The official "OMG Wii IS HERE!!!!" HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY THREAD!

EB's got 11/21 as the release date for Metal Slug Anthology... which sucks because I want it now :cry:

I'm probably waiting till finals are over to start Zelda... in the mean time I'll play the shit out of TC, Metal Slug, Wii Sports, and the billion games on other systems.
 
[quote name='botticus']Hmm... Marvel: Ultimate Alliance is apparently due in stores tomorrow. Too bad that's one of the games I am definitely waiting on reviews for, so I'll probably have to just go there to switch my preorder instead of picking it up.

The definite downside of preordering all these games... I'm going to get like a dozen calls from Aeris in the next few days.[/QUOTE]


The fact that this game wiil not be 16x9 is making me think twice about getting it at launch. Which sucks cause I was really looking forward to getting it on the Wii.
 
[quote name='doctorfaustus']The fact that this game wiil not be 16x9 is making me think twice about getting it at launch. Which sucks cause I was really looking forward to getting it on the Wii.[/quote]I need more opinions onthe control anyway. I would rather have picked this up for the Cube. It's one thing for Nintendo to spend a year retooling Zelda for the Wii, another for Activision to spend a few months with a Cube game and map buttons to gestures or gestures + buttons.

Early releases:

11/15
DBZ
GT Pro
Madden 07
Marvel Ultimate Alliance
Rampage
Rayman
Red Steel
Monkey Ball
Tony Hawk Downhill Jam
Trauma Center
Avatar
Happy Feet
Spongebob

11/16
Call of Duty 3

11/17
Cars
Mandy and Billy
Monster Truck
Wii Steering Wheel

11/18
Wii Points card
 
I'm pretty excited for the Wii, but I've been trying to tone it down because I will be out of town Saturday and Sunday until about 6PM, so I doubt I'll be getting a Wii on launch. I was kinda hoping to camp at Walmart just because I've never camped for anything and I think it would fun to do. I don't need to get one immediately, I just think camping sounds fun(believe it or not), plus I only have enough money to buy the Wii and nothing else, no Zelda for me for a while and I don't need component cables, I don't even know what they are. All I know is I use red, yellow, and white cords, whatever those are. My ~14" TV/VCR combo doesn't ask for much.
 
[quote name='botticus']I need more opinions onthe control anyway. I would rather have picked this up for the Cube. It's one thing for Nintendo to spend a year retooling Zelda for the Wii, another for Activision to spend a few months with a Cube game and map buttons to gestures or gestures + buttons.
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Wow, it was developed for the GC? I didn't know that. I might still pick it up if the control scheme receives good reviews. The lack of 16x9 is lame but I need something that I will be able to play my GF. She loved baldur's gate, so she might like this, right?
 
[quote name='doctorfaustus']Wow, it was developed for the GC? I didn't know that. I might still pick it up if the control scheme receives good reviews. The lack of 16x9 is lame but I need something that I will be able to play my GF. She loved baldur's gate, so she might like this, right?[/quote]Well, I'm pretty sure it was announced for GameCube a while ago. Then the GameCube version disappeared and it was available for Wii. And it's not in widescreen (which I don't think was generally useful on the Cube). If they actually redeveloped it for Wii, I'd be surprised.
 
So what games are definitive to get for launch?

I already heard people praise Zelda and I might just grab that and Monkey Ball...
 
[quote name='lilboo']I'm prolly just gonna get Ultimate Alliance on the 360.

Sorry Wii :([/quote]Don't worry, Activision seemed to do a much better job with COD3, so you can still support third parties ;) Not that Activision actually developed either game, but nobody ever mentions the actual developers.
 
I'm going to do a sell off of games and such at EB Games Friday night and if I can make at least 75% of the money to buy a Wii, my happy behind will be camping Saturday night... ^_^ and I'm in Atlanta...
 
are the controllers and nunchucks street-dated? I called Gamecrazy and they said they'd get them in tomorrow and hopefully crack one open to use with the demo kiosk to allow us to play any game they had in, but they weren't selling the nunchucks, classic controllers, wiimotes, etc. until the 19th.
 
OT but at the nintendo store website they have a year's subscription with free Wii remote flashlight keychain for 19.95. Not as good as the LoZ: TP with bonus cd but still nifty.
 
anyone know the first news item regarding the nintendo Wii (or the then named Revolution)? 'Cause I'd like to know how long it is that I've been waiting for this thing to come out.
 
[quote name='doctorfaustus']anyone know the first news item regarding the nintendo Wii (or the then named Revolution)? 'Cause I'd like to know how long it is that I've been waiting for this thing to come out.[/quote]Well... the Revolution codename was announced at E3 2004 (5/11/04). No clue when it first came into being in the media, though.
 
[quote name='Lan_Zer0']I'm pretty sure they revealed the controller sometime mid-September last year. I have memories of skeptical optimism.[/quote]

Actually I think it was TGS last year, and I didn't think it got the initial welcoming praise it has now (Maybe because they didn't see the Wii in all it's glory yet).
 
I'm pretty sure that this article was the first to reveal the case design of the Wii. It leaked a few hours before Nintendo's 2005 Pre-E3 press conference. I remember scouring the interwubs in the days before that E3 trying to find some new bit of information about the "Revolution" and damn near wetting myself when I came across this. I doubt if it was the first news item mentioning the console by name though.

Come to think of it, things haven't changed much. I'm still going through forums and gaming blogs trying to find out more about Nintendo's new console. It just isn't called the Revolution anymore. I guess the more things change the more they stay the same.
 
So, who thinks Wii is living up to it's codename "Revolution" so far?
LOL a bit OoT, but does anyone have a good answer to why the Gamecube's codename was Dolphin? I was bothered by that name. I don't remember the codename for N64 or anything earlier. Does anyone know?

Oh oh. And 4 days left. What good times!
 
Oh, I just got even more excited!
So I get paid on the 15th and last day of the month (LOL How ghetto?!) so I just got paid at midnite today because today's the 15th. It was sometime the other week (2 weeks ago) I had called out because I had a s tomach virus..and..well, it looks like I got paid for an ENTIRE 80 hours. I was expecting 72 hours. So now I have about $75 MORE in my check that I thought I wasn't going to have ^_^

Mmm. That's like..ANOTHER game a Wii Points card.

K, where's Saturday Night ?!
 
[quote name='lilboo']So, who thinks Wii is living up to it's codename "Revolution" so far?
LOL a bit OoT, but does anyone have a good answer to why the Gamecube's codename was Dolphin? I was bothered by that name. I don't remember the codename for N64 or anything earlier. Does anyone know?

Oh oh. And 4 days left. What good times![/quote]It was called dolphin becaus eit was planned to squeek and chirp at you when you... I don't know. If it was called the dolphin, as the real name, then they should've had some fucking awsoem ecco game to go with it at launch
 
The only codename N64 ever had was Ultra 64, wasn't it? I'm trying to think back and I think when it was first ever announced, it was Ultra 64...and it kept that up until the eleventh hour, right?

My memories are rusty of 10 years ago! Best console ever, BTW!
 
there's movement going on in TRU right now. a truck pulls over, then i see people carrying boxes towards the store. :shock:
 
You know what I'm amazed by, how little the console itself has changed since Iwata first pulled it out at E3. The formfactor, the design has remained almost untouched. The controller, which we've known about for a shorter amount of time, has gone under quite a few changes since we first saw it last September (button config, slight size and shape details, the speaker, button labels and shapes, etc.)

I wonder, was the Revolution as it was first revealed at E3 2005 done on the inside (save for port configs, etc.) or was that box the goal that the R&D group had to get things working?
 
[quote name='daroga']You know what I'm amazed by, how little the console itself has changed since Iwata first pulled it out of his coat at E3. The formfactor, the design has remained almost untouched. The controller, which we've known about for a shorter amount of time, has gone under quite a few changes since we first saw it last September (button config, slight size and shape details, the speaker, button labels and shapes, etc.)

I wonder, was the Revolution as it was first revealed at E3 2005 done on the inside (save for port configs, etc.) or was that box the goal that the R&D group had to get things working?[/quote]Hard to say what the actual timeline was, but Iwata definitely had that size in mind when he tasked devs with putting it together, according to the Iwata Asks interviews.

More impressively, I was looking at the E3 2005 announcement, very little has functionally changed in the year and a half. I think the only major item of contention is DVD playback, which at that point:
though the unit will require "an internal attachment" to play movies
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Is anyone still a little skeptical about the Wii? I'm going to get one, but I'm worried that the whole remote thing will be gimmicky and die fast, unlike the DS's touch screen. Plus, with all these mediocre reviews on the launch games(minus Zelda of course) there isn't really any good games until SSB:Brawl is there? I need your help, make me snap out of this!
 
[quote name='mrchainsaw']Is anyone still a little skeptical about the Wii? I'm going to get one, but I'm worried that the whole remote thing will be gimmicky and die fast, unlike the DS's touch screen. Plus, with all these mediocre reviews on the launch games(minus Zelda of course) there isn't really any good games until SSB:Brawl is there? I need your help, make me snap out of this![/quote]

Wario Ware
Super Mario Galaxy
Metroid Prime 3
SSB: Brawl

All are coming out early next year, so I don't think you'll have much to worry about.
 
[quote name='mrchainsaw']Is anyone still a little skeptical about the Wii? I'm going to get one, but I'm worried that the whole remote thing will be gimmicky and die fast, unlike the DS's touch screen. Plus, with all these mediocre reviews on the launch games(minus Zelda of course) there isn't really any good games until SSB:Brawl is there? I need your help, make me snap out of this![/quote]
Wii Sports got a 7.5 from IGN and Monkey Ball got a 8.4--I'd hardly call those mediocre.

As for games, Metroid Prime 3 and Mario Galaxy are out next year, plus Wario Ware and Mario Strikers--I'd consider those all good games coming out before Smash Bros.
 
Most launch games for any system are mediocre. When half of the launch games for the Wii are probably aborted GameCube projects, I would expect a ton of mediocrity. Launch games for a system with a new control scheme are even more likely to be mediocre. But luckily there are a ton of games at launch.

If developers give the Wii half the chance they gave the DS (which they should, since it's pretty cheap to do so), it will be fine. If you're skeptical about games being great at launch, then you are probably in a large group. Long-term? Not too worried.
 
[quote name='lilboo']I don't remember the codename for N64 or anything earlier. Does anyone know?[/quote]N64 = Project Reality
 
I have twenty pounds of lifting pressure currently settled upright and sturdy in my pants.

I have no place to go but up.
 
[quote name='SteveMcQ']N64 = Project Reality[/quote]

Ah ha, that's right! I forgot.

I agree, botticus...IMHO, the Wii's launch is looking VERY solid, especially considering most people won't be buying more than 3 games; though there are a solid 5 or 6 games that look to be WELL worth buying.

This is the first Nintendo console in ages where I'm not worried about its software life...considering how developers have taken to the DS technology and how they've taken to the Wii technology thus far, this early in the cycle, I think things will be awesome for years.
 
[quote name='Strell']I have twenty pounds of lifting pressure currently settled upright and sturdy in my pants.

I have no place to go but up.[/quote]

Your normally supposed to see a doctor after about 7 hours of that.
 
[quote name='SpottedNigel']Your normally supposed to see a doctor after about 7 hours of that.[/quote]4, actually. But for Strell, medical science makes the exception.
 
[quote name='Strell']I have twenty pounds of lifting pressure currently settled upright and sturdy in my pants.

I have no place to go but up.[/quote]

I’m sure that’s just the lobsters.
 
I would, yeah. I mean, you might not have to when all is said and done, but why gamble?

I'm going really early because, well, I really want that Wii and because I got nothing better to do. :lol:

If you do have something better to do, hopefully you'll score one, but I'd play it safe.
 
[quote name='Oops! I did it again.']I would, yeah. I mean, you might not have to when all is said and done, but why gamble?

I'm going really early because, well, I really want that Wii and because I got nothing better to do. :lol:

If you do have something better to do, hopefully you'll score one, but I'd play it safe.[/quote] Id on't care about waiting four hours or so but anything more is a joke. Though I told my brother I'd spot him money to buy one so he could sell it for a profit. I don't usually condone the type of thing but he needs a bit more money for his car repairs.
 
Im not waiting early (my mom wont let me and she has to drive) so ill be going as early as possible which hopefully will be 7:30 am.....

I want to avoid the crowds that will come in later and hopefully have a better chance at getting a Wii....
 
I will share my own third-person review of Tony Hawk. The manager at EB swapped the demo and put this one in there. The game looked pretty crisp, especially for being composite on an LCD. I'm never one to really critically judge a game's look, so it may be worse than I tell it. I think it looked a little cleaner than Excite Truck for those needing comparison, but I wasn't standing in front, so it's a bit tough to compare directly.

The guy playing it had obviously only been playing it for a short time since it was just put in today, but he had little to no problem controlling it. Occasionally went into a wall, but that's Tony Hawk for ya. Pretty simple: tilt it forward to start, then "drive" with the remote. Once you're in the air, the guy was twirling the remote around, hitting a few buttons, executing some tricks.

After I get some play time with it later this week, I'll give more impressions. If I didn't generally get tired of Tony Hawk games, I might be tempted to get this one at launch, but it looks like a good pickup for $20 down the road.

Now I have 5 pure white games sitting on my shelves, waiting for the Wii. Won't be opening any of them yet till some more reviews start rolling in. Marvel and Madden particularly are iffy as far as being keepers. Trauma Center, Rayman, and Red Steel I am less worried about.

I'm very happy with the white DVD cases. Compared to previous gen games, they're all very uniform. Pretty much just the Wii logo and the game title on the case, no differing background color/design on the spine.
 
[quote name='botticus']I'm very happy with the white DVD cases. Compared to previous gen games, they're all very uniform. Pretty much just the Wii logo and the game title on the case, no differing background color/design on the spine.[/QUOTE]

So, the spines on all of the Wii games are white? Nifty. I wonder if thats part of some requirement on Nintendo's part for uniform case design.
 
Man... my level of excitement for the Wii just shot up in the last couple days. I don't even know what I'll play first... I realized that I don't care enough about school to avoid Zelda until my finals are over (and I only have 1 cumulative final anyway.)
 
[quote name='Sgt Grumbles']So, the spines on all of the Wii games are white? Nifty. I wonder if thats part of some requirement on Nintendo's part for uniform case design.[/quote]
:D Just need Wii Sports to fill that demo DVD.
 
Picked up Trauma Center! Looks nice.

Ran some experiments and came to 2 conclusions:

1. If you put a Wii disc in the 360, nothing happens. it gets stuck on the 360 splash screen and in the dashboard it just says "reading"

2. If you put a wii disc in a PC DVD drive, nothing happens either. It just sits there trying to read it. It wouldn't read it at all.

Interesting :whistle2:k

even 360 discs read (you get the splash screen) when you put them in a normal dvd player. Actually, all game discs do. Looks like Nintendo put in some heavy duty protection (or just scrambled the hell out of the data so it could only be deciphered by the Wii.)
 
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