) something will eventually give- your favourite developer, a popular publisher, your favourite console, or a retailer? Saving pounds, not pennies- why should i care? It doesn't matter how we like to dress up the industry- art, entertainment- each publisher, developer, marketeer, shareholder, retailer, wholesaler is in it for one thing- money and making lots of it. If they're not making any, its off to the knackers yard with them. Simple. Development costs, distribution costs, marketing costs, licensing costs all need to be recouped- along with a significant profit for retailer, wholesaler, publisher and developer- are we really expecting each company in the supply again to do all this on £20? Well, only if its cheap toot in the first place is the only answer i can find. This isn't a case of selling the off the rubbish tat that we usually see, these are big, important titles that are failing at retail because our mindset is starting to change to "i'll wait 'til it drops". Its not just Wii stuff, dozens of titles across all formats discounted late last year- dozens of quality games. I'd actually argue that fewer Wii games are discounted- while many do appear under the £20.00 mark, a vast majority are designed to do so- they launch at that price, and on the whole maintain it. In actual fact, its only recently Wii games have seen such heavy discounting (and mainly only on third-party games). Now its one thing searching out a bargain for a game you'd probably not buy otherwise, but it seems to me that we're actually waiting for our most-wanted games to drop in price. If you, as a hardcore gamer- perhaps regular gamer is a better term- are not buying your games at launch price you're not hardcore. You're a cheap ass git with no passion for this industry- on the foodchain you're far below those grannies and bald uncles paying launch price for Mario Kart or even Imagine Pets. If you keep buying bargain basement software, eventually, that is what you'll get. Spend a little more guys.

WiiFit Plus for November 19th? Please, Reggie, not another rehash for the big Christmas title.

GoNintendo, via Digital Spy, are reporting that Wii MotionPlus and WiiSports Report are due to be released on July 10- presumably this is the European date since its a Friday? They are clear that the list is an apparent leak, and its authenticity questioned.

200 points for a calculator? They're taking the piss, right?

Few people use the word Halo. And quite a few sparkies would use the word Conduit- perhaps they'll think its an electrictrician simulation?

Out of interest, how long do User Generated levels take to download- say at a measly 1meg connection?

i'm not too keen. Looks far too colourful in my opinion- but then if it were toned down, would it get lost in the rest of the colour on the Wii shelves?

i think MJC is right. Developers are still thinking 'how can i do this button press with motion', rather than, 'what can we do with motion'. As soon as developers change this narrowminded attitude, we'll see more intuitive gameplay.

Whether its possible, i don't know. But it makes sense for Wii Channels forum to become a sub forum within the main Wii forum.

We do keep telling him, we really do. Kid Icarus, Eternal Darkness 2, more Mario, more Zelda, F-zero, Pikmin 3, and some new IP too. Oh yeah, Starfox Dancer Adventure too. I think his translator is taking the piss.

I think whoever develops a new Star Fox will have Miyamoto demanding Balance Board dancing sections. However great he can be, sometimes he's a complete cock. He should be let anywhere near F-zero or Starfox.

Nintendo need to be more proactive getting people online- free Nintendo points, free games, free DLC. Certainly with broadband being offered free by every man and his dog in the UK, its very cheap to get online- a vast number also provide routers. Nintendo should be doing more online- or at the least prepping games with DLC hooks.

I certainly hope not. I've still not bought Blastworks, i've got Pikmin 2 on 24th. I'm tempted by a DSi- which the Missus also wants (although she does want the turquoise, so i could put her off). There's a shedload of bargains posted at shopto... Daughters pre-school fees. Food. Lindsey's birthday. I'm a poor man this month!

All video games are toys. Its no big deal. I'd rather see the Star Fox team retired for this gen, with a big, quality comeback in HD next gen. But onto their point, Miyamoto probably does drive this thing about getting Fox out of the Arwing- he's said to have been the driving force behind Star Fox's inclusion in Dinosaur Planet, so i'd imagine Namco would've been passed that instruction too. I'm not against Fox having a walk about, but its something that just doesn't seem to work. If they're desperate to do it, I say keep it simple, keep it on rails, Fox blasting his away through Starship corridors.

This game does look superb, great fun. The only thing i'm still not liking is the character models- they look too goofy.