The latest issue of Famitsu has information on Dead Rising coming to the Nintendo Wii. The game won’t be a sequel, but rather a port of the Xbox 360 version. Obviously the game will make use of the Wii’s motion controls, which should make taking pictures and tearing apart zombies just that much more satisfying.
It’s really hard to tell from the pics, but it looks pretty good, graphically. Of course, it’s entirely possible that those are pics from the 360 vesion and they’re merely talking about how it will work on the Wii. I really enjoyed the first Dead Rising, despite some annoying quirks that held it back from greatness.
Now, this is just one more example of a game that Nintendo could have at least made mention of in their E3 conrference yesterday. We know they have games coming, but Nintendo seemed entirely disinterested in sharing what’s in store.
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July 16th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
It is getting more and more apparent that Nintendo’s conference wasn’t for us but for the non-gaming press.
July 16th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Sadly, I think that’s what e3 is going to become, because as gamers we’ll get our news elsewhere, and since it’s not much of an event like it used to be, It’s just going to be a chance to brag to the mainstream.
After, even MS, while still more actual stuff we’d care about than Nintendo, was very mainstream centric.
July 16th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Well that you care about. All that the lame first and third person shooters and Final Fantasy’s in the world won’t get any reaction from me greater than a yawn.
July 17th, 2008 at 12:45 am
While I found no portion of this year’s E3 particularly enticing, I think you can expert the worst of the worst (that is, Nintendo’s press conference) to be gone within a few years. I’m calling it now–the Wii will go the way of the Furby, the Tamagotchi, the slap bracelet, and every other fad without substance before it. This is a company so short on good ideas that it’s forgotten how to make video games and knows only how to churn out tech demos to accompany each new and useless peripheral (not sure whether they’re peripherals for the Wii or peripherals for the underside of my couch, considering that’s where they spend most of their time.) Maybe it was once the cheapest system, but when you figure in the remotes, nunchucks, virtual console controller, zapper, steering wheels, balance board, and now WiiMotion and microphone–and consider that what I’ve got to show for it is a Web TV that can estimate my weight, though it takes about 10 minutes to do that–the Wii is an impossibly bad deal. Eventually people will begin to realize that these add-ons never do what’s promised (isn’t precise motion control exactly why we bought the Wii in the first place? How the hell is it being sold to me again?) The real “wiimotion” in 2008 is extreme regret for trusting this company to get ANYTHING right post-SNES.
July 17th, 2008 at 12:46 am
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July 17th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
You are calling it now? Like people have been calling it for at least 2 years now?
July 19th, 2008 at 8:25 am
James, pretty much everything that Nintendo has released thus far on the Wii has been a winner. Galaxy, Smash Bros., Metroid, and Zelda are all gems, not to mention Strikers. I have yet (and will probably never) try the Wiifit, but most gaming sights have given it favorable reviews. No, it isn’t stellar, but nobody’s using it as a nightstand ala the Virtual Boy. The Wii is far from a slap bracelet.
3rd party releases are a different story. No More Heroes is the only 3rd party-released dominating game that I can think of. Oh, and Boom Blox. If these companies can get their act together and actually start putting out quality games more often, then the Wii will be a winner for years to come.
As for peripherals, most of them, regardless of platform, are quite gimmicky and are rarely must-haves.
Anyways, Jeff, you are being surprisingly optimistic for a game that’s gonna be a PORT of an 360/PS3 game. have you forgotten that 99% of ports on the Wii deserve to be in the garbage can? Think Marvel, NBA Live, or Smackdown. Yikes! RE4 and Okami are the only solid ports I can think of. Let’s hope Deadrising will follow the latter trend.
July 21st, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Maybe someone else can dig up more definitive sales numbers for No More Heroes, but I’m under the impression that it has yet to sell 200,000 copies, which is a commercial failure–hardly a “dominating” performance. In the past decade, Nintendo has been well-documented as uncooperative with 3rd party developers, the apex of which has been releasing such cheap, primitive hardware that serious developers (read: those NOT making throwaway titles like Endless Ocean, Carnival Games, et al.) are simply unable to realize their creative vision on a Nintendo console. Those who love and respect video games as a medium with great (and seldom recognized) potential for artistic expression should consider it a slap in the face that the company who saved home consoles from collapse would end up like this. I guess that’s what happens when you make a marketing executive with no prior experience with video games the president of your company.
And re: first party Wii “gems”–though I disagree with everyone one, I’ll allow you Galaxy for your personal taste. Smash Bros. Brawl, on the other hand, is a total rehash of Melee, with an abysmal side-scroller added wherein each level is nearly identical. Zelda is Nintendo’s stalwart of hack n’ slash fantasy storytelling, wherein “plot progression” means idly collecting enough rupees to repair a bridge. Strikers is a game so poorly conceived and executed that any semblance of intelligent gameplay is tossed out the window in favor of scoring glitchy goal after indefensible, glitchy goal by teleporting into the net. As for Metroid, you’re delusional. If anything about that game besides the ‘Metroid’ name or utter, unrelenting boredom compels you to play it, then I have some land in WTFlorida that I’d like to sell you.
No offense.
July 22nd, 2008 at 4:06 am
You sound mighty threatened by the Wii. Maybe you should seek counseling to help you get over your fear of a gaming console.
Or can just go back to playing one of the 600 or so first or third person shooters on the 360 while pretending that they are the apex of gaming “expression”. I’m sure the 360 is a fine system if you enjoy those but it isn’t for me.
I have no belief that the Wii is the greatest thing ever but I have enjoyed it for the year and a half that I have owned the system. That includes Galaxy, Zelda, and Prime 3. No Strikers for me though, not a fan of soccer. I just got my PS3 so that’ll cover other games to.
July 22nd, 2008 at 10:11 am
Ignoring the personal invective.
No one is less entertained by FPS’s than I am. I didn’t even like BioShock. Great games are a tiny minority on every console, but they’re much more LIKELY on the PS3 and 360. Imagine how Wii graphics, controls, storage capacity, lack of surround sound, etc. would’ve cramped the style of an epic like MGS4. Or even a last-gen title on a competitor’s console like Shadow of the Colossus.
That said, no console of this generation has more than a couple of games I really like so far, but they’re on the way–just not for Wii. Eventually I’ll be able to play Heavy Rain, Brutal Legend, the new Team Ico project, Fallout 3, Silent Hill: Homecoming (fingers crossed), Beyond Good and Evil 2, Fable 2 (I didn’t really sing the first game’s praises, but the prospect of online co-op is tantalizing), Mass Effect 2, and The Last Remnant.
Not one of those will be available for the Wii, simply because the Wii couldn’t handle them. This is why, as Cammie Dunaway says, Nintendo systems get “custom” versions of games traditionally released for other consoles. It isn’t that I’m “threatened” by the Wii, it’s just that as someone who loves video games, I hate to see so many people under the false impression that Nintendo’s half-games, simulations, and stale franchises are all the industry has to offer.
July 22nd, 2008 at 1:07 pm
I’m a hardcore gamer, and I’ve worked as a gaming journalist for the better part of a decade (this blog is just a distraction), and the Wii is something like we’ve never seen. Yes, there’s always a top dog each generation, but the Wii is more than just that. The Wii broke out of the boundaries that confined the gaming audience and its driving gaming into new frontiers. With that, you’re going to get a lot of pandering to these new crowds, because what good would it do to attract them only to lose them a year or two later?
I know it’s frustrating for the Nintendo faithful to see this, but you have to realize that, like the GameCube, the Wii is a supplemental console to either the PS3 or 360. You’ll get your traditional gaming fixes on the 360 or PS3 and you’ll get your occasional hardcore experience on the Wii, but more often than not, you’ll use the Wii to try out new ways to play. Yeah, I sound like a PR guy, but really it’s the best way to approach gaming this generation. I have plenty of Wii titles, and I’m looking forward to many more, but I understand what Nintendo is doing and what they’re shooting for right now. As they continue to grow and expand, their traditional teams will put out traditional titles. You don’t have to worry about the Zelda team making Cake Mania 3 or anything like that. You do have to realize, however, that Nintendo is going to use venues like E3 to impress the mainstream press. Look for Nintendo to announce their hardcore games directly to the gaming journalists.
However, saying that Super Mario Galaxy is anywhere near stale is crazy talk, son. Also, don’t pin too much hope of Fable 2, as it’s going to be more of the same and another sub-15 hour adventure. Heck, the original Fable didn’t have half the depth as any of the main Zelda games in either combat or story.
July 22nd, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Every Zelda story = something happened to princess, so you have to collect acorns for some fairy. I would sacrifice a lifetime of Fable for a minute of Grim Fandango, but still Fable was at least something relatively new compared to the 3D Zeldas. I guess I should emphasize that I’m not really part of the Nintendo faithful–the SNES was a great console for me, my second favorite of all-time, but it had nothing to do with Nintendo as a developer (except maybe with HAL Labs and Kirby Superstar.)
At any rate, thanks for the reasoned response. If nothing else, I’m glad that the Wii has got so many in the community thinking about *why* they like video games.
July 22nd, 2008 at 8:55 pm
JUST KIDDING FANBOY, KEEP ON SUCKLING MIYAMOTO’S CORPORATE UDDER, YOU SHILL! PEOPLE LIKE YOU MAKE ME SICK.
(not really! :)
July 23rd, 2008 at 11:22 pm
James, you seem to be predicting the future outcome of the Wii based on your personal opinions it’s games. Sure, you think the new Smash Bros. is a regurgitated version of the old one and you might be right, but obviously not everyone thinks this way. The same goes for Metroid and soccer.
By the way, of course console epics such as MG4, GTA, etc. wouldn’t be excecuted as well on the Wii. However, I wouldn’t be suprised if we saw some spin-offs of these franchises on the Wii in the future.
Don’t get me wrong. I am still waiting for something a little more hardcore to come to the Wii. While I don’t think it is the greatest thing ever, many people do, and this is the the Wii will not fail.
Have you played No More Heroes? It’s awesome! Just because it flew under the radar and didn’t generate staggering sales does not make it a loser.
July 24th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Re: No More Heroes, I think it’s the best thing on the Wii outside of the Homebrew Channel. Fund raising between missions aside, I really enjoyed it (a really fantastic article on the message behind the game outlined reasons why it was there, but I still think it was a cheap ploy to lengthen play-time… personally, I would rather a game be excellent for an hour than okay for forty.) No More Heroes isn’t a loser for its poor sales, Nintendo is a loser for basically ignoring its only worthwhile exclusive title–and I think it was a deliberate business decision. If Nintendo gave more credence to third party games than, “Oh, we have some of those, too,” I would at least have a little respect for the company. They’ve had plenty of chances to attract me as a gamer–I’d even reconsider my abhorrence of the big N if they threw me the slightest bone (a stateside release of Mother 3, for example.) But I don’t expect it to happen. Eventually, Miyamoto will retire, the Legend of Zelda will go the way of film series with a dozen sequels (i.e. “straight to video”), and the company will have to offer something truly new (*not* truly gimmicky) or get used to the way things were with the GameCube.