ManaByte
Rage Bait Youtuber
http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4003&Itemid=2&limit=1&limitstart=1
The Wii stuff is funny too:
PS3 SHORTAGES
It is impossible to find the PlayStation 3 hardware on Amazon.co.jp. Three months ago, there was a placeholder page, complete with "customer reviews”. Now, that page is gone.
I take this to mean that Amazon.co.jp is wielding a little bit of social responsibility. If you've been reading your videogame news, you’ll know that Sony will only release 100,000 units of the hardware in Japan on launch day.
I went to Bic Camera in Shinjuku -- the largest Bic Camera super store in Japan -- two nights ago, to see if they were taking preorders. The man at the counter listened to me with his arms folded. He shook his head and apologized very politely, probably not for the first or last time.
I figured I would try a smaller store, so I went to the one in Ueno. The man there told me they wouldn't be receiving any units at all. "The only people buying a PlayStation 3 on launch day are going to be the super-devoted fans willing to line up outside a store all night. And if you're going to line up, it'll be either the big one in Shinjuku where they're having the launch event, or the huge one in Akihabara. That should account for a couple thousand systems right there."
The PlayStation 3 launch in Japan is going to be a damned massacre.
The Wii stuff is funny too:
Just this Tuesday night, Nintendo began advertising Wii on television. Less than eighteen hours had passed before I heard girls discussing it on a subway. "Nintendo has a new console coming out. I saw it on TV. A home console. Not a portable console.”
The commercial was really short. Just a white background and a picture of the remote control. And an announcer -- the same guy who did the 'Brain Training' commercials -- says 'This remote controller will change your life.'
In the meantime, Amazon.co.jp's "Wii" page is showing 102 customer "reviews". The opinion is essentially polarized between one star and five stars. The one-star reviews are rather humorous to read, containing such baffling comments as "How could Nintendo betray all the Gamecube fans?"and "How the heck are you supposed to play a complicated game like an RPG with a remote control?"
The five-star reviews, meanwhile, call the product "Purely Nintendo", "cute", and "friendly-looking."
The majority of these reviews surfaced in the last two days. It's impressive what a tiny television commercial can do. The general public is currently as up to speed with the Wii as us astute game-news aficionados were as of September 2005. I imagine in two weeks, they'll begin running commercials that feature software.