Let's talk about Wii!

jtelling

Mark - you'll LOVE Wii Sports. It's fun AND a workout. My favorite is the bowling mini-games personally :)

c-unit

I've been trying to get one for days, but they're no where to be found.

Stash

<rant>£179.99 — God I hate the way the UK gets so ripped off with just about everything</rant>

The Wii certainly looks interesting so I shall take a look none-the-less.

Denied

Once you subtract the £26.81 for VAT, the unit price of £153.19 means you're paying $297.88 for the Wii before taxes.

So you're really only paying £24.62 over the odds in the UK, which is likely the result of an import duty, or such.

[VAT calculated using TaxCentral's VAT Calculator and exchange rates using xe.com's Universal Currency Converter.]

Stash

Denied, you can rationalise it any way you like, I still hate the fact that we have to pay *SOOOO* much more for just about everything. I'm not blaming anyone specifically here, I just hate the result.

3stripe

Yeah us UK citizens do pay pretty high taxes for things compared to other places in Europe.

Denied

Don't get me wrong, I don't like it any more than you may, but I find it easier to swallow when I see that once you put taxes aside, it's not as deep of a gouging as it first appears.

In the end, though, it's all swings and round abouts.

Stash

It just makes me want to kill Blair et al...

But anyway, about that Wii...

leason

I almost got a Wii the day after Thanksgiving. Was walking up to the game store and saw two kids (about twelve years old) walking out -- each one had a Wii. I thought it was my lucky day, but found out ten seconds later that they got the last two... I wanted to drop kick them and their dumb mom. Then I realized how pathetic it was to want to slap a kid over a nintendo when I'm 27 years old. Go figure.

shatterglass

So what's the connection between Vanilla and the Wii, anyway? Actually, it makes sense. Clean, non-cluttered design, creamy white interface with sans-serif typeface, "underdog" market position, standards compliant basis (no HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray wars here)...if only the Wii were open source so I could afford one. Could we get an Italian mascot named Super Lussimo?

3stripe

haha!

Wanderer

December 7, that's when it arrives in Aussieland!

That's a Thursday, funny, all movies are released on a Thursday too.

Stash

Friday's the usual day in the UK, with Thursdays being for pre-releases...

Tex

249€ (=330$) in Germany on the 8th of December. My girlfriend pushes my to buy one. And I think she nearly got me. Does anyone know something about a Wii version of Super Mario Cart?

aribal

Looks like fun. I'd really like to try one. I bet I could almost convince the wife: Look honey! I actually have to *move* to play, it's like exercising. She always wants me to exercise. It's a pity that here in Argentina it will cost about 550 dollars, which is almost twice the minimum wage I don't think my wife will like it's price tag. :-(

Krak

I hate round abouts. Keep them over there I dont want them here.

Stash

OK aribal, now I feel like a whinging pomme =D (PS fx2.0'd GB dictionary doesn't have "whinging" in it!)

giginger

I was told the Aussie Thursday release was so that American film companies could add it to their mid-week totals for income. Don't know how true that is but it does make sense.

Don't know why that would apply to a Japanese company selling consoles though. Unless they just followed suit.

Tex

I got mine yesterday, at the official release date in Europe. Nice!

onetwentyeight

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB9Ru6vf0RU need. game. now...