The Royal Wii
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The Nintendo Wii has positioned itself as the gaming console for everybody. As it turns out, that includes the Queen of England. Well, sort of. …

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What makes the Queen’s “Royal Wii” different? It’s gold-plated, sucka! None of that lame white plastic for Buckingham Palace — the Queen needs her bling!

The Royal Wii

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There comes a time in every system’s life when its parent has to take off the kid gloves and say goodbye. Nintendo might not being doing that just yet with the DS, but the company is decreasing the amount of developers working on DS titles.

Yep this was inevitable and we’re surprised it didn’t happen sooner. Nintendo’s coding teams have not really released all that much which deserves shouting about over the last year. This has allowed more third party developers to develop some decent DS titles in the last 12 months.

That doesn’t mean Nintendo will be facing empty nest syndrome, though. By coddling the DS a little less, more developers can (and will) be able to focus on Wii games.

We just assumed that was happening already what with the lack of titles being made available for the DS over the last year. With the Wii becoming much more popular and many people having to eat their words as far as its popularity is concerned it seems inevitable that energies will be focused more on the Nintendo Wii from now on.

The Wii will surely benefit from this, as more manpower means quicker game releases. As for the DS, don’t fret. The handheld is littered with third-party titles, and it’s not like Nintendo is jumping ship completely on its portable money-printer.

Exactly, it’s just a natural evolution. Wii consoles are selling like hot cakes and it was just a matter of time before Nintendo developers switched their focus on to this new revolutionary console. Many people might be unhappy at this turn of events but we see this as a logical progression. This will further open up the landscape for third party developers for the DS.

Source: nintendowiifanboy

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When Wal-Mart accidentally posted the pre-order price of Nintendo’s Super Smash Bros. Brawl at US 19.8, fans jumped on the “deal” with glee. Shortly after, Wal-Mart noticed it and cancelled all the pre-orders which tried to take advantage of the mistake.

The operative word being ‘mistake’. People make mistakes, it happens all the time. We were aware of this amazing price offer from Wal-Mart for Super Smash Bros. Brawl and the fibre optics were buzzing all around our office with our users going crazy for this deal. We were caught up in it too and recommended the offer to plenty of gamers who duly pre-ordered.

Apparently, those who tried to pre-order the wrong-priced game got a generic email from Wal-Mart informing them that the retailer acknowledges the cancellation of the transaction on the part of the consumers. Upset, some trooped to the Internet to flame Uncle Wally.

Some of the comments we saw about this state of affairs were downright stupid with people saying Wal-Mart should be taken to court over this … oh please! It was a mistake. A store is well within its rights to amend mistakes which is exactly what Wal-Mart did. I’m not a big fan of the multi national retailer but some people go a little overboard when companies like this make a little error like this. I say we behead the CEO

Wal-Mart is now acknowledging their mistake and is offering a nice apology in the form of a US 10 electronic gift card. Those who had their pre-orders cancelled can use it to shave off 10 bucks when they order Super Smash Bros. Brawl for the Nintendo Wii at its real price.

Acknowledging that they made a mistake is more than some stores would even bother to do. Oftentimes, in a similar situation, many stores would simply cancel the pre-orders without any notice or explanation. Wal-Mart have actually gone above and beyond the call of duty to inform their customers who pre-ordered and not happy to leave it at that have offered nearly a third of the pricing error off a purchase. Grab it with both hands we say.

Source: qj

No More Heroes is due to go on sale exclusively for the Wii on January 22 in the US, and February 29 in the UK.

Something which has thousands of gamers frothing at the mouth in anticipation. During our ramblings across the Internet we have found hundreds of avid NMH fans just waiting with baited breath for this release.

(The game’s creator) Suda 51 told GameSpot that what he really wants to do now is to make a sequel. When asked what games he was working on right now, he laughed, “It’s a secret!”

Let’s hope this game really does live up to its expectations. Many are expecting this to be one of the best action games for the Wii this year so Suda 51 is probably on to a good thing if he’s thinking about coding a sequel. He certainly has the talent to do so.

“Actually, I’m really willing to make a sequel version-and right now I’m asking if it can be made…I think No More Heroes is a great game, there’s no other action game like it for the Wii. If it was a band, it would be really energetic, like the Arctic Monkeys.”

We totally agree with Suda 51 except for the Arctic Monkeys bit. Maybe not the best comparison. We liked the monkeys when they first came out riding on the wave of myspace success then we went off them and didn’t really listen to them in the office again until somebody put the CD on the other day and we remembered why we stopped playing it! They’re overrated which hopefully No More Heroes will not prove to be

Have your Wii game systems at the ready for NMH on sale at a store near you soon!

Source: Gamespot

Nintendo of Australia has just announced that they will be the official gaming supplier of the 2008 Australian Open. Nintendo will make their presence known in Australia by holding competitions for Wii Sports and Sight Training for the whole duration of the Open outside the Vodafone Arena.

Here we see yet again the levels to which the Nintendo Wii has permeated society! We fully expect the competitions held on the Wii Sports at the Open to be just as competitive as the real thing! People are going absolutely mad for this console and we think with good reason. Nintendo sponsoring the Australian open is just another excellent avenue to expose previous non-gamers to the delights this console can offer all the family.

People who enter will have to compete against rivals for the tennis championship for the Wii. Those who become the daily champions will get to take home a Wii console and a copy of Wii Sports. The winner will get tickets to see the Men’s Finals and have a Wii Sports tennis play off against Mark Philippoussis, an Australian tennis player who became a finalist in various tennis tournaments such as the U.S. Open, Australian Open, and Wimbledon.

Nintendo’s intentions are to bring to all the opportunity to play tennis at this very popular event which will be taking place at Melbourne Park from January 14-27 this year. This little box of electronics really is taking gaming to a whole new level. The prospect of playing Philippoussis in the grand Wii final and actually having a chance of beating him is, whilst probably a pipe dream, a huge draw for tennis lovers of all ages, shapes and sizes! We predict the Nintendo Wii Sports championship at this event will be a great success.

With Nintendo’s sponsorship for the 2008 Australian Open, Rose Lappin, managing director for Nintendo Australia said, “Both the Wii Championships and Nintendo Sight Training Lounge at the Australian Open, will showcase the diversity and broad appeal of Nintendo’s products.”

We couldn’t agree more. This is a smart move on the part of Nintendo and we fully expect them to sponsor other sporting events with a similar goal of introducing this clever, new-gen console to a much wider variety of users. With a truly revolutionary games machine and a sound marketing team 2008 should easily see the Wii reaching its predicted 8 million sales. We’d hazard a guess that it’ll actually sell quite a bit more than that. If you don’t have your Wii yet why not see if there’s a wii console for sale on this site.

Source: Gamespot