No one can argue that the Nintendo Wii found tremendous success since the beginning, but everyone also knows that it can’t last forever. As a result, Nintendo is expected to unveil a successor to the Wii around 2010.
Unfortunately, there isn’t much information going aroudn about the next-gen Wii from Nintendo and it’s hard to imagine how it might look. However, the but guys at T3 Magazine tried to find the answer. The system that you see in the picture is the result of their imagination and here is how T3 explains it.
Our awesome artist’s impressions, part of the future tech feature in the new issue of T3 Magazine, showcase a Wii headset accessory that uses brainwaves to control characters and also feature immersive in-ear headphones. Sweet.
We’ve also imagined a streamlined Wii Remote with just the one button. You point and press, your frontal lobes do the rest.
Looks really futuristic and cool, but it’s all very much tongue-in-cheek. Still, food for thought. Literally.
Motion-sensitive controllers are the main selling point for the Nintendo Wii, but when it comes to computer games, graphics are far from being impressive when compared to its competitors. Another important factor is the lack of a hard disk.
And since Nintendo provides gamers with WiiWare to allow them to download games then space for downloadable content becomes crucial. For now, there is only 512Mb available for saves and other stuff, but according to Nintendo Europe senior marketing director Laurent Fischer, new solutions to this problem are being investigated, as GamesIndustry.biz reports.
“We definitely detect that they [gamers] are serious and we know there is an issue in this, so it’s something that we’re working on,” but Fischer poured cold water on rumours - stemming from recent hints dropped by Nintendo President Satoru Iwata - that the company was planning an external solution.
It’s obvious that sooner or later Nintendo will have to come up with a solution, but if it’s not going to be a hardware solution such as external HDD, we’ll have to wait and see what other alternatives might emerge. Here’s what Joystic thinks about that.
Not being privvy to every last internal working of the Wii, we can only speculate that Nintendo is concocting a method – perhaps via a firmware update – for allowing downloaded games to be played directly from an SD card (much like we’d hoped for when the console first went on sale). There may be a chance this “solution” gets revealed at E3.
Nintendo has made a lot of money from the Wii, but sometimes all good things must come to an end. In Nintendo’s case, it must now pay $21 million to Texas company Anascape. The small gaming company specializes in making game controllers and Nintendo’s classic controllers were invented and patented by it.
Anascape sued Nintendo for using its patent in 2005 and now a federal jury has ruled against Nintendo, determining that the company should pay $21 million in damages to Anascape. Even for a company such as Nintendo this is not a small amount and would likely have been even more had the Nunchuk been involved too.
Anascape also sued Microsoft for the same reason, and PORTALIT explains what happened.
Microsoft chose the quick way out of the conflict and quietly settled with Anascape out of court. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed to the public. Nintendo chose to carry on and it was now left with a hefty bill.
Nintendo isn’y going to give up and doesn’t plan to leave court anytime soon. Here’s what Bloomberg reports.
The company expects the trial court to “promptly reduce the dollar amount of the verdict significantly” because it wasn’t calculated correctly, spokesman Charlie Scibetta said in an e-mailed statement.
Few games can sell two or three million copies. However, that doesn’t stop game publishers hoping, and one anticipated game tipped to follow the success of titles such as the Grand Theft Auto series or Mario on the Nintendo Wii is Alone in the Dark.
As Joystiq reports that in an interview with Reuters, Infogrames CEO, David Gardner said that ATARI will sell two or three million copies this fiscal year.
If true, that means Alone in the Dark will be as much in demand as Call of Duty 4 or BioShock. Considering that game will be released on Wii, PS2, PS3, Xbox 360 and PC then its possible and doesn’t seem an exaggeration at all. On the other hand, it’s not only the number of platforms a game is released on that matters, but also the game itself.
Unlike other horror games, Alone in the Dark isn’t very action orientated. Although there will be zombies and other evil creatures, the developers instead concentrated their attention on creating an environment where simply walking around is frightening enough. The scary moments are instead mainly created by playing with lighting effects and shadows.
Still, the Nintendo Wii version might be something more as the game reportedly supports motion-sensitive controllers and has more impressive graphics than most other Wii games. Anyway, according to QJ.NET, Alone in the Dark will be released on June 20 in Europe and June 24 in the U.S. In the meantime, check out another trailer below.
Motion-sensitive controllers are the main selling point for the Nintendo Wii, but when it comes to computer games, graphics are far from being impressive when compared to its competitors. Another important factor is the lack of a hard disk.
Nintendo has made a lot of money from the Wii, but sometimes all good things must come to an end. In Nintendo’s case, it must now pay $21 million to Texas company Anascape. The small gaming company specializes in making game controllers and Nintendo’s classic controllers were invented and patented by it.
Few games can sell two or three million copies. However, that doesn’t stop game publishers hoping, and one anticipated game tipped to follow the success of titles such as the Grand Theft Auto series or Mario on the Nintendo Wii is Alone in the Dark. 