Reggie said that he’s all out of secrets, but I still have a few questions.
- USB ports – Keyboards, memory sticks, and external hard drives could all be pretty useful. So, what happens when you connect stuff to the USB ports on the back?
- Opera browser – we heard it would be free until next summer; is it?
- Music playback – the Photo Channel will reportedly play music and videos, too; which formats are allowed?
- Battery life – how long until you need to swap out fresh AAs?
Since a lot of gaming sites have gotten their hands on a Wii, these questions will probably get answered this weekend. If you find answers or have more questions, post them in comments. Let’s try getting this stuff figured out together. Links to information would be nice, too!
What I really want to know is what is the online gaming service capable of? CAn it have more than 16 players? Could voice chat be added?
About the battery life, some time ago I heard it would be 30 hours with rumble feature enabled and approximately 60 hours with it disabled. I think that is pretty reasonable.Best!!PS.: Damn you lucky bastards that will have a wii in a week 🙂 . I'll have to wait a little longer to get one, though. 🙁
Opera – I'm pretty sure it'll be free until June 2007. After that it will cost money to those who want it. I'm sure it'll still be free to those early adopters.Battery Life – They said somewhere around 25-30 hours of battery life I believe. Give or take if you're using rumble or what not.
Actually, I believe the Wiimote battery life was announced to be between 30-60 hours, depending on if you are using the pointing feature or not. Not to mention this is the battery life for ordinary AAs. Its gotta last about twice as long if you are using 25MaH NIMH rechargable batteries.
Speaking of which, I made my first Wii-related purchase the other day: a set of four rechargeable AA 2500mAh batteries! (I already have some for my Canon digital camera and love 'em.)
I'd like to know how we're going to hook our Wii's up to our computer displays.I remember Iwata saying the Revolution could be hooked up to TVs, Projectors and your computer monitor.If I can hook up my apple cinema display to my Wii it'd save getting a new TV.
David,All those questions you mention have been on my mind every since the Wii was set the launch. I am shocked why those questions don't have answers yet or even worse why no one have asked them in the various interviews. SHOCKING!!!! The key question is with the external hard drive because if we are going to have massive amount of VC games available and content downloads for current and future games, SD cards cannot match the infinite storage capacity of and external hard drive. I can't wait to have those questions answered.
I have another question for you guys: Can you save Gamecube data on the built in memory or do you need a Gamecube memory stick?
And we'll be able to plug in mp3's (specially iPod´s)?
Where is the microphone? I mean c'mon. It's standard in the DS and definitely something nintendo has shown they have interest in keeping around (mario party, etc). I know if you plug an old pair of headphones into a microphone jack, you can use one of the speakers as a microphone. Tell me the wiimote's speaker has this same dual functionality in mind. You will need this kind of communication for online games (even if it's only between friends) and you will NEED this for future titles like Nintendogs Wii and others.With microphones being the size of a pinhole on todays cellphones, don't tell me that Wiimote doesn't have microphone capability.And when you think about WiiConnect24, and the possibility of using a Wiimote as a cordless telephone to communicate with friends who are trying to invite you to a game, well, that stuff just get's me excited.I would not be suprised if at the launch of the first online Wii games, our wiimote rings like a phone the first time someone trys to invite you to a game and you can actually pick up the Wiimote to answer the call.
It says on Wikipedia that Wii will support USB mass storage, but I don't remember anyone from Nintendo ever confirming it…
Thats the problem. Nintendo have said alot of things over the past two+ years about Wii, like hooking it to your monitor, using USB mass storage, DVD playback, online gaming from day one…But afew of those things have obviously gone from the finished product… so not having confirmation from those with the system or Nintendo themselves is quite irritating.