Workout with the Wii at Westin hotels
11:19 AM, May 1, 2008
Fellow DMN reporter Suzanne Marta has a post up at our Airline blog about how the Westin chain of hotels is beginning to install Wii consoles in its fitness rooms equipped with copies of Wii Fit.
Sounds more fun than the ancient Super Nintendo systems you still occasionally find in hotel rooms.
April 17, 2008
Preview: Deca Sports
2:56 PM, April 17, 2008
Here's my preview from Tuesday's paper of the upcoming Deca Sports for the Wii.
Like I said in the preview, this game has the potential to be as popular as Wii Sports, which I would bet is still by far the most played Wii title of all time.
Hudson, Deca Sports' publisher, may have some competition, though, to replace Wii Sports as the default title for many Wii owners, since I recently received a copy of Summer Sports: Paradise Island for the Wii.
I'm surprised it's taken so long for these mini-Olympics-type games to proliferate on the Wii, given the popularity of Wii Sports, but it sounds like developers are finally figuring out the Wii's strengths.
April 14, 2008
Car dealer uses Wii for cash back promotion
10:24 AM, April 14, 2008
I saw this on Kotaku... it made me giggle.
I think the dealer would have a better response giving away Wii's with each car!
Oh well...
April 5, 2008
Will a recession derail the Wii?
12:41 PM, April 5, 2008
Here's my column in the paper today, looking at whether a slow economy might cool casual gamers' interest in the Wii.
I also explain why I think the latest rumors of a Blu-ray equipped Xbox 360 are hogwash.
March 31, 2008
I blame France for the Wii shortage
2:29 PM, March 31, 2008
Well, not really, but I wrote a follow-up column on the Wii shortage, and I highlighted some comments from an interview I did with game industry analyst Michael Pachter where he argued that the Wii shortage in the U.S. is due to the weak dollar and strong Euro.
Basically, Nintendo is shipping extra Wiis to Europe, because the strong Euro results in a bigger profit.
So at the bottom of the column, I made a joke about how you can blame the French for the Wii shortage.
Well, I got about half a dozen e-mails about that comment, including two from readers in Holland and one from a guy whose cousin in France sent him a copy of the column, and another from a reader in Canada, whose hackles were all in full OUTRAGE mode about my insult.
Hey, I'm just happy I've got an international fan club (well, a hate club, anyway).
UPDATE: Woot! I earned a Kotaku post! Where's the love for punchbutton, though?
March 11, 2008
Review: Super Smash Bros. Brawl
2:57 PM, March 11, 2008
I gave the game a "B", which I know sounds like a harsh score compared to most reviews.
But I think a lot of critics are glossing over numerous technical flaws in this game out of their sheer love for all things Nintendo.
Look, I get that. As a former Sega Genesis owner (and one of the three Sega Master System owners worldwide, before that), I understand allegiance to beloved games and characters and franchises.
I still remember Streets of Rage and Golden Axe and even Altered Beast with fondness out of all proportion to the actual quality of those titles.
But that doesn't mean a critic can surrender their responsibility to honest judgment.
The fact is that SSBB has pedestrian graphics even for the Wii, is difficult to control with the Wii remote, has a clumsy online mode, and a boring singleplayer campaign.
Now, my criticism won't matter a whit when it comes to sales. SSBB will surely be one of the best selling games of 2008. And a lot of gamers will have a blast with the multiplayer mode for a long time.
But this notion that SSBB is a perfect game is absurd.
UPDATE: Anyone outraged by my review (Hi bob! Hi Collin!) might want to check this out.
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you are such a wii hater and all you could talk about was the sega master systymand shit like that (wii hater)!
FROM VICTOR: Well, I did name Wii Sports my Game of the Year for 2006, but yeah, I'm just a hater.
no your a (Edited by Doug) dumb-(Edited by Doug)...who the (Edited by Doug) do you think you are. Have you even played Brawl? Oh I'm sorry that microsoft only makes games that are exactly the same as gears of war or Call Of Duty. Sony makes better games than microsoft. Microsoft should just make computers..but they can barley do that. You live in dallas. What do you know about technology. Im sure there are some (Edited by Doug) working where you work. Your pathetic. You are a hater. you having a sege master system doesnt mean (Edited by Doug). doenst mean you know everything about games. your a looser. really you are. comment me back when you beat subspace and get all of the characters..then tell me how overrated brawl is. Oh and by the way. I got brawl on opening night 12:00! I beat subspace emissary in less than half a day AND i have about 62 percent of the game complete (trophies and stickers). I even stayed home from school. WHY??? because its a great game that is worthy. I dont care who you are you will have fun playing this game..people will love it..and they already do love it...but of course you probably wont since you have the sega master system..(wish i had one)
FROM VICTOR: Who do I need to be? I wasn't aware only Nintendo fanboys are allowed to review Nintendo games.
December 26, 2007
Wii remote enables 3D virtual reality head tracker
5:12 PM, December 26, 2007
Seriously awesome. I'm going to try this myself this week, and I'll create a video of my own results.
And Nintendo, by the way, should be embarrassed that this guy beat them to the punch so badly.
Via Kotaku (from Dubious Quality)
