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I'll probably just get from work anyways.

Staff discount \o/

Chris Bedwell

Good point...

My girlfriend works at Tesco's. She may be able to get one for me from there and get me a discount on it too :thup:

Herman Bloom

I've joined in the pre-ordering fest.

But Zelda for the GC for me.

qwerty2k

i shall be playing zelda a whole month before you herman :cool:

Herman Bloom

Why?

qwerty2k

actually damn, no i won't, just realised they were talking about the us release date when they said that damnit.

deerokus

god, so typical of nintendo europe to put a downer on things.

£180 + extra controller + games + launching so close to christmas takes it right out of my price range. after they spent so long saying how cheap it was gonna be, it's... annoying.

deerokus

and ffs

UK, September 15, 2006 - Wii games will not be region-free according to Nintendo UK's General Manager David Yarnton. Speaking exclusively with IGN at Nintendo's European Wii press event in London, Yarnton confirmed that Wii games and online content will be region-encoded, meaning European gamers won't be able to play titles from the US and Japan and vice-versa.

mongs!

Steve Ra

£180?

I didn't know that until just now. Sorely tempted to get a US machine anyway, unless there's some going online based reasons why that might be a bad idea.

NoE do their best to ruin this company's wares for me every single time.

Herman Bloom

How could you region encode "online content" exactly?

Or am I being dumb?