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http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/ >_ Since the Wiimote can track sources of infrared (IR) light, you can track pens that have an IR led in the tip. By pointing a wiimote at a projection screen or LCD display, you can create very low-cost interactive whiteboards or tablet displays. Since the Wiimote can track upto 4 points, multiple pens can be used.
Given the success of Wii Sports, one would assume a follow-up would be guaranteed. However, in a recent interview with the Japanese game blog 1101.com, Nintendo president and CEO Saturo Iwata announced that Wii Sports won’t come out anytime soon–if it comes out at all. “We’re not going to take such an easy way, not by including seven new sports in the game since Wii Sports has five,” he said. “We’re not closing our doors to the possibility of a sequel, but it’s definitely not coming out soon.” (more…)
According to gameIndustry.biz: “The NPD Group has released the US hardware and software sales figures for August 2007, with EA’s Madden NFL ‘08 dominating the charts.The Xbox 360 version of the game was number one, with 896,600 units sold, followed by the PlayStation 2 version, with 643,600 units sold. The PlayStation 3 version of the game sold 336,200 units, which was good enough for fourth place overall.
The Wii, Xbox, and PSP versions of Madden NFL ‘08 were in eleventh, twelfth, and eighteenth place, respectively.
Bioshock, which is atop the charts in other countries, came in third with 490,900 units sold.
Three Wii games–Wii Play, Metroid Prime 3, and Mario Strikers: Charged–took the fifth, sixth, and seventh positions on the charts. Mario Party 8, also for the Wii, was in the ninth spot. (more…)
According to 1UP.com, the Nintendo Wii just overtook Microsoft’s XBOX360 in global console sales. The sales figures are as follows…
Wii: 9,000,000
XBOX360: 8,900,000
PS3: 3,700,000
Will Halo 3 be the savior that Bungie hopes it will be or will the Wii continue to dominate the console market? It will be interesting to see if Nintendo can increase its lead with the impending releases of Wii Fit, Super Mario Galaxy, and the end of its ever so frustrating production shortages…
From theSkinnyWebsite.com:
“There have been several stories and rumors over the past couple of years about the various ways Jessica Alba supposedly keeps her slim figure. Some people claim that she just doesn’t eat much of anything; some have said that she was/is on the Kimkins diet; I even posted a menu from a tabloid magazine of a diet she was rumored to be on.
The latest rumor is that Jessica shuns diets and personal trainers in favor of a Nintendo Wii workout. Unlike most computer and console games, the Wii offers a really good physical workout. For instance, a certain boxing game is said to burn around 560 calories per hour. Also, Nintendo Wii will be coming out with a new game called Wii Fit that will be like having an electronic personal trainer.
Ha. More than likely, this is just another marketing ploy to sell more games and systems. But you never know…”
Whether young or old, expert gamers or beginners, Wii players can now express themselves like never before — with intuitive motion control using the Wii Remote — a flick of the wrist to swing a baseball bat or tennis racket, a backswing and follow-through to send a golf ball flying over a pristine fairway. Wii Sports, packaged with the Wii console, introduces players to those and many other experiences.
The sleek Wii console, no larger than a stack of several DVD cases, includes a Wii Sports Game Disc (5 games: Baseball, Tennis, Golf, Bowling and Boxing), a sensor bar, a standard composite cable, a Wii stand, a Wii Remote and a Nunchuk for even more exciting game-control possibilities.
Madden 08 will run at 60 frames per second on the Xbox 360 and 30 frames per second on the PlayStation 3.[4] A new branching animations system will allow dynamic gameplay for the first time in the franchise.[5] Players are no longer locked into animations but are now controlled more by the users.[5] Features of the new animation system include mid-air collisions, big-time, one-handed catches, hurdles, sideline catches and gang tackling.[5] Madden 08 will bring back some features for its online play for example, there will be a return of Season Mode and tournaments held online updated features dubbed Hit Stick 2.0 will allow players to hit high or low by flicking the analog stick up or down.[5] A new fatigue system will be implemented, disallowing users from taking a scrambling quarterback and running around behind the line of scrimmage for very long.[6] Fatigue will also play a factor when cold-weather teams play in hot weather during the early months of the season.[5] Also returning to this years incarnation is the much sought after “co-op” play which had found itself sitting on the sidelines since making the jump to the next-generation consoles. This mode finds players teaming up with a friend and taking on the CPU or two human opponents. –Wikipedia.com
