A lot of us are going to be chipping away at the old Christmas list in just a few weeks. Some items are going to a little harder to find than others. One item that is still in very high demand is Nintendo’s Wii gaming console. The questions is will there be enough for this years holiday season?
While we’ve known about the upcoming game EA Sports Active for the Wii for quite some time, we’re just now getting more information on the to-be-competitor to the Wii Fit game. In fact, it’s meant for the whole family and was developed by fitness experts with women in mind.
This game will feature all sorts of activities for users to perform in conjunction. The movements target both the upper and lower body. Cardiovascular exercises are included as well and two players can play at the same time.
With on-screen feedback, you can see how many calories you’ve burned and adjust the intensity levels on the fly. The game will come with leg straps that hold the Wii Nunchuk controllers, and a resistance band for upper body work. You will be able to get the EA SPORTS Active game for the Wii in the Spring of next year for $59.99.
If you’ve been anxiously awaiting the arrival of Sonic Unleashed from Sega and you live in Japan, you might just have to wait a little bit longer. The original release date for the Xbox 360 and the PS3 was December 18th, but it has been moved back to sometime in the spring of 2009.
The Wii HD saga continues. After Reggie Fils-Aime, Nintendo of America president, dismissed the last round of rumors in October about a high-definition update to the popular console, senior managing director Shigeru Miyamoto has reignited speculation that the company at least has an HD version in the works. Speaking in a podcast interview [mp4 link], Miyamoto declined to comment on specific plans but did confirm that Nintendo will be working to keep abreast of technology changes.
With the words of Satoru Iwata, Nintendo president, still ringing in our ears – “so far I haven’t seen even the slightest sign that overseas DS and Wii demand is being affected by the economy” – we now see why he’s still so upbeat about the company’s gaming foothold. As part of their financial report, Nintendo have revealed [pdf link] worldwide Wii sales of 34.55 million units to date; that surpasses the N64’s lifetime sales, which amounted to 32.9m.
After Nintendo’s recent Wii update blocked the Homebrew Channel mod, the team behind the unofficial tweaking tool set to work reintroducing their features. The result is Homebrew Channel beta9, which not only works with the official update but enables a few features Nintendo themselves haven’t unlocked. The most popular is likely to be support for SDHC memory cards; until now the Wii only works with the non-SDHC basic SD format.
A moderate frustration about the Nintendo Wii is its stubborn refusal to recognize SD cards larger than 2GB in capacity. Given that larger, 4GB cards often support higher transfer rates – and, obviously, offer more storage – the frugal-fiends at Cheap Ass Gamer have come up with a system to create 4GB SD cards that, by pretending to be under 2GB, fool the Wii into accepting them.
Well this is definitely not cool! According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Rage Wireless Guitars for the Wii are not safe for consumers! 57,000 of the guitars have now been recalled and there’s no word if this product will make it back to the market.
Tetris Online announced their Tetris Party game today, which is the latest official Tetris game and now available from WiiWare. Tetris Party has multiple game modes and makes playing with your family and friends fun and easy.
If you have trouble keeping your Wiimotes charged up for longer than five minutes or so, the MeWe World Quad Charger makes it so you can charge up four Wiimotes at one time, all in one convenient device.
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