Tag: wii
Japanese developers shifting focus from PS3 to Wii
That’s what Kyoshi Shin of the Japan-based International Game Developers Association says, anyway, suggesting that developers there are shifting their resources towards the Wii, and away from the PS3. It’s unclear whether this represents a wholesale ditching of PS3, or just an initial underestimation of how popular Wii would be though.
Wii News: Resident Evil 4, Tiger Woods, and drum demands
You can’t keep a good zombie down. Well, you can with a match and a can of petrol, but you know what I mean. Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition has been given a UK release date of 29th June, and will hopefully be the scariest use for the Wiimote controller yet.
Opera blames Adobe for Wii browser's Flash problems
As you’ll know if you read Games Digest’s comparison of the Wii and PS3 web browsers yesterday, the only area in which Wii’s Opera browser struggles is any site using Flash 8 – which includes the videos on MySpace and Bebo. However, one of Opera’s senior technical service consultants says it’s Adobe’s fault for not including Flash 8 in the latest version of its Flash SDK.
Wii is more Web 2.0 friendly than the PS3
You might remember a couple of recent posts looking at how well the Wii and PS3’s web browsers cope with Web 2.0 sites. Well, Games Digest now has a unified megapost blending the two tests to see who’s best.
Wii to get a hospital link-up for Wii Health game
Computer games make you fat, slothful and unhealthy. At least, that’s what my parents told me as they locked my C64 in a cupboard and sent me out on a 17-mile cross country run every morning as a child.
Wii Guitar Hero III will use a guitar peripheral AND the Wiimote
Good news for Wii-owning rawk monsters. Not only is Guitar Hero III heading Wii-wards later this year, but it’ll come with the same guitar peripheral as other versions, and the connectivity that’ll allow gamers to play online and download new songs. What’s more, publisher RedOctane says the game will use the Wiimote too.
Pac-Man chomps his way onto Wii
The latest retro game to appear on the Wii’s Virtual Console service is perhaps the most well-known of them all: Pac-Man. The ol’ pill-chomper is one of three new Virtual Console games this week, alongside ActRaiser and Bonk’s Revenge.
How Web 2.0 friendly is the Wii's Opera browser?
You love Web 2.0 sites, right? And you’ve got a Wii? But how well do those two loves come together? WiiWii has been finding out, downloading the new edition of the Wii’s Opera browser and test-driving it with 15 of the biggest Web 2.0 sites.
Wii outselling PS3 in the UK, with publishers scrambling to adapt
According to leaked figures from Chart Track, 17,000 PS3s were sold in the UK last week, compared to 25,000 Wiis (and that’s with limited stock on the shelves for the latter). On the surface, its not great news for Sony’s console, although it’s still too early to claim it’s lost the next-gen console war.
Virgin Radio first to make content available on Wii and PS3
In a first for a UK radio station, Virgin Radio is to make its content available on the Nintendo Wii and Playstation 3 games consoles. The station claims that it's possible thanks to the MP3-streaming capacity of its Virgin Radio…
