The Daily ‘Shroom – 11/30/06
Ah, catch-up time…
- Yahoo/USA Today report that gamers are saying that Wii has the PS3 beaten.
Both are naturally trailing XBox 360′s 1-year lead.
- Nintendo’s not quite finished with the GBA yet, but personally, I wouldn’t expect much more than classic ports to ride it out at this point.
- Sounds like Christian groups want to leave behind Left Behind.
- “The Mii-k shall inherit the SimEarth.”
- Well, thank God. Capcom isn’t dumb enough to make the same mistake twice.
…at least this time, anyway.
- While my first reaction is to say that at least there is some justice left in the world, I imagine there are going to be at least a few people annoyed (comments) at the man’s motive for waiting in line for a PS3.
- An interesting turn for the Virtual Console.
Despite a lackluster opening lineup outside of Japan, it seems there will be plenty of good titles to make their way to Nintendo’s download service in due time. However, due to licensing issues with the likes of Rare and others, there were some omissions which gamers were readily expecting to face, such as the classic N64 FPS Goldeneye.
However, according to NOA President Reggie Fils-Aime, it seems that those who thought we’d never see those glory days Moonraker lasers and Golden Guns relived may be in for a surprise. It’s nothing definite, yet, but Nintendo is definitely exploring the option.
The only downside, of course, is that there probably will not be any online play.
- Speaking of Reggie, he was recently interviewed by MTV News about the Wii, and evidently surprised even the interviewer with his forthright candidness.
Sadly, those outside the US can’t view the video. Weak.
Additionally, Reggie offers advice about how to avoid Wii remote mishaps and cites some reviews as being “hypercritical,” such as the issue of graphics on Wii Sports.
onNintendo put it best:
I have to second his option on the reviewers, some of them really are nuts. How can you give Wii Sports a bad score based on graphics? That?s absurd ? it?s like giving South Park a bad score for animation and entirely missing the fact that it is funny as hell.
- Double Dragon on XBox Live Arcade? I really need to get one of those…
- Red Steel 2 on the way?
- The Ultimate Clone Saga reaches its climax; will the Ultimate version of Spider-man ever be the same again?
- Looks like Sony Computer Entertainment is shuffling its deck at the executive level. Elsewhere, Kotaku is in utter disbelief.
- XBox 360′s answer to the Nintendo Classic controller?
- onNintendo reports that Time has created a list of “Asian Heroes,” among which is Shigeru Miyamoto, as written by Will Wright.
- Evidently, there’s going to be a new Wii game.
…that’s all, really.
- NES/SNES controller adaptors for Wii?
- Nintendo is now resuming shipments of back-ordered component cables.
- If you haven’t yet played the MMORPG Disney’s Toontown because you’re a Mac user, good news…
- Sounds like Rare has reservations regarding downloadable content.
- Europe has finally had enough of taking Sony’s crap, so they’re going to see to it that Sony takes theirs.
Thank God it’s only plastic.
- In case you’ve not heard, Ecco the Dolphin and Golden Axe are available on Virtual Console.
- 1UP reports (or horribly fails in their attempt to) that EA’s CEO reveals that Sony only shipped 200,000 PlayStation 3s at launch.
–LBD “Nytetrayn”
November 30th, 2006 at 12:17 pm
6. That sucks. While my first response would be, “BASTARD!” at yet another PS3 profiteer, it’s still not his fault he got attacked. And it IS hard to get insurance in this country… Did I say hard? I meant expensive. I don’t want to be another one of those people that say, “Well if you wanted insurance so bad, you should have been BORN rich. Ah ha ha…” Too many of those jerks around.
But at the same time, it should go to show you… It’s just not worth it! Not to mention it’s stupid to be carrying so much cash around.
There should be some way to make the criminals pay for his medical bills. But that would involve a legal battle and not move too swiftly… I guess he could be an ass and sue Sony for it. “How’s this for discipline? I got myself shot for your PS3s!”
November 30th, 2006 at 12:38 pm
I started reading the Left Behind series at one point, but they kept dragging it on and on with new book after new book, and so I finally quit. I mean, if it was well written intense stuff, I’d probably have continued, but it just isn’t. I got the impression they cared more about their profits than their writing, and this new game only seems to reinforce that opinion. I expect more from a supposedly “Christian” company.