Canadian kiddo goes absolutely bonkers upon receiving Wii for Christmas

Given the completely ridiculous Wii shortage that's still ongoing, there's obviously no shame in being somewhat off your rocker if one shows up in a nicely wrapped box. That said, there's still no way anyone in their right mind should get this excited about receiving a $299 game console, but we can't say we didn't get a few laughs out of watching his celebration. We'll stop yapping and let you get to it -- head past the break to watch the world's happiest Canadian of all time. Just make sure your volume isn't jacked first.

[Via Nintendo Wii Fanboy]

[erwin @ Jan 4th 2009 6:57AM]

damn....he looks and acts like mougli!

[Samboini @ Jan 4th 2009 7:13AM]

I'm surprised no-one has commented on his sister yet.

[Blastar @ Jan 4th 2009 7:28AM]

Damn.. what do they feed him with ?

[Snake @ Jan 4th 2009 9:26AM]

damn his sister looks hot :P

[AgonS @ Jan 6th 2009 4:58PM]

His sister is a floating head?

[jgibbs3718 @ Jan 4th 2009 10:49AM]

Too bad it wasn't a fake empty box stuffed with clothes

[Rod @ Jan 4th 2009 1:50PM]

If you play the video in reverse, you can see that he's actually a demon. His tail and horns are a giveaway.

[Gonzalo Garcia @ Jan 4th 2009 6:37PM]

@Samboini:
The guy in the yellow shirt is TOTAL HOTTIE!!!

[Knee to the Groin @ Jan 4th 2009 6:40PM]

@agent

Wow dude, looks like someone got a Wii box with a sweater in it huh?

[RBRT @ Jan 4th 2009 9:36PM]

Wow... The kids reaction is similar to that of my 12 year old sister... earshattering! What's he trying to do, kill the poor people? I have gotten much better gifts than a stupid wii and I never squealed like that! Usually my reaction is, "oh my god!" whenever I recieve an awesome gift...

[BeniRose @ Jan 5th 2009 12:22PM]

NINTENDO-SIXTY FOURRRRR!!!!

[kingofdaberbz @ Jan 4th 2009 6:57AM]

Wow, the kid's acting like he got a Playstation. Now that would be kind of kewl.

[Wiigee @ Jan 4th 2009 7:01AM]

yeah but then at some point hed realize that there are like 3 good games for the ps3 and start crying.

[Ten @ Jan 4th 2009 6:54PM]

@Wiigee
i wonder then what he's gonna do when he realizes there are no good games for the Wii

[Patriks7 @ Jan 4th 2009 7:41AM]

Do you guys have to turn every post into some sort of flaming? :\
Each console has its good and bad things..
And you can't say which console has better games, cause they aren't aimed at the same type of people.. I doubt you'd see a hardcore gamer with a Wii, or people playing a PS3 at a family reunion.. It just won't happen..

[Paul Chapel @ Jan 4th 2009 8:11AM]

The Xbox 360 has one or two great games, but then you have to deal faulty NAT issues in Xbox Live and twelve year olds screaming in your ear. And then there's the ridiculous point system. Why the hell can't Microsoft just use real money? You have to be a math whiz to figure out what 100 points means in terms of real dollars. Even after I left the Xbox 360 after two Red Rings of Death, I couldn't cancel Xbox Live from Microsoft's website or even on the console itself. Why the heck do they have to make it so hard? I don't want to talk to those idiots. I get enough quality time with them when Windows gets deactivated by WGA after a hardware change.

My advice is, don't get an Xbox. Get a PS3 and wait for developers to make better games for it. It's obvious from masterpieces like MG4 that it has the capability of better graphics. The 360 just got released a little earlier, that's all.

[Aaron @ Jan 4th 2009 8:18AM]

@ WiiGee

Judging from your name I'd say you're a Wii owner, so I'm sure you know what it's like to not have any games to play...

Welcome to the wonderful world of downranking!

[SOOPERGOOMAN @ Jan 4th 2009 9:20AM]

This video is a SHAM, it was staged. Look at how the kid looks at the camera for his que to go nuts. No respect from me at all. A wii, come on, this kid is going to be teased tomorrow at school. His folks should have spent the extra hundred and got him a PS3.


And for the guy bitchin about NAT issues, just set a DMZ in your router using the routers IP address or set it to have your console's IP address, either way will fix NAT issues, which on the ps3 is not an issue at all. Any Nat type will let you play, talk and compete in games, home, chat through PSN...

[Tom Moitie @ Jan 6th 2009 11:12AM]

Judging by these comments, I have to assess that Engadget is now full of idiots who take the internet waaaaay too serious.

And for the record, @Patriks7, there was no flame war till you started it.

[Tehseen Hussain @ Jan 4th 2009 10:48AM]

100 points = 1.25

[ProfessorDex @ Jan 4th 2009 11:20AM]

@ Tom

Since you're obviously not clever enough to notice on your own, the flame war started with kingofdaberbz comment.

[Jarhead2012 @ Jan 4th 2009 11:48AM]

Although Microsoft's Xbox LIVE service is most definitely the most well put-together online service, it does kind of suck that it's a pay-to-play subscription. Also, The PS3 has some good exclusive titles, but the Halo and Gears series make up for it. The 360 is also a better console for streaming media from the home PC and has a much broader range of titles than the PS3. There are a lot more family games available for the 360 than the PS3, and just as many, if not more, action games and shooters. However, the Wii is easily the best console for the casual gamer (however terrible from a hard-core gamer's perspective)

[zioncat @ Jan 4th 2009 11:59AM]

Those damn Canadians know how to put on a show.

[Paul Chapel @ Jan 4th 2009 12:06PM]

I stopped being wowed by the Xbox "exclusives" when I realized that just about all of them could be bought for my PC. And Halo sucks. Halo has always sucked. It's one of the most over-hyped games in gamer history. Gears of War was okay, with kind of a trash story line. You can get it for your PC. Bioshock was cool, but later available for PS3. Also available for PC.

Meanwhile, PS3 has God of War 3, Rachet and Clank, Gran Turismo 5, Little Big Planet, Motorstorm 1 & 2, Uncharted 2, Resistance 1 & 2, Killzone 2, Metal Gear Solid 4, etc, etc. Can't get that stuff for your PC.

[bassiks @ Jan 4th 2009 12:55PM]

God will you guys shut up already,
Buy the console you like and play games. Stop arguing over whos console is better, that got old in 2006.
Personally i have a PS3, Why?
Because ive had a PS1,2,PSP and the majority of my mates have PS3's
I don't care if someone prefers 360 because i have bigger things to worry about that what other people think of my console.
It's as if all you guys worked for either sony or microsoft and singlehandedly made both consoles.
Thats the only way you could justify going mental when someone says something negative about your beloved console.

[Rob Bourne @ Jan 4th 2009 1:01PM]

Just as well, Paul. All of those games, bar LBP and God of War, are terrible.

[ProfessorDex @ Jan 4th 2009 1:18PM]

@ zioncat

Please be aware, that not all Canadians are as spastic as this child.

[Zeus.:God @ Jan 4th 2009 1:19PM]

Apparently Paul Chapel doesn't play video games- he just badmouths Microsoft products. Probably hasn't touched a PS3 or a Wii either.

Halo always sucked? Not true. I agree Halo 3 sucks, but that's only because it's the same thing as Halo 2. It's a solid game- just as they all have been. The only reason Halo 3 and Halo 2 were so popular were because of how revolutionary the first one was for console gaming. I dare you to find a game that compared to Halo CE back when it was released- and I'm talking about on consoles, I know there were a few PC games that could compare.

[Brian @ Jan 4th 2009 1:52PM]

@Paul Chapel

I counted 3, maybe four games that I thought were good games. You just named all of the exclusives, not separating good ones. And BTW, you just hate on microsoft products. If you want a truly stunning game, build a gaming PC for the same amount you would've put towards that PS3 when it came out and play crysis on high or ultra-high. Not only are the visuals stunning, but the physics and originality of the storyline is out of this world.

BTW, are you the one who brags about his S550? You people who waste all of their money on a car for bragging rites. I can actually buy a car, and have enough money to fill my BMW M6 (lie, I only have an '08 528).

[Paul Chapel @ Jan 4th 2009 4:37PM]

If you take in account that the PS3 can play PS2 games through emulation, the PS3 dwarfs the Xbox 360's library and according to the latest statistics more people still pay PS2 titles than all the other consoles. I've used about every consumer product put out by Microsoft, except for the Zune and I gotta say, I wish they would just stay away from hardware. They suck at it, but their fan base puts up with it, which enables them to continue with their shoddy business practices.

I got one Red Ring of Death with my 360 and was willing to give then another chance. But after the second one, I had to move on. If more people were willing to do the same, maybe they would clean up their act.

[Jak Tiano @ Jan 4th 2009 9:01PM]

Well, owning all three conolses, I believe that the PS3 is the best console of tis generation. I've played al the games listed by paul, minus MGS4 and killzone 2 (obviously lol), and those are basically a list of my top favorite games, with only jak 2 missing from the list. The PlayStation brand has been around much longer, and has plenty more games worth playing than the Xbox 360. and trophies are better than achivements. done... feel free to flame or whatever, but i just state the facts, and im not coming back to see what you say...

[jbuers @ Jan 5th 2009 1:00PM]

NAT issues? Surely you must be joking.

You only have NAT issues if you don't know how to add port exceptions (for the static IP of your 360) to your router/firewall, which I assume you don't. Most of the recommended-by-salesperson (Linksys, Netgear, D-Link) broadband routers allow the 360 to talk to the internet mutually (send and receive) whereas most VPN or decent firewalls/routers will only allow the 360 to send data.

[RUGRLN @ Jan 4th 2009 6:57AM]

Dam...that kid seemed to be waiting a long while for it!

[I LOVE THE CAPS LOCK KEY @ Jan 4th 2009 11:00PM]

Yes. And now would be the ideal time to Invade Canada and get the one thing more that is more valuable than their oil, this kids Wii. Send in the troops!

[smilgy @ Jan 4th 2009 6:59AM]

he looks evil

[swingin' dick hero @ Jan 4th 2009 8:09AM]

In the future that'll be the same kid that shoots his family for not letting him play as a punishment.

[Wodheila @ Jan 4th 2009 8:45AM]

Exactly, can you imagine what he would have done had he not got it? I can picture him setting fire to the place.

[SOOPERGOOMAN @ Jan 4th 2009 9:21AM]

Should be the lead role in a new adaptation of the Excorsist.

[lennox @ Jan 4th 2009 10:22AM]

swingin' dick hero - yeep, but only in the USA - where EVERY IDIOT can get a gun - in Poland we havo ZERO shoting psychopats, cause it's almost imposible for a normal citizen to get a gun, well if you're hunter and don't have any crime record, than you'll get a hunting gun but you have to have permission from the police, and go thru psycological tests etc., and we have LESS MURDERS IN A YEAR IN WHOLE 40 MILION POLAND THAN U HAVE IN LOS ANGELES ALONE IN A MOUNTH !!!! You gotta be an idiot to think that games, or ANYTHING else is responsible for thouse murderous raids in USA, THIS IS 100% "everybody can get a gun" policy fault !!! I repeat - 100% !

[get @ Jan 4th 2009 10:28AM]

oh hell, sorry for the double

[Adam @ Jan 4th 2009 11:00AM]

@lennox

Yes, you guys have very strict gun laws in Poland which would probably explain why you guys get invaded and occupied everytime a war breaks out in Europe. Maybe if Poles had the right to bear arms like we do in our constitution like we do Poland wouldn't be the only country with more war losses than France.

P.S. Yes, we seem to do murder quite well in the US, but at least we're smart enough not to let twin brothers who resemble Creed Bratton run our country.

[setclock @ Jan 4th 2009 11:29AM]

@ Adam

Fully agree Adam,
A population without guns is just waiting for the next invasion.
"get" probably thinks the EU will stop the next invasion LOL !
or maybe the UN ! ROFL!!!

@ get

If Putin and the Russians ever truly go nuts and invade Eastern Europe, bringing them to Poland's border with thousands of tanks and troops, there's only one force on the planet Earth that could and would stop them. Those idiot American gun loving psychopaths.

There would be no Poland without the Americans. But maybe you're one of those Sieg-Heil loving Polish skin head bastards who would have preferred a Hitler victory.

[larry Friedman @ Jan 4th 2009 11:50AM]

@get/lenox, way to loose any credibility. good job there.

Hate to say it but when it comes to war it's the idiot gun lovers who save the pacifists.

[Britain @ Jan 4th 2009 12:08PM]

@setclock, you americans did not win the war, you did not obtain the enigma machine from the germans and no body wants to invade you beacuse what do you have of value? The British did most of it, you americans just helped, pitty some of you have such a poor education that you think otherwise... hollywood isnt always right! Also It was the british who promised to protect poland... not America, the US had to be attacked before you did anything about the Axis!

[kiv @ Jan 4th 2009 12:35PM]

@ Brittain

Ok, next time we'll let Brittain develop a new super weapon and drop it on the enemy. You guys sure woulda been fine without us.

I think the real point they were trying to make is that, contrary to that unprovoked verbal assault by that idiot polish douchebag, it is better to be a gun toting american psycho than a pushover pussy pole.

[Agent .25i @ Jan 4th 2009 12:24PM]

Thats all fine and dandy, Lennox. But then you would HAVE to live in POLAND.
I'd rather take a chance of some kid with a gun killing me, than live in that fucking place.
100% true!

[nikki6ixx @ Jan 4th 2009 1:10PM]

Why are you morons going about American gun murders when this kid is a Canadian?

[Brian @ Jan 4th 2009 2:01PM]

@Brittain

Last time I checked, the US was fighting a war on two fronts, with the japanese front being more demanding than the european front.

@americans

Last time I checked, Germany was also developing the same technologies for nuclear wess- I mean, weapons.

The british needed the US forces to help win the fight, and both fought evenly. The brits would've been defeated without american assistance, and vice versa. The RAF and USMC won the fight.

[lowdef @ Jan 4th 2009 2:21PM]

ahh yes poland. the mexico of europe.

[Setnev @ Jan 4th 2009 4:23PM]

Wow how did we go from a kid getting a Wii, to PS3 flame wars and USA gun control? Geez, people, get a fucking life, its a kid that got a Wii. Share his excitement for once.