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My original plan was to wake up real early, wash myself, get ready for uni, go down to the shop asap and possibly dragging my mum or dad(they get points for using their credit cards, I use a debit card though) to the store with me to buy it(with TP + extra full wiimote), then go home, calmly laying the box down in my room, then going to uni at 10. Spend all day thinking about wii, wobbling my leg, walking at increased pace due to excitement, potentially running everywhere that day. I had a class that day which I cannot skip. My new plan, seeing as I am going to the class tomorrow instead, is to wake up real early, wash myself, get ready for wii, go down to the shop asap and possibly dragging my mum or dad(they get points for using their credit cards, I use a debit card though) to the store with me to buy it(with TP + extra full wiimote), then go home, rip the bag off it, plonk the box on the floor in my big sitting room, opening it as hastily as I can whilst not damaging it, and proceeding to cream my pants, then set it up with the TV, reading the instruction manual no matter how much I don't want to. I'm skipping the lectures of uni for that day, screw uni! I'd possibly run home from the shop in each instance, but I feel it'd be real immature and mean of a 19 year old to run away from his parents in order to get home and play his shiny new game. Once I have it all set up, I am going to call my mum or dad over, whoever is available, hand them the wiimote(well, strap it on securely actually), and get them to share the christening of my Wii. I'd rather it be my dad, for trying to play our SNES when I was 8, but not quite comprehending jumping, and dying at the most basic part of SMB2(i.e the first shyguy), its a distinct memory that sticks with me, and I really appreciate now for some weird reason. Ninty screwed you over?! Blame the SYSTEM maaan! Them and their edumacations, those killjoys. In all seriousness, my advice would actually be to not skip the day, even if it is just a mock, what level of maths is it at? I don't think things are quite as extreme as that over here in the UK(although there was a hefty line at the midnight launch of Harry Potter when it came out! I went along because I'd just been at work then to the pub, and had to pass on my way home, honest.) I also thinks theres alot more supply for the demand we have(theres less people over here, and more consoles per person)

Wasn't it an ERP over here though, and not a RRP? That might have something to do with an unexpected price rise, which I was hoping wouldn't happen. However, the explanation of your post confused me, and it may possibly be a mistake on the stores part, definitely check it and ask them whats going on.

I don't know why, but I feel like it is going to keep happening, but I like I said, I'm just gonna wait and see. I don't want it to happen, but I think it will, if it doesn't, then I'm not bothered, if it does, I'm gonna be right there saying 'I told you so'. The site is pretty funny;

Why are some games more wii points that the system specific wii points they said there would be? Snes stuff is supposed to be 800, not 900! Not bothered about the fact they have better and more, gotten used to being a british gamer now.

It might have been that somebody messed it up on the tills too, or they missed some numbers out and decided to just scrap those numbers so as not to make it unfair by filling them with people who came in after.

Does time actually come into play at all? I thought it might, then I thought it wouldn't. With angles and the synching, is there any real need to bring time into things?

*recalls BIG secret from before* Eh, I'd go with some so insignificant people will still be anticipated it after it's passed.

According to this other site, they're changed the safety instructions on the official site; http://www.wiikilledmytv.com/

Call it a wiibar, then launch a confectionary product based on it! As for the original question, I was thinking that if you sat to one side then one IR beam would be travelling further than the other, even if it was pointed at the sensor and so it'd assume you and the wii mote are pointing further to the side you are on. It depends how good the wiimote is at measuring the angles of light, as there is no time delay on the beams so erm...As I post this, it makes less sense actually and I've forgotten what I was saying...sorry...

All right, clearly I have a low view of my parents and this will never ever occur to any of you at any point at all. Mods, please make sure this thread doesn't get deleted(I doubt old threads get deleted) so I can have it for reference in the event it DOES happen to someone who posted in here, so I can promptly point and laugh, alot. Accidents happen, although apparently not to anybody who posts on here. I don't want to hear an excuses if the time comes either, like 'Yeah, but I didn't know the controller was glossed! I thought it was mat!' or 'Well, it was actually my dad who did it, not me'. I give up, for now, I just wait. I'm clearly the only one here, with the exception possibly of Nintendork, who considers this to be a possibility of occuring in my home.

Yeah, you're confident in YOUR ability to hold a controller, are you confident that someone who isn't a gamer, like your parents(forgive me if they are, and ignore this) would think about this? It's not even something they'll have considered happening, and I think it's more likely to occur with non gamers caught in the moment.

So I did some further reading about the test on Wikipedia, and it said that its been criticised for being subject to the Forer effect(wikipedia that). Basically, its the sort of thing that causes horoscopes to work, it gives a vague general outline that is supposedly specififcally tailored to you and so you believe it's quite accurate. Go ahead and test it, try answering the questionnaire a little, or even completely(less likely to be true in this instance) differently. I got 3 different personality types, and all seemed to be true to me

By people, do you mean people as in regular people/gamers, or Nintendo? In the eyes of statistics, if it occurs at more than 5% or 10% of the time, it's a significant problem, and needs to be addressed. Even so, I expect better of Nintendo that they would address this issue even if it only happened to 10 wiis. The problem I have here, with all these 'but u mus be lyk well retarded innit if u cannot 'old onto a wiimote lyk' type posts, is that I feel as if this is aimed towards gamers. You have to understand, alot of non gamers will be playing this system, and I think it's those people who will lose grip of wiimotes. These people are probably going to be overwhelmed with excitement at the wii and how fun it is, and I know that sounds exxaggerated, but I honestly believe it. I can see it happening with my mum or my dad if they played, and I'm sure some of you out there can imagine it happening with your parents too. Relative to the wii's other faults, in fact, not even relative, it's still quite a big deal if people are losing TVs due to the wii. It's not an isolated incident. Do all of you honestly think this is not a problem?! P.S I must agree with FL, tit is a great word.

Woops, stupid me forgot to post my results! Some of the questions were hard to decide on, was quite on the fence with them. Anyhoo, I came out as; It's quite accurate of my self impression, and I have considered both acting and counselling(others, not recieving :P) as it happens. Reading it indepth further, just seems to be me all over! This thing seems spot on for me, despite what I said earlier(which is actually underneath) I've only read the first post, quite interesting to post on the forums, especially as I'm currently studying Psychology. I'd point out the flaws and strengths of this test, but I'm not that geeky, and nothing's perfect anyway. Do you know the name of this personality test though? It's most interesting because at this very moment, I'm supposed to be writing up a short presentation on personality models for a tutorial tomorrow! Freaky thing, life and it's little coincidences! EDIT: Don't worry with the name, even freakier is that it was the EXACT next thing I read in my reference that I am reading, it's the MBTI(Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) Scale, and actually helped me understand it a bit better too. It's a book by my psychopathology lecturer, it's still in press though. It goes on to explain those 4 different dimensions, and further personality models I assume. For anyone interested in reading a bit more about personality, you could PM me and I could possibly send you a source, although, I may be breaking some sort of copyright law.

Scientists say that they do. I think, yes, they do and they don't. I know some couples who seem nothing like each other, and others who seem just like each other. I think, that similar opposites attract, if that makes sense. Like *haphazard analogy approaching*, when it comes to magnets, North is attracted to South, and in charges, Positive is attracted to Negative. In the first case, they're both opposites, but within magnets, in the second, they're opposites, but they're both charges. I think opposites do attract, but there needs to be some sort of similarities present too. I feel like this sounded stupid...

To attack Nintendo? Nobody is attacking Nintendo, somebody has simply pointed out a major flaw that needs addressing in my eyes. I was thinking if I covered the whole thin part in sellotape, wouldn't it share some of the strain? I do wonder how they're gonna make a better wrist strap, because the little loop on the wiimote for the strap seems quite small, so they can't make the strap too big or else it won't fit on. Come to think of it, I don't know why they didn't make the strap so it comes securely fixed to the wiimote? I assume at the moment it's removable right?

I think GAME have store specific queues, I'm quite amazed that gamestation managed to organise themselves and centrally pool thier pre-orders to form a national queue, unless they lied to you. The same store may either handle each store's preorders seperately, or will arrange preorders by when it was ordered for the first come first serve thing to still be valid. In theory, it should work out fine, because this other store should have the extra wiis which were allocated to your original store. Don't hold me to any of this though, your best bet is to go into the other store or ring them up and get them to confirm it for you, that way you can turn around and have a go at them if they lie to you.

It's happening quite a bit from what that site shows, I think mainly due to non-gamers getting well into it, which is understandable in a way. When I set it up next week, if I manage to get my parents playing, I am gonna have to tell them so many times to re-iterate the point of not swinging too hard, cos I plan to see it up in a room where theres a big TV, which is actually my brothers, next to a cabinet full of glasses, with single glass pane windows in it too, and on the other side of the TV is the actual window window, but that's double glazed so it shouldn't break too easy. I'm thinking though, would wrapping a bit of sellotape around the wiimote's strap make reduce the chance of it snapping? I'm talking wrapping around the thin bit, which is where the breaks seem to be occuring.

I'm sorry that some users are either too stupid, or too sophisticated(clearly this one) to find logic wrapped up in sarcasm, I am obviously merely just whining. I shall stop. Wii Play, does it come with just a wiimote and no nunchuk? I thought it came with both(although having seen mention of the prices can easily believe it doesn't) but I thought it did because some of the games on it require the Nunchuk!

Yeah, lets make a console aimed and non gamers for everyone to play and not just gamers! Let's try and bring the family together through gaming! Hmm, sounds too easy...lets make it challenging, lets see if we can still achieve our goal by not making enough controllers, so that to actually play mutliplayer, they'll have to buy a whole extra wii! They should have made 2 extra wiimotes per console, or maybe 1.5, it's not like they go off or anything, so any extras would sell in time. Seriously, what sort of idiot didn't consider making enough extra controllers for this multiplayer system?

Do the skins stick with adhesive, or are they like those things you can get which stick to glossed surfaces, because the wii is glossed right? I wouldn't want to be adhesive near it though. What I'd *really* love is a silver or gold wii, that'd rock.

I've had that constantly excited feeling for a while now, probably since I played one, although it subsided over the weekend. It came back last night though, I dreamt it was launch day already, but for some reason I was bringing my dad to buy it, and for some reason we spend ages faffing around at home, then we got half way there and I had to go back because I'd left my preorder reciept on my fridge. I don't remember actually managing to get to GAME in the end, or seeing/playing a wii. It's been featuring in my dreams over the last few days too though. Man, I must seem well sad, actually dreaming about the wii.

£600+, I'd wanna take it for all it was worth. A few hundred quid in the pocket is definitely worth a few months wait. I could then wait until stock was once again plentiful, buy myself a new one, buy my family one, maybe even buy a friend one, and still have at least £60 in my pocket.

What sort of display is that on? Would it make any difference on a regular CRT TV? I actually kind of prefer some of the composite images, because then you don't notice rough/pixely edges on some stuff. (I do appreciate the comparison muchly, because I'm pretty much the same as kav82, and had no idea of what sort of difference there'd be)

Like you, I'm considering trying to play with my left hand, see how it goes, because I think it'd be quite good for my left hand, and I also want to see if there are any problems with playing left handed, bar the fact that my left hand sucks.