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Team-Ninja has done a great job cap­tur­ing the essence of past Metroid titles. The ques­tion is will hard­core fans embrace this new game? Check out the new trailer and decide for yourselves.

A remake for Gold­en­eye has been rumored for years with writ­ers going as far as say­ing we would see it on XBL first. Well Nin­tendo blew the lid off this at E3 with their new ver­sion that is exclu­sive for the Wii. One thing has changed and that is that Bros­nan is no longer Bond but has been replaced by the new Bond Daniel Craig. In the end though does it even mat­ter. After 13 years Gold­en­eye is back !!!!

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Oh look a first party Nin­tendo title!!!! It’s like a uni­corn that shits money.

And here I thought Nin­tendo for­got about my favorite lov­able ape. DK & Diddy are back and they look like they never left.

I am a sucker for Mario sports titles and this one looks like it’ll be a wel­come addi­tion. It has dodge ball for Christ’s sake !!!hahahaha

Enjoy

Nin­tendo brought technology,innovation and fun into one neat lit­tle pack­age in Novem­ber of 2006 and have changed the way games are played. With it’s intu­itive inter­face and sim­plis­tic game play the Wii cap­tured new demo­graph­ics of casual gamers and made believ­ers out of the so called hard­core gamers with fun first and third party titles. I ini­tially was not sold on the Wii and it’s kid­die graph­ics but like many I was swayed by Wii sports and soon I too owned Nintendo’s newest console.

I have owned nearly every Nin­tendo home sys­tem and it has been a sta­ple in my fam­ily since the days of clean­ing car­tridges with cot­ton swabs and alco­hol were the norm. I had high hopes for the Wii but along the way some­thing odd hap­pened. Nin­tendo dropped the ball and the hard to find con­sole soon became the one most read­ily avail­able. Once the buzz died down Nin­tendo went back to the draw­ing board and cre­ated Wii fit which helped move more units along with a new motion con­trol add on as well. Nin­tendo was back in the game and was sell­ing sys­tems like hotcakes.

Recently though it seems Nin­tendo has applied all their cre­ative ener­gies into pro­mot­ing the DS plat­form which while inno­v­a­tive in it’s own right, holds a large chunk of portable gam­ing at it’s mercy and the Wii seems to have floun­dered. With lim­ited first party offer­ings and barely any third party games of note it seems the big “N” has lost touch with con­sole own­ers result­ing in a 21% drop in sales for the Wii. Now don’t get me wrong Nin­tendo has still had great sales but their “skirt” is show­ing and the allure and cute­ness of the Wii is wear­ing things.

As a gamer it sad­dens me to see Nin­tendo not putting the Wii front and cen­ter given its dom­i­nat­ing posi­tion in the home con­sole wars. Nin­tendo has the tech, fran­chises and tal­ent to make great games whether they are 1st or 3rd party offer­ings. Let’s break down the right,wrong and ridicu­lous things Nin­tendo has done with the Wii

Right

• Price– Nin­tendo has done a great job pric­ing the Wii competively
• Pack In Game-Including Wii sports as your flag­ship title was a no brainer
• Wire­less
• Back­ward com­pat­i­bil­ity with Game­Cube titles
• Vir­tual Console

Wrong

• Ter­ri­ble com­mu­nity– Between friend codes and crappy mul­ti­player it seems the Wii is no match XBL or even PS-Home
• 1st party titles are released spo­rad­i­cally which kills any inter­est in the system.
• Poor con­trol inte­gra­tion with var­i­ous franchises
• No mar­quee third party titles. Tat­sunoko vs.. Cap­com while good did not sell units

Wiidicu­lous

• No 5.1 sound
• No high res­o­lu­tion graph­ics. Sure a Mii will look shitty in 720p but what about visu­ally appeal­ing games like Mario Galaxy 2 and the upcom­ing Metroid:Other M

In no way am I shit­ting on the Wii but I am dis­ap­pointed in the fact that Nin­tendo is not really try­ing to compete.Sure, Microsoft and Sony are copy­ing Nin­tendo but they are also right­ing the many wrongs that Nin­tendo has. I hope Nin­tendo real­izes that it has had such a huge impact on gam­ing and cre­ated a new fun and phys­i­cally inter­ac­tive medium but with­out proper sup­port all those inno­va­tions will be for nothing.

What are your thoughts on the Wii and do you see Nin­tendo dom­i­nat­ing the home con­sole mar­ket once more?

For FPS fans that are look­ing for a break from Mod­ern War­fare you now have some­thing new to look for­ward to. Here is your 1st look at Medal Of Honor.

Ready for more Crack­down? Here is the trailer for Crack­down 2 due in July.

NBA Jam is back!!!! Wii only though.

Just in time for the hol­i­days, Nin­tendo pulls a win­ner out of its hat with New Super Mario Bros. Wii (their titles get worse & worse). Despite the dumb title and despite the fact that you have to save the princess for the bil­lionth time since 1984 when SMB first hit arcades. I per­son­ally feel that Nin­tendo has dropped the ball by not milk­ing this as some sort of 25th anniversery edi­tion, but that is not up to me.

Mario, Luigi, Blue and Yel­low Toad are out to save Princess Toad­stool. The Toads have basi­cally been thrown in to give four dif­fer­ent char­ac­ters for the var­i­ous mul­ti­player modes, one of which is the main game. For the first time, Mario enthu­si­asts can enjoy the main story mode with up to three other friends and play simul­ta­ne­ously. Famil­iar power-ups return like the mini, super and 1UP mush­rooms, fire flower, super star, Yoshis and the POW block. As with any Mario title, there has to be some­thing new and this one does not dis­ap­point: Ice Flow­ers, Pen­guin Suits, pro­peller mush­rooms, pro­peller blocks and glow blocks (to light your way through caves). With six worlds of mush­room king­dom mad­ness and mul­ti­player games to bat­tle your friends in, this is a def­i­nite stock­ing stuffer if you did not pick it up yes­ter­day (at Nin­tendo World) or at retail loca­tions every­where today! Three out of four My Take Radio staff mem­bers give it two big thumbs up (the fourht has not played it yet)!

For more info, go to Nintendo’s ded­i­cated site: http://mariobroswii.com/

After see­ing the footage last week I can’t wait for this game to come out.Check out the cover art. What do you think?

Tat­sunoko vs Capcom

Image credit goes to 411mania