E3 2006 News | Sonic Wild Fire on Nintendo Wii [news]

awww Superlink will be pleased!

Sounds good to me. I wonder if Sonic will run automatically and only movement will be made with the Wii-mote? It'd be nice to think that maybe the 'a' and 'b' buttons can be used...NES style!

what game ist Wildfire? Racing-Game? Warioware-like?

Sounds ok, just hope it isn't a gimmick game.

Yay sounds like the first sonic will be a blast on the wii

Has anyone downloaded the zip files from the Sega site? Each is a Photoshop file screenshot, looks fairly good, though it isnt obvious what platform they are for:

Sega FTP site for Sonic NextGen

Having looked at the shots, I'd say they are likely for the Wii, as without being offensive to the console they don't look good enough to be on PS3 or 360: they are noticeably better than GameCube graphics though in my opinion!

I don't think the Wii shots have been shown.

Well, the downloads from Sega are for NextGen, and if they are for 360 or PS3 then the graphic quality of those two consoles is not as high as they say! I would think they are actually Wii screenshots, they are better than GC but not as good as 360 or PS3 can do.

Someone post them online somewhere?

They don't have any screenshots linked to from the Wii press release, so I doubt they're for that. Those screens posted above also look like the version shown for PS3 and 360.

I'm guessing their old 360/PS3 screens - the archive date says 2005.

Nice

Ah well, I'm suitably unimpressed with the screens if they are 360/PS3 ones: the Wii should have no issues keeping up with that type of quality!

Awsome!! More and more games being revealed!!! im really really really excited about Wii now!!!!

Sounds pretty cool! Can't wait for some more details/screens, etc!

Sorry how un-fanboyish of me, I clearly mean:

'Wooh NEW exclusive Sonic!'

Aww, I really want a port of Sonic 2006 too... I mean... this could turn out to be crap

Some games don't work in 3D, and Sonic is one of them. The series will NEVER be as good as it was on the Mega Drive, Sega have to move on and let this franchise die happily.

OK fine, maybe I overreacted, an exclusive Sonic game, great, but I bet there aren't that many 360 or PS3 fans that crave it, at least not as much as I crave the helping of Sonic they get.

Sounds like a spin off, it doesn't sound to me to have anything to do with the current storyline in the Sonic-verse.

EDIT to Ben: Yes, everyone hated Sonic Rush didn't they. People hate Sonic.

The new way of playing could be rubbish, at least with the new Sonic game on PS3/360, I know it will be as good as Sonic Adventure, or better.

( Edited on 09.05.2006 15:53 by Superlink )

This will probably get ported to PS3 later.

Aaaww man... movement with the Wiimote... That sounds crap... I suppose Sonic will definately be going downhill now that Yuki Naka left Sonic Team...

Yuji Naka only programmed Sonic, he's been having less & less input into Sonic stuff, so it's not that much of a big deal that he left.

Sonic was going downhill anyway (according to the people you'll meet on this website)

Yes, everyone hated Sonic Rush didn't they. People hate Sonic.

I was being sarcastic, apparantly Sonic will never be as good as he was on MegaDrive ever again.

The game, Sonic: Wild Fire, is set to be Sonic's first solo adventure since the original game.

Anyway, this sounds interesting, but I'm unconvinced at this point in time. Come on SGEA...CONVINCE ME!

Dude... They're completely forgetting Sonic Labyrynth...

So it's the 3rd Solo outing!!