Mayjest

I chose Galaxy, as I still haven't actually bought MP3. Played a bit of it and liked it a lot, but if it's anything like the other two games (still have yet to finish the second one!) then that might well be as far as I get. I'll probably still buy it when I've got all stars with the spoiler character.

Failure? Hah! You walk into a shop in England right now and try and buy one. What do they say? "You can't. We're sold out." Try and buy Halo 3? "Halo 3? Sure, we have tons of them lying around!" Seriously, so many of the best Nintendo games are just gone now. It's got so bad that Game had Bratz as the no1 selling Wii game when I went in there the other day. I asked the attendant what they were on about, where's the actual good games. He said that they technically weren't lying, as Bratz was the number 1 selling game at that precise point in time. Mainly because they'd sold out of everything better and so people resorted to buying that. If you call "sold so many that shops have sold out" compared to "We got a whole load on launch that we still haven't sold" a failure compared to Halo 3, then yes, it's a failure. I'd then proceed to call you an idiot.

Quite frankly, I consider the Wii Points Card shop to be my present from Nintendo this year.

I'm going for every Wii point I can get my hands on. I'm not particularly fussed if they bring out any hardware or software available on it, as it's not like I won't already own pretty much all the decent Nintendo made stuff. Models and things do not interest me. However, Wii Points allow me to buy games for free. Such as Lylatwars, which I've had a craving to play for a while now. That has been satisfied thanks to free points. The rest (should have about 3000 Wii Points when all my stars are converted) will be saved for WiiWare titles.

More cards are available now. Go quickly.

I think I already lost some points last month, as I remember having over 10,000 on the last website, and I started off this one with just over 8000. Only just added my Wii and assorted games, so I'm back over 10,000, but still.

Upping production by a large amount (300,000 a month wasn't it?) takes more than just whipping your workers. Dvd box cases won't be made by nintendo, they'll be made by a different company, who then ships them to Nintendo factories. Then the game is put inside of them and they're put in the Wii box. Say that Nintendo can only fit 1000 dvd box cases in their factory at once, and they get a shipment once a day. Upping production means that they want to make more than 1000 Wiis a day, which means they've run out of boxes for Wii Sports. Getting cardboard sleeves instead means they can fit 10,000 sleeves in the same space as 1000 dvd box cases, which means they can make more Wiis in a day. You can't make factories work harder by magic. Sometimes shortcuts must be taken.

That's annoying. I just noticed that Sheikah said he bought 2 cards today, so I went off to try and buy some. There were about 200 cards of 100 points left, so I go to purchase, go to confirm... sold out. About 20 seconds too late. sigh.

Unless he magically edited it without the edit message appearing, he didn't mention the Wii Shop Channel. But the stars catalogue is actually relatively well stocked at the moment. I reckon they'll add more point cards in January though, after the deadline for point expiration.

The shopping channel information (such as what games you've downloaded and what nintendo-europe club nintendo account your attached to) can be changed/deleted rather easily. Just go into settings on the shop channel. If anybody here does get a second hand Wii, if they've downloaded any games then ask them to not delete their account. There's no information kept on the Wii (like credit cards) from what I'm aware of. There's no point in deleting games you might like.

So, now all the Wii Points cards are now sold out, how long do people think before they put some more up? Because the three I managed to redeem all started with 133*, I'd say there's a certain range being used up by these cards, and once enough of them have been redeemed on the Shop Channel Nintendo will put them back up. If that's the case, then we might see more cards online next week. I think that the more likely scenario is that we won't see more cards until January, after some points have expired. Because the more Wii Points people get for free the less money Nintendo gets from people buying Wii Points, which means less money overall. They're basically giving us free games in order to encourage us to actually buy some more. So naturally they want to reduce the amount of free games given away, while still actually giving away some games. If my horrible grammar (it's 2.30am) makes sense anyway.

I don't know, Pro Street looks to be the best one since Most Wanted, mainly because it's in daylight once again. I cannot stand playing racing games like Underground where it's night time all the time, and vehemently boycotted all of them. I'm considering getting this one though.

This is why I bought my Wii in February, when there's actually some in stock that you don't have to beg the store manager to get. That said, to get it I had to ring up 5 different shops in Reading daily to find out if they had any, then when I finally got one I dropped everything and went to get it. Skipped three lectures that day... totally worth it

...when somebody starts ranting about how their console is better than yours, you think of at least 8 intellectual reasons why their talking out of their arse. Then ignore all of them in favour of just shouting back louder.

While this looks like one of the most amazing games to have ever existed, I cannot help but feel that it's own ambition would destroy it. It seems to me that to program this to be as truly organic as the game wants to be (i.e., be able to design/develop your race as you truly want to, with no limitations other than survival) would be such a huge task to program as to be ultimately impossible. Seriously, the are supercomputers working on tasks less complex than developing this game.

When mine arrives, I'm considering gluing it onto my remote. I rarely get to use my Wii any more (bloody housemate's TV, the only time I get to use it is when he's out or playing it as well. And for some reason I'm not allowed to set up my TV next to it as it would 'look stupid'), so it'll make me feel better watching my housemates swinging dildo's around. Teach them to use my stuff without permission!

Dang it, I meant country. Sorry, I'm busy eating here, typing one handed is difficult...

Where did these numbers come from and what country do they represent?

Well, I busted my knee yesterday, so I've been testing out the whole "constantly sitting down while playing Wii" thing. I can say that it works, although the control on some Wii Sports games is strange, mostly because I'm not used to it. For example, in Tennis I put a fair amount of effort into my swings, probably more than needed. While sitting down limits me (can't use my hips etc) it does still work, I'm just not very good at it. A bit of practise saw improvement, so I imagine that if you start off sitting down it's easier. As for Wii Fit, just but the balance board on your lap and press down with your hands. The weight bit will be inaccurate, but the balancing mini games should still work? Well, only time will tell. And I'd just like to say that I play like the do on the adverts. Well, I stand up... don't do all the jumping around or nothing.

Second Sight on the Wii would be interesting, but I wouldn't buy it. Mainly because I bought (and loved) the game on the GC. I see no point in owning a game twice.

This sounds remarkably like one I get far too often, I just can't remember the error code number. Basically, my wireless router is absolute pants and keeps breaking. It says that the network is there but then doesn't give any actual information. So the Wii can connect, but not really connect.

Oh I hope not. That game was baaaaad.

Hehe, I had totally forgotten about that! I reckon this conference is just for Nintendo to cheer about being number one again. Although something like more Brawl info would be nice...

I actually went out and downloaded the free PC version when I heard about this, and I found it quite enjoyable. A great way to waste an hour or 12.

I'm just gonna ignore everything that's been said above, as it seems to have turned into an 'I'm right because I'm right' argument. That said, I'll offer my two pennys. Now, the idea of 'holding the industry back' does not imply physically moving backwards, but merely standing still; not moving forward. In short, stagnating. Now, in any industry, stagnation is bad. A company that stagnates and stays the same will be overtaken by a younger, more innovative one. For previous examples, look at SONY completely decimating a stagnating Nintendo and Sega. Or Google overtaking Yahoo!. Failure to innovate will eventually mean that death of the company. Note that I said the company. The industry will always move forward - there is always new blood willing to take the risk. So no, I do not think that the 360/PS3 is holding the industry back. I do feel, however, that SONY and Microsoft (SONY especialy, they're making a loss in too many departments. They literally only turned a profit this year because of Spiderman 3) had better pull their thumb out soon or they might find themselves having to pull out of the industry in 10 years!