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Re: Defend Your Castle Coming To Europe Next Week

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:58:02 GMT

This game was definitely worth $5, I would recommend every to get.

By hansolo350

Re: Reggie Says Storage Issue Isn't Only For Geeks And Otaku!

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:50:54 GMT

@fortius54 - It would also be what we in the industry like to call "a support nightmare". Consoles have a reputation for "just working". You put the game in, and it starts. No hardware to muck around with, no configuration options to change, no drivers to update. (Though the firmware upgrades tend to get a bit tedious after a while.)

This is the exact opposite of a computer where things often require tweaking, rejiggering, waving a rubber chicken, and other troubleshooting aspects. Getting the latest game to run can be an entire game in itself!

From that perspective, Nintendo would never support the idea of being able to plug in any ol' drive. It's almost a guarantee that users would try to plug in a cruddy $10 laptop drive adapter from China that wouldn't work, be difficult to make work, or possibly would even fry the Wii. And even if they do get it working, how do you explain to consumers the concept of formatting their hard drive for the Wii such that it ends up incompatible with their computer? How many people won't understand how it works and have all their data eliminated by the format?

Not only would Nintendo's support lines wind up over saturated with tech support calls, but their reputation would also take a dive. Their strong commitment to quality in both product and service would be reduced to a simple: "They're just like all the other console makers". That's the last thing that Nintendo wants to happen.

As such, I doubt we'll see an external hard drive solution at all. The most likely solution will be the SD Card slot. It's taking time because of Nintendo's commitment to quality and a solid release. They'd hate to pull a Sony and have to pull a firmware release because of insufficient testing. ;)

By __thewiirocks

Re: Reggie Says Storage Issue Isn't Only For Geeks And Otaku!

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:30:10 GMT

I know this is completely unrealistic from a financial stand point. It would leave way to much money on the table, but it would deal a huge blow to the other consoles. I think they should update the firmware to take any external hard drive. It keeps RnD costs low. It just blows the doors off of any other system storage wise. Not to mention, it allows Nintendo a huge PR coup with consumers.

By fortius54

Re: Reggie Says Storage Issue Isn't Only For Geeks And Otaku!

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:30:10 GMT

By fortius54

Re: Defend Your Castle Coming To Europe Next Week

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:27:45 GMT

Bully for XGen and all you folks from Europe and the UK! I hope you enjoy this title as much as we have here in America. :)

By __thewiirocks

Re: Defend Your Castle Coming To Europe Next Week

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:26:23 GMT

Great news for Europe! :P

By Versus22

Re: Magnetica Twist

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:12:54 GMT

@Myself and DaDun
Okay to get to normal, you go to 1 Player HARD first, then select Normal, Hard, Very Hard. As for your question, if you look at the mii records under rankings for 2 Player Easy (I think thats what you're talking about) after the game over, you should see that score, accompanied by 2 Miis, you and your pal.

By Objection_Blaster

Re: Reggie Says Storage Issue Isn't Only For Geeks And Otaku!

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:05:29 GMT

@xsupermariox I admit the $199 was an error on my part. Its $249. I'm done with this argument. I think we've both made points. Mine is that the Wii is cheaper unless you buy every accessory (Which you don't need many of them, I mean who the hell plays with the wii wheel?!) and yours is that with the insane amount of accessories, the Wii is actually more expensive if you felt inclined to buy every single one. If it sounded like I was taking this too serious or being ridiculous, I was doing so because you seemed to be and I felt like doing so yesterday. Today I don't, so I'll leave it at that. And that I'm getting my 2GB SD card soon so I can fit Sin and Punishment on my Wii :)

By Objection_Blaster

Re: Reggie Says Storage Issue Isn't Only For Geeks And Otaku!

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:48:29 GMT

I often wonder what's holding Nintendo back from using the SD slot. Especially since the SD cards were obviously supposed to be the memory cards for the Wii prior to the addition of the 512MB internal flash. (Anyone remember the pre-release box that showed the "Wii OS Disc" as part of the contents?)

My feeling is that there are two primary issues:

1. Performance. SD Cards have massive variations in their data performance rates. This can make transfers unpredictable, possibly affecting gameplay for some titles. I'm thinking this could be resolved with a smart caching system that keeps the running title on the Wii's internal memory.

2. Interface. For better or for worse, Nintendo released the console with limited SD Card support. This means that most Wii owners already have data spread across their SD Cards and internal memory. Nintendo's SD Card scheme would need to be intelligent about when to show channels (e.g. Would duplicate channels on the internal memory AND SD Card be shown twice?) and how to treat such a situation with a caching scheme like I mentioned above. Should Nintendo introduce APIs for developers to work with the cache (thus enabling games >512MB in size) or should they try to do as much automatically as possible? And what about downloading? Do consumers have to download to internal memory then move to SD Card, or should they be able to download straight to SD?

Further questions are posed by the current 2GB limitation on the Wii's SD Card support. Supporting larger cards would require supporting file systems other than FAT. Should they support FAT32? And would a remote upgrade of the reader's firmware to support SDHC addressing mode be safe? Or even possible?

@Mickeymac - I only mentioned because quite a few posters seem to see this as a major breakthrough. In fact, it is a breakthrough for public relations, just not for the storage problem at hand. Otherwise I'm as ecstatic as anyone else that Reggie is giving a more positive response than his colleague over in Europe. :)

By __thewiirocks

Re: Fun! Fun! Minigolf

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:53:13 GMT

go minigolf

By gillandmakar

Re: Reggie Says Storage Issue Isn't Only For Geeks And Otaku!

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:44:54 GMT

1) Concerning STORAGE; If Ninty bring out a hard drive they are skimming us, all of us. An SD card firmware "bridge" would be more than adequate, way cheaper and far better for the environment, let alone; more portable, more reliable, more flexible (multiple swappable SDs), lower profile, much better for encouraging console to console user profile movement, etc. They can already take photos from a card and copy saves etc onto, so they already have Read & Write access to it!!! Don't be naughty Ninty.... we're not stupid!
2) Concerning PRICE; Remember that the biggest cost factor to total cost of ownership is actually the games!! Or do you all have fully equiped consoles but no games? Game cost argument... I don't think so! lol...

By raxous

Re: Retro Styled Castlevania Coming To WiiWare?

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:46:12 GMT

new old castlevania? awesomeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

By pdvsky

Re: Retro Styled Castlevania Coming To WiiWare?

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:00:31 GMT

I would hope that they would make a castlevania game about Julius belmont from 1999, where he killed dracula for good (well, kind of) (AND PLEAS IN 2D). Or if not, maybe a remake of Castlevania 3, SOTN or Bloodlines? Or if not, What about Gradius?

By Slionr

Re: Retro Styled Castlevania Coming To WiiWare?

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:40:43 GMT

@ Corbie

Thanks for defending Simons Quest. That game gets no love from fanboys. It was one of my favs as well. But I would take any 2D Castlevania if its retro or not.

Anyway the Gradius remake is good news as well. Don't forget Life Force Konami and NOA!

By Tony

Re: Reggie Says Storage Issue Isn't Only For Geeks And Otaku!

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:57:59 GMT

I think the comments in this article are missplaced. Maybe i should check the other articles for these articles CORRECT comments.......

By everydayJOE

Re: Marvelous Entertainment Working on WiiWare Title

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:30:45 GMT

@Corbie
Thats the Sainsburys or Tesco slogan,I can't remember which.

By Mr.Game and Watch

Re: Magnetica Twist

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:46:06 GMT

I'd assume you beat easy up to the lvl 99 or sumthing but I have not done it yet and yo, howcome in multiplayer only player ones records get saved even tho there is more than one mii playing? Can this be changed?

By DaDun

Re: Reggie Says Storage Issue Isn't Only For Geeks And Otaku!

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:44:57 GMT

You're absolutely right. I don't need some of that crap.
The only thing I wanted was the Wii Zapper for MOH:H2.
Yet, I bought Wii Fit for my girlfriend. (Which never gets used anymore...)
And we bought wheels for when we have family or friends over.

So right away, if you're with someone, you can count on spending more on your Wii.
That's not the same with the PS3. I don't even know if my girlfriend still remembers I have one.

By x.SuperMario.x

Re: Marvelous Entertainment Working on WiiWare Title

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:42:29 GMT

The only games I remeber from Xseed was the Wild Arms games, and not much else. Never heard of Marvelous before, though I apparently know their work. ;)

I got a feeling that we'll be expecting a Harvest Moon-esque game, or maybe a strategy game? Eh, I don't know.

By Mr. Cheez

Re: Reggie Says Storage Issue Isn't Only For Geeks And Otaku!

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:35:31 GMT

Damn it! I was just just gonna explain to Supermario that he didn't need 3 wii wheels or a balance board or Zapper, but Virus took care of that too. Guess I should've showered a little earlier...

As for the Hard Drive, I hope that we get it as a free update and don't have to buy it, otherwise I'd be kinda pissed. I'd also like a few more channel spaces if possible.

Ah, don't you just love a good flame war?

By Mr. Cheez