It's coming November 19th for $250. It will be a day of judgement, 2 days after the PS3 comes out. Once the PS3's are off the shelf, people will start buying Wii's, clever marketing on nintendos part I think. But thats off the point.

I can understand how people could think the new controller is stupid but that's just their personal taste. Maybe they enjoy sitting still while playing game more than me, but I think the controller is gonna rock. It's just like a mouse that responds to more than the 2D axis's. If I am thinking correctly, none of my friends have ever used something like it before that matches it's manufacturing quality (excluding crappy sword-arcade games).

Plus, if you don't like the controller then you can always just use a GC controller (or they are coming out with another similar to the GC one if you prefer new stuff). Really, there is nothing to hate about it, the graphics are going to be comparable to the Xbox 360's and anything in the PS3 range is just pointless because detail can only go so far before it becomes unnecessarily detailed. On my game making forum, one of the key theories is that any game can be great without amazing graphics, but a bad game with amazing graphics will not be fun. The PS3 is stepping into that sanctum. But I still like their games and they have yet to cross the line.

I think nintendo stopped improving their graphics at the GC with few upgrades to the Wii because they realized it really doesn't matter what your looking at as much as it matter what your doing. I don't want to list those games again but GamerGirl had a ton of great examples that were all different games (even if some characters were the same) and all fun to play.

Some cool features the Wii will have is WiiConnect24 which is the internet service that will be connected 24/7 if it can find a WiFi signal, even if the Wii is turned off (there will be small rechargable battery, i think, though I am not sure how they will be doing this). You will be able to download your old favorites from SNES-N64 for all less than $10 which is translated into Wii points. You can but Wii points with a credit cards and they will be $1 - a Wii point. The points, I personally find very unnecessary because you could just be paying with money.

The DVD drive will play audio CD's, audio/video DVD's, Wii DVD games, and Gamecube Mini-CD games. They did not include either HD-DVD or Blu-Ray so they could keep the cost of the system under $300. Another cool feature is that if you have a DS, certain games and info can be shared between them. The internet browser on the Wii will be Opera based.

I am really excited for this to come out because it opens a whole new realm of game play that has yet to be experienced by all of us (unless you went to E3). Go Wii and Nintendo!!

Holy crap, that was like… totally blog worthy…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii