There’s a good episode of Murder She Wrote on, with the ginger woman out of Sex In The City in, from when she was young and not ginger. My cats are spark out on the sofa, it looks like they had a busy night. It’s quite windy outside, although no tornadoes in sight. And I’ve just had a tasty home-made cheese sandwich.
More importantly, MY WII HAS NOT ARRIVED. Which means you could be in store for more of the above, if I’m going to hit my target of liveblogging posts today. Bah. People keep slamming car doors outside and NOT being Parcelforce vans when I run to the window, too.
Have any WiiWii readers snagged a console on Amazon in the last ten minutes? Did anyone camp out at midnight last night to get one on the high street? Let us know by posting a comment! Otherwise I’m going to have to post a video review of my new vacuum cleaner, and nobody wants that…
Yes, it may be December the 8th, aka The Day The Wii Dropped In The UK, but we actually only got our asses into gear and tested the shiny new white toy for the first time two days ago! Forgive us for being lazy, but hey, at least there’s some video footage, where you can see Katie Lee of Shiny Shiny fame interviewing Gemma ‘Catwalk Queen’ Cartwright, and myself, Katherine ‘WiiWii’ Hannaford having a bash at tennis. Please don’t take the mickey out of our backhands, for the love of Wii!
This just in. Amazon UK has a new batch of Wii consoles, and will be selling them between 3pm and 4pm today. “Last time we sold out in 7 minutes, and we expect this batch to go even more quickly,” says the site’s email. Credit cards at the ready…
I’m getting quite impatient waiting for my console to arrive this morning, but at least my internal organs are still in one piece. You have to feel for the Swedish chap whose appendix burst while he was waiting in line outside a game shop to get his Wii.
Thankfully, store staff had been playing Trauma Center: Second Opinion, and knew exactly what to do…. oh, alright, he was carted off to a proper hospital for some medical care, before being allowed back into the queue in his original position.
Heartwarming, innit. Not heart-bursting, though. Thankfully.
Part of the downside of working from home is that you have to* sit through BBC Breakfast’s incessant plugging of Strictly Come Dancing. Seriously, it’s grim. There is a world of news out there, yet every single morning it seems they have 10 chummy minutes on the sofa to plug the ballroom-dancing reality show. Grr.
Anyway, this morning they had Mark Ramprakash, his dancing partner, and judge Arlene in the studio. And since the Beeb also has a Wii this morning, they got Arlene to play Wii Sports Tennis. And she was rubbish. Really rubbish. I thought I should share this with the world. If I had Strictly-style mark cards, she’d get a 2.
Meanwhile, I’m sitting here waiting for a friendly Parcelforce van to arrive with my console. I know it left the North Essex depot at 5.36am this morning. COME ON! Obviously, I’ll be posting throughout the day, although I’ll spare you the ‘ooh, here’s a photo of the Wii in its box’ stuff. The US blogs all did that.
*yeah, I know I could change channel. But GMTV? Hmm…
At least, that’s the message from Nintendo Sweden, which let slip that European Wii owners will be able to browse the Web from their console from December 23rd, when the Opera Web Browser will be made available in the Wii Shop.
I can’t say I’ll spend Christmas morning lurking on websites rather than cracking through Twilight Princess, but it’s good to hear we’ll be getting the browser this year. Of course, hopefully it will be free too, as promised.
Smashing your swanky plasma telly with a flying Wii-mote isn’t the best thing in the world. Nevertheless, that’s what’s reportedly been happening around the world (well, with tellies, not necessarily just plasmas), as over-excitable Wii owners accidentally fling their Wii-motes at the screen, when the strap slips.
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has addressed the problem, saying that the company is investigating. “Some people are getting a lot more excited than we’d expected,” he said. “We need to better communicate to people how to deal with Wii as a new form of entertainment.”
I only realised this yesterday when smugly explaining to a friend that I’ve got an extra Wii-mote coming with Wii Play tomorrow. “But did you remember to order an extra nunchuk too?” they asked. I looked a bit shocked. You mean you don’t get one of those with Wii Play too? “No.”
Bugger. So if you’re an eejit like me, you might want to pop down to Woolies or Argos tomorrow and grab one. As long as it’s after me, obviously.
Ho, ho, ho boys and girls. Santa has just rocked up and he has brought with him a very big sack of Boys Stuff and Codemasters goodies. And one of many prizes (we’ll give you full details tomorrow) could be yours if you take a minute or two and fill in our Xmas survey.There’s nothing too taxing. Just let us know if it is Wii or PS3? Nokia or Motorola? Sky or Blu-ray? etc etc and your name goes in the hat. Ten lucky people will be getting lovely Boys Stuff freebies.
Our pals at Codemasters have also added a Sony PSP and five copies of the upcoming gamjes for the PSP - Bliss Island.
Bliss Island is a fantastic collection of games for both single and multi players. Users must learn to master certain basic tasks which then enable them to complete a range challenges. It is really addictive stuff
After Japan’s Wii launch on the weekend, figures have come in, showing that individually-sold (hah!) Wii Sports was the most popular, then Wii Play, with Twilight Princess coming third, selling a measly 145,068 units. (Via Kotaku)
Reggie loses a tad of his hero status by admitting Ninty are not concerned about the Wii-mote’s high battery usage, oh no, he’s more antsy about the low sales for Elite Beat Agents. (Via MTV)
Turns out it’s not just incompetent Yanks letting their Wii-motes fly off their wrists, the Japanese are also having trouble holding onto their all important controllers. Check here for a short-term fix. (Via Flickr)
As Reggie is the man of the moment, he’s exerting all his powers to try to get ahold of Goldeneye for the Wii Virtual Console. Considering the game is from Rare, now owned by Microsoft, we don’t think he should hold his breath for too long. (Via Nintendic)
Uh oh, someone’s been spending too much time in their basement, a GameCube homebrew has been created for the Wii. Time to literally break out the brews, and settle in for a long session of Super Mario Sunshine. (Via NintendoWiiFanBoy)
I’m getting quite impatient waiting for my console to arrive this morning, but at least my internal organs are still in one piece. You have to feel for the Swedish chap whose appendix burst while he was waiting in line outside a game shop to get his Wii.
Part of the downside of working from home is that you have to* sit through BBC Breakfast’s incessant plugging of Strictly Come Dancing. Seriously, it’s grim. There is a world of news out there, yet every single morning it seems they have 10 chummy minutes on the sofa to plug the ballroom-dancing reality show. Grr.
Smashing your swanky plasma telly with a flying Wii-mote isn’t the best thing in the world. Nevertheless, that’s what’s reportedly been happening around the world (well, with tellies, not necessarily just plasmas), as over-excitable Wii owners accidentally fling their Wii-motes at the screen, when the strap slips.
Ho, ho, ho boys and girls. Santa has just rocked up and he has brought with him a very big sack of 
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