Unfounded Rumor: DS2 Dev Kits Are In The Wild

More rumors are out there about the alleged new system Nintendo is going to unveil at GDC this year. This time French website GameKult is claiming that Developers already have the Dev Kits to develop for the new handheld.

Or at least that's what I'm told they are reporting, I don't read French, they could be talking about Taylor Swift eating a burrito all for I know.


Dev Kits are the equipment that game publishers use to make games for different systems.

NES Sells for 13k on eBay Thanks To Rare Game

An old NES and a couple of games, how much would you pay? $20, maybe $40 if the seller would guarantee you wouldn't have to blow into the cartridge before overtime you played. How about $13,000?

That's how much one bidder on eBay recently payed, but it wasn't because it came with Super Mario Bros. 3 (which in my heart is worth $13,000), it was because of some game called Stadium Events.

Stadium Events is considered one of the most rare games to have by NES collectors. The game made use of a "Power Pad" like accessory and was only sold in one department store in all of America. Only 2000 copies were thought to have ever been produced, and almost all of them were destroyed after Nintendo decided to purchase the rights to the game from Bandai and rebrand it for their own Power Pad. Less than 10copies are believed to have survived to this day.

The auction was originally listed for only $9.99, meaning the seller probably had no idea that they were selling the holy grail. Sounds like someone got a nice surprise.

The most I've ever paid for a game would be Guitar Hero with the drums, guitar and microphone. That was only $120 and pretty confident that it's more fun than Stadium Events. If you like old games, I have a box of Atari 2600 cartridges, I like to still play them sometimes, but if someone wants to offer me $13,000 for one of them I might be willing to part ways with it.

Pink & Blue Wii Controllers This Sunday

Just in time for Valentine's day, Nintendo will introduce blue and pink Wii Remotes. The controllers will only be available bundled with Wii Motion Plus, which will be remain white.

They will retail for $49.99, which isn't a bad price if you need both a controller and the Motion Plus... and you like pink.

They are both available from Amazon at the following links:
Wii Remote with Wii MotionPlus Bundle - Pink
Wii Remote with Wii MotionPlus Bundle - Blue

Another Wii Shortage?

Because over three years isn't enough to get your act together to meet consumer demands.

Yes, apparently once again there is a shortage of Wiis to go around to everyone. Joystiq reports that despite a record breaking month for the Nintendo system, the Wii could of sold better if they had more on the shelves.

Nintendo says they see difficulty meeting demands in the short term.

That's the problem right there, if at any point over the last three years they had bothered to look long term rather than short, maybe they wouldn't be having this issue. Still, it's rather impressive that the Wii still dominates after over three years.

Gamecube Could Do 3D

First Nintendo says they could have had the Natal, but they didn't want it, now they say they could of done 3D, but they had no wish to do that either.


The Gamecube, first released back in 2001, apparently had the capability to do 3D built in. The technology that has suddenly become the latest fad could of been used by Nintendo almost 9 years ago, but they chose not to.


Nintendo president, Iwata, was quoted as saying, "To tell you the truth, GameCube is secretly designed to load graphical circuits which display graphics for right and left eyes respectively, for a future possibility of realizing 3D gaming experience" Nintendo already "had interest in this technology,"


Nintendo however chose against using it. Nvidia currently has a peripheral that allows you to play games in 3D on your PC, and Sony is working on a similar item for their Playstation 3. 


So, was Nintendo right in not utilizing this feature? Probably. A lot of people already get dizzy playing video games, I'm not 3D would of helped out.


Source: The Escapist

Unfounded Rumor: New System to be Revealed At GDC

According to an anonymous source obtained by videogamer.com, Nintendo will be unveiling a new platform sat the Game Developers Conference (GDC) this year.

The source, an "employee at a major international publisher," says hay this new system is already being developed for.

Of course, there is no detail of whether this would be yet another handheld or a new console. This could possibly be the often predicted WiiHD. Nintendo representatives have said in the past that just adding HD to the current version of the Wii would not be enough.

Look at the difference between the DS lite and the DSi. Adding HD and maybe a little more data storage to the Wii would be a much bigger upgrade than the DSi was.

GDC is scheduled to start March 9th.

At any rate this is just a rumor that will probably bear no truth.

Simpsons References Wii

The Simpsons, still with its finger on the pulse of the latest trends after 20+ years, referenced Wii (or should I say Zii) being played by seniors last Sunday.

Actually, the episode overall wasn't bad, the whole Wii part is kind of "meh" however.

You can enjoy the episode, Wii elbow reference and all via Hulu:

Hudson Puts WiiWare Demo Online

Unlike the XBox 360 and Playstation 3, the Wii still does not have free downloadable demos for all their online titles. This erases the try before you buy method that all nonNintendo users have grown accustomed to.

So if you are a publisher with a game for WiiWare that you want people to try out and Nintendo refuses to put up a demo for it, what do you do? Well, Hudson may have found a method.

Anyone who visits the company's Japanese website can try a demo of their upcoming Wiiware offering Lost In Shadow (known in Japan as Tower of Shadow) inside their browser via the miracle of Adobe Flash.

Nintendo had offered demos of a small handful of WiiWare titles late last year but have already taken them down is Europe and claim they will taker it down soon in other regions as well.

Its great seeing Hudson taking initiative. I have not bothered buying many WiiWare titles for this reason. If I have no idea what the game is going to be like, I have no plans on buying it.