Posted by fatius at November 22nd, 2006

The What?
I got my Wii on launch day, because I’m a nerd, a nerd who pre-orders. I love it! First up, I’m going to show you some of the stuff I love about the system, then I’ll get into what I’m not so rosy about.

The Good

1) Miis! Ok, these things are pretty silly. You can make tiny little people that look like you, or Hitler, it doesn’t really matter. So naturally, me and the lady made some of them. Here’s our Mii self portrait.
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b) No mention of the wii would be complete without a picture of its controller.
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iii) The Wii has this whole virtual console thing which allows you to (buy and) download games for systems that your parents were too mean to buy for you. This is nothing new, the xbox can also help you make up for a childhood ruined by scrooge. However, the download screen simply can’t be beaten.

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*) This isn’t one of my favorite games, but it’s a nice photo. The game is Rayman something something. It contains activities such as squirting (rabbid) rabbits with carrot juice. It’s a lot of fun.

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Lastly) Do you know who this is?

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The Ugly
So what isn’t the best of all time? A small number problems are stopping this from being the best launch ever.

1) They have this whole virtual console thing but there simply weren’t many good games at launch. This is Nintendo and they didn’t have Super Mario Bros. Nothing defines Nintendo like that game. Not “Mario Bros.” Not “Super Mario 64.” They needed “Super Mario Bros.” (the one that came with the original Nintendo available on day one. I’m sure many people have this in other forms, but it needs to be here. It isn’t all bad though; a day or so after launch they put up some Turbo Graphix 16 games. I got Bonk’s Adventure which seems amazing. I’m sure that “Super Mario Bros.” will be out real soon now.

2) At launch you could not buy component cables in stores. You could buy them online, but even those sold out. I called up Nintendo World Store in NYC and they said that the official cables weren’t out yet and that I should try Best Buy for third party cables. I just can’t wrap my head around them not having those at launch at the NWS. You’d think they would. So many of the words in the name of the store would lead me to believe I could buy these sorts of products at that establishment… Nintendo. World. Store. But nope, try best buy. (Best Buy doesn’t have them, at least not around here).
3) Online Games. They should have launched with at least one online game. The DS should have as well, but that is another story. I don’t think it’s a bad sign that they didn’t launch with one (again, look at the DS), but it would have been awesome.

Anyways

The Lady is asleep, so I’m going to go work on one of my games. Playing games beats writing about them. Writing games beats playing them.