In the gaming world this year has been an exciting one. While the Xbox 360 came out last year, Microsoft has never been one to truly impress in the game world (at least not by my standards). However, this year brought the two best systems out to pasture. The Playstation 3 and the Nintendo Wii were released in November, within days of one another.
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Projections have stated that Microsoft is in the lead this Christmas with sales in top place. Why you ask? Well because people can find those hunks of junks on the shelves. The Wii has ranked in second place and the Playstation coming in at a disappointing third, which is probably just there because it is so damn expensive.
If you are like me and many other people you have been waiting for the Wii to come out. The idea of playing Duck Hunt on a HDTV big screen makes me giddy. Unfortunately though, when I trotted into Best Buy confidently to pick up my Wii on the 20th of November I was told they sold out. I went to Circuit City (which I hate thanks to last year’s laptop fiasco), Kmart, Walmart, Sears, Game Stop, and Target. All of them had sold out. It was depressing. I wasn’t going to get my Wii. Of course, I didn’t only want it for me. I wanted it for Dom, too. Honestly, I did.
Well, if you were like me, and you missed out on your Wii, there is good news on the horizon. According to the Nintendo of America President, Reggie Fils-Aime there will be at least four million more consoles coming out before the end of the year. Not only that, but he is expecting the possibility of exceeding this goal and having more than 4 million on the shelves. He wouldn’t say how many more, but I am not greedy. I only want one.
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In the first days of the launch of Wii, 600,000 consoles were sold along with 500,000 copies of Legend of Zelda’s Twilight Princess. This puts sales for Nintendo at about $190 million thus far, with many more to be sold if those extra Wii’s hit the shelves as planned.
So, will you be getting a Wii this Christmas, or will you be missing out on the most exciting game system of the century? Only you can decide.
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Ashtyn Evans is a writer, advocate, free thinker, and all around cynical person. Always quick to find the negative in anything pop culture, she loves being a part of that which she despises.
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I hate Nintendo with a passion as childish as their games..heh. The Wii that I played had very poor control response.
As for the X-box bashing…I’ve owned pretty much every console since the Atari days and the X-box ended up providing me with loads more entertainemnt than the PS2(which seemed to go for quantity of games over quality) X-Box online is a lot better than Playstation.
I have an X-box 360 and it is slightly disappointing but enjoyable, however I wouldn’t be able to compare it to a PS3 yet…by word of technical mouth I am thinking the PS3 will have advantages.
I wish Sega had not quit making machines with the DREAMCAST.