Posts with tagged with "pikmin 3"

I didn't get a chance to attend E3 this year, so I was left to the devices of those lucky masses of internet journalists and their investigative sensibilities. Whatever they described or filmed was all I had to sate my obsessively detail-oriented curiosities. As expected, I was not satisfied. Can you perform a spin jump in New Super Mario Bros. U without shaking the controller? Does Pikmin 3 use MotionPlus for its aiming, like Shigeru Miyamoto mentioned in his on-stage demonstration, or infrared like reported in virtually every single media hands-on?

Pikmin 3 won't have an online mode, and that doesn't surprise me. Nor should it you. During the Wii U re-unveiling on June 3, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata revealed one of his sources of inspiration. He held up Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, a book by M.I.T. professor Sherry Turkle. One of the concerns Turkle raises in her book is that we're missing out on the intimate human interactions that we had before cell phones, tablets and the Internet existed.

Last August I imported the European release of Pikmin 2 on the Wii. I had given Nintendo of America two and a half years to release it domestically, but since I was importing Xenoblade Chronicles around that time anyway, I decided to finally bite the bullet and accept that NOA had left me high and dry. (Against all conceivable rationale, NOA finally released the game this past Sunday, more than three years late, but that's neither here nor there.