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Nintendo Wii Rumours | Price Delay, Buying Movies & More...

16.06.2006

Okay, so as you may or may not know American gaming publication Game Informer runs a rumour column in it's magazine and has had remarkable accuracy with a great deal of the rumours. gamefront.de have posted up what it claims to be rumours from the rumour column and they concern the Nintendo Wii. These are:

System Shock 3 is in development by the same team who did The Godfather game. No system was mentioned however.

A price has not been announced for the Nintendo Wii because the verticle sensor that sits on the tv and reads the Wii motes movement is not yet finished. Nintendo will announce a price once it is finished.

At E3 someone saw a Jurrasic Park logo at a section that was "behind closed doors". This may point to movie downloads through the Wii hub.

The downloadable films one is interesting. No doubt with WiiConnect24 it would be an intriguing idea, however the fact that wiimovies.com has not been bought would suggest that the rumour is a bit weak. Could it be a Jurrasic Park game instead?

The System Shock rumour holds the most weight as a patent entry by EA at the beginning of the year was generally about System Shock and the System Shock brand. Another patent entry that caught the site's eye was that for the Square-Enix series "Romancing SaGa" as a trademark protection entry with the US patent office from 13.06.06 concerns the game. However it is merely routine that these are updated so don't hold your breath on that one.

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HazukiSan 16.06.2006#1

Okay, all rumours but the price delay one seems pretty logical an dthe downloadable films is interesting if not accurate. Could the wii hub be THAT wide ranging?

CALUM 16.06.2006#2

Hopefully downloadable films will make it to the final system. It does seem more likely to be a new game though.

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HazukiSan 16.06.2006#3

I just can't see why you'd leap to the conclusion of "it's films11!!11lolroflmaowoot" when it could just as easily be a game.

J4K 16.06.2006#4

How would you be able to download fimls with a puny 512 onboard flash memory? My guess is that thw Jurrasic park thing is just a game...

The price delay one, as Hazuki said, seems perfectly logical though...

dojo 16.06.2006#5

Downloading films on Wii would be a bit poo, really, and Nintendo really isn't one to jump on the mulitmedia bandwagon now, is it?

patjuan32 16.06.2006#6

I'm just wondering about what happened to Square-Enix's announcement about the Friends of Mana.

( Edited on 16.06.2006 17:12 by patjuan32 )

James2t3 16.06.2006#7

The movie thing is just total utter bollocks,
Other two seem fairly weak but meh who knows.

jmm36 16.06.2006#8

I could certainly see the system having downloadable movies, especially if you get a larger MB card or external hard drive (as these will be supported.) I don't know that it will be Nintendo's focus, but it would be cheap to provide the service, and WiiConnect24 would give Nintendo a major advantage in this space over 360 or Sony. Always on downloading? (Even in hibernation?) WHY NOT? Your movie is delivered overnight, at any bandwidth!

( Edited on 16.06.2006 17:49 by jmm36 )

James2t3 16.06.2006#9

Trailers maby (although with opera cmbined with youtube I don't see the point) just whole movies are gonna be like 1GB at least?? You would have to keep erasing movies then redownloading them, then theres the fact not everyone will have big memory cards or HDD, somthin like this is not made for the wii.

RufDogRacing 16.06.2006#10

The Jurrasic Park logo was probably a game, like everyone has said. Or maybe it's part of a DVD attachment promotion?

Nintendo have made the Wii all about the games, I doubt they'd want anything to do with that film downloading malarky. Smilie

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Darkflame 16.06.2006#11

Id actualy say movie downloads are very likely indeed.
The question is more if it would be nintendo or a third party that does it.

Seeing as the system is designed specificaly to download stuff overnight, and it already has a webbrowser, its all possible from a hardware point of view.

Of course, you will also need a codec/player of some sort, but the Wii is bound to have something like that at the very least to watch game trailers from.

So the question in my mind is merely if it will be Nintendo organising downloads, or if some third party will start a site doing it.

Nintendo has to have a micro-payment system in place anyway..so they would have an advantage if they did it.

But, on the other hand, its not Nintendos focus, so you might just get other websites doing it.

Remember: It dosnt even have to be made specificaly for the Wii, all it needs is to be made in a codec it can understand.

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Darkflame 16.06.2006#12

oh, and about space, its a non-issue.
Those that want to download movies, will buy bigger HD's or SD cards.
100Gig HD's are, like

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Zapp 16.06.2006#13

i reckon its BS!!!

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MattEvansC3 16.06.2006#14

The download movies idea I feel is bollocks, good quality DivX still comes in at around 650MB+ for a movie and surely if they were going to downloadable movies Pokemon would be one of the first things you could download and not Jurassic Park.

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HazukiSan 16.06.2006#15

The Jurrasic Park logo was probably a game, like everyone has said. Or maybe it's part of a DVD attachment promotion?

Exactly my thoughts, exactly!

dojo 16.06.2006#16

Darkflame said:
Id actualy say movie downloads are very likely indeed.The question is more if it would be nintendo or a third party that does it.Seeing as the system is designed specificaly to download stuff overnight, and it already has a webbrowser, its all possible from a hardware point of view.Of course, you will also need a codec/player of some sort, but the Wii is bound to have something like that at the very least to watch game trailers from.So the question in my mind is merely if it will be Nintendo organising downloads, or if some third party will start a site doing it.Nintendo has to have a micro-payment system in place anyway..so they would have an advantage if they did it.But, on the other hand, its not Nintendos focus, so you might just get other websites doing it.Remember: It dosnt even have to be made specificaly for the Wii, all it needs is to be made in a codec it can understand.

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tiamat1990 16.06.2006#17

Download films on wii? Not gonna happen...Movies are like 4 GB if you want DVD quality and i'm not buying cheap pirate quality movies

Zapp 17.06.2006#18

I have a movie DivX 1:22:21 700.16MB its very good quality wide screen!!!

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Questworld 17.06.2006#19

As I recall isn't there plans for a fourth Jurassic Park movie (along side plans of a fourth Indiana Jones movie)? Downloading movies with our current speeds is just not practical. Besides, where in E3 where these "closed doors" that had Jurassic Park logos located? What relation does it have to the Wii if any?

HazukiSan 17.06.2006#20

Questworld said:
As I recall isnt there plans for a fourth Jurassic Park movie (along side plans of a fourth Indiana Jones movie)? Downloading movies with our current speeds is just not practical. Besides, where in E3 where these closed doors that had Jurassic Park logos located? What relation does it have to the Wii if any?

That's what I thought, but meh... it just shows how bad some rumours can be.

ohm 17.06.2006#21

System Shock? I heard nothing but praise from that series.

HazukiSan 17.06.2006#22

Z said:
System Shock? I heard nothing but praise from that series.

It has a healthy contigent of hardcore and casual fans alike, never played it myself but it'd be nice to have another big brand on Wii.

( Edited on 17.06.2006 13:10 by HazukiSan )

Nexus 17.06.2006#23

At E3 someone saw a Jurrasic Park logo at a section that was "behind closed doors". This may point to movie downloads through the Wii hub.

I seriously doubt that there will be Downloadable movies through the Wii, trailers possibly but not whole movies. The logo was probably a new game or something like that.

The price delay does sound realistic.

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Raff 17.06.2006#24

It can pretty much be garenteed that System Shock 3 won't be on Wii. It will be on PC, probably 360 and maybe PS3.

It's going to be shit and you jolly well know it.

JoshSL 17.06.2006#25

Downloadable movies would certainly be cool, but then what's the point in the DVD add on? I reckon if it's done it'll prolly have fairly old movies, like Jurassic Park & such, but I still don't think it's true, sounds more likely to be another game...

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