Nintendo press conference - 4 new WiiWare games, DS demos, and a new Wii update!

October 10th, 2007, 13:32 Posted By: shadowprophet

News via The Virtual Console Archive

Earlier today, Nintendo held a press conference in Japan. While I'm sure we're all aware of the bigger news, like Sonic being in Super Smash Bros. Brawl and motorcycles being in Mario Kart Wii, there's a nice treat in store for the Wii Shop too!

First off, Nintendo has announced the first WiiWare title made by themselves - It's Dr. Mario! First details and screenshots (Found here) seem to suggest it's a faithful recreation of the original game with some new features, and Wi-Fi multiplayer!

Hudson, not staying behind, have also announced three more WiiWare titles. Star Soldier R, Bomberman and Joysound (A karaoke game) will all be appearing in the spring of next year. Star Soldier R has some screenshots, which you can view here .

Nintendo has also announced what many people were asking for - Yes, DS demos will be downloaded from the Wii Shop sometime in the future! Presumably you will wirelessly link the DS with the Wii and then play the demos on your DS. No date has been given, but we expect it to be early next year.

Finally in VC news, the Everybody Votes Channel will be getting an update, which will allow you to vote how much you like games you own. We don't know if this includes VC games, but it would be likely.

Apparently, there will also be new Channels soon - Alongside the already known Mii Popularity Channel, we'll be getting some sort of Pokemon Channel and a Commercial Channel of sorts, for viewing game commercials and trailers! Screens of these can be found here again.

And if that's not enough - There's a new Wii update available, which will enable USB keyboard support for the Internet Channel, allows you to open links sent through a message in the Internet Channel, allows you to copy text to search with, and more!

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