I’ve been making excuses for a while now for why I shouldn’t finally own one. I don’t really have the money, I have other activities that I enjoy to spend my time on, maybe I’ll wait until they come in more colours, or until there’s some good homebrew. Some of these reasons still remain, but a few of them recently changed in a dramatic enough fashion that I’m now a proud owner of a bran new Nintendo Wii!

It happened while visiting Andrew at the opening of his new workplace, a Best Buy store, on Friday. I got to say hi and just hang out for a bit, going to have to try that again in a non-work setting though sometime soon It was fun to hang around the store and talk to some of the other staff too. A lot of them are just starting working for Best buy for the first time and it’s interesting to view the greeting, product pitches and of course the nervousness from them considering that I’ve worked for the sister company before. On a side note, I can’t believe their sale system didn’t change, it’s still that piece of shit green/darker green/black text system that we’ve used (it’s absolutely horrible, and the more you use it, the more you realise this).

But, we’ve come to see some Nintendo goodness and that’s exactly what we shall have!

Here it is still all dressed up!

Getting some more exposure.

I think more and more products that are considered stylish seem to be using the minimalistic packaging and look themes. Plain and simple colour choices and simplicity, Apple does it, Nintendo does it, and my cell phone maker Sony-Ericsson does it and I like it.

There’s definitely some kind of modeling thing going on in those last few shots. It’s definitely awesome looking for no real reason other then it looks really nice. Be warned, fingerprints are impossible to not get onto it immediately. I can’t imagine how people who have the gloss black PlayStation 3’s deal with that. Also, unfortunately, these pictures don’t entirely indicate how large it is and it’s pretty tiny. I can cover most of it with the palms of my two hands.

It’s smiling, that’s for sure. I was just debating if it looks more like KITT or a Cylon if I put some red moving lights in there

The comic joke of the whole situation is I still have nowhere to really put it and even try it. I am thinking I’m going to take it down to the lounge today or tomorrow, gather some people, and try it there. But if anyone’s looking for some Wii game nights, I have it, and 2 sets of controllers (I just couldn’t justify affording more) and let’s do it! I was also talking to Alice over Mongolian, thanks for coming again!, and I think I’m starting to become a bit of a Nintendo fanboy. I don’t think we have one of those yet, so I guess it’s alright. Oh, well, more later, cya!