I just pre-ordered the premium pack from Amazon for £199.99. Game lists the same pack as £310. Letting retailers choose their pricing is going render dodgy results like this. I snapped up the Amazon price, but it'll most likely go up meaning I will have to pay the new price (no contract is formed until dispatch).

I keep refreshing the page and it's gone up to £279.99, then £284.99, and now nothing. Rather strange indeed.

Yes, it's traditional - but tradition often holds people back. This is a seamlessly executed example of a situation in which tradition has been abandoned in favour of cost-effectiveness and modernity. It's the result of an evolutionary process.

Typo in the final line of the article: should be "its" as opposed to "it's"

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_Wii_video_games

Incomplete and possibly unreliable but it's something.

I just played chaps by the names of Punny, Aidan, Sam, Matt, et al. They were some good races!

@theblackdragon I apologise.

@theblackdragon oh, I'm not jealous. I'm just VERY anti-consumerist Christmas culture. I just feel that if this guy wasn't so blazé about that, others wouldn't feel the need to bash him. But I guess this comes from the fact I live in South Africa where I see people in squalor on a daily basis and get angry that I can do so little to rectify the situation. It's me being 50% curmudgeonly, 50% saintly.

Comment #113 disgusts me in every imaginable way.

Agreed with @Singularity

I only got three of the four Wii games I asked for this Christmas.

#firstworldproblems

No Hanukkah stories? I could sure share a few of them over the past decade!

Sadly, after years in a Tibetan monastery, Wally still never found himself.

Sadly, after years in a Tibetan monastery, Wally never found himself.

It's a real pity: Kinect had so much potential but has failed to live up to expectations. The reviews of it have been terrible and, based on personal experience, it is a shocking way to play a game.

Thoroughly unimpressed by Microsoft here.

@16/BrazCanaMan

Your definition of 'good rails shooter' is pretty rubbish:

http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/wii/houseofthedeadoverkill?q=house%20of%20the%20dead%20wii

http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/wii/houseofthedead2and3return?q=house%20of%20the%20dead%20wii

http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/wii/residentevilumbrellachronicles?q=resident%20evil%20umbrella%20chronicles

The House of the Dead: Overkill is an okay game, as is Umbrella Chronicles. House of the Dead 2/3 is just distinctly average, defining 80/100 or more as a good/great/class game.

Oh, and on a footnote, if you want a SUPERB rail-shooter then:

http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/wii/sinandpunishment2

You evidently haven't played it.

I think you need to get your gaming sense back, dude. ALSO, I can't believe you want waste your (parents') hard-earned money on a game so frightfully disgraceful that it puts (most) other games to shame!

@WaltzElf

http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/wii/samuraiwarriors3

Samurai Warriors 3 is a decidely average game.

This is probably the best game on the DS. I simply love everything about this game. A definite candidate for the first '11/10'

@TokenGirl

I (and most other people) DO care if it's region locked. I bought my DS when it came out in America (a 6 month back between that and its European release date - I was the king of cool at school) and obviously bought American games.

Almost 6 years later, I now own 17 American DS games and no European ones. I now can't buy a European DSi and have to import one from America. Due to this issue, and the furore surrounding DSiWare and whether or not I'd be able to download games etc. I decided against importing one.

This is an emotional appeal to all those at Nintendo who read NintendoLife: Please don't region-lock the 3DS.

It's probably because most people who want or are interested in a DS, have one.

@Cipher

Indeed, but I literally reported it 3 minutes after the news story broke =)

I'm keen like that. Haha

Thanks to reader Mik for this news story ?

@ShaneGill:

I'm not sure if you know of how Metacritic calculates their scores, but they provide a weighted average. For example, if Nintendolife gave a game 9/10 and IGN gave it 10/10, then its "Metascore" would be 97 or so. Metacritic assigns more established publications with a better weighted average, and I believe IGN currently has the largest weighting. Seen as how IGN (UK, US and AUS) gave Super Mario Galaxy 2 10/10, the weighting of the Metascore will be significantly higher.

Pertaining to your saying that "It is literally 6th": Metacritic ranks games higher if they have more reviews (providing the games in question have the same Metascore). By the time the Australian launch comes, there will be about 80-90 reviews of the game on Metacritic, meaning that it will actually be second on the list (providing it still has the same Metascore of 98).

I hope this provides a clearer view on Metacritic.

@Iz2010: Even by today's standards, it'd still rank OoT as number 1 for me. Moreover, on the Metacritic list, many of those games are pre-2006. It just shows the decline in videogaming standards over the past few years. Developers rush to get their game out as soon as they can in order to capitalise on the sudden uptake of videogaming (granted, the Wii has somewhat caused this uptake).

@Nintendogames1000

Yeah, I just feel they could've expanded it a bit as the series goes:

Land -> World -> Galaxy

I still dislike the name. It should've been called Super Mario Universe, in my opinion.

Fergie <3

@Clinker

Number 5 will be 'Wii Scribble', perhaps =P

This is such a throwback to the days of old: the Super NES

@Everybody:

If it's new, it thus could not have existed before its current state and hence could not be improved upon as it never had anything to compare to.

' "New! Improved! Fancy!" '

How can something be both new and improved?!

The guy in the white looks like a Japanese Hitler.

Also, it's good to see that the 'heroes' are finally life-size as opposed to being the size of a building.

"on Wii ennui"

Just brilliant.

There's also Wii Chess, as part of the "Wii _____" series

I'd like to buy the first, in spite of its decidedly average reviews. It's VERY cheap, and that's the main selling point. It's probably sold more in the last few months than it did at launch.

I'd like to point out that they had four pranks this year, not just the GMail one. They also had Google Animal Translate, Google WiFI Commode and something which has escaped my mind...

I love how this article was released at exactly 12:00am on April 1st... makes you think...

A living legend <3

I heard Bowser will be playable. And Olimar from Pikmin. And Ike from Fire Emblem. I heard they're renaming the game to "Super Smash Bros. Brawl".

"We don't know why...he's the greatest dancer...that we've ever seen!"

Sister Sledge <3

Haha yeah, born and raised in SA, but I'm based in the UK now.

Another South African at Nintendolife? Never thought I'd see another one!

(I'm South African, just so we're clear)

"If you want to get all micro, that's more than 150 systems every minute for a week. Even more microscopic measurements put that at one sold every 2.5 seconds."

No, based on the figures given, that's 2.5 consoles per second, not the other way 'round.

I just thought I'd say that I competed in this at the Oxford Street branch of Game. I got on the leaderboard for all four events, but didn't really do much. However, I met Josh Stevens as he was behind me in the queue, so we got talking. I had no idea he went on to win it!

@Corbie "I need to bone up on the lingo it seems" <-- That's "da bomb". Do kids still say that these days?

The latest outing for Space Invaders was quality on the DS, so this'll be great too!

@SanderEvers

That would actually be the most incredible thing that would happen to this world.

Capcom vs. Kanye West

@Calculon

I couldn't disagree more if I tried. Wii Sports Resort is a fun-filled package that offers gamers that bought it what they want. I am a very serious gamer but I took a punt on this game and I can't enough of it!

Bit Trip SETI

Bit. Trip Trellis

@accc I think he said that so as to not spoil it for people who haven't played the game (yet)!