You may have heard about wii motion plus, which allows for 1:1 controls on the Nintendo wii, But You may not have heard of the company who partnered with Nintendo to make it, Ailive. Now Ailive has made a software development kit for game developers called live move 2. watch this!
Wow! amazing. This is how I imagined the controls would work when they announced the controller back in 2005. This will be even more amazing once it is used in actual games.
Yes, Yes it is me. I know you are already tired of seeing me, but i was invited. To this blog i will be added my (biased, mind you) opinion on Nintendo news. I hope you enjoy me enough so that I'm not fired.
I'm glad to have Matt from So busy I could die, as a co-author of Cool Mario media. Thank you for joining Matt!
Microsoft is changing things up for it's xbox 360 console this fall. Some of the new features include cartoony avatars (That oddly resemble Nintendo's miis) and a simplified dashboard interface. It seems, along with Nintendo, Microsoft is going soft...
This video depicts an Xbox fanboy that has stereotypical views of Nintendo.
Nintendo's success in recent years has been shocking, even to me. first Its DS handheld system which released in the winter of 2004 and was a huge hit. The DS' popularity has exponentially grown every year and is expected to top 100 million units in sales. and Now with Wii which has been selling like hot cakes since its release, has surpassed xbox 360 in units sold making it the best selling new/next generation console. This is an amazing feat since Nintendo's machine released one year after xbox. This can only be explained by Nintendo's innovative controller and channel interface, advertised by a unique marketing campaign; that attracted new costumers to the video game market. Another attractive aspect of the wii is an in-game avatars that can be made to resemble yourself called a mii.
up until now, a "mii" like interface was exclusive to the wii.
but Coming this fall to the xbox 360, Avatars! and a new "Channel" based dashboard.
My first reaction to this announcement was "RIP-OFF!!!!". But now having cooled down and realizing that I have my feet in both camps, (I own a xbox 360 as well as a Wii) I am looking forward to see how Microsoft will use the avatars on xbox 360 and especially with xbox live. When Microsoft starts to barrow Nintendo's ideas that should tell you how good those ideas are. The big question now is, will they pay off for Microsoft as they did for Nintendo?
