Part of the reason I love the Wii (aside from Super Smash Brothers Brawl and Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess) is the way you control games by moving the motion sensor controller. Suddenly Nintendo has leveled the playing field and made video games that everyone can play without memorizing which color button reloads and which one pistol whips. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but simplicity goes a long way when you’re a video game company that wants to sell your product to as many people as possible.
Now, Nintendo has gone and improved the controller with the Wii Motion Plus add-on. which more accurately senses how the arm moves in using the Wiimote. All it takes is plugging a little square device into the bottom of the remote and now your movements register with more precision than before.
The device is set to debut with a new game called Wii Sports Resort, in which players (or, rather, their Miis) go to the beach and have fun… with more precision than ever before!
If the idea of playing frisbee with your dog at the beach doesn’t float your boat, the Wii Motion Plus will certainly help out your Sith-murdering ability with the upcoming Star Wars the Clone Wars: Lightsaber Duels game that was a no-brainer from the day the Wii was unveiled.
What do you all think? Are you excited for Wii Motion Plus or would you rather see Nintendo get going on a Wii Hardrive?
I knew there would be a problem with the Wii’s hard drive when I saw the limited amount of space on the Wii Menu. Each time you download a game for your Wii, it takes up one of the menu’s squares. If you downloaded a lot of games for your Virtual Console, your hard drive would fill up and you’d be forced to delete games to free up space for new ones. And remember: these are games you paid for.
Not to make the Wii sound inferior, but here’s a rundown of this generations’ memory:
X-Box 360: 20 GB to 120 GB
PS3: 20 GB to 80 GB
Wii: 512 MB plus 2 GB of memory on the SD card.
With the Virtual Console and WiiWare games increasing in both number and size, 512 MB of hard drive space is unacceptable. For perspective: the flash drive in my pocket is 256 MB. While my flash drive doesn’t play Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, it also didn’t cost $300.
Thankfully, Nintendo president himself Satoru Iwata himself has admitted to this oversight and claims that it will be rectified. In the same breath, Iwata mentions that those complaining about the lack of memory are a minority of the really hardcore gamers. It sounds like a thinly-veiled attempt to save face, but at least he promises to something about it.
The obvious solution is to provider current Wii owners with an add-on hard drive to expand the system’s memory. For future iterations of the Wii, they should take the same route that the competition has taken and offer the Wii in various hard drive sizes depending on the gamer’s needs.
We posted some Fatal Frame 4 images a little while ago, and just recently some game play footage has been posted. We thought we would share the love. We are seriously excited/scared about this game. I personally scared the crap out of myself playing Fatal Frame 2 on PS2 back in the day (by myself, lights out, really loud volume). Any way, here is the video:
I was walking through Game Stop last weekend when I came across this little gem. I felt that on the ridiculous scale it competed with my past picture post of pikachu. Enjoy!
We just wanted to make a real quick post and let everyone know what the picture above says. I didn’t want to mention their name thinking they might have a filter or something that would weed out posts that included their name. This site has been stealing content from us for a while now and it is really annoying. We are working on some anti-splogging measures but I also hope that the readers at this site will go elsewhere and not participate with a bunch of thieves.
