Mayjest

How have you been so unlucky with your Wii? I haven't had a single problem... unless you include the blue light waking me up the other day when Nintendo released the full version of the internet channel. But to have to send it back twice? That's crazy! Bad luck about the Mii's, if you don't get any scores and such off the Wiimote ones then you might as well build them from scratch so you can edit them. At least you got something. Remember the time of memory cards, when if it failed you lost EVERYTHING? I actually used to enjoy those times, as it gave me an excuse to do everything from scratch!

The whole thing about GAME selling only in bundles is nonsense. All you have to do is ask for one Wii. If they push a bundle on you, say "No thanks, just the Wii." It's what I did for mine, and my DS. Well, actually, I renegotiated the DS bundle and got the 2 games package, but I got to pick the games. But still, they cannot force you to buy something you don't want. They can refuse to serve you full stop (on the grounds that the person behind you in the queue is prepared to pay it) but they can't force you to pay more than you're prepared to do. Just don't buy from the website.

That's very strange. Easter isn't traditionally a gift-giving holiday (partially both understandable and confusing, when you think about the traditions behind them) in the UK. It IS however in other countries in Europe... I just can't remember which ones. At first instinct I'd have said that that was sales figures for all of Europe, then I thought that that was too low for Europe, so I went and checked again, and low and behold it said the UK. So I'm still confused. I think Nintendo pushed them out because it was Easter (and it is a gift giving time in other countries) and the Wii Waiting List* snapped them up while they could. *I'm not kidding, there is a stupidly long waiting list. Before I got my Wii I was calling up games shops in my area every day asking if they'd had a delivery, and when I got one I asked how many other people do the same thing. He said they had at least 20 regular (i.e. people who called everyday), and double that they only heard from once a week. And that despite selling Wii's to those who call the number still stays the same.

Wii Health doesn't strike as something big enough to warrant a 'real' game. A new channel hopefully. I might actually buy some Wii points for it (curse that rumour about 2000 points free with the Wii, I never found them!). Wii Music sounds interesting enough to be a full on game, but I don't think that enough people would indulge in the song swapping if it was. Another channel, hopefully, but I'm not holding my breath. If it takes two Wii-motes to play the drums, for example, maybe they could do a package deal like the do with Wii Play?

Every one under 25. Or older than Generation X, which I'm told I can just scrape into, despite being 20 and therefore of the 'Playstation Generation'. And I do wonder about why people say there is a games drought? There's quite a few games being released now. And as someone said above, what would be the point of bringing out a new killer app now? Killer apps are called that because they sell consoles. Zelda was one. Mario will probably be one, as will Metroid. All the other games are just fillers. Most Wii owners will not own Super Paper Mario. Most Wii owners will own Super Mario Galaxy. But there is no point in releasing a killer app when there are no consoles to sell. End of story. And even if there was a draught, it's an easily predictable one that happens in every consoles life no matter which one. The launch games have one or two GREATS and 5 or 6 mediocores, and there won't be another great one for around a year. This is because those who produced their launch games were given the dev kits WAY before everyone else and sworn to secrecy about the console in order to generate hype. Everyone else gets their kits later, and so their games take longer to get released. It happens with every console launch. The order (over-simplified) is like this: Lauch/1st party >> 6 months >> 3rd Party ported titles >> 6 months >> 3rd party good titles >> 6 months >> 1st/2nd party great titles. They come in clusters. Expect the great stuff to start arriving November.