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I got a Wii
hypernova:
Checked around Sunday morning via the phone. No luck in local Targets, BBs, and we're in WM bi-weekly anyway. Never see any. Checked the local Microcenter too. Nothing.
somunny:
Saw a few people carrying them out of a Best Buy I was in this afternoon. I also saw some in a case at Target last Friday.
rampy:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on February 26, 2007, 12:39:36 pm ---
No reason for them to have 4 display boxes on their sides inside the bottom of the locked glass case. I'd have been really surprised if they were, would have been the least effective display ever. Plus they were gone a couple days later.
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Well the locked in a glass case was an important detail... that I overlooked in your previous message. sorry 'bout that... I still have been punk'd by the empty display boxes from afar, before though...
ChadTower:
We've all been burned by display cases when there is no stock. Very annoying.
I finally spent some time playing a Wii on Sunday. Played some Monkey Ball minigames and a couple of the Wii Sports. I definitely felt the new control paradigm and it was somewhat intuitive to a person with a lot of experience moving from one specialized control scheme to the next (like any good arcade person). The graphics are more than sufficient for everything I saw. The downsides for me were mostly the amount of room necessary for a multiplayer game. We had to use an entire decent sized, mostly empty room for four player action.
I definitely see it as a real success of innovation but am also glad I haven't dropped $250 + $60/each for three extra controllers on the package. Still need to explore the other games before I decide to jump on that.
shmokes:
FWIW, controllers 3 and 4 at this point might only be $40 each, as most multiplayer games don't use the nunchuck (Wii boxing does, but it's only 2-player). The only exception I can think of is possibly Madden, which I've not played (though I hear is quite good). I don't know if it's 4-player, but I suppose it could be.
As far as space goes, I think you just make due with what you have. I've played 4-player tennis in pretty small areas and it's never been a problem. A bigger area would be nice, but I think we'd be bumping into each other just as much. You definitely need more space than a traditional gamepad game needs, but not much more, IMO.