so it's only to omit yourself from a google search?

Same here... hence the realistic name, but not my own.

J. Hinkle? Nah, thats too specific


how about Josh H?

J to the H izzle?

The "inkle" was getting between him and his peeps.

Too bad I wasn't that clever in my younger and dumber days.

More or less. Been a few times I started to post something and thought better of it due to lack of anonymity. i.e. complaints about work etc. etc.

hmmm

maybe if I raise my gamerscore to 20,000, I'll FINALLY be cool enough



/crosses fingers

I used to post under my real name too, until the mods changed it for me. So if you ever see any references to Sir Groucho McSexMachine you know what that's all about.

What's up with this Sir crapola?

Chris

Metroid Prime 3: Corruption is up for preorder at Amazon for an August 20th release.

Nintendo Media Summit News @ 11:00 PM CST, tonight.

That's what I'm referring to...games that are solely made to wave the Wiimote for a few minutes, and have no real substance.

Wii Sports...okay. Wii Play...okay, because the Wiimote packaged. ANOTHER game?

I just don't think these type of games are going to carry the Wii very far.

But yet you have "Hinkle" in the space below your name?

I actually believe the opposite. These are the type of games that are probably going to sell the best on the Wii.

I think it's required after a name change for a couple weeks.

Have to keep it there for a month or so as part of the arrangement for getting it changed as a long time, active member.

They won't, and I doubt we'll see many after this year.

Look at the DS, lots of pointless touch screen games/tech demos the first six moths to a year, hardly any since.

Regarding the DS, tons of pointless touch screen/mini-games are still being sold and are among the best selling games on the DS. Look at Brain Age and it's sequel, Cooking Mama, Elite Beat Agents and Nintendogs. All have sold a buttload.

The Wii is soon to have a Wii Health and Wii Music and I'd wager there's a Nintendogs coming too. It's just Nintendo catering to a new market. A co-worker just got back from a cruise to the Bahama's and the ship had a Wii lounge. She said it was packed, 24/7.

For the most part those games are good, and have you using the touch screen in fun ways.

Not random pointless shit like Yoshi's Touch and Go, Feel the Magic etc. that was little more than a tech demo.

I didn't mean to imply that mini games etc. will die off, just that they'll hopefully get some substance to them and actually be enjoyable.

So positive news about friend codes? IGN says this about Big Brain Academy:

"the title also automatically imports all the friend codes stored on your Wii console, which is an extremely positive sign step toward the eradication of individual software-based friend codes. What this means is that you won't need to re-enter any friend codes if you've already added your friend's Wii system number to your console. "

This isn't live online multi-player though, so maybe Nintendo allowed this for a game thats really just using the Wii-Connect feature.

The first online Wii game is finally out, just not here

I'm jealous

What the hell, is Samus the ball in Mario Strikers Charged?!

appears that way

when I have a few friends from across the pond sign on I'll ask em

You know, I wouldn't mind a Wii Nintendogs, but I'd almost rather it be an independent channel and not a disc game. My daughters are far more likely to play that and having it as the 2nd channel always, regardless of what I have in the drive, would be ideal. Same thing with all those "every day" games - like Animal Crossing. How much more convenient would that be if you never had to pop in the disc. Just like back when checking Miis was fun.

Of course, this assumes internal memory is not an issue.