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E3: Nintendo announces a deluge of products

E3: Nintendo announces a deluge of products
Jul 16, 2008
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Tags: Nintendo | Wii
If you own an Wii, it's like Christmas come early. New products on the way include Wiindup More Wii Sports, Wii Speak,and Wii Music.
Nintendo has unveiled a plethora of new products for Wii customers around the World, including

Reggie Fils-Aime revealed a sequel to Wii Sports, named Wii Sports Resort. According to Reggie it will be just like 'a day at the beach'.

Among other activities, you'll be able to throw frisbees for dogs to catch, sword fight (that typical Japanese beach sport) and jet-skiing.

Central to the sporting action was the recently unveiled Motionplus - adding further precision to Wiimote.

More over at Eurogamer.

A Wii version of the infamous Animal Crossing was also unveiled, which apparently looks fairly unchanged except for one additional feature - the Wii Speak device.

This looks to sit up-on the Wii sensor-bar and allow verbal communication with other Wii players. Nintendo has dubbed it a 'community microphone'.

Lets hope they're better spoken than the Xbox 360 players we've encountered. Joystiq has pics.

Nintendo has also shown-off the rumoured Wii Music for the first time.

The game will utilise several of the growing-arsenal of Wii devices, including the Wiimote and Nunchuk, along with the ability to foot tap on the Balance Board, to simulate a drum set.

Apparently there will be over fifty instruments in the game, including the piano, violin, flute, and guitar.

Gizmodo has a picture of Miyamoto seemingly playing the sax using the Wiimote speaker.

There's also been mention of a GTA game for the DS - GTA: Chinatown Wars.
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Comments: 1
bbjai
Jul 16, 2008 6:04 PM
The Japanese sword fighting is actually called Kendo :D

Overall the Wii seems to look set to dominate the market. I can imagine Wii Music taking off and destroying Guitar hero in a future versions.

GTA - China Wars? Wow crazy stuff there




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