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Wii Updates: Mic, Naming, Aussie Date, Castlevania and Sensor Bar PDF Print E-mail
Written by Alexis M. (Rivithed)   
Saturday, 17 June 2006
Here's some updates on the latest developments with the Wii:

- No microphone will built-in to the Wii controller. A headset may be used in favor, according to Shigeru Miyamoto in an interview with EGM.

- The name "Wii" has been under evaluation from Nintendo after massive amounts of email complaints: "We have received over 200,000 e-mails with complaints about the Wii, and the console name has been commonly associated with urine. We have been the target of many jokes, and we strongly believe that it’s a bad thing for the company’s reputation," said a representative at Nintendo's marketing department.

- The Wii's controller is still undergoing development/revisions. "We're still debating on the area of how many buttons to use," said Miyamoto, as noted by Infendo.

- A gamestore in Australia listed the release date of the Wii console around November 30, 2006.

- GoNintendo reveals Iga's thoughts, from an interview with Play magazine, over developing Castlevania on the Wii. "Wii is targeting some short gameplay, whereas Castlevania is a longer game. Once you get into the game you’ve been playing for so many hours it doesn’t really fit with Wii," said Iga.

- The Wii's Sensor Bar is rumored to be the cause of the delay over a concrete launch date announcement from Nintendo. The Sensor Bar is the receiver of the Wii's controller movements.

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