SEGA move development staff away from PS3 to Wii.

[Mentok]

From the new EDGE magazine...

General Wii stuff

- CNN has signed up with Nintendo as the provider of news content on tne News Channel in American and Japan. News will be presented by category, but another way of getting to it is by spinning the weather globe to find stories in different countries

- Sega has moved a significant number of development staff from PS3 to Wii over the Summer

- Although Nintendo has removed DVD movie playback from the Wii, it plans to launch in Japan next year an enhanced Wii capable of such a feature

- Nintendo intended to bring Wii to shop shelves in the UK and US for £150 and $200, but became influenced by pressure from the larger retail chains, which raised concerns over margins and low so-called 'basket value' (ie, the amount of revenue generated from a customer's overall purchases at the till)

- There are plenty of Wii Channel slots remaining to be filled

- Edge says that Wii Sports will be to Wii what Mario 64 was to the N64. Says golf has the best single player mode (no surprise) and boxing is their favourite overall

Probably nothing much but still interesting.

 

[Fran]

The CNN thing is pretty schweet.

 

[Mentok]

Yeah, I like that you can use the spinning globe to find news from around the world.

 

[Zenien]

That's where 95 percent of their properties will have the biggest audience for sure, most of their not Wii games are going to be genric trash most likely.

 

[Mentok]

Blah, Blah Blah... I will dump on SEGA to make myself feel better about the PS3... Blah Blah Blah.

I will hear noting bad said about SEGA

 

[Zenien]

Well Seaman 2 will be good, but they haven't exactly been up to form lately, you have to admit.

 

[Mentok]

NEVER!


*dies*

 

[Zenien]

Don't die.

So which game do you think will be better Sonic the Hedgehog or Sonic and the Secret Rings?

 

[Mentok]

I think they are both going to be quite average

Probably SONIC the Hedgehog will turn out to be the better one.

 

[Not Jake]

sega stingks they are baibes compared to swemidscorst

 

[Mentok]

:anusexplodes:

 

[Avalanche]

The only SEGA game I care about is Virtua Fighter. They can take everything else to the Wii if they like.

 

[Fenrir]

SEGA needs to get off their collective butts and release Shenmue on a next-gen platform already.

 

[Mentok]

IT be a MMO game for XBL

 

[SpiderFan17]

So which game do you think will be better Sonic the Hedgehog or Sonic and the Secret Rings?

Considering that the Sonic the Hedgehog demo had quite possibly the worst control scheme and camera system since X3 the official game, Im betting Sonic and the Secret Rings, if only because its NOT using a standard controller, so they'd really have to go out of their way to make it awful.

 

[TheGrayGhost]

Considering that the Sonic the Hedgehog demo had quite possibly the worst control scheme and camera system since X3 the official game, Im betting Sonic and the Secret Rings, if only because its NOT using a standard controller, so they'd really have to go out of their way to make it awful.

Secret Rings is being hailed as the return to glory for the franchise, so I'd be willing to bet that it will be the better one of the two.

 

[jaydawg]

I hope SR will be. I played the demo for the 360 version of Sonic and it really sucked. It had all the problems of the 3D Sonic games and just made you go so fast, it just made everything worse.

Anyways, I just want a sequel to Vector Man. And comics Zone. That would be the ****.

 

[Fenrir]

And comics Zone.

Vintage classic, my good man. A next-gen comics Zone would be a totally kickass beat-em-up.

 

[Avalanche]

Vintage classic, my good man. A next-gen comics Zone would be a totally kickass beat-em-up.

Is it a beat 'em up ala Tekken and Virtua Fighter? I wonder how well the Wiimote could cope with a traditional beat 'em up. The fight mechanics would have to be altered.

 

[Fenrir]

Is it a beat 'em up ala Tekken and Virtua Fighter?

No, it's not a fighting game. More of a beat' em up like Streets of Rage and Final Fight, but with only one guy laying down the hurt.

 

[jaydawg]

Indeed. And dont forget the panel movements. That was the ****.



Gotta love that sterotypical 90s comic fan look.

I guess you could say Viewtiful Joe was a sort of spirtual succesor, but IMO, CZ was a whole lot funner and since it dealt with comics instead of films, its a different experience.

 

[jaydawg]

Indeed. And dont forget the panel movements. That was the ****.



Gotta love that sterotypical 90s comic fan look.

I guess you could say Viewtiful Joe was a sort of spirtual succesor, but IMO, CZ was a whole lot funner and since it dealt with comics instead of films, its a different experience.