“Video game critics on Wednesday honored Nintendo’s Wii console and Electronic Arts’ upcoming “Spore” video game for bringing fresh ideas to the $28.5 billion industry that has been criticized for relying on films for inspiration and on game sequels for sales,” Lisa Baertlein reports for Reuters. “Critics crowned the Wii ‘Best of Show’ after game enthusiasts at the recent Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) waited hours to get their hands on the Nintendo Co. Ltd. machine due later this year. They raved about how its new controller allowed them to play sports games like tennis and football much in the same way they are played in real life.”
“Creating games for the Wii is expected to be far less expensive than for the PS3 and Xbox 360, super-charged machines that boast eye-popping graphics capabilities and cost about twice as much as Nintendo’s upcoming console,” Baertlein reports. “Wii also won for ‘Best Hardware’ and Nintendo’s ‘Wii Sports’ title took home the prize for ‘Best Sports Game.'”
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MacDailyNews Note: Not Apple-related, but may be interesting to some MDN readers. We’re going to follow the Nintendo Wii’s story for pretty obvious reasons.
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To add some Apple content to this story, the Wii will come with two USB ports, and no Hard Drive. Nintendo says they will let users choose what storage to use, either through SD cards and/or external hard drives. If the Wii is able to connect to an Apple iPod to play music while playing games and to store game data and downloads, that would be a major advantage for Nintendo.
It’s going to be interesting to see the marketshare figures for the three consoles once the dust has settled. I have a feeling Nintendo won’t be in third place this time around.
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Go Nintendo!
and thanks MDN for following their story!
Cool!
haven’t bought a system in ages. this will turn me back into a gamer.
All hail Wii!!
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MDN, I disaree. This is Apple related. Nintendo is another company who is relying on innovation, design, and what the customer wants. They are also up against crappy companies who rely on market bully tactics and do not innovate. Go Nintendo.
Nintendo should be the console of choice for Mac-fans; for the big N it’s the quality of software and the experience that counts.
Apple and Nintendo are similar in many ways, they should work together.
some seem to have too much faith in the masses and their coveting innovation… nintendo may make the most innovative system, but it is extremely unlikely it will beat out the playstation and xbox.
Where are all the evil people complaining about “how is this Apple related” and “slow news day”?
I for one think it’s great. It certainly is of relevance to some mac users since we tend to like things on teh cutting edge, and yes these controllers are going to change how people play games.
Im not much of a gamer, but I can’t wait to play one.
just as apple cannot beat out microsoft
innovation doesn’t count for that much.
yes, keep us posted on Wii, love backing the underdog. I love a story when the ending is anyone’s guess, go Apple and Nintendo. It’d be cool if they joined forces somehow.
The gaming industry has always been fluid.New market leaders happen every generation or so.
PS3 and XBox are TOO expensive for the average person and has a market of teenagers and losers without girlfriends.
Wii goes after the average person who either stopped playing games because of how Sony and Microsoft destroyed them; or for people who never played games.
The Wii has to problems:
a) The controller
b) Nintendo writes games for 7 year olds.
These guys are on the right track but they should consider broadening their audience. The days of the Famicom are over. Time to get competitive.
“The Wii has to problems:
a) The controller
b) Nintendo writes games for 7 year olds.”
I still want two buy one.
all they had to do was take one look at the line for people who wanted to play the Wii, and the best of show was in the bag.
@realist:
Nintendo Wii will win the hearts of three groups: families who want to play games together, gamers looking for a new experience, children who love to play games but require parental guidance. The playstation and the XBOX are for older teens and adults, and really compete with PC hardcore gamers. The problem with the latter two systems is that they are not geared for young kids, and the games available on these systems are too violent. The parents who buy XBOX or PlayStations for kids younger than 14 either do not understand the systems’ (or games) target market or are the sort of parents who don’t give a rats ass and think that violent games don’t harm kids. They would be wrong.
The Wii will more than double the number of PlayStation 3 sales. And they will win awards for industrial design, have the best overall system, have loyal users but with a smaller customer base. Just like Apple. And that is just fine for companies that are interested in making a profit but not skimping on quality.
Common misconception that Nintendo write games for kids, they don’t … their games are simply fun.
What their games are not are shiny racing cars, lone soldiers, crappy licensed IP of movie or tv, EA sports, that are the boring boring boring bread and butter of PS and Xbox. Although Sony doing better with Guitar Hero and Singstar titles.
@rasterbator
you said nothing against my pronunciation that Nintendo will again fall third.
Nintendo is thinking different, thus this is very apple related.
More ANTI-MAC FUD IN PROGRESS!!!
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Mod down the trolls!
to the first post, Microsoft already does this with the Xbox 360, though they do not allow transferring of music from a portable device to the system’s harddrive, nor do they allow music to be played off of external devices during gameplay. This would be a good thing for Nintendo to do, but they are focused on games, not other forms of entertainment. Just like the original Xbox, users will have to buy an accessory to play DVD’s on the console, according to Nintendo in recent months anyways. I would hope that it can play CD’s or MP3 CD’s at least though, even if it did require said attachment.
“Nintendo makes games for 7 year olds”
Exactly! Have you tried buying PS2 and XBOX games for a family of 9, 6 and 5?
Nintendo makes GAMES. Sony and Micro$hite make fully interactive multimedia experiences.
Have any of you ever seen the joy a five year old gets from a freezer box (the thing the freezer came in)? Its a rocket ship, a boat, …
Nintendo get games, Apple get computers.
This thing is cool…
How much?
Vista now comes with iLife!!!
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/vistab2.ars/7
“Other applications
These are best described as a collection of programs that is basically a rip of the feature set included with Mac OS X.”