I posted this over at the PGC.com forums also.
I don't really subscribe to the idea that all the supposed 3D stuff is real, but if there's one thing I know about Nintendo, its that they always give clues that almost exactly tell us what they are up to. Miyamoto talking about how he wanted to player to pull the level like Link, or Silicon Knights saying "Gosh we'd sure luv to play with Metal Gear Solid." Even Miyamoto calling the Wiimote "the big gun" wasn't too far off.
Also, this theory has more or less been said in other respects. I'm hardly adding anything new.
So I'm thinking about the Wii logo...and it has a lot of 3D space to it with the dancing i's. For example, the bullets fly at you, then fly back at the i. Then four i's are playing essentially pong with each other.
Then there's this really odd "twisting" of the i that I haven't really figured out...
But anyway, speculation. What "gives it away" to me is the four i's playing pong with each other.
Let's assume you had four players, each with a Wiimote. They are playing the new Mario Tennis. The idea I'm envisioning is that the gameplay takes place in two different universes. 1) You play on the regular television, no big deal. But 2) You play in real world space with others via the Wiimote. So maybe you and your partner are playing, and all of a sudden the game goes in "real" mode, and you start hitting the ball towards each other in real time. In other words, it's out of the damn television at this point. So you can bounce the ball off a table if you want, or maybe you have to volley it the entire time in a hacky-sac sort of thing.
The catch would be that the Wiimote physically interacts with the game world/objects. So an enemy appears and you thrust the Wiimote into them. Perhaps there's a way it looks like an actual sword (though I cannot imagine that is possible). Or you hit the ball with the remote. Whatever.
I keep trying to think about all the odd rumors we've seen in the past. Nintendo supposedly experimented with 3D real time displays at E3 2-3 years ago. Then there was IGN's cryptic remark about "seeing the sensor bar only sometimes."
So maybe games are jumping from 2D to full 3D space.
I'm trying to think of how this could be utilized for various genres, but honestly my head hurts enough as is.
Do I think this is it? No. Do I want it to be this? Hard to say. There's no way for us to know if it would work well or not. I'm excited enough about the way the Wiimote works. I'm fairly sure my head would melt if there's all of a sudden some sort of 3D-on-steriods stuff.
//just sayin'
I don't really subscribe to the idea that all the supposed 3D stuff is real, but if there's one thing I know about Nintendo, its that they always give clues that almost exactly tell us what they are up to. Miyamoto talking about how he wanted to player to pull the level like Link, or Silicon Knights saying "Gosh we'd sure luv to play with Metal Gear Solid." Even Miyamoto calling the Wiimote "the big gun" wasn't too far off.
Also, this theory has more or less been said in other respects. I'm hardly adding anything new.
So I'm thinking about the Wii logo...and it has a lot of 3D space to it with the dancing i's. For example, the bullets fly at you, then fly back at the i. Then four i's are playing essentially pong with each other.
Then there's this really odd "twisting" of the i that I haven't really figured out...
But anyway, speculation. What "gives it away" to me is the four i's playing pong with each other.
Let's assume you had four players, each with a Wiimote. They are playing the new Mario Tennis. The idea I'm envisioning is that the gameplay takes place in two different universes. 1) You play on the regular television, no big deal. But 2) You play in real world space with others via the Wiimote. So maybe you and your partner are playing, and all of a sudden the game goes in "real" mode, and you start hitting the ball towards each other in real time. In other words, it's out of the damn television at this point. So you can bounce the ball off a table if you want, or maybe you have to volley it the entire time in a hacky-sac sort of thing.
The catch would be that the Wiimote physically interacts with the game world/objects. So an enemy appears and you thrust the Wiimote into them. Perhaps there's a way it looks like an actual sword (though I cannot imagine that is possible). Or you hit the ball with the remote. Whatever.
I keep trying to think about all the odd rumors we've seen in the past. Nintendo supposedly experimented with 3D real time displays at E3 2-3 years ago. Then there was IGN's cryptic remark about "seeing the sensor bar only sometimes."
So maybe games are jumping from 2D to full 3D space.
I'm trying to think of how this could be utilized for various genres, but honestly my head hurts enough as is.
Do I think this is it? No. Do I want it to be this? Hard to say. There's no way for us to know if it would work well or not. I'm excited enough about the way the Wiimote works. I'm fairly sure my head would melt if there's all of a sudden some sort of 3D-on-steriods stuff.
//just sayin'
ing insane. It's a glorified power glove, attached to a very underpowered system, that now has an extremely stupid name, nothing more. It is not going to change gaming as we know it. It's going to have a few gimmicks. I would venture to say some of them will be quite good. But that's it. IT"S A GIMMICK. Just like the DS. Sure the DS has some neat things about it, but seriously, has there been one GAME (not nintendogs, it's not a game, per se) that has been truely revolutionary (no pun intended)? In my opinion-no. The vast majority of the games could be done on the PSP much better. The touch screens parts are almost always just something tossed in to make it "DS-ified". They rarely actually add anything, and in several cases, the games would be much better off with out it. There is absolutely nothing at this time to make anyone think that the Wii (dumbest...name...ever) will be any different other than good drugs and a WHOLE lot of hope. I honestly hope I'm wrong, but I seriously doubt it. There will be a few neat games, don't get me wrong. But that's all they'll be, neat gimmicks. Donkey Kong Jungle Beat is a neat idea, but can be played much easier with a controller than the drums, so really, what's the point? Nice delusions, and it would be awesome if that were possible, but right now it's simply not, at least not ANYWHERE near the price point of a home console. It is a gimmick, that will most likely be treated as the touch screen and have some Wiimote minigames as throw-ins and that's that. And Nintendo will be eaten for breakfast by sony and microsoft just as in the last generation. Hell, the best thing they have going for them is turbografx game downloads. I hope that's not an exclusive contract. I'd love to see them on live. And for the record, I'm not a MS fanboy Wii-bashing, I'm just a realist who was looking forward to Nintendo's new experiment, at least until they changed the name. I'm praying they have the good sense to change it, at least for the US/Uk release, but they probably won't. Mainly because Nintendo could give a 
I love the subtitle!
