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    Post E3 2006 | Wii Sports, ACWii, Starfox DS and WiiConnect 24 info

    on 16.05.2006 at 16:16 User Icon Posted by John Boyle (HazukiSan) Number of Comments Comments: 16 Number of Reads Reads: 3151
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    Wii-x2's interview with Katsuya Eguchi gleamed some new information about several Nintendo projects. Firstly he spoke about Wii Sports and commented on the possibility of there being new sports added:

    "Within the Wii Sports category there are action sports like tennis, baseball, golf and then we have motor sports, so you might see something like a jetski or a bike. There could be various applications within motor sports but they will all exist within the Wii Sports title.

    "What's on the show floor is just kind of a sample. We don't know exactly what we'll have yet. There will probably be more action sports and motor sports."


    He then went on to talk about ACWii, stating that whilst he couldn't say much that the Wiimote would feature heavily in chopping trees, digging holes and fishing. No surprises there. He went on to talk about the WiiConnect 24 service with an intriguing idea...

    If a player is playing a game where they have a score, it could be posted to a scoreboard showing all the rankings of people throughout the world. That might be one application. Unfortunately I can't really share any more than that because right now we're still very much in the planning stages.

    "Also, you know the caricatures of Mr Iwata and Mr Miyamoto playing Wii Sports Tennis at the media briefing? Miyamoto-san has actually expressed a desire to allow people to create several such caricatures and send them out over WiiConnect24. That could be a possibility. Maybe if you have a member of your family that's particularly good at art, they might be able to pick up the Wii controller and create a caricature very simply. The images of Miyamoto-san and Iwata-san were also created very easily."


    So the possibility of having yourself as a character playing as a computer on other people's consoles? Instantly updatable high score tables from lal over the world. Seems like WiiConnect 24 is beginning to take shape.

    Finally he commented on the wifi structure of Starfox DS, likening it to Mario Kart DS.

    "It'll be similar to Mario Kart in that you can play online with friends and strangers, with four pilots in one match and everyone using an Arwing. So just think of Mario Kart as a guide to how StarFox will work."


    Interesting stuff indeed, stick with C3 for more info post E3.
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    great news!!! i like the idea of WiiConnect24 it sounds very interesting!! anyway you know that Nintey are gonna come up with some great ideas!!!

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    You'd better be able to choose who you play against in sfds.
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    Id like a full Mario-Paint revolution which could be used to create 3D charecters/avatars for some games.
    (even just sports+AC it would be fantastic)
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    I must say the thought of ingame high score tables being switched for online high score tables is pant meltingly superb.
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    great, i didnt know starfox was online!
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    Scoreboards are nothing new to Live subscribers though.

    They better get rid of the stupid friends code system thing though.

    Apparently they aren't?
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    Even my game has an onlien high score table....*runs* Smilie

    Starfox DS multiplayer like Mario Kart? *sigh*
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    Hang on a minute... 'If a player is playing a game where they have a score, it could be posted to a scoreboard showing all the rankings of people throughout the world.' etc... Sounds alot like what we were discussing only a few days ago in my thread... The thread I actually sent Nintendo a link to ^^;
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    It does? I would have thought that was a pretty bog standard sort of feature Smilie MPH has an online highscore board....
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    get2sammyb said:
    They better get rid of the stupid friends code system thing though.Apparently they arent?


    Apparently not, hopefully they'll make it a unique code for every game but then "big evil people" can track you down
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    Scoreboards are nothing new to Live subscribers though.


    Nope, although this would be constantly updated and appear like an offline table if you get me.
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    I like the character building idea, it'd give games like Wii Sports a nice personal touch if you were yourself in them. Online high scoring is pretty bogstandard, I'd be disappointed if they weren't putting this kind of thing in really.


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    Mason said:
    I like the character building idea, itd give games like Wii Sports a nice personal touch if you were yourself in them.


    Yeah agree with you, id would make the game more fun!! as if the game is real, coz you have urself on the game and your controlling yourself!! ahh see where im getting!!!

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    "Also, you know the caricatures of Mr Iwata and Mr Miyamoto playing Wii Sports Tennis at the media briefing? Miyamoto-san has actually expressed a desire to allow people to create several such caricatures and send them out over WiiConnect24. That could be a possibility. Maybe if you have a member of your family that's particularly good at art, they might be able to pick up the Wii controller and create a caricature very simply. The images of Miyamoto-san and Iwata-san were also created very easily."


    Wouldn't it be a great feature if you could create a character and save them to your respective wiimote if desired? That way, if you played any Wii Sport or AC, you would have your charcter ready in hand! You could take your creation through different games that aloud personalised characters! Maybe i'm thinking too much into it, but rather than creating a different one each time, it'd be time saving and very appealing to think your person could switch between Wii Tennis to AC Wii...like your more part of the game. Shigsy did say the Wii mote could be personalised. Smilie
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