Nintendo Voice Chat podcast summary

January 11th, 2010 Posted in DS, News, Posted by Valay, Wii

Nintendo being lazy

- Peer not sure why so many people are getting upset
- Peer wishes you could play New Super Mario Bros. Wii online, sort of lazy/not caring, people are defending it
- Wario Land: Shake It! ran in 4:3 and people were defending that as well
- People are accepting flaws because they are Nintendo
- Sam understands fans who are defending Nintendo
- Nintendo didn’t really upgrade much with Animal Crossing
- The podcast members still feel that Mario Bros. Wii is an amazing game
- Nintendo spends a lot of time making sure a level in Mario is great and making sure you’re not waiting
- Wii is a disc-based system, never notice anything is loading
- Craig thinks Nintendo is starting to get in the habit of rehashing old stuff
- Nintendo has reinvented their franchise in the past, so Peer says you have to forgive the podcast crew for being a little disappointed
- Peer thinks Galaxy 2 will be a safe sequel, which is fine, but if it happens 3 more times, then you start getting disappointed
- Peer wasn’t disappointed that Mario Bros. Wii was like the DS game or anything like that, it’s more about the lack of progress
- The way Nintendo envisions themselves, they don’t go to the same lengths as others do to impress people
- Craig thinks Nintendo will remove GameCube support from the next Wii
- Have to give Wii credit since it has changed video games, Nintendo has innovated in that regard

Wii achievements

- Peer likes showing achievements to other people
- Adds a reason to connect with other people
- Not about the achievements necessarily, more about letting people you have a game and letting them know what you did in that game
- Fran surprised that Nintendo didn’t do achievements first, Nintendo likes to reward their players
- No one’s arguing to have achievement grinding
- There are a lot of hardcore Nintendo fans, Nintendo doesn’t give you a way to connect with others and show off that you’re a fan
- The podcast team still loves Nintendo

Phoenix Wright

- Now on WiiWare
- $10
- Straightforward port, and that’s all
- Basically DS emulation running on Wii
- Craig thinks that’s lazy, but ultimately it’s still a good game
- Peer thinks that’s unacceptable since he didn’t buy the Wii to play DS games

Next Wii

- Peer predicts something that has a ton of flash memory or hard drive, won’t have GameCube support
- Craig believes it’ll be awhile before there’s a brand new system out of Microsoft or Sony
- Removing the GameCube ports could result in a lot of outcry
- Maybe Nintendo could release some sort of USB adapter that could add those ports
- Not talking about the “actual” new system because that could be in 2015
- Iwata said next DS would have higher res graphics

- Craig heard rumors that friend codes will be going away for Wii, it’ll just be a system code

Reader questions

- Good Japanese games if you can’t read the text: Platformers, fighting games – New Super Mario Bros. Wii (no adventure games, no RPGs)
- IGN should be getting an almost finished version of Red Steel 2 in a few weeks
- IGN doesn’t have a recent update about The Grinder, last time they saw it was at E3, Sam doesn’t think The Conduit 2 will happen
- Peer thinks Zelda Wii will be a departure, hoping it isn’t just a Zelda sword-fighting game with puzzles, doesn’t want it skewed toward the fighting that much. Sam hoping MotionPlus won’t be that big of a deal in the game.
- Not sure what’s happening with Retro Studios right now
- Metroid Prime Trilogy isn’t shipping anymore
- Peer wants GBA, SNES games for a DSi VC. SNES could be tough due to screen resolution.


  1. 7 Responses to “Nintendo Voice Chat podcast summary”

  2. By Radioactive Puppy on Jan 12, 2010

    I guess I’m in the defending group of people- but NSMBWii wouldn’t be as fun if you didn’t have someone in the room playing it with you. I consider NSMBWii to be a party game, and online would be silly because you couldn’t tell others what to do accurately.

    I understand your whole “rehashing” argument, but you’re seriously just getting disappointed now? What about the past 5 Legend of Zelda Titles, Metroid Prime trilogy, and the fact that the majority of Nintendo games are based on old characters? Unless you mean rehashing of gameplay- but then again, games like NSMBWii had tons of new features and interesting bells and whistles.

    By the by, Nintendo clearly has not mastered online gaming- at all. They do, however, produce a slew of extremely impressive one player games.

    Just my two cents.

  3. By Dannyxzero on Jan 12, 2010

    lol dude on top, i have been saying the same thing, what about all the Zelda games that have come out ><

  4. By 357 Lobster on Jan 12, 2010

    Probably the same kind of jack ass that plays CoD, Guitar Hero, and Madden EVERY year and talks about how awesome they are despite the fact it’s the same shit different name. Nintendo’s lazy…ugh.

  5. By Drei on Jan 12, 2010

    Having both local play and online wouldn’t hurt though yes it is hella fun to play some Mario with a bunch of friends in the house but sometimes they can’t come over or you just don’t have friends that like the game it’ll be cool to know that you can go online and play your friends online and wii speak would have been cool for this to But ehhh what ever I’ll be getting Tatsunoko vs Capcom so I’m good. ^_^

  6. By joshx on Jan 12, 2010

    I feel sometimes that nintendo is lazy , i know nintendo has rehashed the same characters but the guy its pointin at gameplay, i as a nintendo fan recently feel somewhat cheated , yes they released a lackluster game in animal crosing , yes, they introduced voice but even the DS has voice an a headset, mario strikers its kind of the same game , the only game i felt was a bigger effort that any other game is mario galaxy from the gameplay, graphics and imagination, and yes we nintendo fans forgive nintendo for some “lazynes”.

  7. By FartPants on Jan 13, 2010

    Radioactive Puppy:”I guess I’m in the defending group of people- but NSMBWii wouldn’t be as fun if you didn’t have someone in the room playing it with you.”

    That may be true, but why not at least include the option of online play?
    You personally may choose to not play it online, but there are so many others who would love to.

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