Official Wii Thread

[Manic Miner]

F-Zero X?

[Josh]

Get a better cell phone noob.

[perkyskirt]

Banjo Kazooie?

[Schlep]

Is the Wii Shop really slow for anyone else?

[1CCOSA]

....they took out component. Hopefully they don't do that with the Wii and in 4 years time when they would happen hopefully they'll release there are enough good tvs out there that they shouldn't do that.

One would hope.

It's just so weird how they go head first and jump to the top of the tech ladder with WiFi built in but then when it comes to the video outputs they take an ehh what ever attitude towards it, I just don't get it. Which is so different from the attitude they had with the NES and SNES where both came with RF and Composite cables for the systems.

Yeah, very interesting descrepancy. Never thought about that.

I really do hope that come next systems launch that everyone (MS, Sony, and Nintendo) either include Composite/Component combo cables or a set of HDMI and a set of composite cables with the system.

Interesting thing, in the NY Time's review of the PS3, one of the tech reviewer's biggest gripes was that no component cables were included.

[perkyskirt]

Is the Wii Shop really slow for anyone else?

First two days it was pretty sluggish, but tonight its zippy fast.

[Shin Johnpv]

Yeah, very interesting descrepancy. Never thought about that.



Interesting thing, in the NY Time's review of the PS3, one of the tech reviewer's biggest gripes was that no component cables were included.

Yeah you know I hadn't thought about it until I was writing that reply and thinking about what cables came with past Nintendo systems. Big change in attitude from SNES to N64 launch.

I can understand that, I don't get what's with Sony and Nintendo, least Microsoft included them. Though at least with the PS3 I believe you can use PS2 component cables on it, and for the HDMI cable isn't it a separate port from the regular A/V out.

[SpoDaddy]

NES, SNES, N64, Sega Genesis, 32x, Sega CD, and what looks to be a Jaguar?

You are absolutely right so far (I wasn't counting the 32x and Sega CD as separate systems towards the 9 though). One of them isn't really fair because there's no way to see it well; the black thing on the top shelf to the left is a Nomad. Those Mario and Link plastic things next to the Wii are from a Toys R Us NES promo in 1987; I couldn't resist putting the Wii between them (Chux's picture gave me the idea).

The game isn't Banjo or F-Zero. I'll give you a hint: it's one of the largest N64 carts ever published.

[aren]

My friend's brother got a Wii. I went over to her house to play it. We played Wii Sports (I only played a game of tennis). It was really fun at first, but when her cousin left (he brought his controller and took it with him), it got really boring. We then put in Excite Truck and that sucked too just watching one of my friends play. So in conclusion:

Playing Wii with friends = awesome
Playing Wii alone = lame

[Josh]

Ogre Battle 64.