Many of you will know the Wii is basically Gamecube hardware slightly overclocked with more RAM and motion controllers. Its the same way the Super Nintendo is just 14 NES chips sellotaped together and how the XBox 360 consists of six Intellivisions co-habiting. But controller1.com is breaking the news of the next iteration of the Wii. Its THE SUPER WII.
The SWii is being put together at Nintendo HQ in Japan as we speak and is intended to fix all of the percieved mistakes in the Wii Hardware. Features of the SWii include Motionplus controll, a 2 TB hard drive, 16 cores, NVidia graphics, liquid cooling, Blu Ray playback as well as DVD, Video CD, CDI and Laserdisc playback, Xbox Live, backwards compatibility with Wii, Gamecube, Nintendo 64, SNES, NES, Gameboy, DS, Virtual Boy and Radarscope arcade machines.The SWii also has six sensor bars, a 3 x 3 Balance board, 5.1 microphone and 19 megapixel webcam. The motion sensor bars, placed to surround the player, also have a built in body scanner so that your new Mii is now Pixar movie quality.
All SWii games will output resolutions of up to 3200 X 2400 via HDMI and 9.1 surround sound. There is also a credit card reader for built-in microstransactions and the SWiimote jacket is now made of leather.
The pack in Title is still Wii Sports and future games for this console include Wii ports of Mario Tennis and Pikmin
The Price? Well now that Nintendo has the Soccer Moms by the short and Curlies, the 4 SKU range will retail between US $499 and $999 when it is released in Fall 2010.
Playstation HOME, that is. So after about 50 attempts to log in, agreeing to the EULA three times and making a Mii, er, Avatar, er whatever version of myself, I’m HOME. It has the new car smell? Well, you know that new car smell? Even Kia’s have that new car smell and we all know how cool they are.
So I turn up in a stark sterile and sleek apartment overlooking a seaside town. Now I don’t know if everyone has the same view as my place but its a good bet. Its very sleek and cool. Its funny how all Sony marketing is about being cool and beautiful. Fun? Well, only if its cool and beautiful people. Your apartment is empty simple because you can BUY things like furniture and decorations for your fake apartment with REAL Money earned in the REAL world. Yes, you can stop laughing at people who make money as gold farmers since you’re expected to spend money.
There’s no gameplay in Home. You walk around. Of course, Home doesn’t download more than the areas you want to go in, so the first time you step outside, you are prompted to start a 77MB download. And then when you go over there, and in there. So unfortunately, you can’t do this overnight.
And then that’s it. You can then talk to the other metrosexuals (or people lieing about their weight) using your headset or with canned speech selected through your menu. At this point I got bored. I’m not big on things like Second Life or Habbo or any of that stuff so obviously this isn’t for me.
Will people in Home get together and go on epic raids? Will they form guilds? Will people get so lost in home that their real life relationships suffer. WILL PEOPLE BUY SHIT WITH REAL MONEY TO PUT FAKE CRAP IN THEIR FAKE APARTMENTS? Is this the first step to Better than Life as seen in TV’s Red Dwarf (or in the shitty book)?
I can’t see what you are meant to get out of HOME. Its free, but does that make it good?
