Lord Gonchar

I don’t normally follow or read up on the games industry much, but lately it seems like this keeps popping up everywhere. A lot of good buzz about this one. Might have to give it a look.

So I was in the first batch of folks to get the Wii disc from Netflix. It came last Thursday, but I didn’t mess with it until a little bit ago.

Not much to say. It’s cool. It might get a little use around here. Mostly because we don’t have any other devices floating around to stream from Netflix (or anywhere else for that matter). Quality is equivalent to standard definition TV.

Once we get around to paying down much of the debt we ran up in the past year or so, I’d like to really set the house up with some new entertainment equipment. I’d love to get the whole house networked and streaming our entertainment options. We’re still using the receiver/speakers on the big TV that we bought in 1996.

Whatever. The Netflix streaming on Wii is neat. I’m sure there are much better options, but if you don’t have anything else around it’s nice to play with.

Cool.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/13/technology/companies/13netflix.html

Nintendo is bringing Netflix’s online streaming video service to its Wii gaming console, the most popular in the industry, the companies plan to announce Wednesday.

Just read that Nintendo is closing in on selling the 50 millionth Wii which makes it the fastest selling system of forever or something like that.

I think it’s great. I’m a total lifelong Nintendo fanboy and the fact that they just came in and changed the game and pulled it off is cool as hell. No one expected it.

I don’t frequent gamer forums or sites too often, but I have read stuff here and there and as far as I can tell hardcore game dorks are a lot like hardcore coaster dorks – if the product doesn’t cater to them, then it sucks and is a failure…no matter how much real world evidence there is to the contrary. Game dorks hating on Wii is as common and tired as coaster dorks hating on Six Flags. Pick a thread about each from some popular forum on the respective subjects and you’ll see the similarities are a little creepy.

At any rate, I think it’s pretty neat that the underpowered little system that offers mostly silly minigame collections that require mindless waggling and little beyond the goal of simply enjoying the game has captured the attention and imagination of so many people.