It was similar here. I've been looking for one for a while now, but never got to the store timely enough. I got there maybe 30 minutes before the store was opening, and I was #15 of the 21 tickets they were giving out. About 10 minutes before the store opened, the last ticket was gone. There were probably 30 or so people in line. As crazy as people were getting, you'd think it was launch day or something. People were literally running to get in line despite the fact having a ticket guaranteed you a system until 11am. It was slightly surprising to actually see the interest rather than hear about it from other people.

Ah well... It took me 5 months, but I was finally in the right place at the right time. And I'm totally loving Super Paper Mario. :)

Interesting.... I just got my EGM magazine a few days ago, and in the rumor section they mentioned something about Samba de Amigo possibly being announced for the Wii in the near future, in so many words.

The game would be perfect for the Wii. Then again, so would Space Channel 5.

Here I go again: http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?t=38689

"But what we have seen are substantially more fillrate-burning effects like motion blur, depth of field, light bloom, and various transparency effects that make use of indirect texturing, more than we'd expect from a 50% overclock... The big mystery in all this is what the extra transistors in Hollywood are for. Flipper was 106 mm^2 on a 180 nm process. Hollywood is 72 mm^2 on a 90 nm process, making it too big for just a process shrink. So what's in there? Extra pipelines and texture units? A more complex T&L engine? Registers for 32-bit color? We don't know."

Interesting read, if anyone actually cares. I don't think Miyamoto was talking about the actual hardware, but the architecture.

In my little neck of Michigan, I couldn't find a retail-priced Wii even if my life depended on it. Of course, if I wanted a PS3 I'd have at least 11 to choose from, and that's just at the Best Buy.

Let's see... Of all the FPSs I've ever played (and I've played a lot of them), I give props to Wolfenstein 3-D for being the first one I played, Shogo: Mobile Armor Division for being the first one I enjoyed, System Shock 2 for creeping the heck out of me, the original Unreal for being the last FPS to make me way "WOW!" in regards to graphics, and Rise of the Triad for kicking so much butt it's crazy. ;)

I can't give you proof it's a beefed-up Gamecube. What I CAN give you is a bit of arsenal in your corner to prove that it's much more than what the trashers say: http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?t=38689

This right here is the clencher: "But what we have seen are substantially more fillrate-burning effects like motion blur, depth of field, light bloom, and various transparency effects that make use of indirect texturing, more than we'd expect from a 50% overclock.... The big mystery in all this is what the extra transistors in Hollywood are for. Flipper was 106 mm^2 on a 180 nm process. Hollywood is 72 mm^2 on a 90 nm process, making it too big for just a process shrink. So what's in there? Extra pipelines and texture units? A more complex T&L engine? Registers for 32-bit color? We don't know."

The way I see it, "next-gen" is something that is on the horizon, "current-gen" is something that's out today, and "previous-gen" is, well, previous. Blu-Ray isn't really next-gen because there's already something better (HVD), though it's not commerically available. The Cell is pretty amazing, but Intel already created an 80-core processor. IBM developed a processor that uses light to aid in data transmission (think 160Gb/sec). That stuff is cutting edge and not currently available. I would consider that more "next-gen" than something that is already on the market. I mean... 1080p isn't even the king of high def anymore (except for TV). Someone could slap some dirt on some Fruit of the Looms, call it "the next-generation of underwear," and there would be an idiot out there who would believe it.

The Wii is current generation. Why is that so hard to grasp? It may not have as advanced hardware as the PS3 or 360, but it is the next iteration from Nintendo, and it isn't just some "overclocked Gamecube with a gimmicky controller." It surpasses the hardware of last generation, and it does it in an incredibly small package. Try reading up on the Wii's hardware before you make blanket statements about it: http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?t=38689

Just my opinion....

Wii = Mazda MX-5 Miata. Sexy, affordable, and easy on the gas. Not a lot of power under the hood but incredibly fun to drive. Base is around $21k, but the nicer model is $25k.

360 = Land Rover LR3. Large and powerful. Bad gas mileage. Not easily affordable. Base is around $42k, but you'd be better off with the $49k model, which has more features.

PS3 = Hummer H2. Lage and powerful. Bad gas mileage. Not easily affordable. Base is around $56k but you'll probably want the LUX model, which is $59k.

This right here says a mouthful:

"Visually, the engine looked slightly better than Red Steel, especially the character model we saw. West talked with us and lamented about the common trend of ignoring Wii's graphical capability and simply upscaling textures used for PSP titles."

You wonder why the Wii's games don't look better? There's your answer right there, and he's not the only one who's said it.

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Real men don't need to justify their gaming choices.