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Silent Hill: Shattered Memories

- Matt did call Bozon about the game and Bozon was pissed
- Not a port, not a Wiimake
- It’s a reimagining
- Designed for Wii
- Start the game similar to the original
- Told to fill out a form for Psych Profile - lasts for rest of the game
- If you said you drink alcohol, might see a bar that’s open instead of a diner
- Character interactions, backgrounds change
- Looks very good
- Better than the flashlight in Fragile, Winter
- “Looks really damn good”
- Frame-rate holds up
- Stylized
- Matt doesn’t mind the character designs
- No weapons - Matt likes the idea
- Environments really good, dynamic, snow effects are great
- When it changes to Nightmare World, it happens dynamically
- Matt was really impressed, psyched for it
- Not bloody but will be an M rated title

Fatal Frame

- Not coming to America anytime soon
- Matt still trying to get another word from Nintendo but it has been difficult
- Reggie had said that Nintendo is not the publisher of Fatal Frame IV in North America
- “Translated” Tecmo statement: Nintendo, what the hell are you doing? We’re going to call you out and let the fans know it’s your fault, not ours
- Bozon thinks the game would need some changes before it would come out
- Would be a welcomed addition to the library even though it wouldn’t receive the best review score and would be a bit clunky/unchanged
- Real loss for the audience since it appeals to the hardcore player
- Fatal Frame wasn’t a huge seller in Japan


Dead Space: Extraction

- Craig was able to watch it
- He was pretty impressed
- As a Wii game it’s visually impressive
- Rail-shooter instead of a full-fledged third-person exploring kind of game
- Visually amazing, environments are really cool, tense situations really cool
- Put a lot of effort into storyline
- Feel like you’re an embedded soldier
- Camera bounces, feel natural
- Second player can shoot with you (not an actual secondary character)
- Craig really impressed
- Game itself looks pretty amazing on Wii
- Sound will be a key point in the game

Excitebots: Trick Racing

- More coverage today
- Confirmed there won’t be SD card support for MP3s
- No WiiSpeak support
- Indicative of what Nintendo usually does with peripherals
- Nintendo lets people do whatever they want
- Still a really awesome game
- Whole game a lot of fun - better than Excite Truck
- Controls tighter, crazier objectives
- It’s a pure video game

The Conduit

- SEGA holding event in San Francisco showing multiplayer from The Conduit tomorrow
- Impressions, screens, videos should be going up

Wii Sports Resort

- Coming out in June in Japan
- July for other territories
- No official price, haven’t said if they will release MotionPlus component earlier
- Can argue that EA supporting MotionPlus more than Nintendo at launch
- Craig thinks there will be a bundle in North America, Matt doesn’t

Rabbids Go Home

- Not a Rayman game
- All about the Rabbids
- No mini-games in the title
- Platformer adventure
- Developed by Beyond Good & Evil team
- New engine
- Matt heard a rumor that development were working on this first, then moving on to BG&E2
- More information on the game in the next month or so

PS3 outsold Wii in Japan

- PS3 in March had sales of around 146,000, Wii at 99,000
- 360 at 43,000
- IGN speculation is that Yakuza 3, Resident Evil 5 contributed to those numbers
- Iwata said Wii demand not vigorous in Japan at the moment - at unhealthy situation
- Not going to do a price cut
- Matt not especially worried

Night Game

- 2D ball rolling through environments
- Has a nice look to it
- A lot of fun to play
- Some challenging puzzles that make you think
- Has physics
- Can manipulate gravity in some situations
- Game doesn’t have a problem being too dark to see

DSi launch

- Bozon didn’t go
- Event was pretty packed
- Chatted with Cammie Dunaway
- Said she won’t talk about her snowboarding experiences
- Also said that “We hope we have something” for E3
- Iwata pumping up E3, everyone else downplaying it
- PR people should be prepped for an answer that is more interesting
- Craig wonders how hard it is for them to say “I think you’re going to be excited”
- Don’t have to say anything specific, just throw us a bone

Mixed Messages

- Craig saw it about a month ago
- Restrictive in the sense that it’s only multiplayer, one system
- It’s a riot to see how the original sentence goes to a new sentence
- More people you have, the crazier it gets
- Goes up to 21 people
- Seemed like people were interested in seeing what the result was
- Obviously only want to spend the 500 points if you have multiple players, not if you’re a single-player gamer

Mighty Flip Champs

- Coming within the “launch window” of DSi
- Bozon got to play final level, he’s really happy with it

Reader questions

- Nintendo still working on Fatal Frame IV response
- Matt/Bozon/Craig guessing Pikmin 3 for E3
- No baseball games coming out this year that supports Wii MotionPlus
- Matt wants to put up the audio chat he had with Denise Kaigler from GDC
- Matt thinks Silent Hill will be the scariest out of Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles, Dead Space, Silent Hill
- DSi officially doesn’t have VC games but it would be a missed opportunity - hoping it’s a big announcement for E3