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ruimartiniman on 06 July 2009

Japanese news sources appear to be picking up on Nintendo's "demo play" feature. Nikkei posted a story on the controversial concept yesterday, referring to it as "Skip Functionality."

Demo Play was first reported on by USA Today following last month's E3. Set to debut in New Super Mario Bros. Wii, the feature allows players to pause the game and select an option to have upcoming sections automatically played for them. This is something that's meant to be used by players who find certain areas of a game to be particularly difficult.

The Nikkei report confirms that the feature will appear first in New Super Mario Bros. Wii, which is due out this Fall. The paper also says that Nintendo plans on using it in subsequent games, mostly focused on high speed action games. The feature will be used both in console and portable games.

In implementing this feature, Nintendo is taking into consideration players who've moved away from gaming after having repeatedly given up on up games midway through the play experience, the paper reports.

http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2009/07/07/nikkei_on_demo_play/



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SmokedHostage on 06 July 2009

Should prove interesting.



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.jayderyu on 06 July 2009

Honestly it's no more than an in game video guide. We already have those, except this is more convenient.



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NiKKoM on 06 July 2009

Well let's hope they will implement it in a F-Zero Wii... broke a controller on the gamecube version... xD

but it's good.. I don't want to spend time trying a level 60 times before I beat it.. I'm getting too old and just don't have the time to play hours and hours..



 

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thekitchensink on 06 July 2009

Just as long as you don't get rewards or anything when using this. For example, if there's an unlockable character for beating the game, they'd better make it so that you actually have to beat it yourself.

Other than that, I don't have a problem with this since I won't be using it.



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Words Of Wisdom on 06 July 2009

You know, generally in video games the game gets harder as you progress. World 8 is tougher than world 4 and world 4 is tougher than world 1.

How are you going to make it to world 8 if you get stuck and have to use demo play on world 2?

Seems to me this kind of thing creates a cyclical problem. Players will skip a hard part instead of learning how to get past it and because they didn't learn how to pass it, they will have to skip even more parts later.



O-D-C on 06 July 2009

this is a great feature, now Nintendo dosent have to 'dumb down' their games, they can make em as hard as possible and no one can complain :)



Games4Fun on 06 July 2009

It will be interesting. Maybe a couple of my friends will finish more games now.



Dazkarieh on 06 July 2009
Words Of Wisdom said:
You know, generally in video games the game gets harder as you progress. World 8 is tougher than world 4 and world 4 is tougher than world 1.

This doesn't exist for about 10 years... unfortunately :(



     

 

megaman79 on 06 July 2009

^ it does not skip it. It shows u what u r supposed to do and then lets u do it.



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