Yup. My Wii is bought and paid for. Canadian retailer Zellers started "Pre-Selling" the Wii on Saturday, Sept. 30. The catch is that you have to buy 2 games with the system, Rayman Raving Rabbids & Excite Truck. We were planning to get Rayman anyways because it looks like the most polished of the launch games, and my wife likes pretty colours :P

Excite Truck not so much, It looks like the trucks are very "floaty" and imprecise to steer to me. I may end up trading that one in on day one or two for an extra Wii remote. Ended up cancelling my software pre-orders at Futureshop too.

The Zellers (Target in the USA) I went to only had 10 cupons for Pre-Sells. It's a pretty big store, so I assume that number will be an average chain wide. We actually took out a store credit card to buy it, so we can take a few months to pay it off too, plus we got bonus "rewards points".

Anyway, yeah, My household has a Wii, and I'll be playing it by 11:00 AM on November 19.

Logging countless hours on Disgaea 2 still. That game is totally consuming my play time. Even the stunningly beautiful Okami is on hold.

Mario VS. DK 2 & Rocket Slime are both great DS titles to check out, but again, I haven't given them much time.

Did have a chance to check out Valkyrie Profile 2 the other day, and can't say that I was very impressed. The battle system is way too simplistic for me. I'm not sure why GameSpot's review said it was hard either. I had no troubles getting through the first 8 hours at all. it's a very nice looking game, but it seems very limited too. Something about it just isn't sitting right with me. I'm actually going to trade it in towards the new Tales of _ game coming out next week.

It's getting pretty darn cold where I live, so it's a perfect chance to curl up with my wife and some good games and DVDs.

Down side is that it really affects my Cerebral Palsy making my left side extremely stiff. Lots of tea, hot chocolate and chili helps with that though :)