Nintendo News

Animal Crossing City Folk

A sequel to Animal Crossing is coming out WITH an all new peripheral for the Wii, the WiiSpeak community microphone. My concern with the mic is appears to prop up on your TV or something. I can’t imagine running the cord so far over to a coffee table with everything else on the Wii being fairly cord management free. So the real concern is if it picks up voices well over background noise. As far as Animal Crossing goes, I may pass on this iteration. I loved the first one, but I may have outgrown it.

The sequel to Wii Sports is coming out touting a good reason to get the motion plus sensor. Wii Sports Resort will have a frisbee game, jetskii game, and a sword game hopefully among others.

Nintendo also announces GTA: Chinatown Wars for the DS. No comment for me at the moment. Honestly the last GTA games I played and liked were 1 and 2 with the overhead views. But to be fair, I never played the rest, just watched for a bit.

Miyamoto showed off Wii Music which allows you to play 50 instruments with no added peripherals asides from the balance board. The video I watched was amusing and that was pretty much it. It’s interesting you can control tempo but I think the song selection is very rated G and not as popular as the Guitar Hero/Rock Band selections. I think this is good for the under 10 year old crowd to get them into a more classical background into music but the real fun will lie in Rock Band for myself.

A sequel to Guitar Hero On Tour will be coming out this year, On Tour Decades. While I didn’t buy On Tour, the fact that it had 4 buttons and the song selection made me stay away from it. The songs were easy or the hard songs only coupled with 4 buttons didn’t sit well for me. Plus the other blow/yell into the mic gameplay was a negative.

Sony News

PS3 Greatest Hits at $30

Playstation 3’s response to Netflix: PSN Video

Sony is releasing a new 80GB PS3 to retail for $399. The bad news, same hardware as the 40GB which means no PS2 backwards compatibility as I understand it. This will only add confusion because the 80GB you get with the MSG4 bundle does have backwards compatibility.

God of War 3 was announced for PS3.

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