The Royal Wii
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The Nintendo Wii has positioned itself as the gaming console for everybody. As it turns out, that includes the Queen of England. Well, sort of. …

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What makes the Queen’s “Royal Wii” different? It’s gold-plated, sucka! None of that lame white plastic for Buckingham Palace — the Queen needs her bling!

The Royal Wii

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A man on the inside has told Eurogamer that Okami Wii will be out here in summer. He sleeps in the walls.

That sounds a bit uncomfortable! Surely the dude can afford an apartment?

His words scupper suggestions from retailers that it will be out the same week as the US version that arrives on 25th March.

This is great news for me because it’s one of the games I really wanted to see released for the Wii. The other one being guitar hero. Now that they are both going to be available on the Wii I can scrap my plans to buy a PS2.

But Capcom Europe has remained reluctant to comment, leaving us with an initial and probably US forecast of spring to go by.

Hold on a second. I thought the guy who lives in the walls said it was going to be out in the summer. So is its springtime or the summer? I’m pretty sure that in March the UK summer is a long way away!

Okami is an action-adventure that Kristan bangs on and on about, claiming it was his joint favourite game of 2007. Which is probably why he gave it 10/10.

Well I think he’s right to bang on about it. It’s definitely one of my favorite games of 2007 and I think it well deserves his 10 out of 10 rating. We in the office are really looking forward to the Wii version and we hope it has proper widescreen support.

The translation to Wii is being handled by Ready at Dawn of Daxter and God of War PSP fame. Its paintbrush flourishes should fit the controls immaculately.

As far as we know Capcom are pretty much only trying to port the game in the exact same format with a slightly new control scheme. It would be great if they could include some visual updates and some extra content. We’ll just have to wait and see. That’s not to say that the game is lacking content but it would be nice to see the extra power available in the Wii used effectively.

This little number is definitely on our wish list and we’re getting quite excited about this release. We can’t wait to play the game and are confident that Okami will get the critical acclaim it deserves this time around.

Source: eurogamer

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Our current generation of consoles are powerful machines, but some clarification might be needed on whether or not they’ve surpassed their “toy-ish” roots. Are they toys or not? Well according to Best Buy, they’re not.

It’s true they certainly used to be toys but modern day video games could be considered so advanced that the word ‘toy’ may be inapplicable. Remember back in the day when the only video games we had were the basic tennis and squash games with little paddles to move your sad cursor up and down the screen? You need to be old (30+) to remember those. They were toys.

Dictionary definitions aside, this wouldn’t have been an issue if the point was clarified sooner. At least, before a customer tried to purchase a console and two video games with a coupon that entitled him to a discount on “toys.”

So this is nothing to do with dictionary definitions, at least in the eyes of the store. They obviously have their own definitions and will, if they have any sense at all, make the information available to the customer. Granted, the small print is a pain and most of us don’t read it … but, of course you should.

Rob recently tried to purchase an Xbox 360 in Best Buy with a coupon that entitled him on a discount on purchase of “toys.” Employees told him that the items did not qualify for the coupon as they aren’t toys.

It probably said on his coupon somewhere that it couldn’t be used for video games consoles. If the guy had actually taken the time to read that little bit of paper he could have saved himself a whole lot of time and aggravation, probably. Although if the terms and conditions were not clearly laid out then he would have a case against them.

Rob went home and checked Best Buy’s website, searching for the item “toy.” Halo 3 popped up as the first on the list, and a little down the list was the Xbox 360 platform. He called up Best Buy’s corporate office but he was met with the same response.

Again it all comes down to terms and conditions. The website will have it’s own T&C section which relates to the website only. The offline promotions can quite happily be governed by a separate set of terms and conditions which can, of course, change at any time. Rob could waste lots more time trying to get to the bottom of this but he’ll end up where he started. It’s just not worth trying to get any sense out of large companies these days! (in our experience).

Source: QJ