Voice chat/Virtual Console

• Reggie talked about how Nintendo is still considering voicechat, and how he wouldn’t be surprised to see it on Wii in the future.
• Both expect it to happen (when Nintendo say stuff like this, it basically means it is happening) but are dumbfounded by how long it is taking.
• Both really hope it comes out in time for Smash, but are doubtful.
• For the majority of VC games, we’re not going to see modifications or upgrades (like we did with Pokemon Snap), simply because Nintendo doesn’t need to do it.
• Don’t expect a VC price drop in the future - they’re doing great and there’s no need to change anything.
• Hope to see more import games (like Sin and Punishment) and expect this because it appears that Nintendo is paying attention to the wider gaming community.

NPD

• Both Wii and DS did exceptionally well.
• Numbers don’t include some retailers such as Walmart, so the numbers are even larger.
• Analysts are predicting around 1.6-1.7 million for Wii in December.
• Make sure you camp out if you want to get a Wii - don’t go on ebay or anything because you will be ripped off.
• If the quantity had been there, Wii sales would have definitely been over 1 million. Nintendo would be kicking themselves right now because of their inability to get more units out.
• Very solid performance by 360 (not too far away from Wii) and PSP, as well as Playstation 2. Playstation 3 numbers are still comparatively low, but much improved from last month.
• Galaxy released a week later than COD4, so both games are basically selling at the same pace - if Galaxy came out earlier, then it would probably have reached around the same numbers as COD4.
• Guitar Hero 3 Wii should be a 1 million seller by the end of the year, which should do very good things for future Wii 3rd party support and also proves that 3rd party games can sell very well if they are high quality and appeal to the Wii audience. EA should be kicking themselves for not releasing Rock Band on Wii.
• Bozon thinks it’s taken way too long for the mono issue in Guitar Hero 3 Wii to be fixed. Action needs to be taken.

Wii Software LTD’s:

• Super Mario Galaxy = 1.2 million
• Smackdown vs Raw 2008 = 53,000 - not very good first-month numbers, and comparatively lower to PS2 and 360.
• Carnival Games = 300,000 - has sold better than Nintendo’s Big Brain Academy.
• Boogie = 172,000
• Call of Duty 3 = 310,000
• Cars = 115, 000
• Cooking Mama = 190,000
• DDR Hottest Party = 176,000
• Dragon Ball Z Buokai Tenkaichi 2 = 166,000
• Elebits = 130,000
• Excite Truck = 266,000
• Fire Emblem = 53,000
• High School Musical = 185,000
• GT Pro Series = 108,000
• Guitar Hero 3 Wii = 715,000
• Happy Feet = 87,000
• Harry Potter = 150,000
• The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess = 1.8 million
• Madden 08 = 292,000
• Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games = 330,000
• Mario Party 8 = 1.4 million
• Medal of Honor Heroes 2 = 31,000
• Metroid Prime 3 Corruption = 490,000
• MySims = 200,000
• Wii Play = over 3 million
• Rayman Raving Rabbids = over 500,000
• Rayman Ravings Rabbids 2 = 60,000
• Red Steel = less than 400,000
• Resident Evil 4 = over 400,000
• Resident Evil : Umbrella Chronicles = 120,000
• Sonic and the Secret Rings = 350,000
• SSX Blur = 125,000
• Super Paper Mario = 808,000
• The BIGS = nearly 200,000
• MLB Power Pro = around 80,000
• Tiger Woods 07 = almost 350,000
• Tiger Woods 08 = 175,000
• Transformers = 150,000
• Trauma Centre = 210,000
• Trauma Centre: New Blood = 15,000
• WarioWare: Smooth Moves = 604,000
• Zack and Wiki = under 35,000

- Bozon thinks that the great sales of Resident Evil on Wii should lead to an original Resident Evil game on Wii, likely in the vein of Resident Evil 4.
- It seems that casual and minigame titles on Wii are selling best, with a few exceptions.

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                                  I fart in your general direction Nintendo.  

If I lived in Europe I would be extremely angry with Nintendo right now. NoE released a list of upcoming games today and to everyone’s surprise, Brawl was not on the list. Later on, a NoE rep stated that Brawl would not release in Europe until after Q2 of 2008. That means Europeans will have to wait until at least July to buy Brawl. This is truly crushing news to any gamer that lives in that region. I think it is time for Nintendo to get their ass in gear and start releasing games around the same time around the world. It makes me angry and I live in America. News like this makes me feel like Nintendo doesn’t even care for its loyal customers anymore.

Link 

This is strictly a rumor for now. If you don’t want to take a chance of reading spoilers then don’t even look. Supposedly, a graphics designer on staff for Prima (guide books for games) has leaked the roster, and it is as follows:

Veterans:

Mario
Link
Kirby
Pikachu
Fox
Samus
Zelda
Bowser
Donkey Kong
Yoshi
Peach
Ice Climbers
Shiek
Jigglypuff
Luigi
Captain Falcon
Ness
Marth
Ganondorf
Young Link (Wind Waker/Phantom Hourglass Themed)
Falco
Mewtwo
Mr. Game and Watch

Newcomers:

Pit
Wario
Zero Suit Samus
Ike
Pokémon Trainer
Diddy Kong
Meta Knight
Snake
Lucas
Sonic
King Dedede
Olimar
Krystal
K. Rool
Geno
Animal Crossing Villager
Ridley
Isaac
Megaman

This seems like a really realistic roster.  I would like it if Young Link was switched to Midna/Wolf Link , but the list is still a pretty solid list of fighters. So what do you think? Real or not? If it is real, are you happy?

Link

UPDATE : New Super Smash Bros Brawl Roster Screens?

Waddle Dee Army

When King Dedede grabs the smash ball he summons an army of Waddle Dees that move quickly and work together to carry their foes off stage.

Come my Waddle Dee army, and do my Dirty work. After All I’m just a lazy bad guy.

The Waddle Dee’s take over

Ouch, Game Over Kirby!

Link

The first half of today’s update was pretty much stuff we knew from E for All, but it is nice to have it confirmed on the site. ”Battle For The Smash Ball” confirmed being able  to beat the smash ball out of someone, which will give the game more strategy.

Something else the update confirmed was the Pity Final Smash, which gives a player that is losing badly a free Final Smash. I personally don’t like this, but hopefully you can turn that off. The last thing the update confirmed is that you can turn off the Smash Ball items, which is good for people who don’t like the Final Smashes.

The other update is the music X: Tunnel Scene, which is from a Japan only Game Boy 
game.

Discuss this update on our forums.

Today’s Smash Brothers update was nothing to get excited about as all it showed was retuning Pokemon from previous Smash games. The update shows around 10 Pokemon, most of whom look exactly like they did in Melee, which is disappointing.

The only new info coming from this update was that rare Pokemon such as Mew and
Celebi can drop CDs for you to add to your in-game music collection. While this isn’t a great update, atleast it gave us some new info.

Discuss this update on our forums here.