Wii wanted Spore, Wii got Spore!
Will Wright, the genius mind behind Sim City, has recently talked with Guardian Unlimited in an interview. During the interview, Mr. Wright says a few very interesting things. The first and most exciting tidbit is without-a-doubt that Spore, Wright’s latest creation, is now officially coming to the Nintendo Wii!
Here’s a snippet from the interview:
“We’re doing Spore on the Wii, and we did MySims. It takes signifcant. PS3 and Xbox 360 are similar enough that you can. So it comes down to what the interesting major platforms are and which markets we want to hit.”
I spotted this today while browsing through the Nintendo information book at work today, that our reps from Nintendo give us that gives all those employees who know nothing about Nintendo the information they need to appear knowledgeable on the subject. This was listed on the information page relating to Super Mario Galaxy. It’s not an old page, our Nintendo book was updated just recently, and another small Galaxy advertisement in our store also reads November 14th as the release date. They’re likely wrong, but it makes me wonder what’s going on in the heads of those that make up these things. Is the Canadian release date different than the American one? Is it just our chain? I know some Canadian stores advertise the release date as the day after the official one, just to make sure that they’ll have it in stock, since the games rarely arrive ON the release day, but 2 days after it? On my searching across the internet, I found no other reference to a November 14th release date, anywhere, leading me to confirm my suspicions with myself that this is just some weird mistake.
Just having a giant hammer was good enough for me, but today’s Smash Bros. Dojo update features King Dedede’s special moves, and his big Down-B move takes out half of his mallet to reveal a jet engine inside. An engine which you can charge up and take out other characters with. I envision it to be as effective as the Hammer item in the original Smash Bros. and Melee (though it likely won’t be as powerful), which takes Dedede’s cool points up to like a billion. Unfortunately the hammer also does damage to him, and the longer you charge it up the more it hurts him, so there’s the catch I guess.
and his Left/Right-B move involes him hurling a waddle-dee (which comes from where, exactly?) at his opponents.
It’s actually really funny, because just yesterday, Kevin and I got talking about Brawl, and how odd it was for MetaKnight to be involved, and not a more well-known character from the Kirby-verse, and he gave, specifically, King Dedede as an example.
Oh, how Nintendo likes to toy with our little hearts by “not commenting on rumours or speculation”. Though when they tell us that, we usually know that something’s up. In this case it’s the new Animal Crossing game for the Wii. EDGE magazine seems to know something we don’t (and we know nothing about Animal Crossing Wii, other that it is to be made at some point, so that’s a big step). They’re reporting that a source from Japan claims that the upcoming Animal Crossing Wii game will be a Massively Multiplayer Online Game.
