I've read a lot of interesting things lately, like:
GameSpy partners with Nintendo for enhanced online gameplay (official press release): http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070313005397&newsLang=en
Summary of Takeshi Shimada's GDC 2007 Presentation (although I only linked the last page, the whole thing is very interesting):
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/specialArt.cfm?artid=13103
To quote:
"He also briefly touched on some Wiidevelopment tools in the works that will be made available to both first and third parties. He highlighted a development tool called NintendoWare, developed by Nintendo and HAL, that emulates Wii hardware on the PC so that artists can view an accurate representation of their special effects without loading their code onto a Wii development kit. He also noted that his group is working on easy-to-incorporate fur-shading middleware and predictive input (so the game can guess what you're about to do based on prior motion). NCL is also looking into the utility of text-to-speech for Wii."
It wouldn't be surprising if we see some really awesome things from the Nintendo camp this year, besides games. :)
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