I know how alot of people are upset about the $250.00 price tag. Which is..understandable...and not understandable all at the same time. Me personally, im fine with it. Look at your other options...360? $400. haha or a PS3? Your first born or $600.00. So when doing the math there $250.00 for in my opinion the best system of the 3 doesnt bother me. Youve also got to figure that the Wii comes packed with Wii Sports which is reason one why its at $250. Not to mention your getting $60.00 worth of controller peripherals. Honestly big o' Reggie could have priced this thing at $400 and Id have no problem paying for it.
And now were looking at a tentative, 25 games at launch. And over 30 by years end. The figure of 25 games is reason alone for excitment. And I cant point my finger at one bad title in the lineup.
Im an employee in the video game industry so i was fortunate enough to visit LA this past May for E3 (the last and greatest btw). Where i was able to get my paws on the Wii. And I gotta say how well the controller handles movements and incorporates your every action into gameplay. I had the chance to play Metroid 3, Wario Ware: Smooth Moves, and a few of the Wii Sports titles. All of which were an amazing experience to play. I feel as if noone will be let down by this system upon its final release this November 19th.
Which brings me to my next point...the release. Nintendo is deciding to release its new machine two days after Sony's problem riddled PS3. Now I see no problems with this, other than long lines at my local Gamestop. Its going to be interesting to compare final numbers of sales the two companies receive. Nintendo promising an average of 2 million consoles at launch with 4 million consoles ready by years end. PS3 is having 500,000 worldwide! on the 17th. YIKES. Not only will noone be able to afford that thing...but how are you going to find one? Talk about a scarce product.
From all the footage ive seen from editors from all sorts of different game sites and blogs, everyone has seemingly been very pleased with the turnout of the press event, and the games on display. I want Zelda oh so bad... . .
My games of choice to pick up as soon as their released are as said above, Zelda by far.
Gotta have that first day! Others that im dying to get ahold of would definitly be Red Steel (hopefully they'll work out those controller bugs)
, Metroid Prime 3
and Batallion Wars. Batallion Wars on the GC was too much fun to put down!
All in all im totally pumped for the release of this system, now all im waitin for is the freakin stores to start allowing reserves. Gamestop needs to hurry they asses up!
-MC543