Wii Day

Today marks the official UK (and European) launch of the Nintendo Wii. It will also mark the delivery of my pre-ordered Wii.

Posts may be even more intermittent than usual (if that is possible) whilst I look like a prat playing Wii Sports.

Wii Wii Wii, all the way home…

I had intended to let the new game consoles pass me by. I resisted the initial “got to have one” when the Xbox 360 came out – a decision I am very happy with after trying it at friends houses. Although I was a dedicated PlayStation fan, the Playstation 3 holds no attraction to me. The Wii did appeal, mainly because it eschews the now common “graphics are king” theme and actually tries to innovate. The price was also attractive, but I knew I wouldn’t be able to get one at launch and so would wait to see what they were like after they had launched.

That was the plan, anyway.

Since a Nintendo DS Lite is the gift of choice in my house this year, a bit of surfing was in order. During such a outing I stumbled across Amazon’s pre-order information for the Wii, and the fact that they would be taking them today – long after other outlets have (over)sold their allocation. Pre-orders opened this morning and closed five minutes later, but not before I’d got my order in for a console and a copy of Zelda.

Now I just need to convince schwukette that it doesn’t really need to go under the tree…