Amazon sell 17 Wii's per Second in the US

News of a sickening amount of Wii sales from Gizmodo

I realise that it’s pretty sickening to hear that Amazon was selling Wiis at a rate of 17 per second over the Christmas period elsewhere while most of the UK and Ireland got zilch, but that’s life.

Extrapolate those figures and Amazon sold a staggering 1,020 Wiis a minute, 61,200 an hour and a frightening 1.46m per day. Of course, none of that’s actually true, just a theory because there weren’t that many Wiis out there – anywhere.

Amazon actually said that at peak, the Wiis old at a rate of 17 per second “when they were in stock”. Not too often then.

Other stats showed that Dec 10th was the busiest day with 5.4m purchases and that 99% of Christmas orders shipped on time.

Wii are Hurtin' for some Action!

News that Nintendo are pulling all their UK Wii advertising in place for the more widely available DS probably comes to no surprise to us, we also know that they are upping production to 1.8 million wii units a month & we also know that the words 'Nintendo Wii' are the most searched for words on this planet at the moment (second comes Nintendo DS).

So what is it that makes the Wii so right for the consumer? the answer as if it needed to be said is that anyone can play, i've seen dad's play the Wii console!. Working up a sweat while 'exercising' almost makes the wifes and girlfriends interested in forking out cash that should be put towards better stuff like gardens or rings. The amazing £179 price point helps speed the process of purchase too! (although finding it under £350 with any decent games is like finding a needle in a haystack at the moment).

Looks like Nintendo may of won the console war, i mean they have strong opposition from Microsoft with the 360, and dare i say it the PS3? but being the hottest-impossible-to-get product for a second year running is just incredible.

I myself am still without a Wii, but i can blame owning a home for that! its on the list of things to buy in 2008.

Will Nintendo keep us on the edge of our seats in 2008 with some great titles, lets hope so. The future is bright for Nintendo, seems every one is backing them. I personally want to open a WiiBar and mix great nights out with great social gaming.

Wii have 2 bonus Villians!

Have you gotten your hands on the new Wii? Then you're in luck. According to the EB Games website, the Wii version of the Spider-Man 3 video game includes two bonus Marvel villains: Morbius and Shriek.

Europe Gets PS3 Launch FINALLY!

Sony have announced the much delayed European PS3 launch as being the 23rd of March 2007, i believe they will sell well but not as well as they could have doone, i believe allot of people have spent their money on the excellent Wii and may decide to leave the PS3 for the time being.

The cost is what really offends me, £425 is a hefty cost for a console, bearing in mind the 360 cost £279.

Admittedly it does come with a 60gig hard drive which is better than the 360, but the 360 has a 100 gig on the way...

The ps3 does have free online access which is something i think Microsoft will need to address.

There will also be 30 titles available for launch, with the 20 gig cheaper version following later in the year.

Mii on a Tee

If you want your Mii creation emblazoned across your chest just purchase the shirt in the colour and size of your choice and follow the instructions here.

£19.99 is a bit pricey, but probably worth it.

UPDATE - Mr Cloud offers us a deal...
Anyone who buys more than £14.99 worth of stuff from www.mrcloud.com can get £3 off by using the code CLOUDCTP01 during checkout.

All Wiimotes Wiicalled

Nintendo are recalling all the remote straps due to breakages and damages.

Engadget - ''The Wiimote strap recall is most definitely worldwide affecting "all Wiis sold" to date and most of the units still on shelves. So yeah, your strap is on the list for recall if you own a Wii.''

Stay tuned to nintendo.com for more updates.

A collection of the Best Nintendo Mii's Holywood style!

You own a Wii? You have created yourself as a Mii? Well the craze that is sweeping the world is Holywood Mii's. Check out a few of my favourites from miiplaza.net

Sawyer, Lost would not be the same without him, and neither would your Nintendo Wii.






Mr Eko - We Miss you Mr Eko, we can keep you forever now on our Wii's






Your a Wii-Zard Harry, and a right good'un!








R.I.P Mr. Miyagi








Chuck Noris the Badass. Enough Said








Jackie Chan the man.








My Favourite - V








Tom Green, be careful, he may finger you.








Jack Black, JB Rocks








The King of pop is kinda creepy!

Wii Brits have played the Wii

Yes, Wii may be one of the last countries to get our hands on Nintendo's new power in the battle for console stardom, but at last the United Kingdom have the sexy new Wii! With this in mind and knowing a few close friends (nearly all of them) had queued in the freezing cold (while i was in bed) for the Wii i organised a last minute Sunday Wii fest.

My still-proud-wii-owner friend bought his Wii around neatly packaged in the very box it came in, you know when a console is still desired when people take care in taking it out of the house and do not resort to carrier bags... yet!. After a bit of setting up we were ready to rock! People soon arrived bringing their wii-motes, my idea was to film it and pretend we were part of those American Wii adverts you see, you know the ones, where everyone looks like they should be in the intro to an episode of friends. We didn't bother, we just played Wii sports and forgot about trying to be 'random youtube fodder'.

It didn't take me long to learn the ropes (point at tellly, twist and click, easy), soon i was flung into a game of Bowling, easily the best part of Wii Sports. Having failed miserably the first time around, i soon got the hang of it and got my first strike (and yes, i hit a trailer like pose too) i think the trick is not to rotate your wrist to much! (rotating makes the ball head to the gutters....). Golf was next... which i was really bad at, fun, but really bad! you kind of feel silly when you miss from 2 yards... but thats all part of the genius of the new control system, all it takes is one untimely poke in the ribs and wallah! a Bogey! Baseball...ah baseball... how fun is baseball, anyone who has played the baseball game will know that it is a hell of a lot of fun!!! i hit one home run, but that was as far as i got in the hours that passed. Tennis, well frankly there was not the space needed to play tennis in my house, we did try and yes... i sucked. Didn't get around to playing Boxing.

The plan was to invite friends around and play a few games for an hour or two, six hours later...

Nintendo's Wii is a very addictive, very original, a truly great machine, and unfortunately we only had the time to play Wii Sports, with so many launch titles available and such a low price Nintendo have done the gaming community proud. I feel sorry for people with small tellies and little bedrooms, this is clearly the modern mans latest apartment gadget.

My favourite feature was the Mii's, i had already been created and sent over the net to my friends machine! my god it looks like me, we laughed our bollocks off at all the look-a-likes wondering around his console, all my friends were digitalised, a few of my friends pets were turned into 'what they would of looked like if they were human' even Michael Jackson and Robert DeNiro turned up!! 100 reasons why to have lots of friends, turn them into Mii's.

Also on the side of the remote, in the fine details, etched for eternity is the word 'POO' someone at Nintendo has a great sense of humour.

If i didn't have a mortgage, car, loan and bills to pay i would have been in that cue with them, unfortunately that is not the case and forced to watch from the sidelines. I would urge everyone to buy one if they had the chance, and with the Xbox 360's game line-up looking so strong i have to worry about the ever-delayed PS3 for the UK market. Better start saving!

Wii have sold out accross the UK

Wiimania has hit the United Kingdom in full force, with the console selling out on its first day of sales -- 50,000 units in 12 hours. However, many of the pre-orders could not be fulfilled as there were predictable shortages, with some opting to take refunds instead of waiting until January for subsequent shipments. Predictably, many of the Wiis ended up on eBay, and according to the BBC, have hit high closing bids of £500 (nearly $1000), compared to the retail price of £180 ($350). Buyers seemed to be in high spirits at the Wii main launch event at the Oxford Street HMV retailer in London, where crowds were regaled as former English footballer Ian Wright took on boxing champion Ricky Hatton in a quick bout at Wii Boxing. (Wright was victorious, if you must know).

Thanks to Engadget

Nintendo announce Wii European Launch Titles

Here is the list of Wii games slated to be available for the European launch date, indexed by publisher:

Nintendo = Wii Sports (included with Wii), The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Wii Play (including Wiimote)

Activision = Call of Duty 3, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, Tony's Hawk's Downhill Jam

EA = Madden NFL 07, Need For Speed Carbon

Midway = Happy Feet, Rampage: Total Destruction

Sega = Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz

System 3 = Gottlieb Pinball Classics, Super Fruit Fall

THQ = Cars, Barnyard, Spongebob Squarepants: Creature from the Krusty Krab

Ubisoft= Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII, Far Cry: Vengeance, GT Pro Series, Monster 4x4: World Circuit, Open Season, Rayman Raving Rabbids, Red Steel, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent

Wii have sold out

Some 400,000 Wii units have sold out in Japan on the day of launch, people without consoles tried their luck and winning a raffle to obtain one. Well done nintendo, the UK is next, my friend got a call today saying his will be waiting for him and then were having a Wii-evening.

EA Announce Next Harry Potter Game

Electronic Arts and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment today announced that the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix videogame is in development. The game is scheduled for a July 2007 release to coincide with the Warner Bros. Pictures film based on J.K. Rowling's fifth book of the same title.

"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the first in the franchise that we have developed for the next generation consoles," said Harvey Elliott, Executive Producer at EA UK. "Together with current generation versions, we are creating an immersive and, above all, faithful Harry Potter experience that will both accurately reflect the world showcased in the film and also delight fans of all ages."

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is scheduled for release for the Nintendo Wii, PlayStation3, Xbox 360, PlayStation2, PSP, Nintendo DS, Game Boy Advance and Windows PC.

Read the full article here

Gah! they smashed a Wii! smashmywii.com

Wii have 400,000 units!

Nintendo will offer four times as many machines as Sony when it launches its Wii console in Japan on 2 December.

The Japanese video game maker said it will ship almost 400,000 units of its Wii console, compared to 100,000 for Sony's PlayStation 3.

However Nintendo has not said how many consoles it will make available in the US where the Wii debuts on 19 November.

The launch of the Wii will see the big games makers Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo going head to head.

The Wii, the Xbox 360 and the PS3 will compete for attention on the shelves this Christmas.

Need a cheap, small DVD player? Don't buy a Wii... yet!

Digital media company Sonic is working on a software-based DVD playback engine that will be included in a version of the Nintendo Wii due out in 2007.

However, that means early versions of the Wii purchased this year won’t have the DVD playback function.

The CinePlayer CE DVD Navigator is already licensed by companies such as Adobe and Microsoft, and the software is used in everything from consumer electronics, PCs, kiosks and automotive entertainment systems, to music download services.

$200 Million is no Wii Budget!

Sorry for the blatant Scottish Pun, but Nintendo have announced their advertising budget for the next year as $200 million for the Wii alone, a massive 20% larger budget than they spent on the Gamecube.

They will also produce adverts portraying grandparents playing the wii with their grandchildren.

The console war continues...

Wii have Locked down Wikipedia! and other Consoles!

Web encyclopedia Wikipedia--which allows anyone to write or edit its entries--has locked down its pages relating to Sony and Nintendo's next-generation consoles after continued vandalism.

A series of less-than-impartial edits over the last few weeks has led to the temporary lockdown to "protect" the entries, in the hope that the virtual vandals will lose interest by the time the pages are reopened to changes.

Users have been hijacking the site's entries to add what Wikipedia refers to as "funny" edits. Top of the list is the Nintendo Wii--a name that pranksters seem to find especially entertaining.

Last week the complete Nintendo company page was replaced with the phrase "Nintendo Sucks!!!!!!!!!" briefly before the Web site reloaded the original entry. Previous vandalism efforts include someone doodling on a Hitler moustache and horns on the photograph for the entry for Bill Gates, and the sentence "Microsoft is Zomg T3h Suck0r!!!!!!" briefly replacing the computer software company's page. via: Gamespot

Marvel: Ultimate Alliance Wii Controls

GameDaily has graded the consoles so you don't have to

Consoles have been graded on their games, price and future products.

DS: A
Xbox 360: A
Wii: A-
PS2: B+
PS3: B+
PSP: B
GameCube: C
Xbox: D

Thanks to GameDaily

Nintendo Wii on South Park

Nintendo Wii's become the latest videogame-related thing to feature in an episode of South Park.

In one of the latest in the current run of series ten shows, Cartman ends up trying to freeze himself in ice to bypass the three weeks that remain before the console's American launch.

The episode begins with him waiting outside a shop with giant Wii posters hung around, pacing impatiently. "It's like waiting for Christmas... times a thousand," he tells his Mum. Don't worry - it's actually quite funny.

Thanks to Eurogamer