Tons of info was just revealed at the Nintendo Fall Press Conference held in Japan and one of the highlights was the announcement of the new "Wii de Asobu Selection", which translates to Play on Wii Selection. Nintendo will be re-releasing classic GameCube games for the Wii starting with the original Pikmin.
It's rather odd that that Nintendo is focusing on porting old GameCube games since, you know, the thing actually plays GameCube games. But hey, Capcom seems to be having a successful run with the Resident Evil 0, 1, and 4 remakes with waggle controls so I guess it just boils down to whatever prints them money.
Wouldn't it just be HILARIOUS if this GameCube remake is the Pikmin game Miyamoto was referring to at E3?!
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2:04 AM on 10.02.2008
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If not, then screw it. I've still got my old GC disc...
"We’re making Pikmin."
This could very well be the Wii Pikmin game.
Nintendo has figured out that you are retarded and would buy piece of man-shit as long as it had a familiar Nintendo character stuck to it.
Pretty excited for Punch Out though. Needs moar Mother 3 and Kid Icarus though.
Also, I have to wonder if they're just going to keep producing them on Gamecube discs, just with different packaging indicating that they work on Wii.
In many ways, some of the gems nintedo made for gamecube were ahead of their time (in their casual-gamingness), and would cater better to Nintendo's newfound audience. Like myself.
rehash gaming FTW. Rather have them remade than lost in time.
other than that...I'd rather see them make some new games instead of spending their time/money on Pikmin 2: Waggle Edition
Wow people love to complain just for the sake of complaining these days! What the hell do you think the new Pikmin 3 is going to be? Its just going to be a sequel with pointer functionality AKA "waggle" to people like you.
If you love Pikmin so much then you'd think you would be happy that Nintendo is bringing back the franchise that you love to a whole new audience, but no you have to look at it like its wrong. If you don't like it then don't buy them again, and just wait for the true sequel when it comes out!
Nintendo: "Congratulations, you have wasted $250.00.
Look at Mother 1+2 in Japan. That is almost done right.
Metroid Prime 1+2 could also work.
Also I approve of Wind Waker port if it's reworked to include more dungeons.
It seems to be aimed at people who don't already have the games, which is a lot based on the GCs popularity.
Ummm..No. No it wouldn't.
Where are people getting the idea that these are in any way "ports" though? Or that they'll be coming out on full-size DVDs?
With the information released so far I don't see any reason to believe that they won't just be the original GameCube discs repackaged in a white box with a "Plays on Wii" sticker in the corner?
Seriously, why even have a "Plays on Wii" brand if they were going to do any porting or make the discs look native? It's not like most Wii owners would even notice that it was the same game being re-released from 6 years ago.