News: News Splurge From Nintendo Conference

Posted by Dean Jones - Oct 10th 2007 07:29

Lots of exciting news regarding the Wii and DS. New games, WiiWare titles, Wii Channels and more...

Last night, Nintendo held their Autumn conference in Japan. During this event, a fair few exciting things were announced. Here's the rundown on what happened:

New Wii Games

  • Two new Wii titles announced: Monster Hunter 3 and Super Mario Stadium Baseball.
    • Monster Hunter 3 is a very popular hack 'n Slash game with role-playing elements from Capcom. The game was previously announced for the PS3. The aim of Monster Hunter is to achieve the highest Hunter Rank by completing missions.
    • Super Mario Stadium Baseball is the sequel to the GameCube's Mario Superstar Baseball and will be the second Mario sport title on the Wii. We probably don't need to mention that the title's main feature will be the Wii Remote.

    New DS Game

  • Nintendo have announced Fire Emblem DS, another instalment in Nintendo's turn-based RPG/Strategy games. Not much information was released on the title.

    • New WiiWare Games

  • New WiiWare titles were announced: Mojipittan Wii, Doctor Mario Wii, Pokémon Farm, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Young King and the Promised Land, Joysound (Karaoke), Star Soldier R and Bomberman.
    • Pokémon Farm allows you to grad Pokémon from Diamond/Pearl and raise them in a farm-like environment on the Wii.
    • The biggest WiiWare game revealed was Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Young King and the Promised Land. It will be available for 1500 Wii Points, is a fully 3D game and lets you build your own country.

    New Wii Channels

  • The Mii-comparing Check Mii Out channel will be available in Japan this November.
  • A new channel was also confirmed - a DS Demo Channel, which turns your Wii into a DS download station.
  • The Everybody Votes Channel will soon be updated and will allow Wii owners to rate their games and find others they might like.

    • Other stuff

  • Some Super Smash Bros. Brawl information was released. Sonic the Hedgehog will be a playable character, and will be able to transform into Super Sonic. Brawl will also feature online co-op. It has also been delayed until the 24th January, 2008 in Japan.
  • Mario Kart Wii will include motorcycles. The Wii Steering Wheel will be thrown in for free.

    • Phew! Stay tuned for expanded information on these games as its released.


    Source: IGN



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    Team22 Says:
    October 10th, 2007 at 02:44 || Total Comments: 27
    		YES!!! Super Sonic.
    Awesome
    Team22 Says:
    October 10th, 2007 at 02:45 || Total Comments: 27
    		Also DS channel is really cool.hope there will be one for Wii too
    Vileplume2000 Says:
    October 10th, 2007 at 03:40 || Total Comments: 22
    		Wow, quite some news indeed! The WiiWare titles look promising. And yes, finally Fire Emblem DS!!!
    Mr_bogus Says:
    October 10th, 2007 at 03:55 || Total Comments: 224
    		Hudson also announced Star Soldier R for Wiiware, which is the one i'm looking forward to the most!
    Solitanze Says:
    October 10th, 2007 at 04:00 || Total Comments: 1655
    		Good news all round, but I want details on the "MEGATON FIRWARE UPGRADE". I'm sick of the extremely slow tedius interface as well as the extreme limitations on the Wii Shop with not being able to try out games before you buy with quick playable demos, the purchasing of points issue i've mentioned previously with being forced to fork out extra money for points you don't need, the exteme limitations on the Mii channel with inability to adjust clothing, hips/breasts for females and muscle tone/scars for males and the inability to use external storage devices for storage of Virtual console/game data as the provided memory is far too small...
    Gilead Says:
    October 10th, 2007 at 04:18 || Total Comments: 6
    		Seriously you take you're comments way to serous :)
    Flameboy Says:
    October 10th, 2007 at 04:28 || Total Comments: 118
    		WOW! All fantastic news! Don't know which is the best announcement....Wii Ware all sounds awesome, although we need either a HDD or let us stream stuff of SD cards...
    Kav82 Says:
    October 10th, 2007 at 04:49 || Total Comments: 47
    		It's been a great morning for us Nintendo fans!

    Like someone said in the forums, "I thought I woke up this morning, how come I'm still dreaming?"...

    Awesome!
    Furrytooth Says:
    October 10th, 2007 at 07:12 || Total Comments: 105
    		woo motorcycles in mario kart!
    make it mario kart brawl with additional characters like sonic and snaaake!! haha milk the collaborations do it nintendo do it!!
    RawkingRawlings Says:
    October 10th, 2007 at 07:39 || Total Comments: 344
    		Is the crystal chronicles wiiware game an entirely different game to the crystal bearers? I hope so!! By the way you can see one screenshot of the WiiWare game at the official site....it looks just like the gamecube game!
    D_prOdigy Says:
    October 10th, 2007 at 10:33 || Total Comments: 1596
    		Haha, looks like 10/10/07 was the E3 that never was!

    Monster Hunter 3 is absolutely guaranteed to be a huge phenomenom in Japan (although I still think the previous 2 were 'meh'). Also very happy about Fire Emblem DS - that game was made for handhelds; I just think it works so much slicker than on consoles.

    Looks like Squeenix are also beginning to take Wii seriously, which rocks. I believe the WiiWare game and Crystal Bearers are different.
    Meta_Omega Says:
    October 10th, 2007 at 10:52 || Total Comments: 23
    		Awesome. Too much to handle.
    Ajikan Says:
    October 10th, 2007 at 11:20 || Total Comments: 107
    		A mildly impressive nintendo conference. It's been a long time coming.
    Theegg94 Says:
    October 10th, 2007 at 12:38 || Total Comments: 121
    		OMG, All good info
    Nintendo-master2 Says:
    October 10th, 2007 at 13:21 || Total Comments: 1530
    		AHHHHH! i can't stop smiling! ^_^ it all sounds sooooo cool!, oh and what do they mean when they say motorcycles in mario kart??? looks like no more "i want sonic" woo :D
    plus I'm glad their is a sequel to mario baseball, i never got the first one :( My GAME shop said it isnt popular enough so they didn't ship it! :( ah well wooooo! there is a sequel! :D

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