The Wii has been released in the USA and Japan now. Nintendo has announced the numbers of units sold in America. It was 600 000. This is more than 6x the amount Sony sold/shipped in Japan who only sold a mesaly 86000 and a roumored 300000 in the US. Nintendo has out done both Sony and Microsoft on getting consoles to shops on launch day. They still sold out!
Due to prior arangments that I had forgotten about, my show has been delayed until saturday at 8 O'clock, same topics. Sorry
Blog talk radio is a peice of technolgy that allows bloggers (ME!) to create a show with live callers, just like a radio show for free. My first episode is airing this Friday 8:00PM GMT (subject to change). Full details can be found here . The topics are: The Wii, PS3 Backwards Combatability and E3 lives on as GamePro Expo. If you would like to phone in at any time just type (646) 915-9573 into skype or a normal phone between 8 and 8:30 this friday. Any callers I do get I will try to make sure you get to saywhat you want to. Speak to you then hopefully!
Sorry about the size issues in this post something happened with blogger!
The Wii is sold out. We have the same situation as we did with the X360 and what we will have with the PS3. Preorders on sites such as Amazon rival a new Coldplay album and the Harry Potter books, which were at the top of the preorder chart. Amazon has said that it does not know when it is getting more stock nor even hinted as to whether you can get one for Christams.
HMC are also making a "we don't promise anything" stance:
3) Due to high levels of demand and restrictions by Nintendo on stock availability, stock may be limited and HMV cannot, therefore, guarantee your pre-order will be fulfilled on the estimated release date, nor that your pre-order will be fulfilled within any given time-frame. Accordingly, release dates are subject to change by Nintendo and any date given for fulfillment of your order is an estimate only, is not guaranteed and should not be relied upon.
I was about to download the song "Chelsea Daggers" off the album Costello Music by the Fratellis when iTunes said something had happened that made this task impossible. I went in to the store to investigate. Once I had arrived at the relevant page, I discovered that it was now only down-loadable with the album. Apple know they have the market effectively cornered and they know that is the song people are most likly to buy. This is a case of iTunes taking advantage of its customers. Maybe this has happened before, but it is unacceptable, and as a consequence I am not going to buy and more iTunes vouchers, or download the song that I love. Please sign this "Petition" if you support me. Maybe we can get a apology, no seriously!
Gaming News:
PS3 backwards compatibility issues - 200 games effected.
Medieval Total War 2 - 16+ Rating
Splinter Cell Double Agent - Advertised as an 18, actual game 15
PS3 launches in Japan - 84,400 sold, many disappointed
Wii and PS3 round the corner for US
PS3 backward compatibility marred - News at GameSpot: "This isn't a huge issue, sure, but if you payed $600 + for your system, it would be awful nice if it worked like it's supposed to."
I was reading about the backwards compatability issues with the PS3 and the comment "his isn't a huge issue, sure, but if you payed $600 + for your system, it would be awful nice if it worked like it's supposed to." made me simle. Some people are critizing sony, but the X360 only 200 games WORK. Obviously, we have to wait to the Wii to see if if Nintendo pull it off, but they are including support for different disksizes, about 40 years of consoles and they have a completly different controller to anything before. I don't think this is a massive failure for Sony, like people who can afford a console at $600+ sold his PS2 which played PS1 games fine.
PS3 backward compatibility marred - News at GameSpot: "This isn't a huge issue, sure, but if you payed $600 + for your system, it would be awful nice if it worked like it's supposed to."
I was reading about the backwards compatability issues with the PS3 and the comment "his isn't a huge issue, sure, but if you payed $600 + for your system, it would be awful nice if it worked like it's supposed to." made me simle. Some people are critizing sony, but the X360 only 200 games WORK. Obviously, we have to wait to the Wii to see if if Nintendo pull it off, but they are including support for different disksizes, about 40 years of consoles and they have a completly different controller to anything before. I don't think this is a massive failure for Sony, like people who can afford a console at $600+ sold his PS2 which played PS1 games fine.
E3 lives on as GamePro Expo - News at GameSpot
I am so there!! Is this good, I was unsure about the downsize of E3 but now we have the best of both worlds. A small one for the press so that is not complete chaos all the time, but still a huge one for huge fun.
