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Nintendo Promises More Wii Consoles for 2008 Holidays
Nintendo has announced that they will have produced enough of the ever popular Wii in time for this year’s holiday shopping season. After last year’s chronic shortage of the console consumer demand skyrocketed. We suppose know that interest is waning, Nintendo is lengthening the leash a little. Read more
opED - Wii’s luster fading, everyone else taking advantage
As a long time Nintendo supporter, it pains me to say that I might finally be done with purchasing their consoles. The Wii was fun but it didn’t have the staying power I thought it would and if you think any other way you’ll be sorely mistaken.
I’ve come to realize that when it comes to gaming, nothing will ever beat the conventional controller. Sure, the Wii remote and nunchuk took things a bit further, offering motion gestures and the sort, but, in the end, controllers will always remain the preferred method of gaming. Let me tell you a story.
PS3 Gets New Features in Software Update
Early this morning, Sony’s Playstation 3 received an optional software update which adds news and weather to the Folding@Home program (pre-installed as part of the PS3 operating system). The new features are entitled Life and are accessed through an impressive global interface which grabs information depending on your geographical location.
The Nintendo Wii has been offering a similar service through their Weather and News channels but PS3’s Life benefits from a smoother look and a greater variety of information sourcing. Whereas the Wii’s News channel takes stories from the Associated Press, Life grabs from across Google News. The result is a less organized sorting system than the Wii’s but the PS3 still hosts a functional and aesthetically pleasing way to access the information.
Users can jump around the globe and check out stories and/or weather internationally or just default to their local positioning. Playstation owners should enjoy playing around with Life before Home launches later this fall.
A History of Wii Peripherals
After Reggie Fils-Aime reported no new Wii add-ons would come about, we here at TechViva think its a good time to look back on the history of Wii peripherals you may or may not have bought into. Back then, and even now, we all wanted our Wii remotes to emulate something close to a lightsaber, or a glock or a baseball bat. Who knew that over priced plastic casing would invade the market so fast and in such great numbers to extend the life of games such as Wii Sports, Ghost Squad, Mario Kart and any other games that actually played well with the plastic, and heartless, shells.
Nintendo still working on “Revolution”, we think
The Wii was good, but its successor will have to be much better to compete with Sony and Microsoft.
When the Wii dropped in November of 2006, it was clear it wasn’t going to be a power house system full of rich graphics or processing power to compete with the Playstation 3 or the Xbox 360. Instead, Nintendo took an alternate approach to gaming - as it always does. The Big N decided to let Sony and Microsoft duke it out for top spot with the “core” gamers while it snuck in and gathered up everyone else. Call it what you will, but Nintendo’s game plan worked - the PS3 and 360 continue to fight over exclusive content like Grand Theft Auto and Final Fantasy while Nintendo saturates the market with casual games for a niche previously ignored.
Wii lacks hard drive space, hot water is hot
It’s no surprise that the Wii lacks hard drive space. It’s also no surprise Nintendo isn’t going to do anything about it.
Well you’ve really done it this time Nintendo. Not only are you being sued for patent infringement which may lead to the shelving of your GameCube systems, controllers and Wii classic controller, you’re now being blasted for the Wii’s lack of hard disc space.
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