WiiMusic update + new video

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New Wii Music details and video

After quite an absence, Nintendo's Wii Music is back with new media showing it in action.

October 11, 2007 - Wii Music featured at Nintendo's fall conference at Japan yesterday, and in addition to releasing the video below, the company made a few new details known.

The game will make use of both the Wii Remote and Nunchuk as players keep in time to control a six person band. Forty instruments will feature along with single- and multi-player modes (up to four people). In the single player mode, players will be able to direct all six musicians at once, but the CPU will be able to kick in to allow the focus to be placed upon a solo performance if that's the desire.

The game's set to debut in Japan in early 2008. There's been no word on any Western release dates as yet.

 

(I'm not even going to try the embedded video thing - can someone else please do it - or just follow the link!)

It does sound intriguing though. When it was first announced I was wondering how they could turn it into a game - now I can see how it would work.

Nintendo's version of a "casual" RockBand?