Author Topic: Major Wii News Coming TONIGHT? (Read 27559 times)

JonLeung · « **Reply #75 on:** September 07, 2006, 07:23:47 PM »

It's not bad news at all!

It's just not...exciting.

I like that picture of that guy gawking at the Wii's private parts, though.

wandering · « **Reply #76 on:** September 07, 2006, 07:23:49 PM »

October launch! October launch! October launch!

IceCold · « **Reply #77 on:** September 07, 2006, 07:28:32 PM »

I've always said Canadian Thanksgiving (October 9th), as crazy as that might seem, so I'm with you wandering!

NWR_pap64 · « **Reply #78 on:** September 07, 2006, 07:28:52 PM »

Joystiq definitely made a mountain out of a molehill with this one. This is something that could've been said normally.

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #79 on:** September 07, 2006, 07:30:18 PM »

"IBM confirmed today that they started shipping the brains of the Nintendo Wii for their New York fab plant about three weeks ago."

It says they started shipping about three weeks ago.... how long do you think they were stock piling before they decided to ship out?

stevey · « **Reply #80 on:** September 07, 2006, 07:34:42 PM »

"or their New York fab plant about three weeks ago."

that could just be their NY plant...

jasonditz · « **Reply #81 on:** September 07, 2006, 07:36:24 PM »

The RAM's been in production for what, 6 months now? Unless IBM's got crazy manufacturing capacity set up from the start I hope that means "we shipped all the Broadways for launch three weeks ago".

I'm picturing factory floors simply full of virtually completed Wiis just waiting for this last chip and then going straight into the box... maybe launch would be Sept. 15th and today was really Friday-aton?

wandering · « **Reply #82 on:** September 07, 2006, 08:02:32 PM »

What if Nintendo only offered the system online at first? Initial launches only sell to the hardcore anyway, right? Nintendo could start with an online surprise Apple-esque launch to start the 'virus' rolling, and then have the brick and mortar launch a month later, in October.

King of Twitch · « **Reply #83 on:** September 07, 2006, 08:21:32 PM »

Welp..... everyone's gotta pay the bills. I guess I forgive em

IceCold · « **Reply #84 on:** September 07, 2006, 08:25:58 PM »

I guess they figured an apology was necessary.. Now why on earth would they think that? This news delivered on all fronts in terms of hype.

As I said in the chat, they need to realise that a short term spike in hits just isn't worth it when this will hurt badly in the long-term. There's 400 comments already on the article, most of them negative, of course. It's actually quite amusing to browse through them..

Athrun Zala · « **Reply #85 on:** September 07, 2006, 08:32:07 PM »

nothing big...but interesting news nevertheless

seems like the Wii is right on track for launch

Strell · « **Reply #86 on:** September 07, 2006, 08:32:17 PM »

Mk.

So far I'm boy-c0tting IGN, spong, and Joystiq.

I wonder who is next.

Ceric · « **Reply #87 on:** September 07, 2006, 08:42:35 PM »

I think they would have gotten less if they would have just waited and said it be up tomorrow.

Kairon · « **Reply #88 on:** September 07, 2006, 08:49:23 PM »

MUAHAHAHAHA!!!

HYPE STRIKES AGAIN!

Just when you thought you were safe... duh duh....duh duh...duh duhduhduhduhduhduh DUHDUDUUUUUU!!!!

....

In other news...

.Gonintendo reports on the rising rumors about an IGN unveiling of an "expected" game or a peripheral this Friday the 8th.

C'mon ride the train ... and ride it! C'mon ride the train (Choo Choo) and ride it!

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

Mario · « **Reply #89 on:** September 07, 2006, 08:49:36 PM »

Non-news get! Seriously, Japanese daily sales charts were more interesting and relevant than this.

They were wrong in hyping this, but people can't blame them if THEY are pissed off. Just get over it.

Mario · « **Reply #90 on:** September 07, 2006, 08:50:44 PM »

Game = Super Paper Mario
Peripheral = GameCube Controller

IceCold · « **Reply #91 on:** September 07, 2006, 08:53:59 PM »

Heh, it was lucky you were painting a window while this happened!

Mario · « **Reply #92 on:** September 07, 2006, 08:57:26 PM »

... how did you know that?

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #93 on:** September 08, 2006, 04:12:00 AM »

Heh heh... ^_^

couchmonkey · « **Reply #94 on:** September 08, 2006, 05:21:38 AM »

Yeah, so this was not super news, but after Leipzig I went in expecting that. Joystiq shouldn't really have announced the news ahead of time, it would have been an interesting tidbit if it had just come out of nowhere this morning.

Ian Sane · « **Reply #95 on:** September 08, 2006, 07:37:58 AM »

Does this even count as news? I wasn't expecting much but this is REALLY lame. It's like posting "the Wii uses electricity" as a news post.

RickPowers · « **Reply #96 on:** September 08, 2006, 07:49:00 AM »

Sorry if I got anyone's hopes up, but there's a reason why we don't post "come back to see something" type articles at PGC. I just thought that it would be interesting enough to warrant a forum thread, and as it stands, it was just barely interesting enough for that.

What I can't understand is why the news was under embargo to begin with. Xbox 360 is already out, and Sony has their head shoved so far up their collective keister that they wouldn't be able to capitalize on the knowledge anyway. "Three weeks ago, we started shipping chips." Bravo ... anyone with any business knowledge whatsoever would have assumed that to launch in October/November, you'd have to start shipping chips ... oh, about THREE WEEKS AGO.

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Rick, it does qualify as journalism. Not the strict pure-facts news reporting denotation, but certainly a couple other. Check a dictionary. Entertainment Journalism is the term I'd use, personally.

I could care less what a dictionary says. If you're just regurgitating information fed to you by someone who's interest lies in using you as a publicity method, then it is most definitely NOT "journalism". I'm not even saying that we need hardcore investigative journalism, but any monkey with a keyboard can repost a press release. Which is all this "news" is going to amount to.

Ok, so you don't consider PGC to be a journalist site either?

No, I most certainly do not. I've done very few "journalistic" pieces in my career, like this trip to Nintendo's North Bend production facility, and I've been very vocal about the lack of journalism in the games industry. The need for secrecy with many companies is certainly a major factor, but the fact is, we're used as an arm of corporate marketing. It's just the way it is. Honest reviews are not journalism. Covering trade shows is not journalism. We're writers, but quite frankly, I'm fine with that.

JonLeung · « **Reply #97 on:** September 08, 2006, 09:53:33 AM »

Assuming this topic is relevant anymore, I think the topic title should be edited to include the date so that people don't think there's "major" Wii news EVERY night.

That would be nice, though, wouldn't it?

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Author Topic: Major Wii News Coming TONIGHT? (Read 27559 times)