Wired recently snagged an interview with NOA executive, Cammie Dunaway, where she talks about where Nintendo are going forward with respect to new hardware, new games, localization and much more. Grab a coffee and have a read…
Dunaway on other motion controllers…
“We created motion control and we’ll continue to be in motion control. Consumers don’t care about technology; they care about how the game feels. We’ll continue to focus on that. We’ve got 60 million Wii Remotes out there, and 10 million MotionPlus. Consumers today are having a blast playing with the Wii Remote and Wii MotionPlus. We’re pretty darn good at creating experiences that are about more than just technology; they’re about great feel, great gameplay.”
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ZeldaDungeon have compiled the metric average scores for all past Zelda games to see which of the titles were received the best from critic reviews. This list excludes “Legend of Zelda” and “Zelda II: The Adventure of Link” as there is not enough review data available because of their age.
No surprise to see the “Ocarina of Time” at the top but more surprisingy is “Spirit Tracks” scoring the lowest over all entries. As far as Zelda goes go, we thought this deserves be in the middle of the list at least, however it could be a sign that people are starting to tire of the traditional Zelda design after so many entries. If nothing else, these overall scores just go to show how good and consistant the series has been so far.
Ocarina of Time – 97.66%
Twilight Princess – 95.29% (Gamecube)
The Wind Waker – 94.47%
A Link to the Past – 93.50% (Super Nintendo)
Oracle of Ages – 91.89%
Majora’s Mask – 91.80%
Oracle of Seasons – 91.50%
Link’s Awakening – 91.23%
The Minish Cap – 90.21%
Phantom Hourglass – 88.79%
Spirit Tracks – 86.76%
No these are unfortunately not new screenshots of the upcoming ‘Zelda Wii‘, rather than modded character models from ‘Twilight Princess‘ placed on top of some lush environments. They were created by Zelda fan Ryu-Gi, using PC software that allows characters to be imported and edited in Valve’s Source engine called Garry’s Mod.
Come on Nintendo, make this happen for real please! More screens after the break.
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Artist Orioto has been busy creating some stunning video game artwork for your desktop. Check out these must-see images after the jump. Read more…
There were a couple of mini-nuggets of information to be had for those that scrutinised Nintendo’s yearly financial data that we posted earlier.
Firstly Nintendo announced that the new Zelda wii be available to buy “in the latter half of this calendar year“. So near the holiday season we presume. That is good news as some predicted a 2010 release for the title.
Secondly, hidden away in the report as a brief note to investors, Nintendo say that Zelda: Spirit Tracks has been designed to “appeal to a wider age group of people“. That qutoe sounds interesting and frightening at the same time to us, but best not read too much into it!
