At long last, patient European gamers can put their mind to ease. Super Smash Brothers Brawl will be released on June 27, 2008!
For those of you who still can't stand to wait even another day, can go over to GamersCast's YouTube Channel where I will be posting many gameplay videos from the US version of the game, to calm your minds during the 2-month wait ahead.
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Friday, April 25, 2008
Monday, April 21, 2008
Wii Fit Priced
Well, I don't think many people expected to hear Reggie Films-Aime say "under $100" in regard to Wii Fit's price at GDC. And now after a few months, we know exactly what he meant.
Wii Fit has been officially priced at $89.99 because of the inclusion of the Wii Balance Board. As shocked as I was when I first heard about this, after putting much thought into, I have realized that, it actually isn't too bad of a price.
Think of it like this:
The Wii Remote is priced at $40. Inside is uses IR, Bluetooth, Accelerometers, and a Rumble Feature. The Wii Balance Board uses all of these technologies, aside from rumble and IR (which cost next to nothing anyway).
But the Balance Board also uses another technology to determine weight displacement and a scale (I don't know what the technology is yet, since the Board has not yet been released), and these appear to quite expensive, considering how hard it was for Nintendo to develop (based on demos I've seen). So, even though the Wii Remote and the Balance Board are priced the same, the Board probably cost a bit more to manufacture. So, we're actually a bit lucky for the game to be priced as low as it is now. Not to mention, the Balance Board will be used for other games in the future. So, from that perspective it probably is worth the price.
I hope I didn't confuse too many of you.
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Wii Fit has been officially priced at $89.99 because of the inclusion of the Wii Balance Board. As shocked as I was when I first heard about this, after putting much thought into, I have realized that, it actually isn't too bad of a price.
Think of it like this:
The Wii Remote is priced at $40. Inside is uses IR, Bluetooth, Accelerometers, and a Rumble Feature. The Wii Balance Board uses all of these technologies, aside from rumble and IR (which cost next to nothing anyway).
But the Balance Board also uses another technology to determine weight displacement and a scale (I don't know what the technology is yet, since the Board has not yet been released), and these appear to quite expensive, considering how hard it was for Nintendo to develop (based on demos I've seen). So, even though the Wii Remote and the Balance Board are priced the same, the Board probably cost a bit more to manufacture. So, we're actually a bit lucky for the game to be priced as low as it is now. Not to mention, the Balance Board will be used for other games in the future. So, from that perspective it probably is worth the price.
I hope I didn't confuse too many of you.
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Gamecube Controller Re-Born!
It is no secret that nearly everyone who owns Super Smash Brothers Brawl prefers the Gamecube controller. In fact, the demand for the dead controllers is so outrageously high, that Nintendo is going to be manufacturing them again! That's right a controller has been brought back from the dead thanks to Super Smash Brothers!
However, to match the Wii, along of these new Gamecube controllers will come in one color: White. The new controller takes the design of the wired controllers, but is completely wireless and has a rumble feature, unlike the Wavebird controllers. These controllers will be priced at $20 (the original price of the wired Gamecube Controllers) and are now becoming available in Japan. However, there's no word yet on when we'll see them come out on our side of the world.
You know, it probably wasn't just Smash Brothers that made them do this, consdering how many upcoming Wii games are also using the Gamecube controller, like Mario Kart Wii. I think it was just Brawl that gave them the push to do it.
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However, to match the Wii, along of these new Gamecube controllers will come in one color: White. The new controller takes the design of the wired controllers, but is completely wireless and has a rumble feature, unlike the Wavebird controllers. These controllers will be priced at $20 (the original price of the wired Gamecube Controllers) and are now becoming available in Japan. However, there's no word yet on when we'll see them come out on our side of the world.
You know, it probably wasn't just Smash Brothers that made them do this, consdering how many upcoming Wii games are also using the Gamecube controller, like Mario Kart Wii. I think it was just Brawl that gave them the push to do it.
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Friday, April 18, 2008
Rock Band Finally Gets Albums
The amazing award winning game Rock Band from Harmonix, MTV Games, and EA has had several amazing announcements as well as amazing downloadable content including the Boston Pack, Still Alive from Portal which was free, and this weeks classic pack as well as a new song from Montley Crue debuting exclusively on Rock Band. Rock Band received a patch earlier this month which included the in game music store. Rock Band was also announced for Europe. The game will come out on Xbox 360 on May 23 and to all other platforms (Playstation 3, Playstation 2, and Wii) on August 29. Even though they will be paying double what America paid for the game and will have to buy two separate packages (one comes with the instruments while the other comes with the game) I still say it is worth every penny and that Eruope should not wait for a price drop to buy this amazing game. The Wii version of Rock Band which will include the core gameplay experience as well as five exclusive songs including Dirty Little Secret and Rockaway Beach which can already be found as downloadable content will come out to North America on June 22. Today, Harmonix announced that full albums will finally be coming to Rock Band's collection of downloadable songs. The first album to come to Rock Band will be Judas Priest's Screaming For Vengeance. There are ten really great songs in this album including You Got Another Thing Coming, Electric Eye and Devil Child. The album will cost $14.99 or 1200 Microsoft Points (you can also buy the songs seperately for the usual $1.99 or 160 points) and will come out April 22 to Xbox Live Marketplace and to the Playstation Network Store on April 24. Two more albums were also announced including The Cars self-titled debut in May and The Pixies' Doolittle in June. $14.99 will not be the standard album price and Harmonix says that they have many albums for Rock Band in the works. They also announced that 8 million songs have been downloaded on XBLM and PSN. If you have not bought this game yet, unless you are waiting for the Wii version go and buy this amazing game now. It is an experience every gamer and music lover should try out. For more information on Rock Band, go to www.rockband.com or check out my review on the podcast feed.
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008
New GamersCaster! Zach!
Hey everyone!
Many of you, have noticed that I have not been able to post news articles very often. Well, as you may know, I have been increasingly busy lately.
However, one person who has been helping out, a lot, on the GamersCast Brawl Custom Stage Collection has volunteered to help out with the news feed as well, so that when I'm too busy to post, he will be able to.
You may know him on the Brawl stage collection as Spades, where he has put in a lot of time recreating featured stages, but here let's give a big welcome to Zach Joyner! Zach may also be co-hosting on future episodes of GamersCast (not episode 27, as we already recorded that a few weeks ago).
Zach will begin posting articles starting next week.
Many of you, have noticed that I have not been able to post news articles very often. Well, as you may know, I have been increasingly busy lately.
However, one person who has been helping out, a lot, on the GamersCast Brawl Custom Stage Collection has volunteered to help out with the news feed as well, so that when I'm too busy to post, he will be able to.
You may know him on the Brawl stage collection as Spades, where he has put in a lot of time recreating featured stages, but here let's give a big welcome to Zach Joyner! Zach may also be co-hosting on future episodes of GamersCast (not episode 27, as we already recorded that a few weeks ago).
Zach will begin posting articles starting next week.
Monday, April 14, 2008
Korean Wii Launch
If you thought that Europeans were the slowest to get games, you're sadly mistaken. Nintendo has now just finalized their plans to launch the Nintendo Wii in Korea! It 220,000 yen, which is about $30 less than the current North American price. However, the European version of the console will not be bundled with Wii Sports.
8 titles will be available for purchase on the launch date. These titles are Wii Sports, Wii Play, Rayman: Raving Rabbids 2, Zack & Wiki, FIFA '08, Namco Museum Remix, and Swing Golf Pangya: 2nd Shot.
The Korean Virtual Console will also launch with the console, offering NES, SNES, and N64 games.
The Korean Nintendo Wii will launch on the 26th of April. If you do purchase a Korean Wii, I would highly recommend making an investment in Code Junkies' Wii Freeloader. It's only $20 and it will allow you to play any Wii and Gamecube game released anywhere in the world! Also, upon buying the console, instead of selecting Korea as your native country, select either the United States, United Kingdom, or Japan. This will allow you to purchase games from their Virtual Console library, which is currently over 300 games right now, with more being released every week! By picking Korea as your native country you will only be able to purchase 10 Virtual Console games at launch! I just thought that you'd like to know...
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8 titles will be available for purchase on the launch date. These titles are Wii Sports, Wii Play, Rayman: Raving Rabbids 2, Zack & Wiki, FIFA '08, Namco Museum Remix, and Swing Golf Pangya: 2nd Shot.
The Korean Virtual Console will also launch with the console, offering NES, SNES, and N64 games.
The Korean Nintendo Wii will launch on the 26th of April. If you do purchase a Korean Wii, I would highly recommend making an investment in Code Junkies' Wii Freeloader. It's only $20 and it will allow you to play any Wii and Gamecube game released anywhere in the world! Also, upon buying the console, instead of selecting Korea as your native country, select either the United States, United Kingdom, or Japan. This will allow you to purchase games from their Virtual Console library, which is currently over 300 games right now, with more being released every week! By picking Korea as your native country you will only be able to purchase 10 Virtual Console games at launch! I just thought that you'd like to know...
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Sunday, April 13, 2008
Super Mario Sluggers
Sorry that I've been slow to update lately, I've been insanely busy getting ready for state tech competition. But don't worry, Im done with my projects now, so I'll be able to update the site again, as always.
Remember how much you loved playing Wii Sports Baseball? Well, now Nintendo is back at baseball again with Super Mario Sluggers. Sluggers is a direct sequel to Mario Baseball for the Gamecube, with a Wii-centric twist. The game will utilize the Wii Remote to swing the bat and pitch the ball. And not much else is known about the game other than an estimated Fall 2008 release.
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Remember how much you loved playing Wii Sports Baseball? Well, now Nintendo is back at baseball again with Super Mario Sluggers. Sluggers is a direct sequel to Mario Baseball for the Gamecube, with a Wii-centric twist. The game will utilize the Wii Remote to swing the bat and pitch the ball. And not much else is known about the game other than an estimated Fall 2008 release.
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