Have you ever wanted to see the CEO of one of the most successful companies in the world look like a total idiot? Here's your chance. Iwata sits down and plays with the upcoming Wario Ware Snapped! showing off the game's camera functionality and its ability to make you look really dumb after every round of play. The mini-games in there look like fun as most Wario Ware mini-games do, but the real pleasure is checking out Iwata's frantic movements, which the game captures via the DSi's sexy cameras.
If you haven't seen the gameplay before this you'll probably be easily reminded of Sony's EyeToy and its many camera games. The main difference here is that the Wario Ware games are usually fast paced fun and of a high quality instead of goofy and slow, and the DSi will make sure a large portion of the population can actually use the cameras instead of just the few people who have the EyeToy. Anyone pick up their DSi yet and if so are you enjoying looking as odd as Iwata does when you're playing?
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Seen it, but I feel that the gameplay looks way too slow paced- perfect for getting goofy videos of your friends making asses of themselves, not so great for the rapid fire gameplay warioware is known for. Getting re-aligned before every game really hampers the urgency
ung... this looks like a poor mans eye toy game... pointless accessories never work unless your Nintendo because everything they make prints money no matter how stupid or gimmicky it is. Snes mouse anyone? Super Scope? I predict the dsi having 3x the amount of shovelware the ds already has.
How can you play this when you're on the move? You can't play it when you're walking, on the public transportation, or even when there's no desk.
As for the game content itself, I would not want people looking at me, when I play. Only a spastic person would be able to play this game and win and not get dizzy.
how is this any different or more fun than eye toy? the only legit difference is that with eyetoy you don't get shown how ridiculous you are at the end of it, and that the graphics are significantly worse.
No I don't mean that asshole, The eye toy is better than this pos so I consider it the poor mans eye toy. How the hell does this look fun? At least the eye toy made sense, camera games in your living room. How in the earthly fuck are you gonna play camera games on the go? Its pointless, and the only reason it will sell well is because its Nintendo. Ever since the wii they have become the new Apple, everyone has to have their products and act like they are better than everyone else who refuses to buy into Nintendo's fairy tale gumdrop gimmick machines.
The difference would be the game. I could care less about the camera if it isn't used right, like making a time attack game were you clean windows. The brevity of the mini games and contextual difference of them make it that much more bearable in a game like WarioWare.
There's always been Nintendo fans, and there's a reason behind that when you influence gaming like they did, its not just because it sells more now. But I'll not discuss console stuff.
About playing it on the go, well you can't actually playing while moving, but it doesn't invalidate its merits.
To people complaining about not being able to play this "on the go:"
Some games aren't meant to be played on the go. Just because it's a handheld and is portable doesn't mean every game should be ideal for the bus. Some games are just meant to take advantage of the unique features of the handheld, be they built in cameras or a touch screen. Portability is just one of many features.
I'm saving my 1000 free Nintendo points for something better than WarioWare: Snapped. Maybe once they get the GameBoy VC going I'll use them. I just don't plan on using the cameras all that much unless a game uses them particularly well.
When I saw the title I thought that Iwata had thrown a desk out of a window and we were going to get a new president of Nintendo Japan, but I got a funny video instead. Oh well, maybe next time.
I'm talking about the Nintendo of today, the Nintendo of yesteryear actually cared about their fans and cared about gaming I'm not gonna sit here and deny that they didn't have a shitload of influence in the gaming industry. The new Nintendo only seems to care about the next gimmick they can come up with that prints money. It's funny how every time their new gimmick as worn out its lifespan and sales start to slow down they have to think of a new one. First it was the Wii, once it seemed like everyone and their grandmother had one, they release Wii fit. Now sales start to slow on that lately since I think every wii household owns one now. Now its the DSI. The next gimmick is the Wii motion plus but I actually see that one as a day late and a dollar short, it will most likely flop. That is until Wii fit plus anyways.
And before anyone starts yelling fanboy in my direction I'll have you know I own every iteration of a Nintendo console. It pains me to even speak of them this way, but they have put themselves in this position by catering to house wives and retirement homes instead of their core audience. So I will be speaking with my wallet and not purchasing a DSI, it will be one of those systems I collect in 10 years off ebay for $10 just to say I own one.
Thanks for your speech about why you won't buy i when a million others will and we can't do anything about it. Hopefully this place won't become somewhere to discuss bullshit console war and fanboy arguments like Joystiq and GameFAQs.
how is touching coins or shaking a wet dog dry inferior or superior to washing windows? how can you claim that something that you've barely seen anything of to be better than the series of games that more or less started this entire genre? i'm actually kind of surprised that they released the video they did with all the load times. i feel like they'd want to cut that out of the first trailer that they release to the world... just show the actual gameplay minus the calibration or something of that sort. it looks like a fun game, but i think that at least at the moment you're basing your entire argument off of something that can't be used as a basis for one.
I wasn't trying to start any fanboy wars, I just simply stated my opinion on the video and DSi and coco calls me a troll. Fuck that noise now I'm troll because I don't agree with coco that the DSi is the best thing since sliced bread? A troll would of posted something along the lines of "FUCK NINTENDO" or something to that effect which I did not. Are we not aloud to have opinions on dtoid anymore without being berated by fanboys? I mean look at all the fanboy rage Jim stirred up just because he happened to dislike megaman 9.
No Sieg Heil silhouette to fill and then showing you a picture of yourself doing it = fail!
The ending was still funny though, especially when you know that all he thinks about is more ways to get ppl to buy the same thing for the 3rd and 4th time.
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Fuck that noise. I'm saving my free DSi points.
But going on this, I found the game to be very unpractical on the camera attachments until the ending which was fucking clever.
As for the game content itself, I would not want people looking at me, when I play. Only a spastic person would be able to play this game and win and not get dizzy.
You mean a fun man's eye toy right?
Go back to your cave, troll.
I was just about to pose the question... How can there be a poor man's Eye Toy?
That's funny I thought a clog of shovelware was signal of people demanding the product and for that it must be good I guess.
Even better?
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how is this any different or more fun than eye toy? the only legit difference is that with eyetoy you don't get shown how ridiculous you are at the end of it, and that the graphics are significantly worse.
No I don't mean that asshole, The eye toy is better than this pos so I consider it the poor mans eye toy. How the hell does this look fun? At least the eye toy made sense, camera games in your living room. How in the earthly fuck are you gonna play camera games on the go? Its pointless, and the only reason it will sell well is because its Nintendo. Ever since the wii they have become the new Apple, everyone has to have their products and act like they are better than everyone else who refuses to buy into Nintendo's fairy tale gumdrop gimmick machines.
The difference would be the game. I could care less about the camera if it isn't used right, like making a time attack game were you clean windows. The brevity of the mini games and contextual difference of them make it that much more bearable in a game like WarioWare.
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There's always been Nintendo fans, and there's a reason behind that when you influence gaming like they did, its not just because it sells more now. But I'll not discuss console stuff.
About playing it on the go, well you can't actually playing while moving, but it doesn't invalidate its merits.
Some games aren't meant to be played on the go. Just because it's a handheld and is portable doesn't mean every game should be ideal for the bus. Some games are just meant to take advantage of the unique features of the handheld, be they built in cameras or a touch screen. Portability is just one of many features.
Also, stop sucking chronoswing.
I'm talking about the Nintendo of today, the Nintendo of yesteryear actually cared about their fans and cared about gaming I'm not gonna sit here and deny that they didn't have a shitload of influence in the gaming industry. The new Nintendo only seems to care about the next gimmick they can come up with that prints money. It's funny how every time their new gimmick as worn out its lifespan and sales start to slow down they have to think of a new one. First it was the Wii, once it seemed like everyone and their grandmother had one, they release Wii fit. Now sales start to slow on that lately since I think every wii household owns one now. Now its the DSI. The next gimmick is the Wii motion plus but I actually see that one as a day late and a dollar short, it will most likely flop. That is until Wii fit plus anyways.
And before anyone starts yelling fanboy in my direction I'll have you know I own every iteration of a Nintendo console. It pains me to even speak of them this way, but they have put themselves in this position by catering to house wives and retirement homes instead of their core audience. So I will be speaking with my wallet and not purchasing a DSI, it will be one of those systems I collect in 10 years off ebay for $10 just to say I own one.
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Thanks for your speech about why you won't buy i when a million others will and we can't do anything about it. Hopefully this place won't become somewhere to discuss bullshit console war and fanboy arguments like Joystiq and GameFAQs.
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how is touching coins or shaking a wet dog dry inferior or superior to washing windows? how can you claim that something that you've barely seen anything of to be better than the series of games that more or less started this entire genre? i'm actually kind of surprised that they released the video they did with all the load times. i feel like they'd want to cut that out of the first trailer that they release to the world... just show the actual gameplay minus the calibration or something of that sort. it looks like a fun game, but i think that at least at the moment you're basing your entire argument off of something that can't be used as a basis for one.
I wasn't trying to start any fanboy wars, I just simply stated my opinion on the video and DSi and coco calls me a troll. Fuck that noise now I'm troll because I don't agree with coco that the DSi is the best thing since sliced bread? A troll would of posted something along the lines of "FUCK NINTENDO" or something to that effect which I did not. Are we not aloud to have opinions on dtoid anymore without being berated by fanboys? I mean look at all the fanboy rage Jim stirred up just because he happened to dislike megaman 9.
The ending was still funny though, especially when you know that all he thinks about is more ways to get ppl to buy the same thing for the 3rd and 4th time.
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