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QA doesn't make products. Basically they're turning their testing department into one of those soulless sweatshops (think Microsoft QA). Not good, but those guys don't *make* the games.

@20 (Island Life)

"Oh shit! It's King Zarkon! We need to combine to form Voltron!"

Error Message: Microsoft DRM cannot find the required rights to perform this action.

"Dammit! I knew we should have gone with iVoltron."

Ok Joystiq, answer this question:

Say I need a drink of water. Will I pay for rare dirty swamp water that cost a company $10 to procure for $8, or will I buy clean, refreshing spring water that cost a company $.10 to procure for $2?

(Or will I wait until 12:01 because a Joystiq editor said we had their word that there was announcement about water worth waiting for, and none of the other editors at Joystiq bothered to edit the article about spring water so it wouldn't contain so much hype.)

The answer is neither, I will drink tap water for free. But otherwise I'd take the spring water.

Davidv, #7:

"the North American Wii is the exact same package but WITH Wii Sports and $35 more expensive, that doesn't make it 'free' anymore."

You hit the nail on the head. Great post.

#49:

"why are they charging 2.5 times as much as GameCube for GameCube 1.1 graphics + Wiimote?".

I think a lot of people will be surprised at the graphics the Wii can produce, especially in a couple years. This is more of a Gamecube 2.0.

Also, the package comes with built-in wifi, the needed sensor bar, lots of new ports, and built in flash memory. Whether you want it or not, you also pay for news and weather, a little photo program, and Wii Sports.

Basically what I'm saying is that while the price isn't all that good, it is at least acceptable.

Ummm...

November 11th, US $159.

Totally random guess.

Starfox 64, and Yoshi's Safari. And Tetrisphere, if they can swing it.

"I have never used a Mad Catz peripheral that wasn't a complete piece-of-shit. Totally disposable products."

Agreed. Buy this, and you're buying the extra arcade games that are bundles and little else. Don't say we didn't warn you.

Wii has USB ports, so hopefully they represent another memory option. Sorry if that's been confirmed already.

"when do you hear adults exclaiming "weeeeeeeeeee!"

It's Wii as in "we", not "weeeeeeeeeee!".

#41 "games aren't rated M for being online enabled. i.e. mario kart says "game experience may change with online play". people can draw their avatar to include boobs, penises, swears, and so on. but it's not rated M."

The critical difference is that in Mario Kart, you have to draw the boobs yourself. In Oblivion, they're already provided, and you just have to unlock them through hacking.

Some games have tons of hidden material (Some guys recently revealed a hidden song in Guitar Hero using Action Replay or something), and Oblivion's hidden material is M-Rated.

I agree with the ESRB that all content on a disc should be rated. What I and lots of others agree is that some boobs shouldn't automatically earn an "M" while a lot of violence is only a "T". That being said, the ESRB did bring up a violence issue in their re-review of Oblivion, and lots of games have earned an "M" through violence alone.

The original Smash Bros lets you hit Ness in the head with a baseball bat, and that's rated E :)