IGN finishes off their podcast duties for the year with this entry. There's a lot more non-Nintendo stuff in this podcast than usual, but the section where they discuss NPD sales figures and the Wii is tremendously worth tuning in for. What's the top-selling third-party Wii title? How well do casual games sell compared to hardcore games? The answers aren't necessarily what you'd expect.
By the way, is it just me, or is really weird that IGN's Wii-k in review is being brought to me by the... Sony PlayStation 3?
There's nothing like a good podcast, and this one's pretty interesting. If you're curious about No More Heroes or Wii Fit, there's a ton of hands-on impressions here to whet your appetites. There's also some discussion of a wave of Wii titles developed by Data Design Interactive that sound truly awful, with Offroad Extreme fingered as the worst of the lot.
(A 1 out of 10 at IGN? Seriously? I can only surmise that this game killed an intern.)
Wii Fit
A shockingly good and compact Radio Free Nintendo covers a lot of aspects of the Super Mario Galaxy launch, from the low supplies to the sky-high review scores. The hands-on impressions are sort of interesting, but my favorite part of this was the debate about the meaning and validity of review scores. I'm not a fan of scored reviews myself (they encourage people not to read the accompanying text), but I think they linger because no one's thought of anything better yet. Once someone does, maybe we'll see some change. In the meantime, 10/10 is almost the only intelligible thing to say about a game like Galaxy.
Super Mario Galaxy
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