Wii Acquired
With no preorder and a grand total of about 11 minutes of waiting in line. It’s all about being in the right place at the right time.
EDIT: Just came across the following awesome quote from Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Mario, about why the Wii is going to fare better than the PS3:
“Too many powerful consoles can’t coexist. It’s like having only ferocious dinosaurs. They might fight and hasten their own extinction.” RAAARRR!
Wiiiiiiiiiiii!
Man, I could not give less of a shit about the PS3, and that can’t be good news when you figure that my job requires me to give a shit about it. I throw up in my mouth a little bit every time I read another story about losers camping out for days or spending ridiculous sums of money for the honor of being the first to get ripped off by what is probably the most overrated console in the history of video games.
That being said, my Saturday night is planned around two things: Watching Matt Hughes twist Georges St. Pierre into a French Canadian pretzel at UFC 65, and trying to get myself a Nintendo Wii at a midnight presale. Nintendo’s got it right this time. The Wii is cheap, it’s innovative, it’s a blast to play by all accounts, and with Nintendo promising 4 million units available worldwide by the end of 2006, there’s a chance you’ll actually get one.
SDvR 2007 Is Out!
The last game I wrote the scripts and dialogue for, WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2007, has just been released, and it’s getting some pretty decent reviews, which is always good news for those of us who enjoy the prospect of continued employment.
FUN FACT 1: The most-discussed storyline in the game is the one I didn’t come up with. I lay the blame for the “Candice Michelle turns male wrestlers into women with her magic wand” story squarely at the feet of my former script supervisor, who was either having a moment of pure insanity or pure genius. In retrospect, some might see it as him leaving a metaphorical turd on the desk of the company he was getting ready to leave, although he’s far too much of a pro to do something like that intentionally. I think.
FUN FACT 2: One of the storylines in the game featured former WWE Superstar Christian in a major role. As soon as I finished my first draft of the script, Christian opted not to renew his WWE contract and instead jumped to TNA (new, upstart rasslin’ company). We replaced him in the script with Eddie Guerrero, who died shortly after the second draft of the script was finished. Johnny Nitro was our third choice for the story, so if something awful happens to him, you know why.
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