"With just 39 shopping days left until Christmas many have been frustrated to find that they are unable to get hold of a Nintendo Wii. Shoppers in the UK are left reeling at the thought that they won't be able to get a console this side of Christmas.
Shops are trying their hardest to get more stock ahead of the Christmas rush but it seems the Wii manufacturers didn't account for such a huge demand". -Huliq
Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.
they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.
Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted
Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.
Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.
lol. Thank god I have my systems.
Speaking of this matter of shortages. Maybe i'll get another wii and sell it for triple the price or more. MAN! Let me go snatch one up during that amazon special ;o
Nintendo's Wii shortage is ridiculous they should just make more systems
the other systems wish they had that problem
How is it that Nintendo managed to overproduce cutting edge technology like the gamecube (for its time), and yet they can't manage to make enough junk like the Wii? It's last gen, it shouldn't be that hard. Hell, if Sony and even Microsoft were that inefficient, they wouldn't have reached a million consoles each, considering how cutting edge those two are. That's assuming of course that Nintendo is not doing it on purpose and that they're idiots, which I doubt. It's more likely that they want people to think that the Wii is actually sold out given that it's in high demand. OR, maybe Wii's would become more expensive if Nintendo had to make another Wii plant to produce them and that's why they prefer the current level of offer-demand ratio; which is kind of wrong if people want to enjoy it (whatever there is to enjoy from that gimmick) since Nintendo could make more, and it's their job, but they just don't give a sh1t.
Come on people the wii is really just a gamecube with a cool controller...its not even worth $250! You get no DVD or HD playback, and it has last gen sound and graphics...there is not even a digital optical out port! No HDMI, the best video out is component cables...The graphics are at gamecube level and there is no harddrive to save downloadable content to. The best games are Mario Galaxy and Metroid Prime 3 and wii sports, oh and that old ass Zelda game that game out last year...
Why are people still fighting to get this console?
Well at least it has wifi, something the Xbox 360 does not have...