wii

Nintendo must be high.

May 4, 2008

The rumour band-wagon is hastily moving forward that a gyroscopic controller from Microsoft will fulfill the role of the Wii’s innovative control scheme. Nintendo doesn’t feel particularly threatened, however, because they’re keen on pointing out how they did it first, and somehow, this first-to-market strategy is what they believe to be key to market success. [...]

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Wii black market mostly poppy-cock.

December 25, 2007

And by “poppy-cock”, I clearly mean “bullshit”. While some reports indicate that the scarcity of the Nintendo Wii is pushing prices through the roof, I believe these to be incredibly isolated events, perhaps greater in areas inhabited by predominantly stupid folk. While Wii scarcity issues are real, the demand is overly stated by the media. [...]

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Five months later, and still sucking.

June 27, 2007

Look, I wanted to love it just like everyone else, and briefly, I did. But it’s now almost five months after my last public complaint about the Nintendo Wii, and things haven’t changed much at all, aside from the fact that there are another couple layers of dust covering the cute little console sitting next [...]

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Quasi-camping for the Wii.

November 21, 2006

In a moment of pure geekery, Maxator managed to convince me to camp out for the Nintendo Wii. It may not have been a pure example of convincing per se, but the end result was that we both agreed to lend one another company in line at a local Target. By sheer chance, it turned [...]

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The Revolution stalls.

November 29, 2005

Optimistic reports placed the Nintendo Revolution at a tentative March or April release date, but new word indicates that we won’t be hearing about Revolution specifics until a pre-E3 press conference in early May. While the word is that Nintendo plans to stay as hush-hush about the console as possible until just before release, a [...]

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Success of the Revolution?

November 17, 2005

I’m not sure why I’m so jazzed up about the Nintendo Revolution, especially considering the fact that the technical specifications for the console haven’t even been announced in definitive manner yet. Despite this, I’m wholly underwhelmed about Microsoft’s X-Box 360, which hits store shelves in less than a week. Perhaps it’s my dislike of Microsoft’s [...]

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