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.
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.
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.
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?
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?
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. :-(
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.
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The Wii certainly looks interesting so I shall take a look none-the-less.
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.
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In the end, though, it's all swings and round abouts.
But anyway, about that Wii...
That's a Thursday, funny, all movies are released on a Thursday too.
Don't know why that would apply to a Japanese company selling consoles though. Unless they just followed suit.