Nintendo hardware is tough, and generally made to withstand a lot of punishment. An angry four-year-old's urine is apparently not in the range of threats Nintendo obsessively product-tests against. From the distinctly tabloid British paper the Metro:
Ellis Emsley weed all over six-year-old Danny's prized Nintendo Wii leaving it water- logged and out of action.
Their mother Kerry, 25, said: 'It seems Ellis got fed up with Danny being obsessed with the Wii and refusing to play with him.
'He was told it was his turn on the Wii next, but he took it a bit too literally and used his secret weapon to sabotage the machine.
'Danny was speechless with rage, Ellis knew he had done something wrong and went and hid under his bed.'
That's right, internet. Those two solid days of pee jokes we told back when Nintendo first revealed the Revolution's real name? Totally justified.
The Zeemote, which is legally distinct from the Wii Nunchuk.
You know a Nintendo controller design has really hit it big when other manufacturers start copying it. The Wii Nunchuk can now join that long, proud list.
Start-up peripheral maker Zeetoo is currently developing a Wii Nunchuk knockoff called the Zeemote for the mobile phone market. Quoth CVG:
Using Bluetooth to connect to your phone, the device has an analogue stick, buttons on the reverse, all in a body that's shaped uncannily like the Wii Nunchuk controller.
Zeetoo even has a motion sensing version of the controller in the prototype phases, and another with a tracker ball.
It's hard to fault Zeetoo's logic here, though. The mobile market desperately needs better controls if they want games that take advantage of high-end hardware, and right now the Wii's controllers are the hottest on the market.
The parade of stupid things you can attach to your Wii just ain't stoppin'. Today we check in with Dragon Electronics and their awesomely dollar-store 8-in-1 Weapons Pack, and CTA's slightly baffling Cooking Mama Kit.
Oh, sure, we've got the Wii Zapper now, which lets you encase your controllers in plastic while actively reducing your in-game performance. But you know what I'd like even more? Something plastic that made my Wii remote look more like, I don't know... a shark?
Wait, you say it's already out there?
Awesome! My one complaint with Umbrella Chronicles when I played it was that I never had the feeling I was launching explosive projectiles at zombies from a shark's mouth. Now I can!
Okay, so... I've been thinking, holding on to my Wii remote with my hands is just too much effort. And that wrist strap? Clearly for the overweight and indiscriminately promiscuous. I want to, say, wear a glove that attaches my Wii remote right to the palm of my hand, so I only have to wrap my fingers around it loosely.
Oh, snap, that's out too?
What's interesting about this latest Game|Life feature is that it neatly sums up all of the major complaints about Nintendo (and, more specifically, the Wii) right now. It's unusual to see them summed up so, shall we say, intelligently. Two of these are from individual editors' lists, and the third... well, you'll see. Just check behind the cut.
So, a Kikizo interview with Insomniac Games's Ryan Schneider was doing the rounds a few months back, just before the release of Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction. Here's the relevant excerpt:
Kikizo: You've said that some inspiration is taken from games and movies, but have you found influences of Ratchet in other games?
Ryan Schneider: Yeah, I think that it's flattering... well OK, first of all, there was a PlayStation 2 game which I won't name, that was more or less a direct rip-off of Ratchet and Clank. There's evidence all around us I think, of certain games that have borrowed from Ratchet and Clank. One that we're even extremely flattered by is Super Mario Galaxy, with their spherical worlds; we did spherical worlds in Going Commando, and Up Your Arsenal. It would be amazing to think that Miyamoto-san thought that was so cool that he wanted to incorporate it into Mario Galaxy. Granted, he's doing it in a different way, but it's still a spherical world, so it's flattering to see those sorts of things.
Well, the guys at Official Nintendo Magazine UK decided to bring this up when interviewing Shigeru Miyamoto for an upcoming feature...
Super Mario Galaxy
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