After Wii Karaoke, Nintendo seems to have registered more trademarks associated with Wii. GamesAreFun.com reports about three trademarks: WiiPointer, WiiCulture and !!M, citing German news site GameFront.
The latter name is the console´s name turned upside down, which might point to a game that is played with the Wiimote held upside down. Alternatively, some people have associated it with the Wii´s rumoured messenger service, because it contains the acronym IM. Either way, it´s interesting stuff.
WiiPointer could become the official name of what is commonly referred to as the Wiimote in the Nintendo community. WiiCulture is an intriguing trademark that I would associate mostly with the online community, since culture is something that is built up by a society.
EDIT A ton of new Nintendo trademarks related to Wii surfaced, as Go Nintendo reports. Here they are:
- WiiCan
- WiiClub
- WiiCommunication
- WiiDiary
- WiiHappy
- WiiHealth
- WiiHome
- WiiKids
- WiiMap
- WiiOnline
- WiiSenior
- WiiWords
- WWWii
Most likely, not all of these will come to use. Still, interesting stuff to mull over.
Source: GameFront (via GamesAreFun.com), 1up, Go Nintendo
Thanks to: SpeedRunner2001
cool post
ReplyDeleteIt looks like Wii will be the best gaming console ever!!!
ReplyDeleteHow is !!M pronunced? "I'm", "I AM", "I M" ?
@ vOLVEN
ReplyDeleteI dont think its meant to be pronunced "I'm", "I AM", "I M". I think that if this does indeed turn out to be an iNSTANT mESSAGE service then its probly ment to be another word that sounds different than is actualy said in english. Much like wii, which is pronunced wee. I believe that Nintendo are just being smart with their design of the software. Which makes sense.
Also...I really hope Nintend does do something like this. Itd be great to keep in touch with friends and family through your tv. AND WE COULD HAVE VOICE AND VIDEO CHAT.
ReplyDeleteGood stuff indeed. IIM has to be an instant messaging service
ReplyDeleteGood stuff indeed. IIM has to be an instant messaging service
ReplyDeleteBig OT question
ReplyDeleteAny body knows if the Wii will be region free?There's a lack of information on that point.
Andreas some developer have suggested something to you?
Sorry for ugly english :-)
Luca S. (Italy)
"Cool post"? "Good stuff indeed"? All he said was "!!M is Wii upside down. Some people think it's an instant messaging service. Also, a culture is built up by society." This news is being reported on every other news station, and the only insight Falafel can give us is "Culture is built up by society."
ReplyDeleteThis post will not go into the hall of fame. Of posts.
^Huh. That came out sounding kind of tame. There should be more exclamation points in that.
ReplyDeleteHey guys, check this out...
ReplyDeletehttp://ir.mosysinc.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=123322&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=873477&highlight=
Nice Shoxware, but it was no secret though. Nice to have this confirmed by Mosys themselves. Also nice to see NEC profits getting a boost from Nintendos chip purchases. Seems everyone can profit from the Wii.
ReplyDeleteLong live Nintendo.
As for Wii culture i can definitely say its already started,lol, and !!M, it would be nice if this pointed to MORE than just im, like others have stated, live video chat, AWESOME, for free.
i still like this idea:
ReplyDeleteif the "ii" in Wii are controllers... the "W" must be two intersecting projector beams ;)
*sigh*
but yeah... go voice chat!
-"superfan" tactics.
Culture = Game genre
ReplyDelete!!M = eeM
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/M
The Wii will be the best !!! That is clear !!! No Doubt !!!
ReplyDeletemicrosoft is possibly working on a wiimote of their own.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.mozlapunk.net/homepage/?p=540
If Sickman, well there is various comments from Nintendo that there is more in store so people will speculate until they release that info.
ReplyDeleteRelax.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=EDObvdC23qw&search=virtual%20console%20controller
ReplyDeleteVC controller secret or just the wiimote hook up connection?
Interesting video. We can see an attachment where, possibly, we can put the Wiimote to convert to wireless that retro controller.
ReplyDeleteIn other forum are saying it is an attachment to a kind of arms, to transform it as a N64 controller (two or three arms connected to the back).
We will see...
The slots making it into say an N64 controller is a good idea, but it would be pretty pointless. First, it already has all the buttons required, as well as 2 analog sticks. Why would you really need the 2 N64 "arms" if they didn't have buttons on? Second, if it turns out to be true, Nintendo are already going to put out the "retro" Virtual Console controllers. If you could simply go out and buy a replica N64 Virtual controller, why bother going out to buy the supposed "arms" for the normal controller?
ReplyDeleteI hear ya Superfantactics...but the Wii is a really nice little machine.
ReplyDeleteI too thought that the Wii would have had something new or revolutionary out side of a new control schematic. However, maybe it's not just hardware that's the revolutionary component of the Wii.
I know it sounds boring or unexciting, but I would like to think that Nintendo's new industry ideologies are part of the "REVOLUTION" as well. New approaches to software that is played on a "game" machine.
Besides...despite what you may think, the hype didn't diminish, the eventual reality just broke through the false hype in my man.
****IALS RANDOM OBSERVATIONS******
ReplyDelete1.Ironically Tecmos Golf game is the best looking Wii game so far.
2.The Wii pillar should be as thin as the console itself.
3.Nintendo needs to grow up.
4.Almost no mature games on Wii so far.
5.Elebits could be sleeper hit.
6.Red Steel without blood is like
Falafelkid without RTL 2.
7.Red Steel looks like a Dreamcast game with better lightning effects.
8.Neither Mario Galaxy nor Zelda Twilight take advantage of the controller as they are supposed to which is a shame.
9.Mario and Zelda both need completely new visual make overs and themes-other takes on the franchise cause its the same old style.
Zelda Wind Waker was a step in the right direction.
10.Metroid Prime 3 has lost and is lacking any new impulses just like Galaxy and Twilight.
11.Smash Bros looks kiddy bullshit to say the least.
12.After 20 years Nintendo still has shown its good will to please mature
gamers.
13.Hammer,Excite Truck,etc. look cheap crap.
-IALS
Glad your not in charge of Nintendo IALS cause your observations are crap.
ReplyDeleteThis blog is difficult to load in my internet browser because it is so big. Falafel can you clean up the blog a little bit so it can load faster. Maybe get rid of some old articles. I am the only one with this difficulty lately?
ReplyDeleteHa! IALS tried to be funny...
ReplyDeleteIALS
ReplyDelete".Mario and Zelda both need completely new visual make overs and themes-other takes on the franchise cause its the same old style.
Zelda Wind Waker was a step in the right direction."
if u think that zelda ww was going into the right direction you are WROOONG. a zelda game is suppose to take me a month to finish it not a weekend.. thats why that game sucked!!!!!! maybe the Ds version will be better cuz that game is more for a handhell than a console. I know that many ppl love this game but comon it was too short and wayyy to easy, and listen Im a Zelda Fan to death. And What tha F.. are u talking that mario needs a make over and that it doesnt use the control the way it is , when it actually won the Best plataformer in the E3 and you move and jump and kick, etc. using the F control !!! MEn if u are going to talk about sumthing first read, those are the worst speculations that I've ever seen.
plus the graphics of those games are the most neat in the Nintendo Booth and the most played from the Whole audience in the E3 so ShetThaF..Off!!
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Machters
Playing=is believing
to IALS
ReplyDeleteIt is definetely obvious that you lack of knowledge in the gaming section. Your "observation" of nintendos position in the gaming market is nothing more than a personally insult because your statements are very cheap.
The facts that you are delivering are a proof for your weak personality, because your statements that you have listed are all very offensive and none of them is correct. I think that you are the sort of gamer, who is really a fan of nintendo, but when nintendo do not satisfy your desire, you leave them. I call such people "doubleminded".
You are the kind of people who are responsible that the gaming market is lacking the magic. I remember the good old days of nintendo and sega, where gaming was gaming, and not the stupid idea of upgrading levels of your character like in some games where you can play massiveley. Nintendo is the only one, that is trying to keep gaming as gaming! If you dont like the way nintendo is acting now, than you have the choice to go and play with your friends stupid games like on PC or PC360 or PC3.
ials...
ReplyDeletei hope you're joking. i disagree with almost all of your "observations"... which strikes me as strange. we normally agree on most stuff.
1 - pangya looks way cool. i really dig the style.
2 - i don't know what you're referring to here... pillar?
3 - fuck you.
4 - red steel, disaster, mp3, hammer, and more...
5 - elebits looks liberating and awesome. i can't wait to play it.
6 - i don't know what rts2 is, but i can say this: the game does not need blood... i understand that this is a matter of opinion, but i think it's actually more childish to *demand* blood than it is to just be satisfied with killing shit, even without gallons of blood flying everywhere. i thought you wanted a mature game? :/
7 - hm :/ i dunno about that. you're exaggerating.
8 - have you played them? they look pretty fuckin cool to me... mario was at the top of every e3 list...
9 - these iterations of mario and zelda ARE complete makeovers, man... like... mario in space? that looks trippy. link in the "twilight realm"? that twilight realm looks fuckin sweet, dude. totally awesome art style. i'm really glad they revamped it into some weird-looking shit rather than just the drab black and white (although Sadness looks AWESOME. black and white could be REALLY cool)
10 - mp3 is just like mp and mp2, but the new "impulse" is the control scheme, dude. look at the DS: a lot of the highest-rated and most anticipated games are just sequels to popular franchises - but with a bad ass new control scheme. aren't you excited about the control scheme at all man?
11 - wow. that's just... lame, ials. really. you're really sounding like a sony fanboy here ;) just because a game is rated E and uses a cartoony art style does NOT make it "kiddy". just because you don't HAVE to be an adult to purchase the game, does not mean that it is for kids. quit being a dick. games are rated E because... *gasp* THEY ARE FOR FUCKING EVERYONE.
12 - i agree. isn't nintendo awesome?
13 - i don't know about all that. i can't WAIT to see how H.A.M.M.E.R. controls... it seems like it could be really cool - and also kinda "mature", too. running around town bashing everything in sight with a big ass mechanical hammer? i dig it. excite truck looks fuckin sweeeeet. i saw the e3 videos, and *everyone* who has played it said it was awesome. the graphics on it look really good, too.
i think you should re-evaluate your position on some of these opinions, ials. i think you're being really really closed-minded about the awesome new control scheme that revolution offers, and about your definition of the word "mature".
I SAID GOOD DAY.
and to clarify for everyone else, my "where is the revolution" comment was not meant to position me as someone who doesn't think that Wii is AWESOME the way it is: i really really do. i'm just feeling like there is something missing, and it's bugging the fuck out of me.
i also agree that nintendo's "new" ideology behind the games industry and stuff like that is DEFINATELY part of the revolution, but only part.
maybe i'm a fool, but i still feel like there is something missing...
-"superfan" tactics.
******IALS RESPONDS**********
ReplyDeletePeople need to relax!
Im sure,its just a matter of time til the day comes when you all realize that Nintendo is not everything!
Contentwise,its no mystery that Sony and Microsoft are steps ahead of Nintendo,no way around it.
The content is of higher quality.
The diversity of genres is very vivid and featuring content for every taste.
The Budgets are higher and the teams are bigger.
The target of publishers developing games on these systsem are late teen and adult demographics.
Nintendos targets younger people and family with its software like Mario,Pokemon,Super Smash,Donkey Kong etc..
Anyway doesnt it seem to you like Nintendo is using the new control method as its big excuse to
avoid taking risks as far as the actual content is concerned and playing it save by abondoning new concepts and franchises in favour of the tried and true?!
Matter of fact is most of the games shown are sequels to already existing ones!
Thats very unfortunate Im afraid.
Sadly,People tend to forget how much games truely are a visual expirience and not only a physical one.Sure both complement each other but its no odds.
Wii will loose Wii will win..So whos to say?
:)
-IALS
ials...
ReplyDeletei think your perception is way off. nintendo isn't really "targeting" anyone with mario... mario is a character that ANYone can enjoy and have fun with. same with pokemon or any of the other characters. it's about your imagination.
and no, it doesn't seem to me that nintendo is blanketing a conservative strategy with a new control method. they've said over and over why they're taking the approach they're taking, ials. wake the fuck up. the new control method makes games very accessible, again for ALL people, as well as makes them feel and seem fresh again! on top of that, they've also admitted that they'd never be able to keep up with sony and microsoft on the "my cock is bigger than yours" race, so they simply bowed out of it! they admitted it, dude. on top of that, they're not only *taking* a HUGE risk by "betting the bank" so to speak, on this new control method, they're also *encouraging* risk by giving developers a much cheaper platform for which to develop. not everybody has EA's money, you know.
open your eyes, ials. you're trippin, dude. trippin.
-"superfan" tactics.
Fala. I'm sorry, but I need to let some people know a little more about Nintendo as a game company. So I had to post this link to another blog for them to read/learn. I hope you dont mind. :)
ReplyDeleteanyways here it goes!
http://lostgarden.com/2005/09/nintendos-genre-innovation-strategy.html
or (same link)
http://lostgarden.com/2005/09/
nintendos-genre-innovation-strategy.
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please read this, this is a must!!!
thank you.
/M
IALS, your boring me. Nintendo are a profitable company and trying to innovate the industry as well as extending the gaming market.
ReplyDeleteThey are trying to be destructive.
If no one changed things in any technology market we'd become stagnant, just like how the gaming industry is getting.
The time is now to change somewhat of it.
don't split hairs, if_stickman.
ReplyDeleteif you percieve my statement of "can't" as "aren't capable", then you're percieving it incorrectly.
if you percieve my statement of "can't" as "won't because of the reasons if_stickman listed", then you're percieving it correctly.
how about you make a comment that contributes to the conversation, rather than being a smart ass and trying to piss me off?
-"superfan" tactics.
okay, now i'm just an idiot. sorry, i made a mistake.
ReplyDelete-"superfan" tactics.
agreed.
ReplyDelete-"superfan" tactics.
Nintendo shows Wii and more in Spain, courtesy of www.revogamers.net
ReplyDeletehttp://www.revogamers.net/index.php?do=viewarticle&id=253
Enjoy!
hey hey hey ppl !!!!!!
ReplyDeletetarget has release the LAUNCH DATES on Wii games and to are expected to be recieve on OCTOBER 04.. all info in target games page.... it may be not the rite info but is good to know!!!
http://www.target.com/gp/browse.html/ref=sc_fe_l_0_1042122_2/601-7928812-7104147?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=193754011
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ReplyDeleteCHECK THIS OUT
http://img105.imageshack.us/img105/1425/sega1wh.jpg
DOES any1 have any info about this???? I THINK IT's Awesome
hum.. its a fake. its obviously an ipod back
ReplyDeletewow that's cool
ReplyDeleteipod? i dunno , just because of its shape?
there are lots of devices out there that match this so I think its plausible
looks real 2 me :S
looks cool to me. theres gotta be more buttons though if it were to work.
ReplyDeleteLOL! Uh, no.
ReplyDeleteI Sega were to return to the console market...or hell, even the portable console market...Do you think they'd possibly save Sonic the Hedgehog for themselves instead of releasing it on the 360, PS3, AND the Wii? Let's not forget GBA, and the DS.
FAKE as FAKE gets.
well why should they keep sonic to themselves? if you can get more money by putting it on several consoles why not? I would sure do it if i was sega. I mean let's not forget, if it is real they are coming back so maybe they will keep sonic for themselves when they are completely back but at this time they are not. get it?
ReplyDeleteAnonym:
ReplyDeletethis blog sucks now!
It would suck much less if you just went away. Thank you ;)
ials...
ReplyDeleteLook, Nintendo isnt looking as great as the 360 and PS3 cause thy have commen sense. Graphics cant go much further. get a little more detailed you will get more detailed than real liefe(if it hasnt all ready). The next step would most likely be virtual reality(if posible). So Nintendo is taking it slow so not to rush ahead and to be able to release more products, therefore probably casuing them to be on top within 50 years.
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