The Wii Launches in Japan 80
The Wii has launched in Japan, successfully and without many of the incidents associated with the PlayStation 3 launch. Joystiq's coverage of the Wii's painless Nippon birth has nothing but praise for the crowd control efforts of electronics outlets. The talk is entirely of sellouts and happy gamers. From the article: "Numerous methods of retail were used to launch the Wii, and these varied from store to store. Yodobashi kept its customers camped overnight in a parking lot, distributing numbered tickets to determine the order of entrance, before opening its doors at 7am. Bic Camera also opened at 7am, although most of the 650 people in line there didn't arrive until the first trains of the morning began to run at around 5am. Famitsu reports that the Tokyo Ikebukuro branch of Bic Camera sold out if its allocation of 1,200 units, while the Tokyo Yuuraku-cho arm of Bic Camera declared the console "sold out" at 5.41am when the 1,500th person arrived in the queue there." Kotaku has even more extensive coverage, with plenty of photos of the waiting lines.
Re:wow (Score:3, Interesting)
Didn't stop it from selling out a day before, though.
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Bullshit (Score:1, Interesting)
SO I get my Wii, take it home and have been playing it since. It's an awesome system, but it can't tell when I'm putting a disk in it, so I have to shove it all the way in, then turn it on for it to suck it in. Then, when it spits one out, it comes ALL THE WAY OUT. I have to stand there to catch it. Then there's the fact that if the game doesn't have a "sync" function in it for the controllers, I'm fucked for getting more than one controller in the game. I tried all the things it says online and in the instruction manuals (both the Japanese and English ones (the Jap manual is scarce on tech support)). I guess I gotta work through Nintendo of Japan to get this shit taken care of. Pain in my ass, but that's what I get for getting a launch console.
BTW, Made in Wario rocks, as well as elebits. Zelda is so-so, and the sports/wiiplay are also a lot of fun. I just wish Wario had a sync function in game. Remotes changing hands isn't a huge deal, but I've got 3, so why should I have to worry about it?