The Wii is Here.

[Squeek]

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I wouldn't be able to play it anyway. Wii is boxed up and will soon be on its way to Washington.

Bad timing on my part though.

Edit: Since I know Afro's tastes: http://kotaku.com/gaming/spiderman-3...ler-254713.php

[Afrombean]

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... also known as $45 which I told you Amazon had.

But you paid tax. And there was gasoline to get there, which is way expensive these days.

I got it cheaper. I win.

Um...

I got mine now. You don't have yours now. I paid 2.70$ more than you and I got 3$ in gas money from my mom to drive my little sister up to the mall. So let's see here... 30 cents. Is 30 cents enough to cover about 7 miles total? Who cares? I HAVE IT NOW MWAHAHAHA.

[Squeek]

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ps it was 50$ but I got 10% off owned

... also known as $45 which I told you Amazon had.

But you paid tax. And there was gasoline to get there, which is way expensive these days.

I got it cheaper. I win.

Anyway, USPS says it's going to take a week to get here. The place it left from is half an hour away from here.

It's kinda like when ThinkGeek sends shirts with a week-long delivery estimate when I can literally walk to their warehouse from my campus.

ps - I'll bet you anything my wiimotes are coming back with the new straps on them.

[Afrobean]

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Game play seems pretty good. A little slow moving at the beginning, but I think I'm through that long ass cut scene bull****.

Only thing I have to say: invisible doors are gay. I was walking around that town going "wtf where do I get a hand pixl" before I was like "hey wait let's go down to the place and check if there's a invisible door" and there was.

ps it was 50$ but I got 10% off owned

[nforcer06164]

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Afro, I can survive. My brother snapped one of his, though. Got angry and slammed it or something.

[Squeek]

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Kinda sad because I waited so long to get SPM and now I won't get to play it until my Wii comes back.

Oh well, the same package has both Katamaris in it. I'm sure I can hold out.

[Afrobean]

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nforcer: who cares about straps

Not even necessary. If you can't play the game without losing the grip on the remote, you probably shouldn't even be playing the game in the first place.

ps I just bought Super Paper Mario but instead of playing it I decided to come post about it first 8)

[nforcer06164]

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Prime is not first-party though. It's made by Retro Studios, which only has a contract with Nintendo to produce Metroid games. It's not Nintendo making the game.

Even if it's not directly made by Nintendo, if the company has exclusive ties to the hardware manufacturer, then it counts as a Nintendo game.

Retro Studios is an American video game developer based in Austin, Texas, USA. It was founded in 1998 by Jeff Spangenberg as a second-party developer to Japan-based video game company Nintendo. It is currently wholly owned by Nintendo (and is thus a first-party developer, rather than a second-party one as it once was), with over 50 employees.

So, Nintendo would be restricting itself from using online multiplayer? Kinda odd, don't you think?

There's no need to mince terminology on his statements, Squeek. I've heard the announcements regarding Nintendo's policy about 3rd party online multiplayer, and I could gather from his post that that was what he was talking about.

Aside from that, I've said before that Nintendo's customer support is fantastic. They talk to you like a person instead of with an automated, "Sure, I can help you with that" type of tone. Whenever I have to call Nintendo up, the rep and I frequently get a laugh or two and exchange a few casual words. It's like having a conversation with a friend. Glad you got to experience it first-hand.


On a different note, did anybody try contacting Nintendo for new Wii wrist straps? I've tried both the online form and the phone number, and I have yet to get my straps, much less even get a shipping confirmation.

[Squeek]

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Called.

He originally said I'd have to call Konami about Elebits since it wasn't their game, but a few minutes into the phone call and a description of other problems basically got that out of the way. I described the symptoms with Sports freezing once or twice and WarioWare taking ages to load sometimes.

I didn't want to bring up the repair procedure but that's where I wanted the conversation to end up. Thankfully, it did. While he was writing a few things, I mentioned the controller problems I've been having (one controller has a loose "B" button and the other shakes really violently when rumbling sometimes) and he said normally we have to handle that separately, but he'd go ahead and combine it all.

Their customer service really is awesome. I doubt they follow most customer service "follow the book and never stray from it!!!!111" procedures, since it seemed he was on the ball with things from the get-go and never asked the pointless questions most cable companies tend to ask.

[SethSquall]

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Good luck dude.

Don't know if you need luck but I thought I should of wished it anyway.

[Squeek]

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Prime is not first-party though. It's made by Retro Studios, which only has a contract with Nintendo to produce Metroid games. It's not Nintendo making the game. Nowhere in his post did he say "# party titles". He just said Nintendo is restricting companies from using online capabilities. Retro is a company and they are not being restricted. There ya go.

And he didn't specify what "online functionality" means. If it means competing with Xbox Live, then it's pretty obvious that's not ready yet. However, Elebits is a third party title and there's nothing preventing them from utilizing online capabilities in-game. Therefore, there's no restriction.

I think maybe what happened is what you laid out though. They might have said "chill out for a bit until we work things out with GameSpy."

In other news, I'm just about to call Nintendo regarding my borked console.

[SethSquall]

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I can't wait untill super smash bros brawl is out,
but i wish Nintendo didn't make as many kiddie games as they do. They need more Non-Kiddie games.

The kiddie games are on every console but you only notice them on the Nintendo. Funny that.

[nforcer06164]

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So supposably, according to what I read in GameInformer, Nintendo is restricting companies from adding online functioinality to there Wii games until after 2007. So as of now there is only one title announced, which is Pokemon Battle Revolution.

Any ideas why?

Because people like spreading lies.

Elebits has had online capabilities since its release. Metroid Prime and Brawl are confirmed to have online interaction and they are coming out this year.

For one, the announcement was for online multiplayer, not online functionality. And that is true. No direct multiplayer peer connections.

I can't believe you missed what he was saying with your post, Squeek. Metroid Prime and Brawl are both Nintendo games. First and second party titles. Nintendo hasn't provided the tools to create online multiplayers to third party developers yet, or if they have, it's been very recently.

Though I have no idea why it is, I would guess that the reason is so Gamespy can prepare their servers for the massive load that they're going to undertake when multiplayer games are released. Remember that Gamespy is handling the tracking and service for online multiplayer and statistics, and that the Wii greatly oversold Nintendo's expectations. I'd rather have late stable multiplayer than shotty multiplayer with dropped games and poor bookkeeping. Nintendo had trouble with that when they launched WFC for DS.

[Squeek]

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Because people like spreading lies.

Elebits has had online capabilities since its release. Metroid Prime and Brawl are confirmed to have online interaction and they are coming out this year.

[ndthatsme]

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So supposably, according to what I read in GameInformer, Nintendo is restricting companies from adding online functioinality to there Wii games until after 2007. So as of now there is only one title announced, which is Pokemon Battle Revolution.

Any ideas why?