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Nintendo Wii Press Conference Commentary

Same thing as the PS3 Press Conference Commentary post below. My friend and I talking as we watched the Nintendo conference. Slightly edited to make it shorter.
LtNeutralX2 (12:38:35 PM): u know its on right?
commander115 (12:38:49 PM): yea
commander115 (12:38:54 PM): red steel
commander115 (12:39:06 PM): and shigeru miyamoto dancing
LtNeutralX2 (12:39:20 PM): now thats how you start a press conference
commander115 (12:39:21 PM): omg its the reggienator
commander115 (12:39:53 PM): reggie is awesome
commander115 (12:42:02 PM): omg mario
commander115 (12:42:17 PM): and the gfx arent half bad
commander115 (12:42:19 PM): wtf
commander115 (12:42:28 PM): thats awesome
LtNeutralX2 (12:42:47 PM): looks like gamecube
commander115 (12:42:51 PM): the mario?
LtNeutralX2 (12:42:56 PM): but im not buying wii for graphics
LtNeutralX2 (12:42:57 PM): yeah
commander115 (12:43:01 PM): the metroid is metroid prime 2
commander115 (12:43:05 PM): the mario looked good
commander115 (12:43:05 PM): =x
commander115 (12:43:13 PM): def better then gc
LtNeutralX2 (12:43:21 PM): not by much
commander115 (12:43:31 PM): maybe its cause your watching a low res stream
LtNeutralX2 (12:43:36 PM): yeah maybe
commander115 (12:43:47 PM): cause it definitly looked decent
LtNeutralX2 (12:43:54 PM): oh no it looked nice
commander115 (12:43:57 PM): enough that i dont mind the power lack
LtNeutralX2 (12:43:58 PM): but not impressive
LtNeutralX2 (12:44:03 PM): yeah
commander115 (12:44:38 PM): twilight princess is gonna be awesome
LtNeutralX2 (12:45:00 PM): is it only wii now?
LtNeutralX2 (12:45:07 PM): or will it be on gcn
commander115 (12:45:08 PM): no
commander115 (12:45:11 PM): its on gcn
commander115 (12:45:18 PM): they just added wiimote features to it
LtNeutralX2 (12:45:20 PM): ok good, because thats what i bought gcn for
commander115 (12:45:24 PM): if you play it on the wii
LtNeutralX2 (12:48:46 PM): i’m sold on the wii after that video showing off all the games
LtNeutralX2 (12:50:40 PM): 4th quarter 06, nice
commander115 (12:50:49 PM): he was like thanks for writing good things
commander115 (12:50:51 PM): the both of you
LtNeutralX2 (12:50:56 PM): yeah lol
LtNeutralX2 (12:51:42 PM): sounds a bit like last years microsoft conference
LtNeutralX2 (12:51:49 PM): talking about getting non gamers
LtNeutralX2 (12:52:22 PM): isnt that the old metroid?
LtNeutralX2 (12:53:31 PM): a lot of this looks like xbox graphics, but they look FUN!
commander115 (12:54:31 PM): mario galaxies looks better then any xbox game
LtNeutralX2 (12:54:58 PM): i said a lot of that, not all of it
LtNeutralX2 (12:55:34 PM): but yeah mario game is def not impressive
commander115 (12:58:03 PM): i dunno it looked really good
LtNeutralX2 (12:58:13 PM): this zelda is kick ass
LtNeutralX2 (12:58:34 PM): though the wiimote stuff is sorta half assed in it
LtNeutralX2 (12:58:44 PM): but then again it wasnt designed for it
LtNeutralX2 (1:03:31 PM): oh this is a new metroid, thought it was the old one
LtNeutralX2 (1:03:41 PM): looked the same
commander115 (1:03:56 PM): its running of the mp2 engine
commander115 (1:04:07 PM): not supposed to come out for like a year
LtNeutralX2 (1:04:21 PM): so? game assets still look dated. they have a lot to do in a year
LtNeutralX2 (1:05:08 PM): oh god, project hammer. Does every console have to have a game like that now?
LtNeutralX2 (1:05:19 PM): diaster looks leet
LtNeutralX2 (1:07:22 PM): why arent they showing any footage of these 3rd party games they are listing
commander115 (1:08:07 PM): they are
commander115 (1:08:17 PM): french people have funny accents
LtNeutralX2 (1:08:24 PM): besides red steel which they showed earlier
LtNeutralX2 (1:08:36 PM): red steel is nice
LtNeutralX2 (1:08:39 PM): imma buy that for sure
LtNeutralX2 (1:09:51 PM): this looks interesting
commander115 (1:09:54 PM): yea
LtNeutralX2 (1:10:20 PM): well Wii def. has a good amount of power, too bad they are not doing HD
LtNeutralX2 (1:15:03 PM)
: eh DS
LtNeutralX2 (1:15:10 PM): dont care about portable gaming at all
commander115 (1:19:08 PM): new super mario bros is gonna be awesome
LtNeutralX2 (1:19:57 PM): This DS stuff I could not care less about. I bought a Gameboy Color back when it was new, used it like once or twice. Mobile gaming just is not my thing.
commander115 (1:20:41 PM): yea
commander115 (1:20:46 PM): zelda and mario look good though
commander115 (1:20:50 PM): and mario kart ds is awesome
LtNeutralX2 (1:20:51 PM): oh yeah
LtNeutralX2 (1:21:08 PM): for anyone who is into that stuff, its pretty awesome
LtNeutralX2 (1:21:21 PM): i would buy a DS over a PSP if i had to buy one
commander115 (1:21:42 PM): omg yoshi’s island
commander115 (1:21:44 PM): psp was shit
commander115 (1:21:54 PM): its overpriced to
commander115 (1:22:00 PM): and now its only good game is coming to the ps2
LtNeutralX2 (1:22:40 PM): i hope nintendo takes the lead in japan with Wii
LtNeutralX2 (1:22:47 PM): they deserve it
commander115 (1:24:35 PM): They might
commander115 (1:24:38 PM): look at the DS
commander115 (1:24:47 PM): it and the lite are selling so much more
commander115 (1:24:53 PM): then the other consoles
LtNeutralX2 (1:26:35 PM): the virtual console stuff is pretty cool.
LtNeutralX2 (1:31:38 PM): lol to quote someone from TW “Cant understand half the stuff theyre saying, but it sure beats a bunch of metrosexuals jerking off to crappy graphics like sony had.”
commander115 (1:32:31 PM): lol
commander115 (1:33:42 PM): i didn’t win that
commander115 (1:33:43 PM): 🙁
commander115 (1:35:17 PM): that tennis looks fun
commander115 (1:36:17 PM): and miyamoto must be small
commander115 (1:36:21 PM): or that guy is big
commander115 (1:36:56 PM): lmao
commander115 (1:41:08 PM): that was short
LtNeutralX2 (1:41:18 PM): is it over?
commander115 (1:41:23 PM): i guess
commander115 (1:42:13 PM): oh well it was 100x better then sonys boring as bullshit-a-thon