Where did any of you learn about the 2009 cutover? Best Buy sales associates?

The digital conversion affects such a limited number of US customers, on the order of 10%, that most people buying digital televisions are doing so for reasons other than the cut off or out of ignorance or on the advice of predatory sales personal at big box stores. The digital conversion only affects people who watch over-the-air broadcasts. The 2009 date does not affect cable, though the FCC is seperately working with cable companies and may, in the future, mandate digital cable. Digital television does not equal high definition television.

The fact of the matter is that all televisions that can accept a converter box, generally meaning any television that can at least accept a coax cable input, will display over-the-air digital broadcasts (ATSC signals).

Tell me, when is the last time you used an antena to watch television? I'm sure some of you, like me, own tvs with ATSC tuners and tried it out. Some of you, like me, also realized that the new digital offerings are significantly better than the analog offerings in both content and quality. At the same time, the offerings have the same limitations existing OTA television does. It's not cable and therefore doesn't affect a vast majority of US consumers in the least.

From the interview: "The title will be available this summer 2007. No price point has been determined yet."

It's not a port of Outpost. It's a new game, with some similar elements. It appears to be a full game, with cooperative mode, potential for WiiConnect24, but no WiFi multiplayer. Not a lot of details have been released.

All this hype about a PR retraction and no further details? Sounds like someone has an agenda they just can't let go of.

The Wii sold nearly 500k units in November, and has been available at various points at large national retailers in December. Walmart and Target each had large shipments in the past week. Just about every major retailer is stockpiling shipments for December 17 for advertised sales. Now tell me: does another measly 500k sound like too much for Nintendo to sell?

As someone with years of marketing and PR experience, I read the strike of that one line to be an admission of an error on the part of Nintendo's PR department. It's bad form to say something like "spot shortages" in this kind of release. That kind of information should be left to one on one interviews or not mentioned until well after it's been resolved.

The Wii appears, by all accounts, to be well on its way to shipping 1,000,000+ units to the US by the end of the year. It's already well past that point in sales, and each of the next two weekends will see major national chains with major marketing campaigns mentioning stock of Wiis. (Best Buy, Circuit City, Toys R Us) In the past week alone, Target and Wal-mart each had large shipments of Wiis, and the word is there will be at least one more round at each store before Christmas, if not more.

It's possible Nintendo is recalling those items in the supply channel, but I don't think that's what this correction means. Sometimes tea leaves are just dried leaves.

Whatever happened to the predictions of upwards of ten million units being manufactured for Q4? There were even some analysts even predicting Nintendo had manufactured between 6 and 10 million units prior to launch.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6159406.html

"nintendos needs to " calm down" the actors in thier rediculously over-the-top Wii ads depicting people doing the SAME THINGS we are complaining about here."

Show us one Nintendo made advertisement where someone actually uses the same amount of force as the moron who threw his Wiimote into the wall while serving in Wii Tennis.

Stopped by the local EBGames and the local Gamestop at 6:00 am for the advertised 7:00 am opening. EBGames had six people in line ahead of us, Gamestop had 15 people in line. We waited at EBGames until the employee showed up. He informed the line that they only had two Wii and two PS3. When we left line at 7:20, the line had grown to over fifty people, and the store had not opened yet. Similar story at Gamestop. They only had six Wii and no PS3. By 7:20 am, there were close to 100 people in line.

The best part? The stores were not opening until 8:00 AM. Both stores had no extra controllers or other accessories. It was an awful experience and a complete waste of time.

Thanks to Nintendo and Walmart for a great launch here in CT. There were less than thirty consoles available, but all went smooth. The first person waited a total of 16 hours for the privilege and the last person cut it close by waiting just over six hours.

It was sad to see the people who arrived as time ran out at midnight only to find out they had to wait in line for 8 hours at Best Buy or Target to get one locally, but there were no incidents. In fact, it was an awesome time all around.

For what it is worth, Aaron, all of the keyboards I've tried with my XBox 360 work with no problems, including wireless (with USB dongles). I have no idea what this "mini-keyboard plug-in device" is, but it sounds like it has high profit margins.