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Light Speed · Post by **Light Speed** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 5:33 pm

I'm pretty sure the Wii comes with a remote and a nunchuck.

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 6:27 pm

I can understand Wii not coming with component cables, as most of the casual gaming audience doesn't have that kind of TV yet, but what's the deal about having to buy a numchuck separately? That's bullshit.

It comes with a nunchuck, genius.

Shadow Hog · Post by **Shadow Hog** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 6:41 pm

Unless you meant with new controllers, in which case, in order to keep costs down for those who have no need of the nunchuk. After all, while it's safe to say that many single-player games will assume you have one, multiplayer games are another story entirely - <i>Monkey Ball</i>, for instance, has many mini-games that don't need the nunchuk, and it explicitly tells you which ones those are.

Double-S- · Post by **Double-S-** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 8:21 pm

Baba O'Reily wrote:There are less than 500,000 PS3s on the market right now...

That is an extremely generous upper bound. Even if you meant worldwide, it's still a little high. I'm pretty sure the reports have been 150k - 200k PS3s sold so far.

MegaKitsune · Post by **MegaKitsune** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 9:21 pm

Zeta wrote:
I can understand Wii not coming with component cables, as most of the casual gaming audience doesn't have that kind of TV yet, but what's the deal about having to buy a numchuck separately? That's bullshit.
It comes with a nunchuck, genius.

I was talking about extra Wiimotes, genius. Seriously, you can find 3 Wiimotes, but try and find 3 numchucks, I DARE you.

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 10:16 pm

I've seen more Nunchucks in stores than Wiimotes. Which makes sense, seeing as how you can play some games with a Wiimote alone, but not with a nunchuck.

Shadow Hog · Post by **Shadow Hog** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 10:42 pm

I'd say it's the exact opposite around here, but admittedly I haven't looked in ages.

CE · Post by CE » Fri Dec 01, 2006 4:56 pm

And by "ages", you mean seven days?

FlashTHD · Post by **FlashTHD** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 8:00 pm

Green Gibbon! wrote:I almost bought one then and there to sell online, but I figured that if I could randomly walk into Best Buy and find some for sale, there couldn't have been much of a shortage. I now realize it's because I keep snoozing through opportunities like this that I have become such an utter and complete failure at everything.

I wouldn't give up on it just yet. Today I saw couple classified ads in the paper, both advertising a PS3 and some games/accessories, and both asking $1600.

Shortages may be finite, but lack of common sense apparently isn't!

Baba O'Reily · Post by **Baba O'Reily** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 11:28 pm

Double-S- wrote:
Baba O'Reily wrote:There are less than 500,000 PS3s on the market right now...
That is an extremely generous upper bound. Even if you meant worldwide, it's still a little high. I'm pretty sure the reports have been 150k - 200k PS3s sold so far.

It's a buyer's market.

And those buyers can go sell to the other, misinformed buyers.

Shadow Hog · Post by **Shadow Hog** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 11:57 pm

CE wrote:And by "ages", you mean seven days?

At the time, yes. But now that I've actually gone back and checked... nope, still the same situation.

Actually, I take that back. It's even worse: pretty much the ONLY thing they had that weren't the games themselves were those controller gloves. That's it.