The Nintendolife.com tl;dr edition of the rumours: no Wii version for new Sonic.

I distincly remember calling this somewhere. I think it was in the comments of the first (removed) article.

Player's Choice: quite literally. It'll be a good excuse to dust off Metroid Prime Trilogy and send it back to the pressers, it's Platinum rated over here.

Doctor Who + Telltale Games = Good game (as long as it isn't released on WiiWare!).

I think the current Guiness World Record holder of "Most Games Ever Sold" is Wii Sports, allthough I think SMB3 still is king in the "never bundled with a console" catagory.

The problem is that I wouldn't be surprised if a substantial chunk of thouse sales were Nintendo first party games. Take them away from the equation and I doubt you would reach 100 million.

Nintendo can advertise, but only from when the DS was launched did they actually bother.

Wait: a hack-free, disc-free, working version of the Freeloader is part of this? Nintendo won't stand for that.

[Edit] Correction: it's a game modding system. NSMBWii custom levels anyone?

And the PCification of consoles continues.

@2: Basically, the new Sonic game is codenamed Project Needlemouse. That's pretty much all we know for certain, however Sega is indicating that it's back to the old school. I predict it will be Sonic Rush HD.

@72: Nope, just four-fifths of the first game for 10 bucks. The other fifth will be another buck, and JfA and T&T will probably be another $10 each.

Also, it's Apollo Justice, not Right.

Considering how well Showdow The Hedgehog went...

A new IP, on the other hand...

Considering the BBC iPlayer works surprisingly well with movies (I watched The Increadables on it the other week), I can't see why Netflix wouldn't work on the Wii, at least in SD. Although my connection is a little flaky (the last five minutes of said movie had buffering problems), so I probably would pass on this (plus, UK and all that).

Would the mystery DSiWare game in question be Move Your Brain: Rollway Puzzle, perhaps?

@16: See the Red Ring of Death for further evidence why going it alone is not a great idea.

At the moment, it sounds like they're still at the drawing board for this new console.

On the topic of console "refreshes", I doubt Nintendo will get away with a WiiHD of any sort, to be honest.

@17: Ditto. Graphics may be at a plateau, but Nintendo's machines haven't reached it yet.

In the words of Strong Bad: Shut up, lady! Peaceful is not how I roll.

attempts to shoot the video, with on oversized shotgun

@3: Wait, what? Square Enix publishing an FPS? And it's an Activision game? GDTHNDSAVHIMBDSVBBQ.

In terms of plot, you'll probably want to beat the first game (regardless of format). In practice, you won't miss out.

I reckon it's blockin' them pesky wannabes rather than anything else.

I understand the full game of Hell's Kitchen sucks big time. Don't hold your breath on the DSiWare version.

As per usual, dust down that PC and buy it from the Telltale store, save yourself $15 on the set and have an option of a hard copy once Sam & Max Season Three gets underway.

I bet Nintendo's just got a surplus building up. See the GameCube's temporary cease of production.

"Grand sudoku" has been doing the rounds for ages, perticularly in some Saturday newspapers. You can't credit Digital Leisure for inventing it.

Well, I'm surprised. I still think the 1000pt price tag is too steep, however.

Bring back the ELSPA.

I'll be frank: 1000pts for a single player puzzle game on a service already full of puzzle games is very steep. I can't see it getting more than a 5, but we'll see.

Rule one of advertising: don't advertise something that is mostly used for illegal purposes. Considering that using someone else's ROMs in an emulator is illegal (period)...

Frankly, at about £7.40 a pop, deal of the month!

Listing the computer mouse as something that will be phased out by the end of next year writes the whole list off as garbage. The only thing's I think is remotely likely to be extinct by next year are anologue TVs (what with the digital switchover) and fax machines. Move along, nothing to see here.

I may pick up the actual CD. Then rip it and feed the tunes to Audiosurf.
[Edit] Bah, download only. Still, $6 ain't bad. Plus, Spotify.

Be glad this lot didn't get spread over two weeks.

You gotta love indie developerss: the vast majority of them has a sense of humour.

It's probably too late to implement this for the DS/DSi, but it might be a good idea for the proper sucessor to the DS.

mans up and plots to buy the series on PC

Nvidia's PhysX engine was used in Sonic & The Black Knight. It doesn't mean we should expect the PC version of Mirror's Edge to be ported to the Wii.

It seems that Capcom's abandoning making Wii exclusive games. While it means less exclusives, it could mean Wii doesn't get left out from Cspcom's multiformat releases.

There's still time for a Super Street Fighter IV port, however...

I'll be saving my points for Excitebike 64, where you have have a 3d replica of the original Excitebike as part of the game, not all of the game.

TrackMania Wii. [/discussion]

Hmm... with this and this I think Nintendo's cutting down on their advertising budget.

Says the publisher of the Dogz series and the Imagine series. Move along, nothing to see here.

About damn time, frankly. Lower price = bigger sales = more people playing Nintendo games = more profit for Nintendo. Apple knows that, hence why they dropped their price of the 8Gb iPod Touch last week. Buffalobob doesn't know what he's talking about, frankly.

That, folks, is why PC gaming is so good. That, and the freeware.

@Machu: Actually, a Retro Studios game makes the most sense, considering the language of the copyright. Perhaps the return of Raven Blade?

Ru-mah commin' up! [/engineer]

Seriously, assume false untill proved otherwise.

The WiiWare version is basically Toribash PC Plus, apparently.

At what point do I get to say "Called it"?

Considering Rubik's World didn't do too well with the critics, I'm not holding my breath.

Bright ideas in gaming #2967: release a game on one console while you release the sequel on the other consoles. Wonder why it isn't selling as well than the sequel.

I can see Activision using it as an excuse to not bother porting any more CoD games.

This is also the same company that says Sam & Max Beyond Time & Space for Wii is out now in the UK, only they're "temporarily out of stock". Take with a pinch of salt or 20 methinks.

@51: Maybe, but they have built up an enormous lead.

Nintendo's approach has been flawed, but then again so has Sony's and the less said about the 360's reliability, the better.

Gamescom conference hall.

Sony rep: We're reducing the price of our console to £250.
Nintendo rep to Microsoft rep: What did he say? He's increasing his price to £250?
Microsoft rep to Nintendo rep: That's what I heard.
Nintendo rep: Due to the economy, we're increasing the price of our console to £200.
Microsoft rep: We're also increasing the price of our console to £160 due to the economy.

FAIL.

It won't be Friday (it's already one HELL of a line up), I doubt it's Monday (appear to look busy!), Americans always get it first (so it won't be a week on Friday, the 28th). So, I'll guess the Wii version will be released a week on Monday (Aug 31st) in NA, with an EU release the following Friday (Sep 4th).