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Alright, alright. There’s a few things going on here. First off, Reggie Fils-Aime told Forbes “I will be able to say our licensees ‘get it’ when their very best content is on our platform, and with very few exceptions today, that’s not the case.” That’s a pretty good conversation starter right there. He also lamented the absence of Grand Theft Auto and Spore on his platform, teased community features without spilling anything at all, and for kicks threw us this utterly hopeless word on a price cut: “At some point, it will be time to adjust the [price], but we’re nowhere near that point now.” We’re pretty astonished that a console honcho like Reggie would so summarily insult his third-party partners, but we can’t help but agree — though peep Nintendo Wii Fanboy’s via link down there for an alternate perspective on the matter. To us, the question really lies in the blame game: is Nintendo’s Wii strategy and unique hardware approach to blame, or is everybody else out there too dense to cash in? But really, this is just too wild, too incendiary, too awesome for us to hog all the discussion. Hit up the vaguely-applicable poll option, and then let loose in the comments. We’re all ears!

[Via Nintendo Wii Fanboy]

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Reggie thinks third-parties don’t ‘get’ the Wii: discuss originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals

Fans of the old-timey GameCube will rest easier tonight knowing that Hori is now manufacturing its variation of the classic controller, creatively named the “Classic Controller.” We’ve seen other gamepads in this style, but not many that get it as close to the original design as this — plus it has those insane autofire switches. These bad boys are available in black, white, and blue on December 4th in Japan, and you can pre-order them now for $29.90 over at Play-Asia.

[Via Nintendo Wii Fanboy]

Hori’s Wii Classic Controller: if you’re really into autofire originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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pspan class=”mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image” style=”display: inline;”img alt=”WiiMusic2.jpg” src=”http://uk.gizmodo.com/WiiMusic2.jpg” width=”590″ height=”333″ class=”mt-image-none” style=”" //span/p pAs part of a series of core titles that include the wildly popular Wii Sports, Wii Play and Wii Fit, Nintendo was expecting big things from a href=”http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/07/21/wii_music_to_hit_stores_in_tim.html”Wii Music/a when it hit the shelves on October 20th. /p pSales figures so far do nothing to back up these ambitions as in the first 11 days just under 81,000 units were sold, according to raw NPD data./p p’Flop’ would be too harsh a term to use at this early stage, but when you consider that Wii Fit sold just under 688,000 units in a similar period earlier this year it must be causing concern in the Nintendo camp./pimg width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’http://feeds.uk.gizmodo.com/c/552/f/9581/s/2630bb8/mf.gif’ border=’0′/div class=’mf-viral’table border=’0′trtd valign=’middle’a href=”http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Wii Music Not Doing Too Well, Nintendo Crosses Fingerslink=http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/11/17/wii_music_not_doing_too_well_n.html” target=”_blank”img src=”http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif” border=”0″ //a/tdtd valign=’middle’a href=”http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Wii Music Not Doing Too Well, Nintendo Crosses Fingerslink=http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/11/17/wii_music_not_doing_too_well_n.html” target=”_blank”img src=”http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif” border=”0″ //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href=”http://da.feedsportal.com/r/24192565886/u/197/f/9581/c/552/s/40045496/a2.htm”img src=”http://da.feedsportal.com/r/24192565886/u/197/f/9581/c/552/s/40045496/a2.img” border=”0″//a

Acidmods just can’t get enough of hacking up our console controllers, and now the company has replaced the Wiimote’s A button with a clicking trackball (a la Blackberry Pearl). The result is an easier way to scroll through webpages and certain menu systems, as you can see in this video:

However, this trackball was designed to work on more than just the Wii. Acidmods guarantees it for the PSP 300, PSP Slim, DS, Xbox 360 and PS3 controllers.

Unlike most mod demonstrations, Acidmods wants to sell you this actual product. They’re not taking orders yet, but they will traditionally sell you the necessary hardware or mod your controller for you at an additional cost. The first link at the end of this post isn’t up yet, but it should have purchasing information soon. [Shop via Acidmods and MaxConsole]

BlackFriday.info just posted up four more Black Friday ads to get you ready for Spendathon ‘08. Since nobody here really comes to read about getting an automatic doughnut maker from JC Penney for $99 (maybe you do?), we’ll assume you’re more interested in the Nintendo Wii for $224, Wii Fit for $78 and vaious Blu-rays for $10.87 found at Sam’s Club. If you really want that Wii, you’d better go get in line tomorrow. [Black Friday - Thanks Shannon!]

Game Reactor has the scoop on Wii’s Opera Browser 2.0, coming this December for 500 Wii Points ($5). It’s got Wii Speak compatibility, updated buttons, a maximum of six tabs, Wii Mail support and will be free for people who already paid for the first. Those of you who love surfing the net with a motion stick are going to be thrilled. [Go Nintendo via Kotaku]

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The SNES has certainly proven to be one of the most popular consoles to get the portable treatment among those go-getter console modders out there, and it looks like it’s not showing any signs of losing that status, with this so-called SNEP (Super Nintendo Entertainment Portable) only the latest to pop up on our radar. As you can see above, this one is a tad less portable than some other handheld SNES mods we’ve seen (it also apparently needs to be plugged in), but it does at least do better job than most at staying true to the SNES’s (or, more accurately, the Super Famicom’s) instantly-recognizable appearance. There’s no plans available for building your own, unfortunately, but you can check it out in action in the video after the break.

[Via Nintendo Wii Fanboy]

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New SNES portable is heavy on the SNES, light on the portable originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:53:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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No idea who did this originally, but Wired found a video of two dudes playing Wii Fit LEGO Mindstorms Soccer. Wait, what? Looks like the guys hooked up two Wii Fit balance boards to a LEGO Mindstorms trucks(?) and made them move around in sync with whatever leaning or jumping motion was made. A very fancy display of hackery all around, but can you imagine what the actual Wii Fit game will say when they weigh themselves on it? “Congratulations on being the only obese soccer players in existence.” [YouTube via Wired]

Even though I haven’t bought AA batteries in quite some time now (USBCells still power my Wiimotes, the only things in the house that aren’t Li-ion powered it seems), this concept for a quick and easy re-charger for AA cells is nice looking. Like a torpedo’s nose, the Febot (Fembot?), a design by Ji-yun Kim, Soon-young Yang and Hwan-ju Jeon out of Korea catches a breeze when suction-mounted to a window, which it uses to top-off a single AA inside. [Yanko Design]

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Storage

Instructables user grybaz has joined a special crew today with his masterful design, and that would be the oft-unappreciated DIY clock crowd. By utilizing a drill, screwdriver kit, pliers, a basic quartz clock movement and a dozen or so old hard drives, he was able to piece together something truly worthy of den placement. Handymen aren’t apt to find this one any more difficult than fixing that pipe that one time underneath the sink, so if you’re looking to do something useful with all of those 4GB 3.5-inch HDDs you’re still hanging onto from college, roll up your sleeves and hit the read link.

[Via Unplggd]

DIY’er constructs artsy wall clock from spare HDD parts, tells all originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 09 Nov 2008 10:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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