Logitech Unveils Official Wii Keyboard

Sexy and Sleek, It matches your Wii!

Have you always wanted a computer in your room? Well, here’s your chance to turn your Wii into one with Logitech’s officially licensed Wii keyboard. The sleek, new, Wii-matching keyboard provides easy text entry for both the Internet channel and games that support it. One game that will be supporting keyboards in the future will be Animal Crossings: City Folk so this will be a must buy for people not looking into Wii Speak. The Keyboard is cordless so there will be no annoying tangling between your keyboard and nunchuck controller. Hit the jump for an overview from the official Logitech site…

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Update - Details (and speculation) on Castlevania Judgement

The folks at IGN reminded me of one, crucial detail on Castlevania Judgement upon a second read-through of their piece on Castlevania Judgement:

The newest DS Castlevania title, Order of Ecclesia will be able to wirelessly connect with this new game to unlock bonus content, likely for both versions.

Considering this news on the Castlevania title for Wii is entirely new, a previous article in Nintendo Power did well to hint at the new Wii game.  It also led to the speculation that the DS and Wii games will connect in a Metroid Prime/Fusion style, unlocking bonus features between the two.

Let’s think further on Konami’s strange turn.

Considering the uproar of gamers on Konami abandoning their platforming ways even once in the series, it’s tough to imagine any addition to the game that will make up for the genre change here.

But other successful Nintendo games have used handheld/home console connectivity quite well.

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles on the Gamecube allowed up to four players to navigate dungeons together by sharing information unique to their Gameboy Advance screen.

The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures let friends play a classic, cooperative Zelda adventure in a new, fun way (which I hope leaks into a new DS/Wii version).

The Pokemon series has already seen two games that lets the DS and Wii wirelessly connect.  With Pokemon Battle Revolution your Pokemon will fight on the large screen with better graphics and effects for attacks and spells.  Plus My Pokemon Ranch on Wii Ware lets you bring your Pokemon to a farm for… some reason.

Okay, so the Pokemon series could use a bit of help.  Regardless, there are many other cases where handhelds have connected well with home consoles, and the Castlevania series could lead the way in showing how to do it well with the Wii and DS.

I’m hoping that, in the least, Castlevania Judgement will offer an unlockable, classic 2d platformer.  Perhaps this will be our chance to really use our handhelds as controllers for the Wii?  Will Konami try to make a multiplayer platformer in this way?  Give us your guesses as to what some of these features for these anticipated titles will be!

Nintendo sues Nyko over the Kama Nunchuck Controller

Yesterday, Nintendo sued the popular game accessory company Nyko. Nintendo Claims that Nyko is making a “knock-off” of the official Nintendo Nunchuck Controller. Nyko has made many great Wii accessories such as its Perfect Shot or its Wii-mote Docking Station, but Nintendo seems to be pretty angry over Nyko’s latest, Wireless Kama Nunchuck. According to Nintendo of Japan, this is the first time they have ever sued over an accessory for the Wii.

Nintendo said that, “[the Nyko product] wholly appropriates the novel shape, design, overall appearance, and even the color and materials used in the Nintendo Nunchuck controller.”
(isn’t that what it’s supposed to do?)

I think it is ridiculous that Nintendo is suing over such a small thing. I mean, don’t they have enough money? They’re selling around 500,000+ Wii’s a month. Maybe Nintendo is trying to come out with a wireless nunchuck of their own and don’t want to get sued by Nyko. Who knows? Discuss this in the forums, and keep checking back to My Wii News, we’ll keep you updated.