Nintendo Wii?

josh_parsons626

Does anybody know what's the deal with the new Nintendo? First I heard it was called Nintendo Evolution and it was supposed to be able to play regular nintendo, super nintendo, nintendo 64 and nintendo gamecube games. And I seen an add of it the other day and it's now called "Wii" with all new games. Does anybody know what's going on with this new thing?

bobman1235

Pay attention much?

First of all, yes they changed the name to Wii, although there has been some question about whether that will be the final name.

I'm not sure about it playing "old games", but in all honesty, it makes no sense.... how would it play Nintendo or Super Nintendo games? They were CARTRIDGE games. I can guarantee that the Wii is not going to have a cartridge slo, so the only way it would be able to play old games would be to either have some kind of emulator with all of the games built in, or sell them in some kind of old game collection package.

A little Google work probably could have told you all this and more without my condescending attitude.

bdaley6509

What's google?

venomclan

bobman1235 wrote:

Pay attention much?

A little Google work probably could have told you all this and more without my condescending attitude.

A little harsh for a newbie, don't you think Bob?
Venom

bobman1235

Nah. I'm all about the tough love.

tommyboy

bobman1235 wrote:

Pay attention much?

First of all, yes they changed the name to Wii, although there has been some question about whether that will be the final name.

I'm not sure about it playing "old games", but in all honesty, it makes no sense.... how would it play Nintendo or Super Nintendo games? They were CARTRIDGE games. I can guarantee that the Wii is not going to have a cartridge slo, so the only way it would be able to play old games would be to either have some kind of emulator with all of the games built in, or sell them in some kind of old game collection package.

I thought the games would be saved on the small HDD than you could transfer it to the memory card. Thats another thing I don't understand, Nintendo is making a service where you can download games but they only make about 256mb HDD (I think its 256), while the xbox is like 40 GB. C'mon nintendo, at least make it 1GB! I want to get these games but have to store them on a memory card which will cost more money. I am going to have to say this now, If nintendo makes the wii any more than $199, I'm not buying it.

mutelight

The Wii is looking to be quite an awesome system. It is nice and small, has awesome gyro sensed controllers. As far as the older nintendo games the only available games are going to be one made in-house by nintendo. (Mario games and stuff) As far as the memory, NES games average around 1MB where SNES games are 4-5MB max. N64 games are around 20MB so even with a 256MB memory card you can store a fairly large amount of games. As far as what type of storage medium they are going to use on the final SKU it is still up in the air. (Xbox 1 had a 8GB HDD and Xbox 360 has a 20GB HDD with 13GB available out of the box BTW.)

Here is a link showing off what the system is all about.
http://www.gamespot.com/features/6146540/index.html

bknauss

Its a removable storage card like used in digi cams, so you can purchase a huge one if you want. It just comes with the small one.

Anyway, its innovative, which the other next gen consoles can't claim much... if any. I might actually pick one up.

Mjr7531

A couple of things...

-Wii is the final name.

-512 MB internal Flash, with add'l SD Storage.
-USB ports (for external drives?)

-NES games were kilobytes.

-There's no info about the VR Console service really, but, the way they've been talking, Sega Genesis and Turbo Grafx 16 are going to have the best of the system on the Wii, which leaves room to interpret that a great deal more is going to be from Nintendo, ala: Capcom, etc.

-It's gonna be the size of three DVD boxes put together, cool no?

mutelight

Mjr7531 wrote:

-NES games were kilobytes.

-It's gonna be the size of three DVD boxes put together, cool no?

-Yeah, sorry, I should have said less than a megabyte although a rare few games topped out at 1MB.

-I still can't get over how small it is, I love it. Granted horsepower wise its clocking around the speed of the Xbox but the revolutionary controller scheme looks extremely cool not to mention highly optimized games. :cool: