E3 2006 Rumours | Nintendo Holding Back Secrets

By Adam Riley 10.05.2006 17

According to the normally very reliable Shikamaru Ninja of NeoGAF, there are a few morsels of information that we should all know about:

  • Pilotwings is set to come to the Wii (confirmed in our exclusive interview with Brooke Burgess) thanks to Geist developer N-Space, under the watchful eye of Nintendo;

  • A Nintendo development group has been sub-contracted by NCL to develop the new Dragon Quest for the Wii's launch under the guidance of Square-Enix's design team (thought to possibly be either Golden Sun's Camelot or Mario & Luigi's Alpha Dream);

  • Diddy Kong Racing will be missing Banjo and Conker due to licensing issues with Microsoft. The game may not be worked on by Rare;

  • Nintendo is set to show several experimental titles behind closed doors (such as Nintendo Talent Studio, King Chef from the nintendogs team and a symphony game);

  • The Nintendo Stars / Nintendo Club system will be incorporated into the Virtual Console

    • Why not share your thoughts on the above by posting below?

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    Mason is offline. Mason 10.05.2006#1

    This is excellent news - I THOUGHT Nintendo Talent Studio would be making a comeback of sorts! I take it King Chef is a first party cookery game...maybe like Iron Chef (Japanese cookery gameshow)...

     
    Tim~Tam is offline. Tim~Tam 10.05.2006#2

    Talent studio, that grabs my attention. Nintendo could be ripping off singstar.

    "Study this revelation, you nest of adders!"
     
    Raff is offline. Raff 10.05.2006#3

    The Nintendo Stars system will be integrated JUSt as I predicted.Smilie

    It's going to be shit and you jolly well know it.
     
    Mason is offline. Mason 10.05.2006#4

    Nah, Talent Studio has been about since the N64 days when they were doing the DD attachment, it just got dropped when the DD was a failure.

     
    Laurelin is offline. Laurelin 10.05.2006#5

    Nintendo Stars and Club System to be incorporated into Virtual Gaming ist an easy way to lose star-points. That's an easy way to add bonus-stars to any game purchased and buy classics or even bonus items with it. Personally I dislike additional content, as it is not fix within the game and maybe gone when you play these games 3 years later.

    I wonder: there will be Opera included with Wii. Does this mean you can access the internet via Wii or just the Network of Nintendo?

    I find your lack of faith disturbing!
     
    James2t3 is offline. James2t3 10.05.2006#6

    The Nintendo Stars / Nintendo Club system will be incorporated into the Virtual Console

    OMG YES! finally a decent use for them on a regualr basis. The symphoney game looks superb.

    XBL Gamertag: James2t3
     
    jb is offline. jb 10.05.2006#7

    Laurelin said:
    I wonder: there will be Opera included with Wii. Does this mean you can access the internet via Wii or just the Network of Nintendo?

    I hope so! Would be awesome to be able to access the net on the Wii on the go for cheats/tips etc.

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    James2t3 is offline. James2t3 10.05.2006#8

    I hope so! Would be awesome to be able to access the net on the Wii on the go for cheats/tips etc.

    And post on C3 of courseSmilieSmilie

    XBL Gamertag: James2t3
     
    Robbo is offline. Robbo 10.05.2006#9

    Grvmb7iir said:
    The Nintendo Stars system will be integrated JUSt as I predicted.Smilie

    You the man! 0/\0 Smilie

    It makes sense for Nintendo to continue using the stars, They have the Nintendo Bedroom thingy where you download items for a desktop bedroom or something to that extent. I like the idea of the ring tones being downloaded, but i'd rather use the stars to get things on AC:Wii or access demo's/extra levels.

    It'll be nice to see Diddy Kong racing. Its a shame that they didn't continue with the DK racer from years ago (e3 demo when the GC was announced i think). Still, the original on N64 was good and so theres gotta be high hopes for the sequal.

     
    HazukiSan is offline. HazukiSan 10.05.2006#10

    Grvmb7iir said:
    The Nintendo Stars system will be integrated JUSt as I predicted.Smilie

    Just as you and 90% of the NIntendo community predicted Smilie

     
    Zapp is offline. Zapp 10.05.2006#11

    i would like the Nintendo Stars system!! that would be good!!

    ps. I FOOKING LOVE PETROID PRIME 3 CORRUPTION!!!!! TEEEHEEEEE :p

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    Raff is offline. Raff 10.05.2006#12

    HazukiSan said:
    Grvmb7iir said:The Nintendo Stars system will be integrated JUSt as I predicted.Smilie
    Just as you and 90% of the NIntendo community predicted Smilie

    Not really, you'd be surprised.

    It's going to be shit and you jolly well know it.
     
    Guest 10.05.2006#13

    AND there are still secrets to the Wii Remote! Watch the Zelda Wii demo by Bill Trinen and Nate Bildorff; Bill confirms there that the speaker is just one they confirmed yesterday, there's still MORE!! SmilieSmilieSmilieSmilieSmilie

     
    Slydevil is offline. Slydevil 10.05.2006#14

    ^^^^^^^
    I'm sure they are speaking of a microphone, I read somewhere a guy spoke into his remote and it came out another guys remote..
    Vague I know but yeh talking using microphones, no need to buy extra peripherals for voice recognition..etc should be cool if I am correct Smilie

    IANC said:
    Dude yuor totally awesome. And i won't be killing you anytime soon.

     
    tismatron is offline. tismatron 10.05.2006#15

    oh i hope we hear more about the secret games!!!

     
    tiamat1990 is offline. tiamat1990 11.05.2006#16

    Wait a moment...what was the big secret Reggie was talking about? Was it the speaker on the remote?Smilie

     
    Kangaroo_Kid is offline. Kangaroo_Kid 11.05.2006#17

    I read somewhere a guy spoke into his remote and it came out another guys remote..

    That's very cool, I imagine it'll also be used to talk to other users online. A feature I think is awesome. It will open up a whole new stream of interactivity. I never thought I'd here myself say this but I can't wait for the next Mario Party game.

     

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