Nintendo’s Wii Sports sequel has been selling very well in all territories, and now they’ve announced a new Wii Sports Resort bundle, which will include not one, but two Wii Motion Pus attachments. The first bundle retails for $50 and includes one attachment, while the second one will only be $60 — a measly $10 more gets you one more Wii Motion Plus. It’s a great deal, considering that the Wii Motion Plus itself retails for $25.
When a developer makes a limited edition version of their game it is assumed that that means there will be no more made after the initial batch and this holds true with the limited edition version of The Beatles: Rock Band. Taking this into consideration, it is best that you hurry up and buy the $249 bundle (which comes with Ringo Starr drums and a Paul McCartney bass) as Viacom’s CEO, Phillip Dauman, has recently told GI.biz that he expects the Limited Edition to completely sell out by November.
This assumption was made after the company realized that 25% of their entire stock of the limited edition was exhausted in its first week on store shelves.
There’s really no telling if these will sell out sooner or later than Mr. Dauman’s prediction so it is probably a good idea to go out and buy it as soon as possible.
While Microsoft is evidently having a hard time implementing Project Natal into pre-Natal titles, Sony is hard at work showing off just how well the Playstation Motion Controller works with older titles. What you see above is a video from this year’s Tokyo Game Show that features a modified version of Resident Evil 5 being played with the said motion controller. As you can see, the person playing the game is holding both a regular PS3 controller in addition to a Playstation Motion Controller wand. There’s no telling if this is actually how games will be played when the new controller ships or if it was just used for demonstration purposes.
What’s even better is this version of Resident Evil 5 will actually be made available for purchase as the game’s Director’s Cut in Spring of 2010.
If you were hoping to hop on some Call of Duty 4 or Halo 3 and utilize Project Natal, your hopes and dreams may have just been smashed. Microsoft’s Kudo Tsunoda let us in on the bad news and said that while Project Natal devs were able to implement the control into titles such as Space Invaders Extreme and Beautiful Katamari it required a large portion of code to be modified.
So, this means that while it technically is possible to have games such as CoD 4 and Halo 3 work with Project Natal it would not be something the game’s developers would be able to do with a simple downlodable patch. I guess we’ll just have to cross our fingers and hope Bungies puts Project Natal to use in Halo: Reach.
Bioshock, the 2007 game of the year (at least according to a ton of game reviewers), will be coming to Apple’s Mac platform early next month, courtesy of developer Feral Interactive, which has previously ported games like The Movies and Rome: Total war to OS X.
Bioshock, the “Game of The Year” version, will be available on Macs on October 7, and will certainly improve on the meager games lineup that the platform has, which is essentially… pretty much no games lineup. At least they care enough to port them for the few that enjoy gaming on their pretty Mac laptops and desktops. As for PC users, we can wait for Bioshock 2 in early next year.
Finally. After years of speculation, Sony has announced that Gran Turismo will find its way to the PlayStation 3 in March 2010, a good six months from now. However, while this is great news that a date has finally been set, it is the Japanese date nevertheless. The release dates for Europe and North America have yet to be announced, but we don’t expect any major differences from the Japanese launch date (fingers crossed).
While the Aussies (and most likely the Europeans and North Americans) will be getting 250 GB bundles with the standard, black PS3 slim console, the lucky Japanese will have something quite different.
The Final Fantasy XIII bundle in Japan will come with FF XII and a 250 GB white limited edition PS3 slim with Final Fantasy artwork, easily making it the prettiest PS3 by far. The bundle will be available for 42,000 Yen, or $460 USD.
Sony has proudly announced that the PS3 slim has sold 1 million units in only 3 weeks, making it by far the best selling console out there during that period. The new console is not only cheaper, cooler and draws less power than the original PS3, it’s also sold at $299, far cheaper than the original (remember the $599, 60 GB PS3 that launched in 2006?). For more on the PS3 slim, check out our PS3 slim review.
Microsoft’s new wireless adapter for the Xbox360, one that supports the new N standard (offering greater speed and range), has revealed that it’ll cost $100. The older adapter will not be discontinued, rather, it’ll be lowered to $80.
These prices are still far too high, considering that the PS3 and the Wii have WiFi built in. The new adapter, with its high price, will be arriving in stores next month, just in time for the next Xbox 360 dashboard update.
Sony has finally confirmed the tons of rumors recently circulating that all indicated a 250 GB PlayStation 3 slim — however, the confirmation so far is only for the Australian market. A new PS3 slim bundle will include a 250 GB hard dive, with one of the following titles bundled with it: Uncharted 2, Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time, Singstar Motown or EyePet. The new bundle will launch on October 15 and will retail for $600 AUD, or $520 USD.
Sony will most likely introduce similar offers (with a 250 GB) hard drive in the US and Europe, most likely at a $399 price point.