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Wii Chess: The game you haven’t heard of
Wikipedia enlightened me just today. Wii Chess is an upcoming video game for the Wii console. It is currently in development by Nintendo and set for release on 18 January 2008 in Europe. First information of the game was revealed on 12 December 2007. The game will be released cheaper in Europe and will be […]
Infendo·December 13, 2007
Wikipedia enlightened me just today.
Wii Chess is an upcoming video game for the Wii console. It is currently in development by Nintendo and set for release on 18 January 2008 in Europe. First information of the game was revealed on 12 December 2007. The game will be released cheaper in Europe and will be a budget title. Players can also play online courtesy of Nintendo Wi-fi Connection.
For the record, I will pwn any challengers when this gets released.
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At first glance i thought it was called "Wii Snatch"
This looks like a perfect fit for WiiWare, how big can a chess game be? I don't understand why they would release this a disc…
"Wii Snatch" 🙂 Schach is German.
Indeed it would be perfect for WiiWare, but maybe there was no WiiWare when they planed the distribution for that game. Or they dont expect the buyers of it to know WiiWare or have WLAN at home.
I don't see why they would release a chess game outside a compilation of other board games.
I won´t pay more than $10 bucks for chess, unless it has some surprises.
I´m guessin this is being released in a disc since the "casuals" which are the target for this game, would never hear of it if they don´t have their Wii´s wired into the net.
All I want is Wii Scrabble and DS Scrabble. Forget Chess.
I had heard about it… It was Nintendo's only announcement at Leipzig.
So, what's the Wii angle? Do you grab and move the pieces with the remote? Do the pieces are made up from your Mii characters? WHAT?!?
I think this might work out a lot better on the Wii than on any of the other platforms. The Wii is for casual gamers of all ages and I could easily see some of the older members of my family buying this.
Chess Online…Oh this challenge's so ON!
Also animated pieces would be apreciated if not online will definetively sufice..
I fail to see why this isn't a WiiWare, and I don't care if it has more 'visibility'.
would you need FCs to play online?
"For the record, I will pwn any challengers when this gets released."
I look forward to the challenge Blake!
@ejamer,
If they made the game you describe. I would pay full price.
Also, I hope they have a set of chess pieces with Mario characters, with mario as white king and Bowser as black King, maybe Link as the Knight or something like that, white pawns could be pikmin, or toads/toadettes and black pawns could be goombas or koopas, would be great.
Schach games are really popular in Europe. There are a lot for DS, a lot of games with Nintendo WFC. I haven't tried any, but they look ok.
Awesome! I've been wanting to learn chess, and now on my Wii and with online multi-player this looks like it'll be a great buy.
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