Nintendo Reconfirms Wii Shipments 151
Gamasutra has Nintendo's 're-confirmation' that they're going to try to ship 6 Million units by the end of March 2007. If you're looking forward to Nintendo's new-gen console, their upcoming media event on September 14th may have just what you're looking for. The article also has a few details on upcoming accessories. From the article: "Although the price and release date of the Wii console and controller is not likely to be revealed until worldwide press events on September 14th and 15th, the Gamestop website lists a number of peripherals for release on November 1st. Included on the site is a Wii 'Controller Glove' for $9.99, a 'HD Premium Component Cable' for $59.99 and a 'S-Video Premium AV Cable' for $39.99." Relatedly, 1up has the news that Castlevania's creator is warming to the Wii. This will result in Belmont-related adventures for the Wii, one would hope.
"Controller Glove" (Score:3, Funny)
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What do you think, too dark?
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You, you just trolled me because you're a spelling nazi douchebag.
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He meant testicle feedback. It is a new gaming paradigm that involves a car battery and some electrodes or some-such...
I hope not. (Score:2)
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Had my hopes up for a minute, there.
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Re:"Controller Glove" or Fists of Furry? (Score:1)
oops, sorry, was just thinking about how cool the martial arts games are going to be with that one
"You keep using that word... (Score:1)
This is worse (Score:2, Troll)
"'HD Premium Component Cable' for $59.99 "
Component cables should be included. This isn't the 1980's.
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Although it isn't essential for the Wii. (It isn't essential for the PS3 but the reason for the high price is because of the HD capabilities of the Blu-ray disks)
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Anyway, $60 for a component connection is ridiculous ($30-40 has been bad enough). That's the sort of thing that could make me go from buying the Wii at launch
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Anyway, $60 for a component connection is ridiculous ($30-40 has been bad enough). That's the sort of thing that could make me go from buying the Wii at launch (it would be my first time doing so) to waiting until the price comes down. I'm certainly not going to go back to NTSC if the console is capable of 480p. Fortunately for people without digital TVs (and Nintendo), it won't matter to them.
Kinda makes you wonder how the XBOX crowd feels like when they're asked to pay $100+ for the wifi adapter to make their system wifi'able. Think about it, that's half the (not yet announced) price of the Wii! And yes, the Wii will have wifi built in! To people who say the xbox360 isn't that expensive when you include all peripherals and things, I say blah.
Anyways.
If you RTFA, you'll notice these peripherals are all 3rd party ones. So I wouldn't worry quite yet. Sept. 14th is gearing up to be the big day we find out just about every missing details about the new system. (Price, date, peripherals, etc)
That's a week away. For the record, I can't friggin' wait
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Well, I don't want a cable stretching from one end of my apartment (where my DSL modem lives), through the hallway, under doors, across the dining room and then through the living room finally to my consoles. The Wii will be my first console (well, besides my DS) that I connect to the internet, for this exact reason.
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I believe the Wii is more taylored to the setups the average household has. But then, I am biased because at this point the Wii is the only console this generation I am interested in
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I believe the terminology is a little off there, but I'm not completely sure, myself. NTSC refers to the resolution and framerate, not the field rate, so both 480i and 480p are both considered NTSC standards. Now, I was previously under the impression that all North American (and Japanese) standards are refered to as NTSC, including 720p, 1080i and 1080p, but I gather from reading this [wikipedia.org] that NTSC only refers to 480i and 480p. I've never heard NTSC exclusively used to define 480i, though.
I was unaware, unti
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To break it down real world style, it's like this: Let's say you're hooking up an Xbox with component cables. If you hook it up in this fashion to an analog NTSC television you'll be able to get the highest-quality analog, interlaced NTSC picture possible - it will not be either 480i or 480p. If you hook it up to a digital television (and make the appropriate selections in the Xbox's configuration menus), the Xbox can transmit a 480p (or 720p or 1080i, depending on the capabilities of the software and the TV) signal over the component cables. If you hook up via S-video or composite, you'll be entirely restricted to an analog signal no matter the TV (though most digital TVs upconvert NTSC signals to 480p for display).
On S-video versus composite: Yes, the separation of S-video provides an improved picture over composite, but it can also depend on the "comb filter" in the particular TV (more expensive analog TVs can make composite connections look better, sometimes as good as S-video). The main advantage of S-video is that there is less "color bleeding" which provides a sharper picture.
As to your comment about perhaps getting a TV with component inputs, you should really only upgrade if you're planning to go digital. Upgrading from S-video to component in analog is just not very cost effective for the [relatively] small improvement in picture quality.
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S-video does standard definition 480i in a 4:3 aspect ratio. 480p is considered enhanced definition, is capable of 16:9, and requires component.
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Although 480P will be better, I don't know if the widescreen is non-anamophic, but general progressiveness will be an improvement anyway.
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1980's? I thought component cables only came out a few years ago? You might be thinking of composite? I'd be shocked if Wii didn't ship with at least composite cables.
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As for what we refer to as component connections (technically, S-video is classified as a "component" connector because it divides the analog video signal into two components), those debuted at the consumer level in the late 1990s (with DVD). My first DVD player in 1999 had the connectors and I bought my first TV with component inputs in 2000 (an NTSC widescreen Toshiba).
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"Component video" has been out for ever. VGA is a type of component video. Any video format that transmits data in separate RGB channels is considered component. Even S-Video is sometimes considered a component video feed (I don't understand why, since it's "luminance/chrominance". BetaCAM is a component video format (even though, once again, it's only luminance/chrominance").
That said, the current 3-cable analog RGB format is quite new. In fact, many CRT tubes are still sold without "component" connector
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In that case, the 3-cable video interconnect commonly called "component", but more accurately described as "YPrPb", isn't a true component format by your definition, either. The signals aren't true red, green, and blue levels: the "green" line is a luminance signal, not unlike the one on the Y pin of an
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If I remember correctly, SVGA is also YPrPb as well, so basically anytime you're talking about analog transmision of RGB, you're really meaning YPrPb, which, since you can extract the relative Green level from the rest, is basically just symantics.
But thanks for the info on HDMI, now that I think about it, yes, it is encoded audio, of any type.
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It's the same reason that they won't be including the DVD dongle with the set- to keep the price lower. If you want to play DVDs on it, great, go out and buy the don
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controller glove + AO rating... (Score:4, Funny)
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Hmmmm
You could end up electrifying your own damned Wii. Unless you think someone is going to makea sealed system glove for those AO games -- and I just can't see there being enough of a market (or anyone willing to go into a store and buy the Wii-Wanker 3000).
"Due to the intimate nature of this product, we cannot offer returns or warranty service. Once opened, we don't want to see this product ever again. Product may cause blindness."
Cheers
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If (and only if) it was sold in an adult shop, then people might buy it.
But, I doubt that if you had such a product, most adult shops would be interested in carrying it or even know about it. You would have market, er, penetration problems. =) You could discover that the intersection between owners of the Wii and consumers of porn is too small.
I, for instance, have never seen an adult shop carrying adult only titles for
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It's currently too politically dangerous to make an AO game for a console, and I think the console licenser (Nintendo, Sony, etc.) wouldn't greenlight it under almost any conditions.
The problem is that politically, every game is presumed to be virtually thrown at children of all ages. This doesn't seem to come up with any other medium; everybody knows AO magazines, PC games, videos,
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me if some perverse person came up with a haptic feedback device for resale for adult console titles...
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laugh Well, I'm afraid my knowledge of Hello Kitty vibrators is limited to just now discovering they exist. Other than the completely ironic name, I would suggest not taking it into the tub and maybe slipping a condom over the battery end so any lube on your hands doesn't contrib
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Horrible, perverted people, taing a wonderful novelty backmassager from Sanrio and PERVERTING IT!
(this is the point when you all chime in and wonder why he (I) knows about said "back massager" in the firstplace)
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That said, most 'electric' dental devices like toothbrushes and handheld flossers (whose primary use is SOLELY to vibrate) are already watertight. It's like they WANT to be stuck in some wet orifice on purpose.
And now I'm going to get a bunch of perverted responses on SlashDot, but come on, it's not like this isn't already pretty obvious stuff...
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Good console. (Score:4, Insightful)
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FINALLY! Somebody gets it! (Score:2)
And I agree, its about time we make games "user oriented" so people can play them instead of "computer oriented." I'm tired of losing to the computer opponent. It turns out, its all been an input problem as to why I could never beat Mike Tyson in punchout. Now
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Oh great (Score:2)
Why a whip? (Score:2)
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Me. I did. That's what I want, and I won't be buying the game unless I can whip supernatural monsters
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On the cable topic.... (Score:4, Insightful)
Unless of course one of your main selling points to the system was the high definition drive on it which would require a higher priced cable to get full utilization out of.. Of course nobody would do that, right?
Back on topic... I look forward to the glove, Especially with some of the potential combinations of glove + Wiimote. (i.e. KotR style game where you would have a glove to do force power gestures with your left hand while light sabering with your right. Possible geekgasm territory there.)
I would also really love to see some of the possibilities of a "DS as remote controller" options. Imagine football games where you could practice, create your playbook, store your playbook on your DS, then go to a friends house and play him with your DS as your coaches clipboard.
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I'm all for LCD and all (Score:2)
Please Note - GS Prices (Score:3, Insightful)
Next week = killer week, component cable question (Score:5, Interesting)
Nintendo: 2006-09-14
Also, does anyone know if my Gameucbe component cable work with the Wii? After all, Nintendo used the same S-video cable for the SNES, N64 and Gamecube.
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When gaming and PCs ran hot
I see no reason why those PCs and gaming
Should ever be forgot...
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It is not the same cable. The connector on the back of the Wii is different.
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- the company itself [nintendo.com]
As other posters mentioned, the GCN had two ports for that, so the logical implication is that the Wii's port is different.
Interesting thing to note (Score:2)
In other news, Duck Hunt! [gamestop.com]
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But yeah, that does seem a bit steep. But who knows, I've watched people pump dollar after dollar into the buck hunting machines at the arcade.
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$599 Wii, $499 crippled version (Score:3, Funny)
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And the Wii is far too underpowered to support features like real-time weapon change.
If you hit a Giant Feudal Crab's weak point in a Wii game, you'll be lucky to get only MILD damage from it.
$60 Component Video? (Score:1)
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though $60 is still overpriced for the component cables, if you go to most consumer electronics stores for them, they'll be somewhere around this range. mostly because they're the standard overpriced monster cables. online you can get
Cables (Score:3, Insightful)
'HD Premium Component Cable' for $59.99 and a 'S-Video Premium AV Cable' for $39.99."
... and the day after launch you will be able to buy 3rd party cables for $10 each on eBay.
Does anyone *serourls buy into* this cable bullshit? Who spends > $20 on a piece of wire?
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New Wii Commercial (Score:2, Funny)
Kid 2: Yeah, well my parents said if my first mid-term report card has 3.0 or better, they're buying me a Wii first thing in October - and with the money they're saving, they'll let my buy ten games that I want, in every gaming genre there is!
Kid 1: Dude! You're getting a Wii! Way to go!
[kids high
IGA and the Wii (Score:1, Troll)
Not that the recent handheld CV games haven't had some fun to them but I don't think that a Wii CV will be 2D. The last two 3D games have been annoying yawn-fests that have caused me to lose any hope of there ever being a good 3D CV. Heck, the N64 game(s) were flawed but at least they had some promise; the IGA produced ones are just pointless.
OK, I'm a little bitter. People associate Castlevania with Koji Igarashi (IGA) even though
Major next-gen console news tonight at 12:01 EST (Score:2)
Joystiq is promising some "major" next-gen console news tonight at 12:01AM EST on their site. [joystiq.com]
Lets hope for some Wii info...
Glove Love (Score:2)
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