Wii

[emperor]

[Taro Toporific]

Did Nintendo Punk Us with Wii?

Never underestimate the "brilliance" of corporate Japan.

Wii Conspiracy Theories -- Tinfoil-hat Time
joystiq.com 2006/04/28

[Kuang_Grade]

Just because the trademark doesn't show up in a USPTO search doesn't mean a trademark hasn't been filed, just that one hasn't been registered as of yet (there can be upwards to a year and a year and half between filing and registration).

Wii.com (which is down) is held by
Willamette Industries, Inc.
3600 First Interstate Tower
Portland, OR 97201
US
Willamette (a big paper company) merged with weyerhaeuser (another paper/wood product company) in 2002 and the combined entity doesn't seem to do business under willamette anymore.

I can't see Nintendo, especially with their current "fuck you tech whores MS and Sony...look what I can do to gaming with 20 year old touch screen tech" viewpoint, doing a viral like this.

[Taro Toporific]

Never underestimate the "brilliance" of corporate Japan.

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Nintendo Wii (Deliverance version---video on YouTube.com)
"Squeal louder boy. Wii, wii...."
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Via PinkTentacle from CrazyJapan.

[amdg]

Just because the trademark doesn't show up in a USPTO search doesn't mean a trademark hasn't been filed, just that one hasn't been registered as of yet (there can be upwards to a year and a year and half between filing and registration).

It's already there anyway, under the list of pending applications. No. 78870906
(APPLICANT) Nintendo Co., Ltd. CORPORATION JAPAN 11-1, Hokotate-cho, Kamitoba, Minami-ku Kyoto-shi, Kyoto JAPAN. They have a few applications for Wii in all sorts of classes.

[Taro Toporific]

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Nintendo Says Women, Elderly Key to Wii Game Player
Bloomberg, Sept 20.....``We want to appeal to mothers who don't want consoles in their living rooms, and to the elderly and to young women,'' President Satoru Iwata said in an interview. ``It's a challenge, like trying to sell cosmetics to men.''...``We are not battling Sony or Microsoft,'' Iwata said. ``Our enemy is consumer indifference to games.''....

[Captain Japan]

Never underestimate the "brilliance" of corporate Japan.

The sarakin loan-shark unit of Citigroup Japan rebranded its operation from "AIC" to "DIC" late last year. Here is a shot of the new Miss DIC right here:

[Taro Toporific]

YouTube.com:"Squeal louder boy. Wii, wii...."

An angry otaku whinges about Wii in a short Flash animation.

[INDENT]A Whiney Nerd Complains About Stuff
Something Awful: Shmorky - Monday, September 25, 2006

I'M GONNA STICK THIS UP MY BUTTHOLE[/INDENT]

[IkemenTommy]

Even this guy made his special appearance yesterday

[Caustic Saint]

I got mine!

[IkemenTommy]

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This was supposedly demoed back in May, way before the actual product launch date.

[Taro Toporific]

The Wiibrator
Via Slashdong: December 23, 2006
The torch has been passed, and a new generation of consoles are perverted. The circle of wank begins again.
I'd been hearing talk that people had been doing bluetooth hacking with the wii controller...
...Wiibrator is a python application for Linux that puts control of a TranceVibrator ...

[IkemenTommy]

A woman dies competing for a Wii system.
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[kurohinge1]

A woman dies competing for a Wii system . . .

[SIZE="3"]"No wee for a Wii",
Now, no mum for 3,
Dead for a game,
10 given the blame.[/SIZE]

[SIZE="4"]10 sacked over fatal water contest[/SIZE]

A Californian radio station fired 10 employees, including its three morning disc jockeys, after a woman died following an on-air water-drinking contest last week . . . more

I say the radio station should help with the 3 children (no mention of the ages) now left without a mother! I'd never heard of water intoxication and it sounds like none of the contestants or even those running the competition appreciated how serious it is - something the radio station should have known before promoting such a contest. Chances are, if they had looked into it properly, they would have abandoned the idea or been told by their insurer to forget it.

Sometimes there's a reason why no one else has done it before!

Sadly, my signature also applies.

[amdg]

We've had a Wii in our office for about 6 months. We can use it during our free time. We got it early only because wii do all the patent protection for Nintendo. I haven't had time to try in out, only because I have no free time because we do all the patent protection for Nintendo.

[dimwit]

I promised my son that I would buy him one for his birthday if he got A's on his report card. His birthday is next week and I have been spending the better part of the last week trying to find one. Oh the joys of crazed consumerhood.

[Charles]

I promised my son that I would buy him one for his birthday if he got A's on his report card. His birthday is next week and I have been spending the better part of the last week trying to find one. Oh the joys of crazed consumerhood.

Just tell him, "I didn't say which birthday. Maybe next year."

[Hanakuso]

Just tell him, "I didn't say which birthday. Maybe next year."

My Mum did that once... Im still waiting for my damn motorbike!!!

[American Oyaji]

I did the same thing as dimwit. I'll buy one when I get to Japan in March/April

[dimwit]

Well I smashed the shit out of a couple of lights playing Wii baseball last night. My wife and son have knocked over stuff playing tennis. I get the feeling there is going to be a rash of Wii related household injuries as a result of playing it in the confined spaces of most Japanese houses.

[Mulboyne]

Tribune: Wii bowling knocks over retirement home

At the Sedgebrook retirement community in Lincolnshire, where the average age is 77, something unexpected has been transpiring since Christmas. The residents, most of whom have never picked up a video game controller in their life, suddenly can't put the things down. "I've never been into video games," said 72-year-old Flora Dierbach last week as her husband took a twirl with the Nintendo Wii's bowling game. "But this is addictive." Dierbach said residents love the Wii set up in the clubhouse lounge. "They come in after dinner and play," she said. "Sometimes, on Saturday afternoons, their grandkids come play with them. "A lot of grandparents are being taught by their grandkids. But, now, some grandparents are instead teaching their grandkids"...more...

[American Oyaji]

That's actually pretty darn cool. Might even extend some of their lives a bit if they don't over do it.

[dimwit]

That's actually pretty darn cool. Might even extend some of their lives a bit if they don't over do it.

Or break everything in the room they are playing in.

[kurohinge1]

As the Scottish would say - careful you don't have a Wii accident.

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[tidbits]

not excactly Wii related

[james]

my wife and sons are going over to canada for the summer, while i stay back in japan (ostensibly to work ). we have a wii here and my parents bought one a few months ago.

i know that without modding a system the games won't play, but can anyone here confirm if the boys bring over their controllers if they can use them on a north american market system?

seems grandma bought mario cart and an extra wheel or two so they want to play four at a time.

[Kuang_Grade]

I can't say that I know this from personal experience, but I suspect they should since the wii's connection to the remote works via bluetooth and infrared, both of which should not run into any gov. spectrum regulation hurdles requiring nation/region specific controller versions.

http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=26156371

http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=25887293

These forum posts claim that US remotes work in the EU and J remotes work in the US.

Also play-asia, a large video game exporter doesn't mention any specific issues with purchasing wii remotes or nunchuks and they usually have some thing posted when there is a territorial lockout issue with a given item.

http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-10u-49-en-70-1ln7-40-1.html#reviews

[IkemenTommy]

And now, the ultimate party game... the Wii Beer Pong

[Kuang_Grade]

SEGA's House of the Dead OVERKILL for the wii

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While I'm a sucker for the grindhouse motif I thought this was one more effective game trailers I've seen in a while and it is for the wii..if only more wii games promised to be so frightening that you will cry blood from your own eyes.....

[Sentakki Fried Chicken]

May already be here, but, from Wii to Wee....
http://gigazine.net/index.php?/news/comments/20081227_super_pii_pii_brothers/