For those of you who missed out on the hour and a half of announcements, excitement and PR from Nintendo, here is a handy bullet-point summary. The statistics and PR bluster have been intentionally left out, go somewhere else to see How many Wii consoles have been sold in each country or what the ratio of male to female DS owners has been for the past three years.
-Shaun White Snowboarding announced for Wii and will utilize the Wii balance board, scheduled for October 2008 release
-Animal Crossing: City Folk announced for Wii, scheduled for release on November 16, 2008. It will utilize the new Wii Speak microphone for community communication
-Wii Speak peripheral announced, a microphone that will sit on top of a television that will pick up voices of everyone in the area
-Star Wars: The Clone Wars-Lightsaber Duels announced as Wii exclusive, releasing Holiday 2008
-Rayman Raving Rabbids: TV Party will offer more minigames, this time utilizing the Wii balance balance board, releasing Fall 2008
-Call of Duty: World at War will be released on Wii utilizing the Wii remote as a control device and will contain cooperative gameplay, releasing November 2008
-A sequel to Guitar Hero: On Tour has been announced, also for Nintendo DS, titled Guitar Hero: On Tour: Decades
-Spore: Creatures will involve the "core elements" of Spore which are creativity and sharing, (creating and sharing creatures). Spore: Creatures is scheduled for a September 7, 2008 release on Nintendo DS
-Pokemon Ranger: Shadow of Almia will be released for Nintendo DS on November 10, 2008 in the US
-A new installment in the Grand Theft Auto series, Grand Theft Auto, Chinatown Wars, has been announced for the Nintendo DS and will arrive in Winter 2008/2009. It will be set in modern-day Liberty City and feature a new game engine and new characters
-Nintendo is testing the Nintendo DS for use as a sort of local information hub. One example being that it might be used at an airport to find gates, departure times, local hotels and restaurants, etc.
-A virtual cookbook with recipes, tips and more is in use in Japan and an English version will be released in November
-An addition to the Wii remote, called Wii Motion Plus, has been announced that will supposedly make the remote more precise and responsive (1:1 motion control)
-Wii Sports: Resort has been announced as a beach-themed sequel to Wii Sports and will include one Wii Motion Plus with the game. Mini games shown that will be in Wii Sports: Resort include a frisbee game, a wave-race looking game and sword dueling game. Wii Sports: Resort is scheduled for Spring 2009
-Shigeru Miyamoto's official title has apparently been upgraded to "gaming legend" and will be introduced on stage as such henceforth
-Wii Music has been announced and will utilize the Wii remote, nunchuk and balance board to play over 50 virtual musical instruments in real-time to play along with various songs and melodies
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