the shipments don't usually come on sundays to CC, BB and those places. They usually get them during the week and hold them til sunday.

2/15/2007 12:45:26 PM

does not matter when they get them, just when someone looking for one can buy one, and the answer is Sunday

2/15/2007 1:06:25 PM

Quote :

"its been released elsewhere for a while now, and its reviews are higher than wii sports reviews."

wii play got a 59% on gamerankings.com, where wii sports got a 77%. they based the score on 22 reviews and 56 reviews, respectively.

2/15/2007 1:36:02 PM

oh shit... just took my 3rd fitness test and my results have been 28, 25, 20.

2/15/2007 2:07:01 PM

what's the big deal with the everybody votes channel....seems like gh3y to me

2/15/2007 2:47:02 PM

I think it's pretty cool, especially if they start having video game and Nintendo-themed polls

2/15/2007 3:45:59 PM

meh.. i like it..

it's free...

i like having more channels...

and i'm actually more excited about the fact that nintendo will come out with random surprises like this

2/15/2007 3:57:35 PM

just got warioware, and damn.

every wii owner needs this game.

2/15/2007 4:02:22 PM

yeah.. i've heard that before about other wii games though

i've been playing RE4 because it's better than all my wii games

2/15/2007 4:06:34 PM

and what makes the wario ware so great?

2/15/2007 4:12:53 PM

warioware is mad fucking hectic... so that adds a lot of fun.


the 4 new "second gen" wii games are going to dominate ... tiger woods, ssx etc.

2/15/2007 8:46:07 PM

anyone here installed the modchip yet?

2/15/2007 9:01:11 PM

ssx is going to be awesome

2/15/2007 9:29:40 PM

Quote :

"the 4 new "second gen" wii games are going to dominate ... tiger woods, ssx etc."

what are the other two? the etc. if you will

2/15/2007 9:50:30 PM

I'm looking forward to Sonic, TMNT, Mario Party, and SSX...all which are to be released in march

2/15/2007 9:58:11 PM

when does wii tiger woods come out?

2/15/2007 9:59:32 PM

^^ I was at eb games today and the guy said Mario Party 8 was pushed back... I think he either said october or december

2/15/2007 10:21:46 PM

^ no way in hell. You might be thinking mario galaxy or smash bros.

2/15/2007 10:24:54 PM

Fucking WarioWare. The dancing mini-game boss stage is killing me, I just can't do it. My lack of rhythm has finally caught up to me in the gaming world

2/15/2007 10:46:58 PM

It wouldn't surprise me if Mario Party 8 were pushed back. It's three weeks away and hardly any new information has been released. It would mean that March would be one hell of a dry month for the Wii though.

2/16/2007 12:39:11 AM

it's been dry since everyone beat zelda. it would be nice to have a real game rather than all these mini game compilations.

2/16/2007 8:34:52 AM

i have yet to understand what is so great about warioware. people just talk about how it's great but never explain. what exactly is it anyway? is it more of a party game or can you play it by yourself and still have fun?

2/16/2007 8:45:19 AM

SSX Blur comes out the 27th, I'm just waiting for that.

2/16/2007 9:17:16 AM

^^ive had the GBA version and DS version and played the gamecube one. it is good for both single player and multiplayer (though obviously multi is always better).

the good thing about it is that it is simple, but frantic. the games are you usually pretty silly too which adds a bit to the fun. think of it as a slew of silly mario party minigames coming at you at 100mph.

single player has you going through increasingly fast rounds to beat X amount of stages and then fight an extended boss battle.

[Edited on February 16, 2007 at 9:17 AM. Reason : .]

2/16/2007 9:17:20 AM

wario ware's good. usually i'll start out with 3-4 people playing the rope cutting game, then a crowd of people gradually pours into my room and we have to switch to survival mode.

i still prefer wii sports bowling for multiplayer entertainment.

2/16/2007 9:25:44 AM

Right now I'm most excited about Tiger...Buy.com says it's release date is March 14...probably right, I remember IGN saying it was going to be March also

2/16/2007 10:23:34 AM

IGN Did say March 14th for a while... then they changed it to say Q1 2007... they may say March now but I remember about 2 weeks ago it just said Quarter 1 2007

2/16/2007 10:58:45 AM

gamespot has a developer diary where EA goes into detail about how the remote responds to the way players swing in tiger 07.

http://tinyurl.com/22p443

[Edited on February 16, 2007 at 11:10 AM. Reason : don't flame me for the huge URL]

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2/16/2007 11:09:57 AM

Nintendo has been subjecting its fanbase to dry seasons since the N64. It wont change with the Wii because game developers didnt believe the $$ and popularity was with the Wii until very recently. I dont blame them considering how poorly marketed and thought out the N64 and GC were compared to PS's & Xbox's.

Beginning about 8-9 month from now we will feast because the developers will have had the time and $$ approved to make qualtiy Wii games. Until then, get lotsa practice with filler games like Wario Ware ,Wii play, and that horrible excuse for a *new* Monkey Ball game. I guarantee you in the long run no one will remember these filler games, but the Kart, Tiger, SquareEnix -type Wii games will go down in gaming history....

2/16/2007 2:56:51 PM

Any one seen Wii play at any stores lately?

2/16/2007 3:47:01 PM

i can't wait for

mario kart
smash bros
mario tennis

2/16/2007 4:03:11 PM

^^saw it at the cary target this morning at 915.

2/16/2007 4:11:42 PM

does mario kart have a date of release set yet?

2/16/2007 5:03:12 PM

^I haven't heard a single thing about it... it probably isn't gonna be out for a loooong time.

2/16/2007 6:22:33 PM

^ seconded

i've been waiting for this one too, and they havent released ANYTHING about it. no screens, no release year, no control scheme, nada.

so i'm waiting for smk on the vc woooo

2/16/2007 10:10:48 PM

I imagine it'll be something like the cow racing game on wii play...although I do hope they'll have multiple control schemes like NFS: Carbon

2/16/2007 10:13:24 PM

I am actually glad I waited, b/c after zelda/wii sports, it seems like wii is in serious need of games

no mario, mario party, mario kart, smash bros, it really seems like nintendo/game developers didn't have a whole hell of a lot of faith in the wii

2/17/2007 10:14:29 AM

well there wasnt much need to try too hard to get one if you werent interested in zelda and wii sports, but i dont really see an advantage to waiting to get one. to each his own though. i've barely made a dent in zelda, only played about half a season in madden, and have grown a bit weary of wii sports, and i'm still glad i waited outside target for 2 hours on launch day to get one.

i am glad there's a decent list of games to look forward to. tiger woods, mario party, mario kart, mario galaxy, metroid, and the inevitable baseball game...i'm still interested in how they'll pull off a bball game though. i usually only play sports games on consoles, so those are the ones i'm most concerned with as far as wii gameplay. baseball is self-explanatory, and i think they handled football well with madden, but basketball is hard to really fathom how it could be done in an intuitive way. other than shakin the wiimote to do a crossover... thats about the only thing i can think of that makes a whole lot of sense.

[Edited on February 17, 2007 at 11:33 AM. Reason : .]

2/17/2007 11:23:06 AM

^^wtf are you talking about?

There's overwhelming evidence that Nintendo does have faith in the system. Just because all of the major franchises aren't out within the first six months doesn't mean shit. Games take time to develop.

Except for Mario Kart, everyone of the franchises you listed are expected to be out by the end of the year.

2/17/2007 11:56:22 AM

zelda looks fun but i just dont feel like playing it right now. beyond that i really dont see anything i want to play (and i own one). maybe wario ware, but id rather just wait for mario party.

2/17/2007 12:20:39 PM

I played wii play last night and got a bronze in every game I played on the first try


And zorthage beat my ass at EVERY SINGLE GAME

2/17/2007 2:10:23 PM

if anyone wants to buy my wario ware for $40, let me know. Just bought it last night and eh... it's not for me.

2/18/2007 11:42:32 AM

Quote :

"no mario, mario party, mario kart, smash bros, it really seems like nintendo/game developers didn't have a whole hell of a lot of faith in the wii"

You're right. Here's the launch lineup they SHOULD have had:
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Super Mario Galaxy
Wii Sports
Mario Party 8
Mario Kart
Warioware
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Metroid Prime 3
Luigi's Mansion 2
Starfox Wii
Super Mario Land 3
Metroid Prime 4
Kirbwii's Adventure
The Legend of Zelda: Choco-choco-chunk Adventure
Wiice Climbers Exxtreme
Donkey Kong Jungle BWiit
Earthbwiiound 4
Metroid Prime 6

Oh, and Wii Play. Definitely Wii Play.

I think that would be a solid launch.

[Edited on February 18, 2007 at 3:36 PM. Reason : yep...we can all dream]

2/18/2007 12:10:37 PM

Any news or speculations on a new Earthbound? The N64 version never came out and I didn't see anything for the GC, but that crap was awesome on the SNES (the best system ever).

2/18/2007 1:00:28 PM

they had a new one for ds

2/18/2007 1:08:27 PM

$40 is not full retail. I only opened it last night, and it's the same game as you'd buy in a store.

2/18/2007 3:08:30 PM

wtb wii harvest moon

2/18/2007 3:12:59 PM

D'oh sorry

2/18/2007 3:37:16 PM

wow
http://consumerist.com/consumer/above-and-beyond/above-and-beyond-nintendo-fixes-wii-in-30-minutes-237683.php

2/18/2007 5:11:09 PM

has anyone else heard about wiiconnect24 causing the wii to overheat while it's in standby? not gunna try to go back through the thread and see if this has been brought up before.

what do y'all do? I currently have wiiconnect on, but only when the console is on.

2/18/2007 8:49:48 PM