6 million by March? :eek: MS may truly have something to worry about.

I'd say it's the other big guys who should really be worried. MS still has nowhere to go but up.

I don't know about either premise. I think the target market for the 360 and the PS3 will still buy the 360/PS3, so they are really just competing against each other.

What they do have to worry about is the average consumer, who really buys most of the consoles anyway. The lower price point, cheaper games, kid/family friendly games, and revolutionary (you heard me) controls make the Wii an attractive package for normal folks.

Flash-based Mii creator...

http://www.joystiq.com/media/2006/10/mii.swf

just downloaded the News Channel. Looks pretty cool.

Dang, just missed it. Played SSG until about 1:30 and checked for the update, nothing. Looks like I missed it by less than 2 hours. Probably for the best as I would have been up even later. I knew it would hit a day early based on the Weather Channel's arrival.

Can't wait to get home and complete my Wii. I wonder what other channels they have up their sleeve.

i noticed the pretty blue light this morning, but i couldn't be arsed to update my system yet

I updated mine this morning. Pretty interesting. I didn't have enough time to see how to stack all of the stories on the map, just one at a time.

I updated, but only had a few minutes to check it out. Interesting, but I doubt I'll use it much.

Have to figure out the globe thing.

very cute, any ways to save it? Man, i love those little flash games or animations, but you can't save them most of the times :(

You can always save what's on your screen. Control/PrintScreen...and then paste into whatever...powerpoint...word...paint...to edit it.

I really think it's going to be a 2 way race, not a 3 way race.

Someone has to radically lower the price of their console, but considering that they are losing so much money per console as it is, it probably won't happen until it's too late.

Chris

Since this was my first night with my Wii, I was surprised to wake up around 5 am to eat cereal (bad habit every night) and I noticed the blue light. When I got up at 6:30 am, it was still on and when I left for work at 7:55 am, it was still on.

I guess it was updating quite a lot during the night.

Chris

Now that I have a Wii, I have a question.

A couple of weeks / month ago, someone posted a website that was Wiicentric. Meaning that if I saved that website as one of my favorites on my Wii, the layout of the website was perfect for the Wii and it had great links to other websites that optimized your Wii viewing.

For example, there are webpages out there that have links to music that you can play live on your Wii.

I thought I had bookmarked the page a while back, but I cannot find it now.

Can anybody summarize the helpful Wii pages out there?

Thanx Chris

Wasn't there a report somewhere about MS no longer losing money on each 360 sold?

Anyway, gonna check out the News channel when I get home from work. I thought the internet browser was essentially useless, so hopefully this will be better :)

I think they make a little more than $70 per console.

p.s. I think I should have said 'A certain someone' has to lower the price of their console.

Chris

It wasn't updating. The blue light just means that you had a message. Nintendo sent you a message telling you that the News Channel is available now w/ an update button in the message. WiiConnect24 does NOT do auto-updates as of yet.

that sounds awesome. Im glad capcom is supporting the wii.
I do wish they would bring us RE5 as well as I dont have any of the other two systems.

Yeah I was up a bit later than that. I updated about 4am et.
After a 4+ hour Zelda marathon.
Luckily I dont have to work.

Ahh, thank you!

Chris

Thanks for the suggestion, but that's not what i'm asking... I want to save the mii.swf file, so that you don't need to go on-line to c/p or what nots. Best of all, if the link doesn't work, i can still play with the flash file.

Ahhhh...misunderstood the question. I thought you just wanted to save the Miis you built.

I'm actually a bit confused about that, as it seems to me that the RE4 engine (which I presume 5 will be based on) is just dying to have Wii controls. If it's just the graphics that are holding Capcom back, they could downgrade them a bit and I'd be cool with that.

Heck, if it looked exactly like RE4, that would be fine with me.

Truth is, I think the install base for the Wii will be such that developers will be changing their tune on a lot of this kind of stuff, and they'll port over whatever they reasonably can. I fully expect the Wii console to sell as quickly as they can make them up to and through next X-mas, and it's awfully hard to ignore that kind of hardware movement if you want to make money selling software.

just figured out you can edit and play around with some of the message board photos, kids are having a blast with this throw away feature.

This Wii is the best thing I've bought since Tivo 6 years ago...

big ups for the TiVo