only if I can feed my Miis to the fishies

holysocks

@Go Team Venture:

That "that wii ocean game no one bought" is still selling fine and up to around 600,000 so far.

It is magnificent - give it a try.

phisheep

$5? I'll bite.

...Amirite guyz

dynendal

Jaws or GTFO.

LiamR

@GyrFal: I'm not trying to turn it into a debate I just think the Big N has lost something along the way. Sure I can break out Wii Sports during Thanksgiving or some special event but when people come over and even I want to play something solo the Wii keeps getting passed over for everything else. I think I've used my XBOX, Fusion Frenzy to be exact, more in the past 6 months than the Wii. I'm really hoping that the Wii Motion Plus brings the Wii what it needs because more often than not that's the biggest complaint I and everyone who has played the Wii at my house has, it's not accurate enough.

zombie16thc

I guess this a game for people who don't want to spend $1000+ on aquarium equipment, water, fish, etc.

ViRiS

This would be nice is fish weren't like, THE WORST PET EVER! All you can do is look at them. And just for looking pretty they expect to be fed? I guess this will be something you leave out to show off to guests, just like a real aquarium Man, FUCK FISH!

jive238

seaman, is that you? oh wait, not quite. endless ocean? not that either. ah well.

bigman88zz

@zombie16thc: Yeah, let's just TRY to turn every comment page into a console debate now, it happens anyway.

GyrFal

"...and now here's a bunch of stuff you don't care about."
-PA

Woodwater

So... kind of like Little Big Planet meets Endless Ocean - but with less.

It does look rather pretty though. Kind of like those old Windows screensavers...

sir_carrot

It seems so... Relaxing...

vincehardy

In unrelated news, didn't Nintendo say something about not appealing to a hard core crowd?

Emperor_Guam

so this sounded rather stupid, but for the video im rather captivated now.

its kinda of like that wii ocean game no one bought but more in depth. what im looking forward to doing os breeding my fish and then letting my aquarium just sit on my wonderful 1080p 46" while i do home work. just a relaxing setting that is.

Go Team Venture

E3 08 -when the Wii jumped the shark.

+ Watch video

Punkateer

It's supposed to be something you leave on your idle TV? I know it's a rare concern given how cheap electricity is, but isn't this... a waste of the stuff? Not to say that aquariums aren't totally sweet, but... eh, forget it, no one cares about the environment.

Tails437

40 different kinds of fish!
SWEET! /sarcasm

Nah but seriously
This kinda thing is cool when you just want to chillax
Like some of the screensavers you can get on your pc
If I had a Wii and some extra cash
I'd get it

TheExiledLeader

Animal Crossing taught me about Arowanas! :D

Fadakar

That's the most expensive screensaver I've ever seen...

Avonej

Bandicoot: You got that right.

zombie16thc

This is still not getting me to turn on my Wii, I'm a PS3 convert! I was waiting for Dead Rising but now not so much. The Big N had my youth and I had hoped to see the light again but all these game just scream mediocre. I have Zelda, Galaxy, Mario Kart and both Resident Evil games but I only did end up beating Resident Evil the rest I just can't seem to get into. Oh how times have changed.

zombie16thc

I would love a virtual aquarium, but I'm NOT going to buy it unless it's in HD. I know that you can buy one on PSN, but the PSeye is required. Oh well.

chuffhoncho

"Why not add an aquarium to your home?"

I... I honestly can't answer that.

Bandicoot

@Punkateer: is that where the term 'jumped the shark' really came from? damn...i had no idea. It makes perfect sense now.

MisterMcThursday

@zombie16thc: You're still continuing. I'm talking about how all of what you're saying really has nil to do with the post except for it being on a Nintendo platform.

GyrFal

@jive238: Fish are tasty, at least :)

I have a freshwater aquarium at home with neons, panda cats, and a recently deceased clown loach :( Can't really see the appeal in this though...

sherv

They should have just upped the price a little and made a "Seaman" port from the Dreamcast. :( I loved that abusive little ... Whatever he was. Then the aquarium could just randomly insult my guests.

curtisawa

@zombie16thc: I'm not advertising for Tropicana, I just think that a nice glass of OJ that's always fresh, never from concentrate would hit the spot. I mean, Tropicana all-natural juice has twice the potassium of a banana, all of the calcium of a glass of milk, and 100% of the daily recommended value of vitamin C in a convenient, delicious glass of orange juice. Which can be drunk while playing My Aquarium.

Avonej

...or you could buy Feeding Frenzy and actually get a game with your fish....

Billkwando

Looks like Endless Ocean is rendered obsolete?

Ryuk

If only you could add Fighting fish and have some Mick Vick style fun.

dsigns

@zombie16thc: Really, you not being able to get into Zelda or Galaxy speaks more to how your personal tastes and how they have changed as you've grown up more than some of Nintendo's recent mass audience products.

dry-roasted-peanuts

Nintendo is just giving themselves more and more and more reasons to have the Wii next to the Speak and Spell at Toys R Us.

JuiceKup

@Billkwando: that game is awful, and thats like saying you can get fable2 instead of nintendogs.... stupid stupid stupid.

anyways, this is what aquatopia should have been like. i know it was only $2 but damn they could have atleast added different backgrounds and more variety of fish in that.

sirpilf

I wonder how it will handle goldfish poo physics...

boopadoo

@Avonej:
Or while enjoying a nice, cold Coors Light. It's... really cold.
I actually think Endless Ocean looks like it was better than this.

ZinkO: USA WE DA BEST

@Jakuub: the = they

Jakuub

@Punkateer: If that's the case, what game will the use to relate to Nuking The Fridge? That might actually be interesting...

Jakuub

@MisterMcThursday: Yup. After the Fonz jumped the shark the series started falling apart as the storyline got weaker. It's also now referred to as jumped the couch after tom cruse uhh jumped oprahs couch.

The irony of jumping the shark and an aquarium game is not lost on Nintendo -what great sense of humor they have.

Punkateer

WTF? "breed and raise fish?" "loaded with fun?!" bahahaha, what a piece of crap....

OCRMace

"Breed and raise fish"? "Loaded with fun"?! bahahaha, WTF? what a load of crap....

OCRMace

@ZinkO: USA WE DA BEST:

This rather looks like what everyone *thought* Endless Ocean was going to be like way back when. But true, EO has a load more depth and around 200 hours of play in it - which it seems this probably doesn't.

phisheep

This could be a good app to use a a screensaver, would look peacefull on a 70" screen...

JoachimV

I already HAVE an aquarium, Nintendo.
So I want 500 free wii points.
/confusion?

Toastbusters

@JoachimV: maybe if your standing 100 feet away. not at the wii's resolution.

Snowdaddy

It's nothing really great, but it's a nice little anti-game (if anybody considers that a genre) for some players.

It's a lot cheaper & easier than actually owning a real aquarium & it could be used either as a screensaver or decoration for a casual party.

The only catch would be to feed the fish every day, but there's no serious downsides if you let them die (just grab a another fish & try again).

TStodden

@GyrFal: I could come out and say My Aquarium = waste of points and dev time but that's no fun either, is it? This game is akin to the $1 DVD's of Fireplace, Babbling Broke and Moving Clouds. I hold Nintendo up to high standards and they seem to be losing it. I would take Donkey Konga over this or how about make this a twofer throw in Seaman in this engine and they have a deal.
@dry-roasted-peanuts: Maybe but I recently went back and beat Zelda, Contra and Metroid on the DS homebrew emulator on a train ride and they still have the same level of fun.
@Avonej: Thanks for the health tip, however I still don't consider this a game, it's more like maintain some fish.

zombie16thc

I like how it's "Loaded with Fun" as a feature...

neoyaku

"Breed"? Hmm, throw in a little cannibalism, and this is a buy!

Herabec

5 bucks? I'm in.

Foxstar Sixtail

It'd be nice for background ambience but only if you could use your own (or no) music. And then Hudson goes and tries to make a "game" out of it by req'ing you to feed the fish and whatever, but if I owned this I'd just want to leave it on and not have to spend any time whatsoever maintaining the thing.

Last year (I think) Sega released an LCD aquarium clock, priced something like $200- and I'm not talking LCD like what you think I am, I'm talking fucking dot-matrix, no definition, all 100+ fish species just blocky, blocky silhouetes. $5 for a good looking (within the Wii range), modifiable aquarium sim isn't a bad idea at all (though more fish would be better, and even better they allow more user-generated content).

denki

Popcap made a fun little game called Insaniquarium years ago. They could've spruced that one up a bit and sold it for 5 bucks and it probably would actually be worth the money.

Krytha

I think it's cute. That said, oner of the things the kept me from really enjoying Nintendogs was the need to boot it up everyday just to feed them. It ended up feeling like work.

On top of that, I have 6 betta. I can't imagine getting a vertual one.

EmeraldDragon

@Bandicoot: fish stink and can be expensive. $15 for a fucking fish? no way

osteofight

I think I'll just stick with my Endless Ocean, thank you. *hugs Endless Ocean*

Really, only 40 fish? =S Good 3D modeling on those fish, though.

Ravenhood

@Ravenhood: Me too. And it looks pretty on my 51" HDTV.

Evil Tortie's Mom

I see nobody sees the biggest flaw here:

"FEED YOUR FISH EVERY DAY"

It's not just a pretty screensaver or background ambiance thing. It's another responsibility. I don't know if your fish will end up floaters if you forget to play, but it just seems like a hassle.

onikuwagata

@onikuwagata:
i hope that they will end up as floaters.
thats even better.

cos of the sadistic nature i have in me, an aquarium of 40 floaters would be so totally awesome.

Mr.Sad

supposedly there is a premium for space in Japan, at least in the big cities... A virtual aquarium would take zero space...

paydirt76

love the inclusion of the asian arowana, too bad the animation is far from doing them justice.

Zodduska

but, will I be able to mix African and South American chiclids and watch them fight to the death?

kathartik