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Posted: Sep 18 2007 11:28 pm

http://wii.ign.com/articles/820/820944p1.html

In 2008. Oh yes. With the announcement of Wii Fit, NamcoBandai will surely bring the thing around here.

Edit: Checked on it again. This will indeed come to America. Same time as the JP version too.

Posted: Sep 19 2007 12:25 am

My god, the Japanese people in that picture must be billionares!

Nobody in Japan has a living room that large, unless in a mansion.

Posted: Sep 19 2007 06:44 pm

Yeah, that's kinda like my uncle's house, instead of a Japanese apartment.

On second thought, I find it disappointing that no one cares about the Power Pad coming back.

Posted: Sep 19 2007 07:20 pm

As long as you can still cheat by using your hands, then it's all good.

Joined: Aug 26 2007 Posts: 2752

The power pad was interesting but yay, using your hands was the only way to go. That or the controller. Now that the power pad is coming out, I wonder if the power glove is going to make a comeback?

"I love the power Glove . . . it's soooo bad!"

Posted: Sep 19 2007 08:51 pm

I'm glad that it will have proper press detection this time.

Posted: Sep 19 2007 10:11 pm

As long as they dont bring ROB back, the power pad should be cool. Unless they make an actual useful ROB, that would be cool too.

I just hate how the Wii is getting to be too much of an accessory whore. I want one so bad, but it seems as though I gotta spend more money on the system + game + accessories + extra controllers. It will probably end up being more than a PS3.

Posted: Sep 19 2007 10:17 pm

There's no need to bring the Power Glove back... you have the Wii Remote.

Posted: Sep 19 2007 10:18 pm

Yeah, but you don't need every accessory for every game. Also, what the hell was wrong with ROB?

Posted: Sep 19 2007 10:20 pm

ROB had two main problems:

1. He worked with somewhere around 2 games
2. He was loud as fuck

It was an interested concept though.

Posted: Sep 19 2007 10:26 pm

I know. But now they make small, powerful, and quiet servomotors.

Joined: Aug 26 2007 Posts: 2752

Okay, this is something i have to bitch about. The new Zapper for the wii. You have to use both hands to fire it. WTF, why not stick with the old design, that way a gamer could hold one zapper in each hand and have duel-wield gameplay.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_wield

Posted: Sep 19 2007 10:41 pm

Because with most of these games you'll need to aim and use the joystick?

Joined: Aug 26 2007 Posts: 2752

Char Aznable wrote:

Because with most of these games you'll need to aim and use the joystick?

That's too bad, duel-zappers would have been awesome. Cool

Posted: Sep 19 2007 11:05 pm

I'd say the Wii Zapper has more in common with the Super Scope than the original NES Zapper.

Posted: Sep 19 2007 11:48 pm

Char Aznable wrote:

Because with most of these games you'll need to aim and use the joystick?

Wait, why exactly do you need the joystick? You aim by waving the remote around. The only game's announced thus far for the zapper are:

1. Umbrella Chronicles
2. Zelda Crossbow Training

One is a rail shooter, the other is a shooting gallery, neither should require more than a single hand to play, or a single button interface. The Wii Zapper seems better suited to an FPS...

Posted: Sep 19 2007 11:56 pm

Syd Lexia wrote:

Char Aznable wrote:

Because with most of these games you'll need to aim and use the joystick?

Wait, why exactly do you need the joystick? You aim by waving the remote around. The only game's announced thus far for the zapper are:

1. Umbrella Chronicles
2. Zelda Crossbow Training

One is a rail shooter, the other is a shooting gallery, neither should require more than a single hand to play, or a single button interface. The Wii Zapper seems better suited to an FPS...

You forgot Sega's Ghost Squad too. Arcade conversion.

Posted: Sep 20 2007 01:11 am

Actually, when I first saw the Wii Zapper I thought of the Sega Menacer.

Posted: Sep 20 2007 09:55 am

Mr. Bomberman wrote:

You forgot Sega's Ghost Squad too. Arcade conversion.

Seriously? Sweet.

I'm hoping for Midway and Namco to give us arcade shooter collections for the Wii. I would kill to play arcade perfect versions of Time Crisis, CarnEvil, and Revolution X in my own home.

Sega should do one too. I know there's already an HOTD collection for XBox, but no reason they couldn't do it again. That, or they could do Virtua Cop.

Posted: Sep 20 2007 03:27 pm

Isn't it just a plastic shell? That means that Call of Duty 3, Metroid Prime 3, Red Steel, and RE4 Wii Edition will all work with this thing.

Posted: Sep 20 2007 03:40 pm

Char Aznable wrote:

Yeah, but you don't need every accessory for every game. Also, what the hell was wrong with ROB?

I remember reading somewhere that ROB was a ploy to get the console into stores, something about how because of the video game crash no store wanted to carry a console, so they packaged ROB with the NES and Gyromite to trick the store into thinking it was just some sort of Robot toy. Confused

Posted: Sep 20 2007 04:20 pm

Yeah. That's also why it was called the Nintendo Entertainment System instead of the Nintendo Video Game System.

Posted: Sep 20 2007 08:50 pm

Cant split hairs there, it is entertaining, hell even today in my opinion, NES blows half the new crap around out of the water.

Joined: Aug 26 2007 Posts: 2752

Since it's related to the article, here is Screwattack's top 10 best and worst Gaming Peripherals. I still think the Zapper should be #1 but after seeing their number one, i graciously withdraw my complaint. This video also features ROB, since he has been a hot topic, see for yourself why he sucks . . .

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/19276.html

Posted: Sep 20 2007 09:46 pm

Hey, the Robotic Operating Badass fucking rules, man. The original NES peripheral might have sucked, but the ROB character is damn cool.