WiiWare goes live! New Metroid Prime 3 preview available on Wii

Ok just watched both the available videos and other than the low quality they are pretty amazing. The bridge fight looks awesome and just the mere few seconds of voice acting in a Nintendo game excited me. Plus a female narrator? Could that be Samus herself like in Fusion? Probably not but you can dream.

I saw new blue glow on my Wii this morning...unless I didn't look!

Ah yes, of course. Good thing I didn't hook up the Wii again just to check out what the Metroid news was.
It looks like we may still get it in Europe at 26 October. That is 3 months earlier than I expected!

i wouldn't have noticed as mine is still glowing blue from the firmware update. although it does suck because i want it to just glow blue, which means no more everyone votes channel, but on the bright side, it glows blue now. [:

also sadly, i'm in a mood to play elebits, so if i actually get around to it [i laugh at that thought myself] it won't glow blue any more ]:

As weird as this "new" channel is, I still can't wait for that game to come out!

When I first saw the message from nintendo this morning for some reason I thought it would be a demo. I realize now how unlikely that was, but i'm still a little dissapointed.

We don't get WiiWare? Shit, didn't see that one coming. I'm gonna go play Super Paper Mario instead. Oh what, that's not out either? Darn.

Nintendo cares about Wii online gaming.

Just not for Jim Sterling.

I gotta say, I was really bummed out to download this "Metroid Prime 3 preview" only to have it be a streaming video player with a metroid-themed frame around it.

I thought that maybe this would be Nintendo's first downloadable demo. Nope.

That dumbass blue light woke me up, and I have a final this morning...thanks nintendo, I blame you if i get an F in Shakespeare

WAITAMINIT!!!!!!

Why isn't anyone discussing what the video says?

That big huge block of text that gets glazed over says that Metroid is coming on 8/13 and that Super Metroid is coming on 8/20. Were we just all suddenly struck blind or something? This is news. REALNEWS! Important cereal digg-worthy news.

@dvddesign:

Maybe you're being sarcastic and it was lost on me, but that release date has been known about for almost 2 months now. There is no news here.

""That big huge block of text that gets glazed over says that Metroid is coming on 8/13 and that Super Metroid is coming on 8/20. Were we just all suddenly struck blind or something? This is news. REALNEWS! Important cereal digg-worthy news.""


I thought those where more videos that they were going to release on those dates. But sweet! Super Met 8/20 woot.

DVD, good point. 2 amazing titles about to hit VC. Super Metroid worth the Wii points if you're without a SNES and not wanting to dumb it down on an emulator.

Sterling, I agree that Nintendo's "online" is utter crap at this point and not looking good for the future. A demo was what I was hoping for. That would've at least left a significant impression for the hardcore (e.g. us Dtoiders). That would've backed Reggie's online claims at the E3 press conference a little more. Nintendo fails once again.

Good thing is that it comes out in less than 3 weeks. Can't. Wait. Any. Longer.

Yeah i have to totally agree with Jim here. Nintendo screw the Europeans over on a regular basis. Trauma Centre finally came out today, Super Paper Mario not out yet WHY... Now this Metroid preview.

In a side related question I tried to change the country of setting on my Wii to USA however it will only do European Countries and the odd Random like Zimbabwe

It's starting to become a habit for me to denounce Nintendo in these comment sections, but today I'll keep it short and simple.

Reggie is a liar. I don't know why so many Ninty fanboys whack off to him every time he opens his mouth. He's a liar.

Nintedo make great games, but they fail big time with Europe.

And you know what? It's all just a viscious cycle. Europe gets pissed with Nintendo, and stops buying their delaying, overpriced games, and Nintendo gets annoyed with Europe and decides to focus less on that region as it doesn't cooperate well.

It's nice that the preview is more than just a trailer (though admittedly not much more) but sort of like a marketing website they created for the game. It's true that this could have been done just as easily with a traditional website, but at least Nintendo is showing Wii-owners some love (excluding Europe).

I just hope this is only the beginning of more trailers and possibly demos to come for other games in the future, and not just something that happens when Nintendo wants to market their own franchises a little bit more.

I don't get why they don't have a previews channel that only has preview videos, so they can feature new games and whatnot.

To have it in the WiiWare section is pretty misleading. I know it says preview on the download, but it still got my hopes up that Nintendo might have finally realized how useful playable demos are as selling tools.

Was this download really slow for anyone else? The actual downloading and playing of the video took forever!

Mxyzptlk, valid points and all, but I think they're more concerned with the constant delay between releases made in other regions and theirs, and this was just sort of the catalyst that brought the discussion to a head.

May be silly, but I suppose that they have a valid point just the same. I mean, how focused on online can Nintendo really be, when they stagger releases so much that gamers' options are limited as far as who they play, and Europe is left out for months at a time? Or...wait.

Hmn, maybe it's not so indicative of Nintendo's failure in focusing on online after all, but it still sucks for them something fierce, and I can understand how it'd be a sore point. My sympathy goes out to them.

Also, Nintendo needs to get their act together. They really need to stop alienating substantial sections of their market. It's just not good business.

False alarm. Just new games on the channel.

Bullshit, quite frankly. Those games that aren't text heavy often rely on vocals and/or subtitles. They can manage it. Nintendo can't/won't.