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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land So, the Xbox 360 version of Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing gets Banjo (and) Kazooie as playable characters. What’s the Wii version offering? Well, you, of course. And by that Sega means Mii.
Personal Trainer: Walking is a DS title that comes packed with two digital pedometers that sync with your DS to track how far you walk each day. It also happens to include the ability to create Mii on your DS.
Go to the Mii Channel. Press A. Press B. Press 1. Press and hold 2.
Nintendo’s still superior Club Nintendo of Japan has updated its member offerings for the year, providing the serious and professional Nintendo fan with Mii emblazoned business cards. It’s the ideal way to exchange Friend Codes!
You didn’t think the Wii Speak microphone was only for Animal Crossing, did you? No, Nintendo announced today at their press conference in San Francisco that an all-new Wii Speak Channel will arrive in North America on November 16th, allowing up to four friends who’ve exchanged Friend Codes to chat with one another. In the chat room, players will be represented by their Mii’s, who will mimic their speech on the screen as it happens. I’m guessing that’s limited to hand gestures and simple body movements, so those planning on using the channel for more intimate encounters will still have to rely on their imaginations.
The Wii Speak microphone, which retails for $29.99, will come packaged with a code that allows owners to download the Wii Speak Channel at no additional charge. Other uses of the mic include leaving voice messages for your friends (“Why did you disconnect? I wasn’t done yet?”) and narrating photo captions.
During the 60th annual Emmy Awards, the writers of Saturday Night Live decided to use Mii versions of themselves during an Emmy presentation. Nifty!
SNL comedy writers appear as Nintendo Mii’s for the Emmys [Gaming Nexus via Go Nintendo]
Nintendo – under the impression they created the very idea of representing an online persona with a cartoon avatar – are flattered that Microsoft chose to use the things for their upcoming Xbox Live revamp. How flattered? They even throw in the dreaded “c” word, with Reggie telling the Spanish-language Club Nintendo that “copying is a way flattering, so we’re very flattered”. You know what else is flattering? Reggie’s new do. Seems…thicker than it used to, no?
Reggie says no hard drive…but a better solution, while Miyamoto says enough with the peripherals [Go Nintendo]
newVideoPlayer("wiimike_def.flv", 506, 423,""); Apparently, Mike Myers and I have different definitions of the word “exactly.” Perhaps it’s the Canadian definition, as Myers’ assertion that his Mii looks “exactly” like him is more of a “kind of” or “barely” in my opinion. While, I assume, pitching The Love Guru on The Tonight Show, Myers exposed his Wii avatar to the television viewing public, one which could easily be confused with Hawkman’s Mii.
Think that waggle machine is all light-hearted fun? Think again. Nintendo isn’t screwing around. Nintendo is dead serious. Listen to company honcho Satoru Iwata talk about Miis:
To Nintendo, licensing Mii is identical to licensing Mario. If you read Iwata Asks interview series in website, you can understand how Mii was created in detail, so I hope you can read them if you have time. Mii is actually the result of more than 10 years of efforts.
Mr. Miyamoto, the inventor of Mii, himself has been saying that, ‘In a sense, licensing Mii is same as licensing Mario — Nintendo should grant the licence when we can conclude that the proposed project is worthwhile. Should we allow any and all the licensees to use Mii licence for whichever projects, Mii’s brand image will be hurt. Because we are not granting Mario licence to any and all, we should not do so with Mii either.’
This is the current policy of Nintendo. So, at the software development stage, we are consulting with the developers as to how they would like to make use of Mii, and our Licensing Department handles on a case-by-case basis.
Wait. It took ten years for Nintendo to create Miis? Huh? Financial Results [Nintendo via Siliconera][Pic]
Yes, celebrity Miis are done. So 2007. 2006, even. But putting celebrity Miis into context, and onto real-world bodies, that’s a little fresher. Slobs of Gaming are running 14 pictures using just that premise, and while most of them range from sucky to very sucky, a handful shimmer, like Jesus rays poking elegantly through a night-black stormcloud.
The Top 14 Faces to Give to Your Mii [Slobs of Gaming, via Go Nintendo]
