Super Guide: It killed your family and kicked your dog
The Super Guide is your enemy, it has killed, imprisoned and raped your countrymen and will be the cause of the end of civilisation the world over… or at least that’s the kind of melodramatic nonsense some would like you to believe about Nintendo’s newest experimental feature that has made its debut on New Super Mario Bros. Wii.
So what exactly IS the Super Guide and why should you care or not care? In short, the Super Guide is a feature that when activated will play the game for you… and this kind of description is what has put a lot of people up in arms and have condemned the feature outright without them even looking into what it really is.
Put your rage and your conclusions aside and let’s continue on and see what this is really all about…
Nintendo of Ausfailia
There seems to be an awful lot of fail going around lately… a little too much for my liking. Though, this time instead certain folks in the Australian Government that are pissing me off, it’s Nintendo of Australia that’s in the spotlight tonight.
Nintendo of Australia is definitely happy with bringing out Wii Sports Resort down here as well as the Metroid Prime Trilogy later this year. They have much confidence in those and similar titles; however it doesn’t seem to extend to all first party Nintendo games. In fact, there seems to be a couple of games Nintendo of Australia thinks just is not for the Australian market at all.
Virtual Portable Console “…we have no plans for that…”
At the beginning of last month I had written an article about Nintendo and the path they are following with Wii. This article is a bit of a follow up to that one, though this time I’d like to focus on the DSi specifically. E3 has come and gone and while we got to enjoy at least ONE nice surprise, the rest of what Nintendo showed at E3 was horribly predictable.
I was really sure that Nintendo would announce that the DSi would be getting “Virtual Portable Console” support during this year’s E3. After all, it would make sense on so many levels… though at this point, I don’t really know what to think with Nintendo. They obviously have a plan they’re following which they think will get them a lot of money for the least amount of effort, that much is obvious…
Nintendo to the Core
I’ll admit it straight up: Writing an article of this type a month before an E3 is a very bad idea… mostly because you just don’t know what kind of surprises will pop up during the event. That said, let’s hope Nintendo does make a fool of me with whatever it is they have planned at E3.
Throughout Wii’s lifespan there has been a considerable amount of talk about whether Nintendo is still a traditional video game company, or if their new found audience has turned them into something entirely different. Of course, these kinds of criticisms are not unknown to the company since they’ve had a certain image problem with certain groups of gamers ever since they became a video game industry giant.