#8: He Really Does Have “The Touch”
Things feel amazingly slow today for having SDCC kick off and all…
1) Miyamoto discusses Wii with Nintendo Dream, via IGN.
Miyamoto first spoke about the origins of the system. “It was very important to have it become ‘something that would be best to have there,’” he said, speaking of Nintendo’s desire to make the Wii an attractive machine for households. Miyamoto feels that game machines had the status of a desirable household item at one point, but they lost it. The change happened when games “lost their fundamental nature as pure entertainment.”
One of the more interesting Wii pieces to come along since E3.
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2) Star Fox Command Japanese TV spot at GameTrailers.
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3) SEGA says Wii third parties should shape up.
“Third parties should work harder to get on board with Nintendo’s Wii, adding that there’s no excuse for missing the boat.”
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4) Peter Molyneux talks nice about Nintendo, disses Sony.
“…the genius of what they did was realize that consumers don’t give an arse about how many bits and bobs and flips and flops and that malarkey consoles have. When we were at 32-bit and 64-bit, it was fine, but how many bits do we have now? What they care about is that they’re going to get something that they haven’t seen before. What they have done, brilliantly, is to say: ‘Right, we’re going to revolutionize not the box but what you hold,’ and they’ve done that very well. I think Sony jumping on that bandwagon, quite blatantly, and not coming up with such a sexy message, is poor. I’ve played with the Wii and I still think it’s a challenging name. You do get used to it, and they’ve made it unique. But I’m waiting for the Nintendo Poo and then they’d have the set.”
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5) The Game Rag watches 21 hours of G4 so you don’t have to.
Results pending.
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6) Well, hot damn! I got linked on Kotaku!
Pity they didn’t say my name… ah well.
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7) Wow, first rice, and now Super Mario curry.
I want the little robot thing.
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8) Awesome! Peter Cullen is going to play Optimus Prime in the new movie!
Congratulations, Mr. Cullen!
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9) TransFormers KISS: You may proceed to be freaked out.
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LBD “Nytetrayn”