Wii Play Games

I have a feeling the music in this game is going to be epic.

During an interview with Game Daily Gamestop’s new CEO mentions that he thinks the Wii will be hard to find again this winter for the 3rd Christmas in a row. Poor Nintendo just can’t pump out enough of them for the world. I would suggest you pick yours up now, rather than later.

Wall Street Journal has a great interview with Nintendo President Satoru Iwata.

WSJ: You finally unveiled Wii Music, the game that Super Mario Brothers creator Shigeru Miyamoto demonstrated three years ago.

Mr. Iwata: Wii Music completes what Miyamoto wrote in his proposal when he came up with the idea for the Wii. He was saying that he needs to think up more ideas now.

WSJ: Since you first launched Wii, you’ve introduced several accessories, such as the steering wheel to play racing games and the gun-like Wii Zapper to shoot targets in a game. This month you unveiled the Wii Motion Plus and Wii Speak. Are there any more accessories in the pipeline?

Mr. Iwata: Most of the ideas for accessories that we had initially come up with are out now. We might think up some more, and we might make them if we do, but we don’t have any plans to release a whole lot more.

WSJ: Will Wii owners be forced to buy a Wii Motion Plus for each controller they own to play newer games?

Mr. Iwata: There will be games that will be enhanced by the Wii Motion Plus as well as games that can only be played with it. Users will need four if they have four controllers, but we’re going to try to offer it for as little as possible. We haven’t announced the price yet, but the cost of making the Wii Motion Plus is not that much, so I think we can make it very affordable.

read on at WSJ

At least, that’s what Epic Games’ president, Mike Caps thinks. During an interview with IGN Mike tells everyone how he really feels about the Wii and whether or not Epic Games will bring anything to the console.

Capps: Part of it’s being cheap. I think it’s a, I mean, so two things: first of all, great credit to them. The first time I played a videogame with my parents – aging myself a bit – was on Atari 2600. The next time I played a videogame with my parents, 25 years later or whatever, was Wii Tennis. So it’s about bringing people together, families, Thanksgiving, all that. I think it’s kind of like a weird virus because I have not yet found a reason to play with my Wii since then.

I can agree with the Wii bringing families together. A virus? no. So, will Epic bring a game to the Wii?

IGN: Is there any chance that Epic will ever, is there going to be a point where there are too many Wiis on the market for you guys to not make a game for it?

Capps: No, we go forward, not back. It makes more sense for us to invest in the next-generation tech. There have been shops that have done it. Red Steel was a launch title and that was on Unreal Engine. So it’s been done. How you take an engine that’s all based on shaders and materials and run it on hardware that doesn’t support shaders is just impossible. It’s about as easy as PSP for us. Maybe it would make sense, but it makes more sense to invest going forward.

I severely disagree with Capps and believe that he is making a huge mistake by not producing software for the console. There are millions of possibilities for games for the Nintendo Wii utilizing the Wiimote. The mouse and keyboard may have their days numbered already.