Star Wars: The Force Unleashed coming to the Wii
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007 - 4:46pm
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The announcement said the Nunchuk attachment would be used to complement the Remote's saber swinging with force power functionality. And a Wii-exclusive duel mode will let spiteful sons go head-to-head with their incorrigible fathers in dramatic two-player lightsaber fashion.
This could be the version to get.
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I read about this earlier today. Hopefully it is as awesome as I fervently wish for it to be.
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Wow that sounds like just the thing I wanted! Two player lightsaber battles on the Wii: count me in, friend codes and all.
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The Wii version of a Star Wars game we've all been waiting for? Sign me up.
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The day they release a fully-3D positional light-saber simulator, I'm all over it. Waiting in line for 3 days.
That said, the light saber stuff could be like the sword battles in Red Steel, which had you make vague waggle slashes and your on-screen character would then swipe after you make your choice. Beware of this cruel marketing bait-and-switch.
We shall grapple with the ineffable, and see if we may not eff it after all.
I remember playing a "lightsaber" simulator game at Disney Quest in Orlando several years ago. If this works anywhere near as good as that did, it may be the system seller I need to push me over.
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If it's a piece of crap it will sell 4.99 million copies.
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Danjo wrote:
That's not true. With an estimated 9 million Wiis in the wild currently, and Christmas coming, if it's a piece of crap, it will sell at least 8 million copies.
In all seriousness, I wonder if the folks who are dying for it haven't already sold their Wii off. I don't see the senior crowd getting pumped about it, and the gamer crowd is generally unhappy with Nintendo right now. The "mom's basement" crowd would buy a Wii just to play it, but supply is short.
Could be very interesting.
*Legion* recognizing greatness wrote:
Metroid was just released and sold very well, better than the prior two games. I'd say that the gamer crowd is very happy with Nintendo now. The internet intelligentsia are not happy with Nintendo, but they have been proven wrong so many times I don't think anyone cares what they say anymore.
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At least for this moment, Bioshock and Corruption are running neck and neck on Amazon.com's video game section. The Wii is also listed as #1, even ahead of HALO3 (though that's because there are like 18 different versions of HALO on the list).
The market is there. Developers just need to fill it. Damn you, capitalism- WORK! WORK!
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That's really impressive when Nintendo has done very little to promote metroid, outside of the preview channel and the tv ads. Bioshock has been hyped for over a year. Nintnedo should start pushing their stuff more.
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Save for perhaps Wii Sports, Nintendo has lacked a "killer app" for the Wii; the kind of game that would push people over the edge and buy the console for that one game in particular. Sony has MGS4 for the PS3, Microsoft has Halo 3, BioShock, Mass Effect, Gears of War, etc. If this is the lightsaber came we've been hoping for, this could be that killer app for the Wii.
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Mario Galaxy says Hello. Zelda says Hello. Super Smash Brothers says hello.
We don't know what title for Wii will be a "killer app" that pushes people over the edge to buy the system for that one game. They are selling every console they ship.
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Which primarily appeal to Nintendo fans only. Nintendo lost a lot of its fan support in the Nintendo 64 and Gamecube years and are only now starting to get some of it back; the rest need more than a few franchises they left behind almost ten years ago. What the Wii needs to pull in those people who've left Nintendo behind years ago is something like The Force Unleashed.
And yet the rumors of undersupplying the market persist. Make less than the market demands and you'll stock out every time.
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Isn't this change more precise? I suspect the casual crowd is just getting the Wii because it sounds cool, rather than because they have a particular game in mind.
Nintendo has sold more consoles faster than anyone, in the history of the business. The demand is unprecedented. I find it funny that pre-launch everyone believed that you'd be able to walk in and buy the console on day one, no problem, but now that Nintendo caputred lighting in a bottle, it is a conspiracy.
Zelda: TP has sold more copies than TWW and will outsell OoT. They have lost marketshare with the N64 and GCN, but I would point to Metroid selling more in 4 days than the first did in two weeks and well more than the second.
I don't think you can say that these games are selling to the Nintendo faithful, when they are setting franchise records. The Wii is already at half of the GC lifetime sales, I would argue that the GC is the nintendo fan system.
For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance. ~Ron Shelton, Bull Durham, 1988
That was the point I was trying to make; until now, Nintendo hasn't had a single product for the Wii that would pull in Sony and Microsoft customers, particularly with console ports. This could be it.
I'll briefly rehash here what I've previously stated on how deceptive the Wii's sales figures have been and how they've been inaccurately spun out of context. Suffice it to say, the Wii's success has largely to do with the X-Box 360 having a year's head start in grabbing market share and Sony's pricing the PS3 outside a lot of people's buying threshold.
"Men like sex, thus boobies! Oogaba!" - dejanzie
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come on down to Rat Boy's nest!
light up a stogie, and soon you'll see
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'I'd hit it!'" - HP Lovesauce
And on a note actually relevant to the actual game, Yahoo's hosting an interview with the devs and the actors who provide the voices, faces, and motion for the characters.
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come on down to Rat Boy's nest!
light up a stogie, and soon you'll see
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It's a shame that the in-house group is not doing the development, but instead some external group also responsible for the PSP and PS2 ports. Reading this just brought horrible flashes of the Spiderman 3 port that the Wii got. Sub-par use of the controller packed on top of some of the worst examples of "just ship what you've got" graphics on the Wii.
Hopefully that will not be the case with this, but I will withhold judgment until I see some actual gameplay.
I've seen some nice Wiimote functionality but I'm still not completely convinced that the Wiimote is capable of control to such an extreme degree.
Have you played Metroid Prime 3?
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Yeah, I'm playing through it. What I meant is that I'm afraid the light saber battles would be overly simplistic and that swinging your light saber would end up being like swinging your sword in Twilight Princess.
It deffinatly needs to be like baseball in Wii sports, 1 to 1 motion, for it to be good.
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Ratboy said:
While I agree with you, I feel compelled to offer the biased personal anecdote.
Those are reasons why I own a Wii. I know eight other Wii owners personally (friends and family). They saw mine and thought it was cool. Among them, one purchased Metroid Prime. Five purchased Carnival Games.
Nintendo is at a price point and buzz level where they can appeal to a different demo. Namely, the "remember the Atari 2600? Wasn't that cool?!?" crowd. My 70+ father will never buy a 360 or a PS3. He is on the Wii every day. In his words, "it is fun".
*Legion* recognizing greatness wrote:
If that's the case, then we probably won't see real motion based light saber duels. The movements will probably just replace inputs on the sticks rather than work like the controllers in Wii play.
Overall, I don't see 360 owners picking the less graphically sophisticated Wii version over the 360 one.
It doesn't look like the remote is capable of that unless the camera can see the sensor bar, so unless the mechanic is pointing or shooting you're probably out of luck. I hope I'm wrong.
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Then how did it work in baseball? The remote was not pointing at the tv and yet the motion of the bat was 1 to 1. As I understand it the Wiimote is cabalbe of knowing its orientation without the sensor bar, which is only needed for pointing.
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I don't think 1 to 1 motion will work out that well. How will the Wiimote respond to feedback from everything?
For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance. ~Ron Shelton, Bull Durham, 1988