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The Nintendo Wii, or, How the internet changes my views.

November 20, 2006
SMAKtheMic
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I can’t really call this a review because i don’t have a Wii, nor have I played the Wii or even seen one in person. This is more what i’ve gathered from outside sources.

I was chilling online yesterday, bored, so i went over to youtube. I was actually looking up some stuff on Hot Fuzz which is one of Simon Pegg’s (aka Shaun from Shaun of the Dead, and Tim from Spaced) new films when i saw a six and a half minute video from E3 on The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (posted below).

Being the Zelda fan that I am, I had to check this thing out. I had seen the new controller before and thought that it would be to strange for people to use. I mean come on, only a d pad, and a few buttons? Then i saw what is deemed the "nunchuck". The nunchuck is the part of the controller that i thought was missing. The nunchuck is a left hand attatchment for the Wii. It has two trigger buttons on the back and an analog stick. Becuase of this, it looks like you can have whichever one in whichever hand you want. Lefties will love it. They also both come with motion sensors, so if you’re playing a boxing game, you don’t have to push buttons to punch, you just punch. Last feature… speaker in the controller. This feature i love because of Zelda. The controller’s speaker will play the sound of you pulling back on a bowstring and fireing the arrow right in your own hands, and as the arrow leaves the sound will travel from your hands to the tv, where it thuds into the chest of your enemy.

The graphics on the Wii are amazing too. Just as good as i could have wanted. Both times PS came out arouind the same time as Nintendo, i was worried that nintendo’s graphics wouldn’t be as good, and each time Nintendo seems to have just as good graphics, if not better. The Wii has other features too that i’m not even sure of, but i do know one thing. We’ll be able to download older NES, SNES, N64, Genisis, and NEC TurnoGrafx games such as Sonic the Hedgehog, Toe Jam and Earl, Donky Kong JR., Legend of Zelda, LOZ: A Link to the Past, LOZ: Ocerina of Time, and Many more strait to the Wii.

I’m sold. I want a Wii. Dont think i’m bashing the PS3, because i still want a PS3, I just want the Wii a whole lot more. Now i leave you with this:

6 Comments

6 Responses

  1. ShaneBertou  •  November 21, 2006 @1:24 pm

    I was skeptical of the Wii controller when I first saw it as well. Then I saw a product demo in Wal-Mart and I thought it was the coolest thing ever.

    I believe they’re also making "traditional" controllers for the system as well.

    I like Nintendo. With the exception of my Sega Genesis, the only systems I own are Nintendo. Although it’s a point of ridicule for most "gamers", I tend to favor the fun, kiddish games of Nintendo flavor. I’m by no means a serious gamer, so that $250 price tag looks a lot more attractive to me too vs. taking out a mortgage for the PS3

  2. JoshWay  •  November 21, 2006 @1:35 pm

    I read a story on JoyStiq about college dudes buying Wiis and taking them back to their dorm rooms only to discover that they don’t have enough room for more than one person to play at a time, because of the controller and the elbow room it requires. I’ve heard about the traditional controllers coming too. I’m not sure if they will be complete controllers, or just a snap on accessory for the current controller.

  3. SMAKtheMic  •  November 21, 2006 @3:00 pm

    The classic controller is going to be it’s own controller. But, i’m not sure if it’s going to be Wii game compatable, since it’s purpose is to give people the ability to play all the older games, but we’ll see.

  4. JoshWay  •  November 21, 2006 @3:03 pm

    Yikes. These launch glitches keep piling up. An unknown percentage of Wii consoles are hitting an error when connecting to Nintendo’s update service and getting bricked.

  5. DarkMime20  •  November 21, 2006 @3:32 pm

    Whats sad is that the graphics on zelda are no better on the Wii than they are on the Gamecube.  I had a bill length post on "In (sort of) defense of the PS3" where I break down the next gen systems.

  6. SMAKtheMic  •  November 21, 2006 @4:04 pm

    here, this will settle all debates:

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