Nintendo @ E3 2007 - Numbers, Dates, the Zapper and … a Scale?
Posted by inpheaux on July 11th, 2007 at 12:59 pmI like Nintendo Press Conferences because you can generally summarize them pretty easily.
Numbers: Shocking news - Reggie loves his charts & graphs and Nintendo is totally dominating everything when it comes to numbers. The DS now makes up a quarter of the console market, and somehow the GBA is refusing to give up its marketshare. All the while, the DS is still gaining overall marketshare and the Wii is blowing up everywhere. The Wii has been effectively sold out worldwide since it was released. Nintendo is leading in market expansion, blah blah blah old people, girls, etc. Nothing new here, but still, good job Nintendo!
Dates:
- Smash Bros. Brawl - 3 DEC 2007
- Super Mario Galaxy - 12 NOV 2007
- Mario Kart Wii - Q1 2008 (With Online!)
The Zapper: We saw a prototype of the Zapper last year, and it's back, and ready to be released later this year. It'll be sold for $20, and will have some kind of software pack-in (fingers crossed for Duck Hunt Wii). The Delay in release was so they could have games ready for it, and now they've got games. Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles was made for the Zapper, as was a port of Sega's Ghost Squad arcade light-gun game, and an upcoming Medal of Honor game from EA, which is slated to have 32 player MP. The Zapper is *not* slated to work well with Metrioid Prime 3, but that's because the Nunchuck is slated to be used for a bunch of weird gestures.
Wii Fit: I . . Still don't quite know what to think here. Nintendo developed a scale peripheral to help them further expand on the fitness training kind of stuff built into Wii Sports. The scale lets them measure balance, weight, BMI, posture, and so on. Based around this new input system they've built this whole new fitness training game, with 40 minigames split up into four main categories: Balance games, Muscle definition, Yoga and Aerobics. Like Brain Age and Wii Sports it tracks your progress over time along with your friends and family members. I guess again, like Brain Age, this is going to be another one of those things that doesn't seem like a game (because I don't think it is), and definitely isn't something anyone was demanding Nintendo to make or even hoping they'd make. But like Brain Age and like the Wii in general, it could very well be one of those things where as soon as you play it it all makes sense and you NEED one.
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