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E308: Wii Music Fact Sheet, Screenshots, and Trailer

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I want to kill DailyMotion after what I went through to get this video uploaded...
Create a musical masterpiece with up to four players. Anyone can play the huge selection of instruments in Wii Music with simple motions-like strumming and drumming.
It's easy to play improv jams. Musicians in your band jam by simply playing their instruments to the beat of a song or by improvising to their heart's content. Play faster. Play slower. Skip a beat, or throw in 10 more. No matter what you do, Wii Music automatically transforms your improv stylings into great music. There are no mistakes-just playing for the pure joy of playing.

Wii controls immerse you in the music. You can play most of the 60-plus instruments in Wii Music using simple motions with the Wii Remote and Nunchuk controllers. Strum to play guitar, banjo and sitar. Drum to play jazz drums, congas and marching drums. Hammer away to play piano, vibraphone and marimba. Unlike most music games, Wii Music doesn't make you use complex buttons. You only need to imitate playing the instrument.

Wii Music offers virtually endless ways to make music. You choose the song and instruments and decide whether to blaze through a rock take on classical songs, put a jazzy spin on folk tunes or transform Nintendo classics like the Super Mario Bros.® theme into Latin-flavored numbers. The song list is only a takeoff point-it's how you improvise with the songs that matters.

Send your band-jam recordings to Wii Friends who have Wii Music. They'll see your Mii™ band members, your players' improv styles and your instrument selections. They can watch your recordings, or play over parts of your song, then send their modified recording back to you. Improv jams can be sent back and forth over WiiConnect24 and changed again and again.


The full fact sheet, along with a trailer and screenshots, can be found after the break.


Beyond the Jam: Wii Music includes many other modes besides the main band jams, including several musical games and an enhanced video playback mode for recorded jams. Play it again: Use the playback mode to see your jam recordings brought to life with dramatic camera angles. Pick up the baton: Command an orchestra in the conducting game where you'll wave the Wii Remote controller like a conductor's baton to lead a Mii orchestra through orchestrated music. Make them play quickly, slowly, strongly or gently. Ring a bell? Play a handbells game where you'll swing your Wii Remote and Nunchuk controllers to play your two handbells as part of a larger ensemble. Everyone on the team has a job to do: Play one of your notes only when the tune demands it. An ear for music: Take a tone quiz that tests your musical ear by giving you challenges, like putting note-playing Miis in order from lowest to highest pitch. Bang the drum: Play a virtual drum set in the drumming mode, the one mode in Wii Music that also uses the Wii Balance Board accessory (sold with Wii Fit™). You'll use the Wii Remote and Nunchuk controllers as drumsticks, and place both feet on the Wii Balance Board-which work as virtual pedals for the bass drum and hi-hat cymbal.

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MINE NOMNOMNOM

By G-off, # 16. July 2008, 01:00:00

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Can't really picture how this could possibly work...guitar fretwork using the nunchuk? How is that guy playing the trumpet? Seems like it'd be kind of lame just lifting the Wiimote up in the air pointed at my face, or is Nintendo actually encouraging Wiimote BJ's?

By evaunit6, # 16. July 2008, 01:37:28

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You push buttons.

By G-off, # 16. July 2008, 01:50:06

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I am actually VERY surprised at how negative everyone is taking all the news! holy heck in a handbasket batman!

WTHell do you guys want!? seriously? were you expecting nintendo to just hand everyone a billion dollars and call it a good e3?

AC looks TOO awesome, the wiimotion+ thing is really friggin sweet, Wii music is a fun piece of software that comes with the purchase of the Wii Motion+, WiiSports2 looks nice, not as nice as all night WiiGollf rounds, but still nice. The only thing that really was terrible this e3 for ninty is showing off that new lady they got to replace Kaplan. What a lame stage presence.

By CaptainSeagull, # 16. July 2008, 03:20:22

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A single hardcore title would have been nice. You don't go to a room full of gamers and have casual stuff as your major announcements. Casual gamers -don't- watch live streams and -don't- fly out to E3.

By lutherjw, # 16. July 2008, 03:29:07

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Where's my Kid Icarus!

Oh. And I am buying the hell out of Wii Music.

By -MK, # 16. July 2008, 04:37:44

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how do you 'buy the hell' out of a game, and why would anyone want to?

By Big Dawg, # 16. July 2008, 04:51:41

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luther: hardcore gamers -dont- need e3 to find out the hardcore games, or commercials, or magazines, we pretty much KNOW already what hardcore games are coming our way, even before E3, we usually find whats leaked. When Ninty does it this way, the PRESS gets a hold of it and shovels it into casuals or non gamers, then the wheels turn. To fuel or fire, all they have to do, ever, is just say its comming, and we know, and research, and dig. Sure it's lame, but its smart on their end, they can use the time for displaying to hardcores, but it would be wasted time in the long run, they could get so much more out by displaying to the nons and casuals, and just let us find out the other stuff and share it the way we do. The way N+ is famous for. Not sticking up really for this, i mean shit i would have loved another Suda51 game reveal or a bad-ass new DK game, but seriously, to say this show was as terrible as everyone is making it sound... is more like throwing a tantrum that ninty didn't give you candy.

By CaptainSeagull, # 16. July 2008, 05:28:09

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I'm not saying this title looks bad or anything...I'm just not sure how they'll want players to actually play the supposed 60 instruments being included in this game and not have us all look like total idiots doing it. I can't imagine something more awkward than what that guy is doing in the first pic above.

Once Nintendo gives us an actual demo of how the game is meant to be played, I think that will help a lot. Still, it would be nice if Nintendo could just release a game of their own that wasn't cutesy-cutesy. That seems to have become their MO lately and they're gonna run it into the ground if they're not careful. Kid Icarus would have been nice...

By evaunit6, # 16. July 2008, 17:49:57

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I've changed my mind after seeing the video link seaempty posted in the E3 discussion. Sorry to say, but Wii Music looks really awful. Even if I were at home alone with all the curtains drawn, I don't think I could live with myself if I knew that I looked as silly as that demo did. Time may prove me wrong on this one, but let's just say I won't be pre-ordering this one on Amazon just yet...

By evaunit6, # 17. July 2008, 21:10:51

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Eva... it changed your mind? It seems it only reassured your previous opinion and enhanced it P: hehehehe... While I'm probably not gonna get this for my personal collection, it does seem fun for those music lovers out there. Besides, the WHOLE POINT of motion control is to be able to be silly!!

By Spook81, # 17. July 2008, 22:20:40

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I guess it changed my mind in the sense that I was willing to give it the benefit of the doubt being that Nintendo's had so much success with their casual-gamer releases, but after seeing that sorry E3 display, I'm not going to be doing that...That group onstage looked like a bunch of spastics let loose in a zoo.

As for being silly, it's one thing to be silly/fun, but this game seems to more along the lines of silly/pointless. I can't see how it would appeal to music lovers, either. The music I've heard in both the E3 demo and in the official game trailer sounds more like a bunch of schmaltzy midi tracks as opposed to real instruments playing music you can actually get in to.

Like I'd said, time may prove me wrong, but Wii Music has a lot of proving to do.

By evaunit6, # 17. July 2008, 23:47:10

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