Holy moley! Did Amazon sell their massive batch of Nintendo Wiis. I fortunately lucked out and snatched a few of them myself. Amazon ended taking down the whole Nintendo Wii console page. I'm surprised Amazon even stayed up. Then again, it's Amazon.
I wonder if that was going to be last major batch Amazon was going to receive. It's still early, so I'm sure that's not true, but seeing how the Wiis disapeared so quickly makes me think there will be a lot of desparate parents coming close to December.
I can't wait to check out the frenzy on television.
Everyone is waiting for the Wii Zapper that is coming bundled with Link's Crossbow Training, which should be a great game. For those that don't know, it's basically a contraption that holds both your Wii remote and the Wii nunchuk so it looks like a gun.
There is the standard triggers that you'd find on a machine gun. It's to make you feel even more part of the game. I have a feeling that some people won't like it cause they feel they are better without it.
Anyway, there is some controversy because many people don't like it because of the design and they feel its not necessary. I guess we'll just have to check out the sales number to really find out.
We all love our wonderful Wii, but there's something that bothers many of us. It only includes 512 MB of storage on the console! The competition has a huge hard drive to store all sorts of things, but the Wii is left in the dark in this department. I guess it wasn't designed to be a media center like Sony and Microsoft are looking for.
The problem is that you can download so many great things for the Wii. Think Nintendo 64 games, unique Wii games, old NES games, old SNES games... and the list goes on! There's just so much.
And you also have to think about all the game data that is saved. This obviously presents a problem that needs to be solved. Nintendo has come out and defended that 512 is all you need because you can always download the game back again after deleting it. That's great and all, but the convenience of having on the demand is great too.
Oh well, I guess you can't have the best of everything.
Wii Sports won all the words this year at the yearly BAFTA awards. That's kinda amazing because Nintendo included it as a freebie in all American Wii boxes. Every new outlet in American covered the game and I'm pretty sure we saw every news anchor playing it on television.
But what does Nintendo Wii have up it's sleeve next? Ahh yes of course, the wonderful Wii Fit. It's a hardware device you place on the floor similar to those heightened training mats for those gym goes. You basically put your feet on it and then it measures how much pressure you are putting on each foot.
This in combination with your Wii remote and nunchuk is supposed to give you some major exercise! Well I guess this is a good thing considering how unhealthy and lazy Americans are.
The real question is whether this will stick or not. Will it be the next Wii Sports in terms of media popularity? I think so depending how desparate mass media is when it comes out.
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