Tech and Amusing Stuff

Via Wii Fanboy

Via Gizmodo

Japan is getting this very rare Super Famicom Classic Controller (know as the Super Nintendo here in the U.S. of A) for the Wii, you won’t be able to get one of these in the states unless you get lucky and find it on ebay, even then you are gonna have to drop some serious cash. Good luck.

Via Wiifanboy

Akihabara News got a hold of the japanese version of Mario Kart Wii, here’s the unboxing:

Why throw your money on buying an official Wii Wheel?

When you can make it yourself…

Via some Japanese website that i can’t understand

Via Technabob 

“Nintendo sold 331,627 units of the Wii in the four weeks to February 24, compared with 89,131 units of the PS3, Enterbrain said on Thursday.The Wii’s lead on the PS3 appears to be widening: In January, Nintendo’s game console outsold Sony’s by almost 3-to-1.

Nintendo’s own “Super Smash Bros. Brawl” for the Wii became the best-selling software for the month in Japan, with 1.33 million units sold, followed by the “Wii Fit” home fitness game, which sold 309,311 units in the four weeks, Enterbrain said.

The Wii has been leading the three-way game console battle with the PS3 and Microsoft Corp’s (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) Xbox 360 as its strategy of offering easy-to-play and innovative games to expand the overall game population has proved a big success.

Microsoft, whose videogame business is struggling in Japan, home to both Sony and Nintendo, sold 14,079 Xbox 360 units.”

Via Reuters

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Excerpt from VG Chartz:

“Nintendo’s latest console, the Wii, which was released in November 2006 in North America, and December 2006 in the rest of the world will surpass the lifetime sales of the Nintendo Gamecube by February 16, 2008.

Through February 9, 2008 Wii has sold 21.490 million consoles, while Gamecube had sold 21.515** million consoles. Worldwide, Gamecube has been selling fewer than 500 units per week lately, while Wii has been selling several hundred thousand units per week. Using the week ending February 9^th, when Wii sold 447,000 units in one week as an estimate for rate of increase (~64,000 units sold worldwide per day) for the week ending 2/16 Wii lifetime sales caught and surpassed Gamecube lifetime sales on February 10^th, 2008.“

Via VG Chartz

These are all great games, here’s a list if you would like to purchase any of them (through amazon.com)

Bioshock (Xbox 360, PC)

The Orange Box (Playstaion 3, Xbox 360, PC)

Rock band (Playstaion 2, Playstaion 3, Xbox 360)

God of War II (Playstaion 2)

Crysis (PC)

World in Conflict (PC, Xbox 360)

Super Mario Galaxy (Wii)

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Xbox 360, Playstaion 3, PC)

Forza Motorsport 2 (Xbox 360)

Halo 3 (Xbox 360)

“Earlier today, Nintendo revealed that they have sold more Wii’s in the last two weeks than in any week since the systems initial launch last November.

Nintendo has reportedly sold over 350,000 Wii’s last week, during the Thanksgiving holiday, whereas they moved over 300,000 the week prior. The last time sales were this high in a two week time frame was when the system launched and sold over 600,000 units in its first eight days of release.

“I couldn’t find a single Wii system on the shelves - literally as I was walking into a Wal-Mart at 11 a.m., someone was walking out with the last one,” stated Fils-Aime. “Consumers are buying every game we can put into the system.”

Earlier this year, Nintendo predicted that they would sell 17.5 million Wii’s before the end of the fiscal year, which ends on March 31. Currently, Nintendo is manufacturing 1.8 million Wii’s a month to reach demand worldwide.”

One year ago today this magical little console came out, it sucks you still cant find it though, but anyways happy one year Wii!!!