Hero-of-Time
14-12-2007, 05:06 PM
GoNintendo have put what was said on the blog and heres some of the best bits that I have picked out.
Reggie talks about online voice chat for Wii - changes constantly happening, online voicechat is possible. It comes down to finalizing a peripheral. The fact that the mic is on the DS shows that Nintendo is interested. It is certainly something Nintendo is looking into, and Reggie wouldn’t be surprised to see it hit the system.
Reggie talks about online play on VC games - Nintendo mostly wants to leave original games alone. No anticipation of adding online play to VC games.
Reggie on third party software quality - Publishers are working hard to take advantage of the Wii. A range of quality titles is always expected. Publishers that do a great job get great sales. Third parties are building a better understand of the platform, and better games will come.
Nintendo has no quality assurance since quality is subjective. Nintendo is working hand-in-hand with publishers to help them create the best games possible. The level of quality overall will continue to improve. Reggie reminds us of the quality of DS titles when that system hit. It takes time for pubs to understand the platform.
US receives 50% of Wii production a month. Nintendo puts the most hardware where it will sell out the fastest.
Nintendo sold over 6 million pieces of Wii software through November. Not disappointed with 1.2 million for Galaxy. Attach rate for Wii matches the PS2 when it was at this time in its lifespan.
Reggie met with key third party publishers last week. Wii supplies were talked. Nintendo is on a sales pace with Wii that has never been achieved in this industry. Activision having tremendous success.
Its nice to see that Nintendo know that people want voice chat in the online games. I wonder if Brawl will be the 1st to do so for the Wii? You think the other online games that are already out could be updated to support voice chat via a patch?
I wonder why no one took the oppertunity to ask Reggie about the lack of a hard drive for the Wii.
EDIT: Full Blog here...
http://gonintendo.com/?p=31593
Reggie talks about online voice chat for Wii - changes constantly happening, online voicechat is possible. It comes down to finalizing a peripheral. The fact that the mic is on the DS shows that Nintendo is interested. It is certainly something Nintendo is looking into, and Reggie wouldn’t be surprised to see it hit the system.
Reggie talks about online play on VC games - Nintendo mostly wants to leave original games alone. No anticipation of adding online play to VC games.
Reggie on third party software quality - Publishers are working hard to take advantage of the Wii. A range of quality titles is always expected. Publishers that do a great job get great sales. Third parties are building a better understand of the platform, and better games will come.
Nintendo has no quality assurance since quality is subjective. Nintendo is working hand-in-hand with publishers to help them create the best games possible. The level of quality overall will continue to improve. Reggie reminds us of the quality of DS titles when that system hit. It takes time for pubs to understand the platform.
US receives 50% of Wii production a month. Nintendo puts the most hardware where it will sell out the fastest.
Nintendo sold over 6 million pieces of Wii software through November. Not disappointed with 1.2 million for Galaxy. Attach rate for Wii matches the PS2 when it was at this time in its lifespan.
Reggie met with key third party publishers last week. Wii supplies were talked. Nintendo is on a sales pace with Wii that has never been achieved in this industry. Activision having tremendous success.
Its nice to see that Nintendo know that people want voice chat in the online games. I wonder if Brawl will be the 1st to do so for the Wii? You think the other online games that are already out could be updated to support voice chat via a patch?
I wonder why no one took the oppertunity to ask Reggie about the lack of a hard drive for the Wii.
EDIT: Full Blog here...
http://gonintendo.com/?p=31593