AndrewTS

No Wii for me. Wal-mart was doing the raffle thing and I lost. My Target is getting a lousy damn 24 Wiis. It looks like I'm screwed for a while. And already these Ebay pricks are selling the systems at inflated prices (although a *mere* 500-600). http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?f...amp;satitle=wii People suck.

Wal-Mart is making them available at midnight. CC and Target aren't, as far as I know. Wal-Mart also seems to be getting the larger supplies.

Motorstorm. I wouldn't say photorealistic. It still looks like a video game. Just a very pretty one. It definitely was--all of the PS3 stuff is being shown on HDTVs, just like the 360 displays. Problem is, not many folks who will be getting a PS3 are going to see graphics anything like that in their own homes.

Only 10%? Some folks must be holding back.

It wouldnt really need to be organic considering its based on the Simpsons for crying out loud. I know that, no need to be a smartass about it. On a related note, the Angry Nintendo Nerd rants on the Power Glove--which is kind of like an embarrassing older relative of the Wii Remote that Nintendo doesn't like to talk about: http://www.screwattack.com/Flash%20HTML/AN...love/Power.html (Bad language and stuff, NSFW) Nice to see the Wii cheered up the emo kid, at least for a bit.

Nor do I think the world in it was as complex and organic, either.

I'm talking more expansive than that, like Oblivion. Also, did you notice that GC never got a GTA? The GC has really anemic onboard RAM, which is usually considered at least a valid technical reason it never got one. Wii will improve on that by quite a bit, though. That's not to say it was the only reason. The GC did get a similar style of game in the form of that Simpson's GTA ripoff, but I'm not sure how exactly it was handled. Ultimately programming is going to have a lot of to do with it, true. By the same token, work on the PS3 and 360 are going to get better, too. The aim isn't to have the Wii library match up title for title with the other consoles, though. Rather, it is to have a strong lineup of exclusive titles that can't be done on other machines.

Well, "gameplay > graphics" is a bit too simplistic of an argument. The Wii doesn't seem to have the onboard power that is going to give you mega-huge worlds without them needing to be broken up into smaller sections. Also, it can't have advanced AI for great numbers of characters at the same time. The Wii, as far as we know, *can not possibly run* Assassin's Creed. Power is about more than just visuals. And the Gamecube controller is pretty lousy for traditional fighters, and the d-pad should be larger, but otherwise it's a fine controller. Albeit it is kind of silly looking. Better than both original xbox controllers IMO, and the overall feel is better than the Dual Shocks. The GC controller just feels molded around your hands, while you have to contort your hands into uncomfortable positions to wield both of the Shock's analog sticks, which you end up doing in virtually every 3D game.

No, that comment is from the PS3 thread, where he said that screenshot of the NBA game (with the guys' bodies merged together) looked like Xbox1 level graphics. It is better than that, although not terribly much.

I do. He's flat out wrong.

I got the call too, which makes no sense, because the hard street date is the 19th. Zelda and excite truck are basically the only titles you can't buy right now. I'll call up tomorrow and check if I can buy it, though.

Gamespot is literally the only major place complaining about the controls. I wouldn't put any stock at all in that reviewer's opinion. Even That Joystiq Douchebag Who Was Fired, who hated on the Wii bigtime, is a believer now and loves Twlight Princess despite not really being into the older games at all. "Fanboy's on all the various Zelda/Wii messageboards are going to berserk extremes right now, which is extremely entertaining, even if I can sympathize with their opinions." It's the internets' job to be retarded. Game Informer gave Elite Beat Agents 6.5. Some publications/reviewers just do not deserve to be paid attention to.

Yeah--you don't really know what you're talking about.

Why would I need the joystiq then? Are not all games compatible with the motion sensor, or are they just giving people an option to not use the new interaction style? More complicated games will use the nunchuck attachment as well as the Wiimote. Zelda and Red Steel use the nunchuck, because the control stick on the nunchuck is used for regular movement. Also, many games will support the Gamecube controller as well.

Joystiq is also reporting buggy HDMI functionality, and we already know about the problems with 1080i resolution being downscaled. Another Sony launch, another shitty-designed product not ready for prime time.

The GC is quite smashable; there was a Youtube vid (I think posted here) where a guy switched out his little brother's Gamecube with a broken one, then shortly afterwards smashed to bits but throwing it on a paved driveway and stomping on it. After the kid cried he told him it wasn't really his GC. The Wii appears to be more fragile than the cube; of course, you'd think the DS is more fragile than it actually is, but it stands up to punishment well.

Nope, they still have to wait outside, and usually Mall Security will escort or have checkpoints to the EB or Gamestop location. Um, what are you talking about? There are no EB/Gamestop lines. They took the peoples' preorders, and the the folks who preordered picked them up/will pick them up at their convenience, except for the ones whose preorders weren't able to be filled because of supply cuts.

The 2nd top selling Japanese PS3 game....! Sucks! http://www.1up.com/do/reviewPage?cId=3155336 HARD! Bandai fails to even live up to their current pathetic standards of game quality.

OMG Super Princess Peach is SEXIST! http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/mario/peach-e...size-215447.php

I'm considering the early Sunday morning thing, too. Really, only Wal-mart is doing the midnight thing near me, and they'll be pounced upon by other folks. I'm probably going to hit up Target or Sears. Oh--Red Steel got a varitalk, so you can have the sensei make a wiseass call to your friends: http://redsteel.varitalk.com/

After seeing all this ugliness first hand, I'd have to say the human race is not only officially retarded, but also I'd like to declare myself as disowning said species. I look forward to our benevolent otter overlords making some changes. If Sony could pull another shipment out of their ass, they should sell 20 gigs for $900 bucks and 60s for $1000. There are clearly idiots willing to pay, and they could advertise it as a conscious, temporary effort to do away with ebay scalping. If you keep the console for 90 days then you're eligible for a partial refund of the rest of the collateral. You'd have to access the Playstation Store with the console to get it.

1up's review for the game is in. It's good; VERY good. http://www.1up.com/do/reviewPage?cId=3155329 Know your Links

And this headed up by Ronald McDonald.

Almost nobody is going to get $2200. And now for something completely different, a reason to actually want to keep a PS3-- http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2006/10/02/fans-o...-third-is-born/ Zone of the Enders 3! Kojima is talking about it on his blog, if you can read Japanese: http://www.blog.konami.jp/gs/kojiprog/2005...000429.php#more Ef Metal Gear Solid 4.

The Ecco games have a...leisurely pace to be sure. The first two games are pretty much universally acclaimed by reviewers but I don't know of people too excited about them. There isn't really a Sega collection like that. The closest is Sega Classics Collection, which features remakes of most of those titles with 3D graphics. The problem is that most of them are considered poor to terrible (Golden Ax being the worst). The Space Harrier is supposed to be "okay," and there is no Afterburner to be found on it. DS is getting a compilation from Konami...which is similar to the crummy GBA compilation they had out before, but with Contra in it: http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3155312