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Steve Gibson is the cofounder of Shacknews.com. Originally known as sCary's Quakeholio back in 1996, Steve is now President of Gearbox Publishing after selling Shacknews to GameFly in 2009.

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    September 15, 2006 6:00 PM

    I want the wiiiiiii badly!

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      September 15, 2006 6:09 PM

      seconded...... I kind of wanted it, but the details yesterday really sealed it for me....

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      September 15, 2006 6:10 PM

      me too, though I am inclined to wait for the why it gotta be black version.

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      September 15, 2006 6:11 PM

      I WILL SUCK REGGIE'S **** SO I CAN GET A WII RIGHT NOW. AND I WILL NOT SPIT!

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        September 15, 2006 6:20 PM

        I believe the word you're looking for is .cock It's okay to say it. About 90% of the Shack loves it too.

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      September 15, 2006 6:13 PM

      To add some actual discussion to this thread, for those who are going to be purchasing the system, what games will you be buying? I'll probably pick up:

      -Zelda (duh)
      -Excite Truck
      -Red Steel
      -Trauma Center (never played it on the ds)

      Afterwards:
      -MP3
      -Mario Galaxy
      -SSB:B
      -Rayman
      -Fire Emblem

      Wow. Considering most of those games are supposed to come out pretty soon if not at launch, that's awfully promising.

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      September 15, 2006 6:13 PM

      Users can easily download (for a fee) several of their favourite games for the NES, SNES, Nintendo 64, TurboGrafx, Mega Drive and even MSX from the Internet, and play them on Wii. <- from the europe site...... so are some games gonna be free and some cost points?

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        September 15, 2006 6:14 PM

        No. All games will cost Wii points. $5 for NES, $8 for SNES, and $10 for N64 as far as I know. They haven't mentioned prices on other systems yet.

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      September 15, 2006 6:16 PM

      i want resident evil wii but i don't want to use the wiimote for it

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        September 15, 2006 6:18 PM

        Then why not just play a RE game on another system?

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          September 15, 2006 6:23 PM

          because re wii will be based off different chapters of each RE game with updated graphics and a RE 4 style gameplay which is awesome.

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        September 15, 2006 6:20 PM

        why don't you like the wiimote?

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      September 15, 2006 6:18 PM

      You must be rich to afford the extra 50$.

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        September 15, 2006 6:21 PM

        I see what you did there.

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        September 15, 2006 6:22 PM

        I'll put it this way, the extra $50 would have gone towards supporting another developer's title.

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        September 15, 2006 6:23 PM

        I just wish I could have used that 50 bucks to buy another game. Though with Metroid Prime 3 being delayed I'm not sure what I'd get now besides Zelda. There are other seemingly good games in there, but I'm not really all that interested in them.

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          September 15, 2006 6:51 PM

          What you say is sad buy I agree with you.. Right now only Zelda gets me wet.. And Wii Play maybe, just maybe.

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          September 15, 2006 6:53 PM

          Super Mario Galaxy!

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          September 15, 2006 7:28 PM

          excite truck duh!

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      September 15, 2006 6:22 PM

      Question, can you also download Gamecube games or do you still have to have the physical disk, etc, to play on a Wii?

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        September 15, 2006 6:22 PM

        They're not downloadable, it's just backwards compatible with the discs.

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          September 15, 2006 6:23 PM

          That's what I figured. Good time to start looking around on ebay for classic GC titles, eh?

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