Wiiblog.

My long awaited second Wii game purchase is almost at hand, and it’s cheaper than most new titles released by being at only $39.99 MSRP. And it is not only one game, but a collection of seven of the finest 2d Action-Shooting-Platforms made popular by the Contra series on the NES.

All of the Metal Slug games SNK has released in arcades are on this package, including one that has never hit America until this release, Metal Slug 6. The compilation includes Metal Slug 1, 2, X (a 1-2 hybrid that came out before 3), 3, 4, 5 and 6.

Sure, most of these games have come to America’s shores before, but not in such an affordable and easily found package. Even now Metal Slug 4 & 5 compilations for XBOX/PS2 retail for $19.99 ~ $29.99. Hand-held versions of Metal Slug on the GBA retail for similar amounts of money and only include one title each. And yet the whole 7 game compilation is being released for the Wii December 6.

Originally scheduled for launch, pushed back a week and now this time for one week more. It will be a great day for Metal Slug fans, now if only I wasn’t so busy so I could enjoy it more too.

Although I am not going to post the video itself from YouTube (considering the ramifications associated with posting embedded video on our sites), I will however post a link to the video clip.

Colbert said that he hasn’t been able to tear himself away from his Wii due to the Mii creation system and use of Miis in Wii Sports, most specifically Boxing.

He created a virtual avatar of himself, and also one of Nancy Pelosi. He then showed a small montage of game footage showing his Mii beating her Mii senseless in a Boxing match.

All hilarity aside, Comedy Central has had a lot of airtime devoted to Nintendo’s new gaming machine. From “Thanksgiving Wiikend” celebration, where a Wii was given away per hour for a few days, to having 2-part episode of South Park centralized on the Cartman’s lust for a Wii.

What does this say for the PLAYSTATION3 (that is the official names, all caps. No, I didn’t make that up)? Not a lot. The most press Sony can muster for its system is news reports of people getting beaten up, stabbed, shot or otherwise maimed for standing in line on launch day for their chance to get a system that doesn’t have any must-have titles (can be argued that Resistance: Fall of Man is a must-have but I can’t see it as anything other than another alien-filled FPS with the same controls we have been using since GoldenEye for the N64 (or Halo if you want a slightly more modern representation using 2 analog sticks rather than the 4 C-buttons of the N64 pad.))

In honor of those who have suffered some malady (whether that be a broken wrist-strap, television, window, or hand-to-light fixture lacerations, people have documented their problems with the Wii in this simple to remember Web Site.

Wiihaveaproblem.com has been up and running and hopefully the people with legitimate problems get them answered by Nintendo, but in the mean time sharing their story with other gamers or curious web crawlers. Other issues are discussed but the main theme is that people want answers to their problems, and more specifically compensation.

While the X360 has been out for a little more a year, the two big talking subjects of gamers today is who had the better launch two weeks ago and who stands to have the better system overall.

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Though the Wii has been on the open market for a couple less days than it’s vastly more expensive PLAYSTATION3 counterpart.

According to a Yahoo news article…

Popular items on eBay included Sony’s PlayStation 3 — 14,675 have been sold on eBay for an average price of $1,186.39 from November 17 to November 24 — and the Nintendo Wii. Since that product debuted on November 19, 26,708 have been sold for an average price of $412.53.

It is theorized that this is solely due to there being more units on eBay to go around considering there were more than double the amount of Wii at initial launch than there were PS3s.

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On Sunday, the United States was host to the release of Nintendo’s next console system, the Wii. With it’s unique remote control that senses the motion behind it and the graphics of 2 Gamecubes with the power intake less than two thirds of a single Gamecube, it is not as easily compared to it’s beefier, bulkier brothers, the PS3 and X360.

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IGN Wii originally changed the release of the next installment of their Wii Launch Guide they are compiling from November 7 to Nov 8 late Tuesday night. Even though today is the ninth, the page has yet to be updated or changed in any way.

Why they have been slow with their updates I have no idea, considering they are updating other parts of their page and posting new articles throughout the last two days.

One major Wii announcement that has come out as of recent has been the updating of more Virtual Console games that are on the schedule for release. And with the announcement I will make an attempt at an explanation of what Nintendo Wii’s virtual console will curtail. (more…)

Yesterday night, Comedy Central debuted its new episode of South Park for the week, thats main advertised topic was the former Mr. (now Miss) Garrison disruptively disagreeing with teaching evolution to the children of South Park.

Much to my surprise, the episode begins with Cartman standing outside of a “EV Games” desperately waiting for the release of the Nintendo Wii. Throughout the episode, Cartman yearns to play the Wii, which will be released in three weeks. In a poorly thought out plan, Cartman decides to freeze himself to make the wait seem instantaneous, but ends up being frozen for over 500 years. During this time, the world decides to abandon religion in favor of scientific knowledge in an attempt to stop world war. (more…)

Upon the advent of the release of Nintendo’s and Sony’s latest portable systems (Sony’s first, Nintendo’s 5th generation counting their first, which would be Game & Watch systems), many people speculated that Sony would have the upper hand due to the enhanced graphical power (the power of the PlayStation2 in comparison to the N64), superior non-gaming applications built-in abilities (checking the internet is built-in to the PlayStation Portable), and “superior data storage” found within the UMD (Universal Media Disc) capable of holding almost 2GB of data instead of Nintendo’s relatively smaller (in both data storage and in physical dimensions). Some even said that the PSP would crush Nintendo’s handheld and would cause them to even pull out of the portable market for a time. And to all of the people who stated these opinions, This makes me recall the Simpson’s character Nelson Muntz exclaiming “HA HA”.

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Friday the 13th will mark the beginning (and most likely end) of Wii preorders at GameStops and Electronics Boutique nationwide. This preorder will allow buyers to set aside a specific amount ($50-$100, the Stillwater employee wasn’t sure) to set aside a Wii system when they are released November 19th.

According to the voice mail I received earlier today, Our local EB will be receiving approximately 20 Wii on launch date, with more to follow with each coming shipment. While this may seem like a minuscule amount, the PLAYSTATION3s Stillwater’s EB will be seeing come launch day (November 17th) is 12 or less.

Although our EB is scheduled to open at 10AM to allow preorders, a few gamers have expressed their concerns of such small amounts of units. One in particular has told me he may end up camping outside to try to stake his place in line. I will hopefully be attending this to see how the preorder situation in Stillwater is handled, as well as to secure my own Wii come launch day.