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I was very lucky and at this years CodeMash I won a Nintendo Wii! Thanks to Jason Follas and the fine folks at Perficient for donating the Wii.

However there is one slight issue. I already have a Wii! I don’t want to be greedy and in the spirit of the community I am going to sell the Wii on ebay shortly. All proceeds from the sale will be given to a fine charity. I’m asking the community to help me decide who to donate the money too.

** UPDATE **
Just to clarity I will be running the poll for a week to give everyone a chance to vote. I will then put the Wii up on ebay to sell and annouce it on my blog and other various social sites. Stay tuned to find out when it’s listed for your chance to bid on this sweet prize!

Well crap!  I just read that Nintendo is pushing back the release of the new LoZ game.  :(  OK, I know it’s old news now but I’m a little behind on the gaming front.

They’re talking sometime mid 2006 now.  Assuming the Revolution doesn’t get pushed back they could be releasing at the same time.  The obvious thing is many think maybe the big N might dump the cube and use Twilight Princess as a launch title for the Rev.  Nintendo denies it and says they’ll still ship it as a cube game.  I think that’s a good thing.  Call it the last great release for the cube as sort of a farewell gesture to the little box. 

The Rev is going to backwards compatible so you could say in a round about way that the game would be a sort of launch title.  If it gets huge press and positive reviews and the Rev gets releases around the same time it might be enough to get some to buy the Rev and the LoZ game to play.

This is probably really, really old for some people but I just found it a few days ago.  Figured I’d share it since there’s no hurting in turning a few new folks to this stuff.

The Acts of Gord is a website created about a guy that ran a Video Game store.  There are just tons and tons of funny little stories.

Anyhoo, check it out for a good laugh when you’re bored some time.

http://www.actsofgord.com

You can read the Nintendo press release.

So, let’s see.  Ultra small design about the size of 3 dvd cases stacked together.  Very sleek and sexy!  512mb of memory.  That seems to be the standard amount for game consoles this round so whatever there.  Wireless controllers.  That’s a good and bad thing.  Wireless is cool but at the same time doing the battery dance can be a pain.  Two USB 2.0 ports.  Now this seems a bit odd.  Why two?  I assume they don’t plan on allowing wired controllers so I guess maybe it’s use will be relegated to 3rd party keyboards and whatnot.  Build it Wi-Fi support.  SWEET!  Now this is top notch Nintendo.  I like the idea of not having to plug the box in to do online gaming.  Also makes good sense since the new handheld player the Nintendo DS had built-in wifi.  Means neat links between the player and the Revolution.  Two things are absent here.  The cpu and graphics chips info.  Guess we’ll have to wait for that info later.

Now the real big news is this.  First the Revolution will be backward compatible with the Gamecube.  I don’t have a very large library but it’s nice knowing I will be able to sell off my cube and just get a Revolution.  Second as part of their new online gaming kick they’ll be releasing downloadable classics from the N64, SNES and NES.  No word on prices or how it’ll work but still awesome.  Being able to fire up the Revolution and play Super Mario 3 or whatnot is a very cool prospect.

You can read more and check out the pictures on the press release.

Kinda old news now but I’m just catching up on gaming news.  As a self-professed N-head I like to know what they’re up to…

Here’s a couple of links to read about everything:
http://cube.ign.com/articles/594/594935p1.html
http://planetgamecube.com/news.cfm?action=item&id=6094

The cool info is that the Revolution will be backwards compatible with the GameCube.  Thank goodness!  I hope this sets a trend for the future at the big N.  I hope whatever comes after the Revolution will be backwards compatible with both the Revolution and the GameCube.  I know it’s far fetched but I think they should support at least 2-3 generations back.  We as gamers pay a lot for games and there’s no reason that we shouldn’t be able to trade in the hardware for the next generation and still be able to use the current software we have.

Other bits of info.  The graphics chip “Hollywood” will again be made my ATI.  I like this fact a lot.  ATI is a top level graphics company and if the chipset is based on their current desktop graphics systems it’ll be one heck of a performance champ. 

The cpu “Broadway” is being done by IBM.  A bit surprised by this one.  IBM is also developing the cpu for the next gen Playstation called Cell.  Although they aren’t saying that Broadway is anything like Cell I kind of have to wonder if maybe they’re going to be related.  What would be cool is if “Broadway” turned out to be a dual core PowerPC chip.  IBM makes the PowerPC chips that go into Macs and they’re planning to make a dual core PowerPC G5 cpu for the Macs. 

Throw in a dual-core PowerPC cpu and a graphics chip from ATI and you’d have one heck of a system.  MMM yummy.

Finally the big news is the Revolution will have built in wi-fi.  The Nintendo DS has wi-fi and it looks like Nintendo is pushing forward with this as a standard feature for the future.  Very cool!  I like the idea of wi-fi built into all gaming systems.  I already have wi-fi setup in the house so I’d have instant networking out of the box.

I can’t wait to see more details about the Rev.  Looks to be a pretty sweet product.