For some reason we had a shortage of New Super Mario Bros for Wii. This makes me think those rumors of them holding back Wii stock in past years was true.

Jesus, when we're in a depression, people want to play video games to get their minds off all the shit that's happening
When everything is fine and dandy, people want to play video games because they're bored.

of course nintendo did well this christmas, they only pretty much run the industry at this point. which is why it's so strange to hear about how many companies want to stop development on the system. to third parties: if you guys put the same amount of effort into the wii as you do with the hd consoles, you could get in on this gravy train.

Its over, Nintendo's finished.


Btw, when will someone on Podtoid buy a Wii or just bring in someone that doesn't hate Nintendo?

@AlLeBlanc

Cool story, bro.

@Brad Nicholson
Yes but do you love your Wii? I mean everybody owns one.

What we need is to just have Holmes come on and rant about games nobody who's currently playing their uncool HD consoles has ever heard of for about an hour.

Hell we can turn it into a drinking game. Every time Holmes brings up a game no one, listeners and Podtoiders, has ever heard of we take a drink. It'll be a hit at parties.

Last thing we need is Holmes on the Podtoid. Getting his rants from time to time about how the Wii console is truly the indie rock scene of the gaming industry or his hilarious outrage at Sega when they said their Wii M rated initiative failed is amusing in small amounts. But give him an hour of power and by christ, it will be a bucket of fail. He can be cool but at times he acts a bit too much like the "Wii Want It All" cult that's been neglected.

I listen to Podtoid at work while cackling alone in my cubicle... drinking games don't fair well there. Thankfully, as an art monkey, nobody bothers me much either so anything else non-alcohol related, I likely won't get caught on...

"Somehow I think Nintendo is just saying that because they want others to believe they are doing ads good as they did last year. Sony and MS were the ones that most people I know bought from."

Yeah Nintendo is going to send out a press release to the media lying about their sales numbers, just to trick people into thinking they're doing well. You do realize that Nintendo is a publicly traded company and not just some happy magical fun time club right? So lets all just base the international sales of a billion dollar corporation on how many people that you personal know who bought other systems and not the Wii, because that really matters doesn't it? It must be nice to live in a fantasy world with no common sense, or logic!

People are stupid... Hence the Wii. Has that ridiculously forced motion control benefitted anything yet? All the best games on the system; The BEST games; Don't use it or just force it. I dare say all of them would be better with a controller in hand or at the very least just as good. I know some of the quarky party games and shooters (especially the shooters) are improved via wiimote, so it isn't without it's place, but it being the main focus and usually your only option is just retardiculous. But regardless everyone goes on and on about the innovation, I'm still looking for it myself. The graphics are bottom notch. I have an LCD HDTV and it looks like butt, even with upgraded AV cords. The bulk of the hardware is a joke. It's either a piece of shit that doesn't work or breaks in a week, a piece of plastic that only serves in making things more awkward, or even with good hardware peripherals they still hafta plug into the wiimote like it's one of those aliens from Avatar. The immersion that everyone goes on about is also overrated. It's just a glorified powerglove. The technology hasn't changed too much and it just about as accurate, why there isn't a true location calibration on the system is beyond me... I'm gonna cut off because I'm typing on an iPhone, but last case in point. While some of the games are awesome and I play them often they just don't fit on the system. What I'm sure will be the biggest example is Tatsunoko vs Capcom. Is anyone really gonna play this? Your best, easily accessable bet is the 'cube controller and we all know how good fighting games are on the cube controller. You can buy the overpriced arcade stick, but why is that the only option? Could this not seriously work on the xbox or ps3, everyone can cover for it and make any excuse, that was a dumb fuck idea and it will suffer in sales for it.

I don't know man, those dinosaurs are pretty awesome.