Posts Tagged ‘Nintendo’

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These cries of treachery must seem somewhat hypocritical to Nintendo. Their last two generations of home consoles underperformed significant. The section of the gaming world that they relied on for support (those who are now also complaining about the Wii) disappeared. You could certainly argue that a few of Nintendo’s choices were ill-advised. The high price of cartridges for the N64 was prohibitively expensive for the youth skewed demographic of the general audience but the almost total abandonment of the GameCube must have been an unpleasant surprise for them.

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But Nintendo never made games for these players. They didn’t abandon these customers. Like Fisher Price and Sesame Street they chose a young target audience. Their games have always had a bright, family friendly esthetic. It is a decision which has segregated them from the market they created as members of the market matured. With their ‘real’ games being shunned by much of the traditional gaming audience it is their casual offerings which are garnering them attention (and money) from the public but scorn from gaming world.

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News also has a heavy Nintendo focus. There is the upcoming Silent Hill re-imagining for Wii, Nintendo putting the kibosh on Tecmo bringing Fatal Frame 3 to the West and wanting to invigorate the Japanese gaming market (assumedly with Wii Music 2) its been a high profile week for the big N. We also have a quick chat about up coming game based movies. All of this is followed by a talk about downloadable content in games with a little help from the boards at uuddlrlrba.co.uk and Darrens old games which this week focuses on Segas fantastic Shinobi series.

Somewhere in all this there is also a competition to win the Street Fighter 20th anniversary art book, hot of the presses straight from Japan (pictured here). Over 300 pages of beautiful Street Fighter promotional and concept art all up for grabs. To be in with a chance of winning simply listen and mail the required information to either me (Alex – alex@dofuss.net) or Darren (darren@dofuss.net).

As always feel free to review us on iTune or to comment on dofuss.net or at uuddlrlrba.

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Also to help with the memory issues the update has managed to increase the maximum supported capacity of SD card. From a previous cap of 2GB the SD card slot now supports up to 32GB. Considering that the average size of downloadable content for Wii is smaller than most of its peers (and the fact that they don’t require patches/updates) 32GB seems more than enough. It also adds the interesting question of how this new 32GB limit was reached. With a software patch raising the limit maybe even this is merely an arbitrary amount, not a hardware limitation, so can be raised further in the future.

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Darren takes on the iPhone discussion, yet some how manages to keep it retro with Pole Position and Wonder Boy. I try to keep things more current we head back to Resident Evil 5 and rub on a little Madworld. Then we avoid talking about the Watchmen.