Sorry for the lack of updates, but I have been busy with work, school and many other things. I did manage to get my Nintendo Wii on launch day. It was quick and painless since I preordered it the day EB took preorders. The location I went to had 12 preorders and I was number 9 in a line of gamers when I arrived at 9 am. Over the next 3 minutes, additional people came in to claim the rest of the preorders. But most of this is stuff you have already heard other people talk about for the past few weeks, so enough of that. So here's a short synopsis of my travels.

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Didn't get that Wii or PS3 preorder? Well, you might want to check out these websites as they have some "insider" information on where you may have the biggest chance of getting a Wii and a PS3.

I also realized that Stick & Stones didn't get transferred over to our new site. The TotalGamerZ server is still up, so until I can get it up and running you can access our old content here. I am still thinking of doing an "Expansion Set" so there may be some new ones in the near future.

I went to EB Games today and picked up Cooking Mama for the Ds and noticed a Nintendo representative was in there. I asked the store clerk if they were taking pre-orders for the Wii and said that he wasn't sure if they even would since they had shortage with the 360. So, he asked the Nintendo rep and she thought they should be able to since there would be plenty at launch. He asked her how many were going to launch, and she replied, "2 million." That's right, the big 2 million. There shouldn't be a huge scarce of systems as I as I was afraid of, but I am definitely going to keep checking back on trying to pre-order one.

That trailer sparked interest in many games that I had no idea about for the Wii. One of them looked like Cooking Mama which was just released on the DS. BUT the main interest was something that looked like Harvest Moon and I stumbled up some information and many scans.

Update: I found the original Japanese (Babel Fish Translation) site and they also have some screen shots for the new DS Harvest Moon to accompy the Wii version.

The Wii will be released in North/South America on November 19th. It will sell for $250 in the United States and will include the game Wii Sports (including tennis, golf, baseball and bowling). There is no word as of yet on how many Wii remotes it will come with but other rumors point to two. Nintendo is supposed to officially announce everything around 8am CST (9/14/06).

Read more at Seattlepi

EDIT: I would like to note the above is speculation, but sounds real. The Japanese Release date is confirmed at Dec 2nd 2006 at 25000 yen.Oh, and Wii.com works
EDIT2: Neat little Wii trailer

And don't forget about Weeeeeeeee!

This seems pretty interesting.

Nintendo has finally revealed their Revolutionary controller. It is...well... interesting, but I am slightly uncertain. Multiple sites have covered it with many pictures.

Around seven pictures of the system. Nintendo is not showing the controller yet, so it looks like we will have to wait on that. I like the white and light silver color for the system and the blue loading slot.

Since the unvieling of the Xbox360 and the PS3, Nintendo finally decided to give everyone a peek at what is in store for us. The design is nice and simple but I dont know how it will hold up to the power of the PS3 and the Xbox360.