Various Nintendo E3 Rumors
I read a few days ago that somewhere there were rumors circulating about some Nintendo announcements coming up at this year’s (downsized) E3. At the moment I’m having some trouble finding the article about it, but I believe it was on Wii Fanboy. Anyways, as I remember, the rumor stated that Nintendo would announce the release dates for Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Super Mario Galaxy. The rumor also states that they will also be announcing the Wii iteration of Mario Kart and on top of that a new piece of hardware!
Since, dates for two already announced games aren’t exactly big news and everyone and their mother knows that Mario Kart will eventually be making its way to Wii, the most shocking (and partially unbelievable) speculation is a hardware announcement. When I first heard I was immediately thinking that it could be a slightly more powerful Wii or something, but it just isn’t feasible at this point.
However, today I saw an article on Engadget rehashed the rumors of an external hard drive add-on for the Wii. While Nintendo is saying this is only a rumor, it seems like this could possibly fit the ‘hardware announcement’ profile. It makes a lot of sense, seeing as the Wii only comes with 512MB of storage and the system has 2 USB ports just sitting there. And with the number of games on the Virtual Console ever increasing gamers are bound to fill up their storage sooner or later. Additionally, there are some more rumors going around that the VC could see games from Neo Geo, which could take up about 300MB each. So, while I wouldn’t put money on it, I’m going to say that if there is a hardware announcement at E3 from Nintendo, this could very well be it.
Yet another rumor pertaining to the Wii is the possibility of colored Wiimotes hitting the shelves sometime soon. Wii Fanboy reported today that a store clerk from the UK snapped a shot of an upcoming SKU with the description “Wii Remote Blue.” It’s not too much to go on, but it certainly seems possible since Nintendo has a long history of multi-colored products and of course colored Wiimotes were present at E3 last year.
[Via Wii Fanboy]
[Via Engadget]
[Via Wii Fanboy (Again)]
2 comments:
Imagine if SEGA made it, heres a piture:
http://madiart.blogspot.com/2007/03/wfgn-11-sega-love-edition.html
My RSS feed reader just updated this for some reason.
Anyway, Neo-Geo support has already been confirmed. You can even check the Japanese VC page and see it listed. Although, no games have been released yet. Someone from SNK USA also confirmed that it's headed to the US, too.
Probably just a matter of time (E3) until they announce something hardware related to store these games. I kind of doubt that they'll go with a hard drive, though. Maybe 8 GB SD cards?
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