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NINTENDOS BIGGEST SECRET in Gaming
I found this on a site and thought that everyone here would LOVE to hear this lol I know I did.

Hi, it's me Fastbreak again. Can you comment on this?----------------

Hello, I thought I would share some info on the Nintendo that you might not know. I have no and will offer no credibility so take these words as what they aretyped and posted on the internet. Beyond that though, I challenge you to wait for the announcements to see if I am indeed truthful. No matter how you swing on the speculation pole I hope you enjoy the read. I apologize for the sloppy typing.

Cheers thumbs up


Nintendo Wii: Final Secrets revealed

-Nintendo will hold a Space Word 2006 in late August, planning is already underway.

-Nintendo decided to withhold a great deal of knockout news from E3 for two reasons. One being that they wanted to reveal it at a show that solely featured Nintendo and Nintendo products, and two wanted to build hype close to launch day.

-Nintendo will show a radically improved sensor bar, and announce that the range from user-to-TV concern has been nullified.

-Nintendo will give a brief overview of the Wi-Fi Connect24 interface and Virtual Console, that will be demoed.

-Nintendo will reveal 13 new titles, four of which being new Nintendo IP's to be released from between Q2 2007 through Q4 2008. One Shigeru Miyamoto himself will be producing and directing.

-One being a movie-based game from Shinji Mikami.

-Another being a Russian spy/insurrection game from Zoonami, directed by Martin Hollis (Goldeneye007 Perfect Dark fame) is to be rated AO.

-Another being a racing game from THQ called Deux Throttle: The World.

-Another being a sort of master chef cooking game.

-Another being a game called "Coolman's Journal" from Monolith.

-Another being a game called "Uni Oku Ray", is to be rated AO.

-Another being Suda 51's/Takashi Miike's "Hero's" based on film Ichi the Killer. Rated to be AO.

-Sadness gameplay to be showcased.

-Excite Truck's new innovative approach to Burnout-style crashes and destruction.

-Another being a followup Wii title to the critically-acclaimed Kid Icarus. Will be rated M.

-Another being a showcase of Red Steel's furthered polish and enhanced graphics detail, as well as full 3d-tracking applied to the sword-play.

-Another being gameplay footage of Disaster: Day of Crisis, will sport mind-blowing graphics and innovative control.

-New Super Mario Galaxy footage will be shown where you manipulate momentum and manipulate environments with the Wiimote to move Mario indirectly.

-Space World 2006 will last 120 min. and Shinji Mikami and Martin Hollis will make appearances. Mikami will also announce a Resident Evil 4 Ultimate Edition for Wii that utilizes the innovative control as well as include everything the PS2 version had and much more. This will be playable. Also will promise a Resident Evil 5 version of Wii to ship simultaneously with other platform versions as well as a much later Wii-Resident Evil exclusive towards late 2009. A keynote of the main speech will probably focus on Nintendo's philosophy to make Wii an "All-Inclusive" console, supporting all genres and age groups. Will also make mention that alongside Mario and Zelda, AO games will have a home as well for the sophisticated aging gamer.

Nintendo will reveal prices and launch date. A $299 bundle that comes with two Wiimotes, nunchuku attachment, classic game pad attachment, DVD9 attachment, wireless headset (limited) 2GB SD card, Wii sports game, plus ten free virtual console downloads. The $199 bundle to come with one Wiimote, nunchuku attachment, classic game pad attachment, Wii Sports game, &five free virtual console downloads. Launch date will be set at Nov. 10 2006 is revolution day.

-Nintendo will announce support for a modified HD-DVD format for space reasons, hencing the need for a separate DVD9 attachment. Nintendo Wii will not include or support third-party HDD initially.

-Launch titles as of right this second include Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, Wii Sports, Red Steel, Call of Duty 3, Disaster: Day of Crisis, Excite Truck, Madden 2007 Wii, Super Monkey Ball: Bananna Blitz, Trauma Center : Second Opinion, Rayman: Raving Rabbids, Blitz: (working title), X-Men: Ultimate Alliance, Elebits and Dragon Quest Swords. Which Nintendo is aiming for a very appetizing launch from day one, some titles may get pushed back if not ready as a side note.

-Nintendo President Satoru Iwata will take stage and introduce "One of Nintendo's newest best friends", Hideo Kojima will then take the stage. Following this introduce he will go on to explain the idea behind Elebits and then announce that a new "disruption" will take place. Going to the big screen will be shown a montage of all past MGS games followed by the Wii slogan, announcing that all past MGS major releases will be available on Virtual Console. Then news will be broken that MGS4: Guns of the Patriots will also be coming to the Wii consolewith all visuals in place.

-Following that the second half of show will begin explaining revolutionary ideas embedded in Wii hardware.

-This news will undoubtedly come as a shock to everyone who had thought that Wii would not be able to compete in the graphics department. But I suppose that it is why they saved this news for this show after MGS4 was announced, later Zoonami's game and Shinji Mikami's game will be shown in the show as Shinji Mikami and Zoonami CEO Martin Hollis will introduce these games.

-The truth is that IBM and ATI have openly stated they are working on hardware specifically suited for Wiiwhy? The truth is that IBM isn't developing a CPU at all, nor is ATI developing a GPU.

I may have lost you so lets swing back to the developmental stages of the N64. During that time an internal study was being done called "Project Reality" to allow visual, user interaction AND development to be mainly handled by procedural artificial intelligence. Needless to say this study was not ready for the release of the N64 so it was withheld until it was ready. The need for this "Project Reality" experiment was the fact that you can only push processors and video cards so far until you either create too much heat to be anywhere near consistently workable for the consumer, or two become radioactive. So something needed to be done to continue to improve visuals to meet customer satisfaction.

This AI process for visualizing, interacting with and developing games is built on the term RID. Standing for Reactionary, Instinctual, Domino AI. And can produce graphics and physics 100% true to life. The development console tool that is built for this tech can literally take nearly all the work out of producing the visuals/physics and allow the development teams to almost solely focus on story and gameplay. One demo that will be shown at the Space World show is that you can take actual video footage from say a camcorder, then translate it over to this special development console tool and be able to interact with it (switching camera angles as the A.I predicts how the objects should look and react from every angle), then map complex controls to it, and finally tweak it to become a gameplay scenario. Among other things that can be done. In essence this takes the majority of work out of the development of the graphics, allowing developers to scale the visuals to anywhere they want with a very user-friendly set of tools allowing visuals akin to an art deco style 1940's to 100% real world realism. I could get into the deep technical jargon of how this is done but it will be much easier to understand if you just go to Space World this year.

The "revolutionary" components of the Wii console are really from a development sense that the consumer will reap the rewards from. As I said before IBM and ATI are not making processors and video cards. They are building what Nintendo has dubbed "bridges" that will support and regulate the parameters of the advanced artificial intelligence. The two bridges will not function in the same way as CPUs and VPUs they will become (in the final product) one structure that will operate and communicate seamlessly. The bridge that IBM is responsible for will handle physical interpretations, and predictability etc. The bridge ATI is working on will handle structure, basic instinct patterns, etc. As I said I could get more into that kind of stuff but you wouldn't have any idea what I am talking about. My job here is to train other techs to introduce this new technology to developers and teach them how to apply this radically different albeit much cheaper and easier process into mainstream development practice.

This reason this has been kept so far under wraps is that Nintendo since finalizing the code and hardware had to patent it extensively. Which is a very expensive and tedious process, every single line of code from this technology has been patented. So that means that Microsoft and Sony could release three or more consecutive generations of consoles and still not being able to come close to the graphical/physics prowess of the Wii console. The Wii console will also have a sound card that will support Dolby Pro Logic 2 sound (at the moment). The AI bridges will be inclosed inside the very sleek and compact Wii console (the actual module the bridges are housed in is quite small). This console also produces very little heat.

What makes this an ideal decision if a drastic one at that is that it is extremely inexpensive seeing that extremely complex A.I is simply command line and leaves no room for error, which made this an extremely unforgiving project to undertake. Since truly good A.I. must be flexible and robust enough to make theoretical "foresighted" decisions so to speak it was very difficult to create the interface. Which is also why A.I. is often the weakest element within game design. Since very generic use of silicon was used in the process and everything technologically functions on a command-line AI interface (the development console tool being a GUI that acts as a shell to simplify the development process) and finally the chip or "bridge" yields are 100% consistant with the target performance. Unlike the manufacture of CPUs or VPUs. which enormously heightens the price of manufacturing generic modern consoles. What the end product yields is something that will drastically shake up the way games are developed and visualized while retaining the same visual result just on a much higher scale.

What I have described to you is something that only internal people here and first party and only a few second party developers are partial to. Nintendo has created a brand new interface for the development community to take advantage of. While being able to produce fully interactive environments and character models in almost pure realism, they have ended the "graphics war" and will be allowing development teams to produce any type of visual style they wish very quickly and allotting more time to the gameplay and story. This process also make developing on Wii much cheaper because a good portion of a game's budget goes toward rendering visuals and or physics. Another good portion goes to marketing which is mostly handled by the source company and publisher.

Think of this change in development like the change from the original I believe DOCTOR DOS interface when it was bought by Microsoft and a little bit of code was tweaked released MS-DOS. Think of standard development practices as MS-DOS as the analogy. Then Microsoft released the Windows which made interacting with DOS (in those days at least) no hassle at all. It simplified the commands without having to memorize them and executed program with the click of a mouse. Think of the revolutionary and user-friendly introduction of Windows into the PC space as what this new development interface for Wii will do for the game industry. And now you know full well why Nintendo hasn't let this one slip. Simply put when Nintendo stated that they are not directly competing with the other companies, they said that because they literally believe the other companies can't compete with them. Also notice how as developers close to Nintendo will quickly say the Wii is very easy to develop on they are just as quick to either change the subject or elaborate more broadly. This shows just how deep the NDA goes.

Something else that will be revealed is what everyone has been wondering which is what is housed under the flap on the front of the Wii. I will be happy to share that with you. What is under is a camera/sensor that will be able to assist the sensor bar with certain games and also allow the user to record/stream video, take picture and the like. In action this flap will automatically open when certain game use it or when it is needed by the user. Which can be done in-game through the "Home" menu to access the camera and video functions.

I am glad to be able to bring you possibly the first ever actual true evidence of Wii and I hope you and your readers enjoy it. I know a good wealth of people will deny me or say am I a liar or whatnot, or it is impossible what I explain, but I can understand that. So many others have made false claims and been flat wrong, but I do guarantee that everything here is 100% true about Wii. If anything I know skepticism is a part of the community, so for everyone who is let the announcement of Space World 2006 be my first truth. I ask please if anyone has questions about anything I have mentioned, I do know a great deal about the some games I have mentioned here, but would not like to get overly technical here about specs or hardware, most people will just not understand. Please if you want to ask and I will do my best to answer any questions.

Thank you
Posted by Magic D Mon Jun 19, 2006 12:45 am
Nintendo not working on a Next Gen Console in Gaming
admin wrote:
Thats a great way of looking at it; if you like the Nintendo's games, then the Wii is for you, I think the PS3 games are a little "mainstream" for me.


Ok Im gonna make a topic about this and I want you to tell me what you think about it on that topic ok. Im gonna give a link to the site here but Im gonna post all the info on the actual topic dude if you like Nintendo then your in for a GIANT surprise trust me Im pissed I cant have it now.

http://saruwatari-wii.blogspot.com/2006/06/prices.html
Posted by Magic D Mon Jun 19, 2006 12:39 am
The Wii Portal in Gaming
I found this link on another Nintendo group Im in and I thought that you guys should know about this. All the info this page gives you makes me want the Wii THAT MUCH MORE. Here is the link to the site tell me what you think.

http://saruwatari-wii.blogspot.com
Posted by Magic D Sat Jun 17, 2006 6:07 pm
Nintendo not working on a Next Gen Console in Gaming
admin wrote:
I think it's still next gen too, with the next generation technologies and design, but it will be cheap, and set apart from the 360 and PS3 I think; he was speaking in metaphorical terms; not to be taken too literally.
Competition has definatly meant better quality, and price wars to some extent (when one company reduces prices, the competitior simetimes does)
In other topics I have talked about more intergration and compatability; and with Microsoft in the scene, they are definatly pushing things. If it was still Sony and Nintendo, (and maybe even Sega), I dont think it would be the same, as Microsoft's visions are totally different, and they have different "Mission Statements".


Well when it comes to intergration and compatability Sony this way around has that in the bag. Yes the 360 can become a computer if you like (very weak computer but a computer non the less) but the PS3 is going to be. A sling box, a DVR, a Blue Ray player, and a high powered gaming console. Im not singing the praises of Sony here Im just admitting they have ALOT of intergration in there system. I on the other hand enjoy Intergration but in the very end Im just buying a gaming console. I want to be able to play GAMES. Yes I want the new Nintendo to play DVD's but not be a DVR or a sling box. Thats just too much. I dont know I guess it all comes down to what your oppion or prefrence is in choosing what console you want this year. Personaly I want the Wii NO DOUTE and then a 360 for Halo 3, Gears of War, and Too Human. Sony just doesn't have enuph good games to make me want to buy a $600 system.
Posted by Magic D Sat Jun 17, 2006 6:02 pm
Wii NES controller in Gaming
DarkShadow wrote:


umm we cant see it lol
Posted by Magic D Wed Jun 14, 2006 8:23 pm
Nintendo not working on a Next Gen Console in Gaming
admin wrote:
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has said that the Nintendo Wii is not a so-called next-generation console. Iwata said: "Nintendo is not working on a next-generation console. 'Next-generation' implies that the console is an extension of previous installments. We believe that extending our current line will not lead to larger markets, and could possibly even lead to smaller markets."

Though many game pundits (CarnageX ) have called the face off between the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii the "next-generation console war," one of gaming's leading lights does not see the conflict in such terms.

http://uk.gamespot.com/news/6152265.html?sid=6152265


I belive that it is still next gen. Iwata said that "next gen" means an extension of the previous installment...well with the virtual console it is next gen. It is extending to us the ability to play the previous installments and to experaince them in a whole new way. So of course Nintendo is working on a next gen console but as for a war I don't see it that way.

I see it as devolpers are being pushed to make better and better things. Without competition we wouldn't have progressed as far as we have now. Look at what everyones coming up with. A next gen DVD player and a next gen gaming machine in one. A whole new way to look and feel the game one more step to complete immersion into a game. Of course the ability to actully play PC games and console games all in the same box. Competition has brought out the best in the gaming industry let the fight go on it beings with it awesomeness.
Posted by Magic D Wed Jun 14, 2006 8:21 pm
Legal Emulators! in Gaming
admin wrote:
The Revolution will have a feature where you can download emulators for the N64, SNES, and other old Nintendo Relics, but doesn’t this open the door for…

Piracy? You could download games with a mod chip installed!

They’ve probably thought about that and used strong encryption!


Ppl will find a way to make it free. It always happens there is no way Nintendo can make sure that EVERY person pays for the games. I for one am going to try and find a way to get them for free lol.
Posted by Magic D Wed Jun 14, 2006 8:13 pm
Wii with Opera 9 out of the Box in Gaming
Andreyevich wrote:
I don't have a clue what we are talking about here - I'm guessing that this is a type of games console. If it does have internet communication software, then this proves what I said about games consoles merging with computers.


dude that happened as soon as the Microsoft put a hard drive in the Xbox. When something has a hard drive it isnt a gaming console anymore it becomes a computer.
Posted by Magic D Wed Jun 14, 2006 8:11 pm
Best in Show in Gaming
admin wrote:
I certainly think it deserved it for innvovation and his great keynote speaches  


yeah and the fact the wii will own the world.
Posted by Magic D Wed Jun 14, 2006 8:08 pm
Zelda 20th Birthday in Gaming
admin wrote:
Though Nintendo has remained curiously quiet on the event, with an understated King of Games campaign paling in comparison to the fanfare and limited edition hardware it bestowed on Mario, it was 20 years ago today that players first learned it was dangerous to go alone, and set off for adventure across the fields of Hyrule.

In many ways it’s a fitting silence. With Mario filling in as official company mascot and working overtime as driver, dancer, golfer, and basketball superstar, Link’s been left behind to have his classic Campbellian hero’s journey retold time and again with a good deal more dignity. The games themselves have undoubtedly benefited from that steadfast single-mindedness: of all of the company’s franchises still in production today, the Zelda series has shown the greatest eagerness to learn from its past mistakes and successes across all its console and handheld iterations, resulting in steady refinement and a enviable legacy.


That speach almost brought me to tears.
Posted by Magic D Wed Jun 14, 2006 5:00 am
Best in Show in Gaming
Well now its not just me and a million fanboys saying it lol. The media is recognizing Nintendos power lol.
Posted by Magic D Wed Jun 14, 2006 4:57 am
Wii with Opera 9 out of the Box in Gaming
admin wrote:
cubed3.com has an interview with the vice president of Opera for divices, has confirmed that the Wii will have the browser included in the 512 MB of Flash ROM right out of the box and not sold or distributed seperately like it is for the DS. He also stated that the browser is not only for browsing the web, game developers can make use of the browser's technology for whatever purposes they may want. It apparently can also launch in only a few seconds (probably thanks to Wii's "always on" capabilities).

Unforunately I cannot access the website with the interview at this time, I will post more details when I can.

Edit: Alright, I can access the page now so here are some more details:

Although they did not officiall confirm it, they hinted that Opera for Wii will likely be skinnable and use opera mini-programs called "widgets".

It will be able to browse the full web, and companies can make specific applications for the Wii. Javascript support has been confirmed but flash, shockwave, and PDF, which are essential for the web today, have not.

They hinted that the browser will also have Wii remote-based "gestures", but the exact nature has not been confirmed.

The interview appeared to be at least as much an advertisement for their PC and device-based browser as an interview about the wii, he managed to work in how great the Opera browser for other platforms is in many of not most of his replies.


So is this saying the Wii will be able to cruise the web just like a computer? or is it like Xbox live? can you explain to me what opera is??? It seemed like a web browser simular to Internet Explorer. So if the Wii will be able to surf the web what does that mean? Its not that big a deal I mean we all have computers to do that.
Posted by Magic D Wed Jun 14, 2006 4:54 am
Wii NES controller in Gaming
I really dont see it as emulation. Emulation is usually free this wont be.
Posted by Magic D Wed Jun 14, 2006 4:48 am
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