Nintendo signs deal with BBC to offer content through the top-selling home console.
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
Dash Rendar, Prince Xizor, the Battle of Hoth, and one of the boldest Star Wars multimedia projects ever made. Here’s why Shadows of the Empire still matters.
This game along with Rogue Squadron got me into to Star Wars. The release of special edition VHS Star Wars collection was perfectly times on top of all that. 😆
But it wasn't. Although I do agree that some of the tie-in media, like the novels and comics, were pretty good.
Still, games like Dark Forces, Jedi Knight, Rogue Squadron, and the space sims were peak 90s Star Wars. Shadows fell flat because of the abysmal controls and unimaginative levels. And if you wanted to really experience the seedy side of the universe, Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 was peak, and it wasn't even close.
Regardless, and much to my dismay, we got the better version thanks to Ubislop in Outlaws, which is what Shadows should've been, albeit at a smaller scale.
As a kid me and my cousins loved this game . I have great memories with this one and the Star Wars pod racer game .
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woah cool, now i can watch bbc on my wii, but i also want to watch it on my ps3, so work out a deal with sony
i use this a fair bit hope they mange to bring 4od and veoh tv to the wii as well.
IMO this is good technology but the BBC is supposed to make their technology available to all, if it is on Wii then it must also come to the 360 and PS3 soon or else the BBC will be using its programming to possibly have an effect on the market which is against the rules.
Bring it to PS3 and I'll be happy.
That's great but it would be even better if we could access that service off the XMB. And i'm not talking about just PlayTV.
I would imagine the beeb would have to do their best to take it to every platform the can considering it;s publicly funded.
example
"Why is the BBC releasing some of its software as open source?
A. Open source software can be a great way of putting new tools in the hands of our audience. Ultimately, too, our software development is funded by the UK public - we want to do whatever gives them the best value from their television licence fee. Open source projects give the software directly back to those who've funded it. In some cases, the BBC is contributing back to an open source community that has helped it save money. Sometimes it's the best way of working together to develop a piece of software that benefits everybody.
they have to as we pay our licence fees.