Last night's Wii update added a bunch of new stuff. Some good. Some bad. And some unexplained, but still good. Sort of. Let Kotaku explain! Seems Nintendo have quietly added USB keyboard support for the Wii. Kotaku say quietly because first, it's unannounced, and second, because so far they've found it only works in the Shop Channel, Settings Menu and the Message Board, not the Internet Channel. Yet. But give 'em time, it's obviously something that's coming.
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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Interesting, I might have to verify this for myself sometime. Maybe USB external storage is next? *fingers crossed*
r1000 I've been asking for more memory for Wii for a good long time. That internal memory is good for those who don't get into the VC at all. I however love it and dl like crazy and I don't have any room left and continually need to copy games to my SD card delete game for the new one and then repeat when I want another one. Plus I may want to play a game I once deleted to make room for another so then I have to make room again search for the game and dl it again. That hassle should be unnecessary but without the ability to get into the SD card to play games or without the ability to have an external HDD I'm forced to put up with that. So yea external or SD card access would be very nice indeed ^^
But yea Keyboard use is a little more important than extra storage medium right now seeing that we are finally getting some online multi player games. We need some way to talk to each other eh?
one of the reasons i was iffy on web browsing on my tv was the typing. it's 200times better than console controller but still nothing like a keyboard.
i'll wait for reviews after some time has been put in and newer products pop up
It does take time to type using the Wii-mote. I even switched to the text format to help speed things up. It helps but a keyboard would be better of course.
i dont really need a keyboard but it is good to see Nintendo doing something