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ill trooper,

I seriously doubt anyone is bothered by facts, but it's the way Chris wrote the post and the poll that's bothering people. He's a good enough writer to know better. He gets no slack from his readers because of that.

Zoe,

You are absolutely right. For all of the talk about the mainstream consumer market, it's amusing to me how some can ignore the fact that HD is simply not mainstream at the moment. I will fill my remaining days and nights with laughter if both of the new formats fail.

Oh, do spare us. The anti-Wii spin in this poll is disgusting. And no, no grandma is going to care one bit about DVD playback, but being computer-phobic as many older people are, she might just like to check her weather via the Wii weather channel. If DVD playback is what you guys at Joystiq think consumers want, then frankly, Joystiq is a little bit out of touch.

Oh, spare me. I agree with greatn. Cry me a river. Artimus is dead on too.

la,

They've posted plenty of bad stuff about the Wii and Xbox 360. Stop complaining. Negative news gets lots of responses.

Alonso, it is real for GameStops in Hawaii. Read the responses to this thread.

Uh, William, since when is Hawaii not part of the US?

Here's my hunch:

It's something Gamestop is trying out in a small market before they see if they want to expand it. They can easily do that in a few of their stores without having to test the waters in all of their stores.

William,

You can read confirmation at Go Nintendo. Not only did one of their readers call some of the Hawaii stores, but MOM BRAIN did too. Add that to the countless people from Hawaii (such as nftyw above) who say this is true, and you've got about as good confirmation as you are going to get.

Everyone is focusing on Mario's "bulge". Look closely at Luigi's crotch.

OK, that didn't work, let's try it one last time...

This is true for stores in Hawaii.

If this had been a lower-level employee who had screwed up, they would have been canned immediately. I'm normally very understanding when it comes to screw--ups, but this mistake should be a job loser. The VP of marketing has no clue what the product even does. I don't blame Nintendo for one employee's mistake and again, it wasn't an official keynote or anything, but I will hold Nintendo partially responsible if they don't handle this in the appropriate manner.