wii music
News
There May Be More Wii Music
5:00PM Luke Plunkett | It’s easy to make fun of Wii Music, but remember, it still sold over two million units. Which probably explains why Nintendo are still talking publicly about the possibility of more of the things. More »
Features
The Role Of Music Games
5:30PM AJ Glasser | I got kicked out of choir in middle school and ever since, I’ve limited my study of music to whatever Guitar Hero and Rock Band have bothered to teach me. More »
News
Iwata: Remember, Miyamoto Is Not God
10:40AM Michael McWhertor | Nintendo president Satoru Iwata reminded attendees of the company’s financial results briefing that it does not employ a powerful deity, as famed Nintendo game designer is not, in reality, a god walking the Earth. More »
Culture
Wii Music As Teacher Shown in Action
12:40AM Brian Crecente | A Washington, D.C. school is one of the first in the nation to get Wii Music in their school. More »
News
Iwata: Wii Music Didn’t Reach Potential
10:30PM Brian Ashcraft | Wii Music didn’t become the breakout hit Nintendo was hoping for. It was a sales disappointment of sorts. Nintendo President Satoru Iwata thinks the software elicits one of two reactions. More »
The Death of Evil Obi Flies in the Face of Flush Video Game Industry
8:00AM Brian Crecente | These are such things as dreams are made on, the colourful concepts of dying developers, the universes that will never be.
Wii Music Coming to Classrooms
1:00AM Brian Crecente | Nintendo is teaming with The National Association for Music Education to get the Wii and Wii Music into schools, the two announced today. More »
Shigeru Miyamoto Didn’t Think Wii Music Would Have Immediate Appeal
11:20PM Brian Ashcraft | Wii Music hasn’t set the world ablaze. Still, it is an “evergreen title” — to use the proper Nintendo lingo. That, and Shigeru Miyamoto developed it. More »
Wii Music? Total Sales Bust
12:20PM Luke Plunkett | While it never exactly resonated with the more discerning end of the video game buying public, the average man on the street would still have put a fiver on Wii Music doing well in its first month of sale (the game was released in the US on October 20). After all, it’s for the Wii, it’s made by Nintendo and it’s got “Wii” in the title. Not to mention the fact it was the beneficiary of a fairly hefty marketing push from Nintendo. So heads were no doubt being scratched at Nintendo HQ when the game wasn’t among the top ten sellers for October. And scratched further when it wasn’t among the top twenty. More »
