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How to Take a Name

Reggie Fils-Aime is the President of Nintendo of America.  Phil Harrison does something with the PlayStation 3 for Sony (i.e. I don’t know his position).  They were both at the Game Developer’s Conference this week.  Click below for a look at how executives roll and a lesson in taking someone to the mat.

Infendo - Nintendo Blogging: GDC: Fils-Aime owns Harrison

WTF?

One of the best games ever created was just released on the Nintendo Virtual Console for download on the Wii, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Who got it first?

Europe.

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Here’s hoping this means the US will see this in the queue on Monday.

UPDATE: Looks like Monday will be the day I get this game.

A Wii Business Question

An article over at Joystiq begs the question: is it better to wait until Christmas to release “killer app” games for a video game system to boost holiday sales but lose interest in the until then?  Or do you release your best games as they are completed in order to satisfy your customer base and early adopters, but maybe not get as big a kick in the Q4 profit margin?

I vote for keeping the customer base happy, but I’m an earlier adopter than most of the people I know (or one of the only adopters when it comes to some video games).

What do you think?

Full House meets Wii Sports

Dissing PS3

Someone has a good sense of irony.

Triforce Found!

In honor of the Wii release tonight at midnight at locations across the US, here’s a nice picture from MIT.

Ten hours to go from this post. Church will be interesting tomorrow, depending on how much sleep I end up getting tonight (And yes, I’m going to church tomorrow. I’m not that hardcore.)

800 in line, 790 disappointed*

The PlayStation 3 will be released upon us poor Americans in about 30 minutes. A couple of folks got in line in San Francisco to get their system. $500 or $600 (no game included) later for the first few and the rest will go home without the prize.

Is it worth it? The system I’m getting is $250, with a game, and they made enough of the things that I don’t have to wait in line for more than an hour (and that hour will be mostly meet and greet/nerd observation time and buying an extra controller). Is that worth it?

I’m Getting a Wii!!!

First off, stop laughing. I know that post title sounds plain wrong.

Second, on the same day that Gamestop announced that it wouldn’t be getting enough PlayStation 3 systems to fulfill all pre-orders this coming Friday, my phone rang to let me know that my Zune will be available tomorrow (11/14) at GameStop. This was, of course, a mistake. When I pre-ordered my Nintendo Wii, it hadn’t been updated in the computer system yet. So we all reserved Zunes that were later transferred to be Wii’s. The result was that GameStop corporate though I reserved both of them (hence the errant phone call today).

Upon calling my local GameStop to learn all of this, I also learned that they will be receiving enough Nintendo Wii systems to cover every pre-order they made. This isn’t entirely surprising, but nice to have confirmation of. It also sounded like they’d only have enough to cover pre-orders, but time will tell.

This is also a blow to Sony. Having a stellar product means nothing if you can’t even begin to meet demand. Also given that both Sony and Microsoft are selling their systems at a loss (a common practice with video game systems where the system costs more to build than you pay at retail), they are behind Nintendo a fair bit. Nintendo will make a profit on each Wii they sell thanks to not going for the bleeding edge of technology today while still delivering a good gaming experience.

That said, I’m freaking excited about this coming Saturday. I’m set to have a good day, a good night, and a good Sunday going to church, rehearsing for the Feast of Lights, and getting my grubby hands into Zelda.

For those interested, here is a video that really takes the ticket for “Geek Porn” that I described earlier. Complete with 70’s music dubbed in. And for the folks wondering what the deal with Zelda is, 1up is doing a week-long feature with a new article every day.

Maggot Eating Dog

This is the first commercial I’ve seen for a game on Nintendo’s Wii, let alone a commercial for the Wii itself. What’s more is that I saw it on the web first. How times have changed.

It’s a decent commercial, though probably geared towards a slightly different audience than the game advertised (which I may rent, but doubt I’ll buy unless it really blows me away).

For some perspective, here’s an article about the lines in Japan to pre-order the Wii.  Mind you, this is the line to  put money down to get a slip of paper that says you can come back when it’s released (12/2 in Japan, I think) and pick up the real deal after paying the rest of the price.  The only other time I know people to line up like this is for a movie, and you usually get to see that when you exit the line instead of getting  a pass to come back and see it another day.  I waited in line for a slip of paper a few weeks ago myself, but this line is off the hook, as the kids say these days.