I decided to do some math to determine how many Wiis there would be per store if every store in North America that I could find store figures for got the same amount of wiis.
So here's the math: 4,500 Gamestop/EB Games (some outside of North America) 3,256 Wal-Marts (USA stats only) 90 Rhino Video Games 786 Best Buys (US and Canada) 118 Future Shops (Canada) 32 Fry's Electronics (US) 635 Circuit Cities (US) 1447 Targets (US) 700 Toys 'r' Us (US stats only) 1 Nintendo World (New York City)
To come out with 11,565 possible Launch stores in North America. Of course, this doesn't include smaller chains and family owned businesses, but the results that will come from 1,000,000/11565 should give us a rough estimate on how many Wii's will be available at Launch in most stores.
It comes out at about 86 Wiis per store if we were to only include those chains. Of course, there will not be 86 wiis available at your local Wal-Mart in Hicksville, USA (or Canada), but it's nice to know that, if Wii distribution were communist, every major store would have 86 of them.
Let me tell you a story.
There was a game I had been long anticipating, a game I was so psyched about. I was, I must admit, young and naive, I had never played a truly bad game before, I didn't think 'bad' games existed, other then the Edutainment games.
I got the game the day it came out.
The game was Superman 64.
I have never bought a game (other then sequels and launch titles) without reading a review ever since.
Why should game companies make games for non-gamers now? Yes, in the short term games for non-gamers will help, but let's consider: most of the general gaming population is below 30. Within 20 years, the general Gaming population will be below 50. 20 years after that, 70 (assuming, of course, we aren't so darn tired). By then, most of the non-gamers of today will be dead. Eventually, in the future, everybody will have at least a casual interest in Video Games, much like how almost everybody today has at least a casual interest in watching TV and watching movies (DVD or in the Theatre).
"Videogames can teach you all kinds of ways to kill. You can pick someone off with a high-powered rifle, reach into a human chest and rip out a beating heart, or turn someone into a chicken." --Cleveland Plain Dealer
Because god knows, I see a lot of stuff on the news about how punks have turned a old lady into a chicken and how the latest school violence involved a child reaching into a teacher's chest and ripping out a beating heart.
1. However, Baseball is by far the most geek-infilitrated sport in the World. Some teams are run by geeks who essentially use numbers and computers to make winning teams (See: "Moneyball"). People make a living crunching statistics and making up new ones(See:Sabermatics). Players have been known to have passions for FPS (Minnesota Twins outfielder Lew Ford once took a day off to go to a LAN party, no, seriously) and anyone who has seen Greg Maddux wearing glasses knows that he must be a geek deep down inside.
2. Okay, can't argue that one.
3. It's not just America. Your forgetting about Japan, Mexico, the Carribean, parts of Canada that don't speak French, South Korea, Taiwan, small portions of Australia (albeit not enough to have a league or anything) and Venezuela all are big fans of baseball.
"There is no evidence that (a favorable FCC ruling) will lead to large increases in telemarketing calls," he said.
He, obviously, does not consider the fact that the large amount of telemarketing calls before the DNC list took effect is evidence that, without a list, that they would once again reach their old levels.
Excuse me, I mean't let us hope that that is NOT spoken.... I really want this mission to succeed. Because if it doesn't.... I don't want to think about that.
...MY COMPUTER WILL SET ITSELF TO NON-DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME 2 MONTHS TOO EARLY!....Uhhh, hello, has anyone thought that maybe, you could, well, O, TURN IT BACK MANUALLY!
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I decided to do some math to determine how many Wiis there would be per store if every store in North America that I could find store figures for got the same amount of wiis.
So here's the math:
4,500 Gamestop/EB Games (some outside of North America)
3,256 Wal-Marts (USA stats only)
90 Rhino Video Games
786 Best Buys (US and Canada)
118 Future Shops (Canada)
32 Fry's Electronics (US)
635 Circuit Cities (US)
1447 Targets (US)
700 Toys 'r' Us (US stats only)
1 Nintendo World (New York City)
To come out with 11,565 possible Launch stores in North America. Of course, this doesn't include smaller chains and family owned businesses, but the results that will come from 1,000,000/11565 should give us a rough estimate on how many Wii's will be available at Launch in most stores.
It comes out at about 86 Wiis per store if we were to only include those chains. Of course, there will not be 86 wiis available at your local Wal-Mart in Hicksville, USA (or Canada), but it's nice to know that, if Wii distribution were communist, every major store would have 86 of them.
Let me tell you a story. There was a game I had been long anticipating, a game I was so psyched about. I was, I must admit, young and naive, I had never played a truly bad game before, I didn't think 'bad' games existed, other then the Edutainment games. I got the game the day it came out. The game was Superman 64. I have never bought a game (other then sequels and launch titles) without reading a review ever since.
You know the phrase "Where Books Burn, People Burn"?
I'm coining a new phrase: "Where Games burn, Books will follow."
After all, once Video Games are banned, they'd begin to blame movies, TV and Books. Will they ban those too?
Why should game companies make games for non-gamers now? Yes, in the short term games for non-gamers will help, but let's consider: most of the general gaming population is below 30. Within 20 years, the general Gaming population will be below 50. 20 years after that, 70 (assuming, of course, we aren't so darn tired). By then, most of the non-gamers of today will be dead. Eventually, in the future, everybody will have at least a casual interest in Video Games, much like how almost everybody today has at least a casual interest in watching TV and watching movies (DVD or in the Theatre).
How can we as gamers fight back against this type of government action?"
Perhaps the answer is to make a Gamer Defense Organization that would pay for legal fees. A Gamer Defense Fund, if you will.
"Videogames can teach you all kinds of ways to kill. You can pick someone off with a high-powered rifle, reach into a human chest and rip out a beating heart, or turn someone into a chicken." --Cleveland Plain Dealer
Because god knows, I see a lot of stuff on the news about how punks have turned a old lady into a chicken and how the latest school violence involved a child reaching into a teacher's chest and ripping out a beating heart.
1. However, Baseball is by far the most geek-infilitrated sport in the World. Some teams are run by geeks who essentially use numbers and computers to make winning teams (See: "Moneyball"). People make a living crunching statistics and making up new ones(See:Sabermatics). Players have been known to have passions for FPS (Minnesota Twins outfielder Lew Ford once took a day off to go to a LAN party, no, seriously) and anyone who has seen Greg Maddux wearing glasses knows that he must be a geek deep down inside.
2. Okay, can't argue that one.
3. It's not just America. Your forgetting about Japan, Mexico, the Carribean, parts of Canada that don't speak French, South Korea, Taiwan, small portions of Australia (albeit not enough to have a league or anything) and Venezuela all are big fans of baseball.
Sit Fido, sit... Wait a sec. Fido, I didn't know you had a identical twin! Wait a second, there's three of you! AHHH! TWO MANY FIDOES!
I propose a toast:
To Apollo One!
To Challenger!
To Columbia!
To all those we have lost in the pursuit of human understanding and knowledge!
Long live exploration!
Long live science!
Long live Earth!
LONG LIVE.... DISCOVERY!
This is truly a great innovation, I gotta wonder what's next. Any Ideas?
Sims 2 has been a game that I have wanted to buy but never got around to yet. So I might be wrong here, but does ANYONE see a nudity cheat on gamefaqs: http://www.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/code/91481 1.html?
Yeah, so, uhhh, what does this mean?
Absolutely nothing.
The fact that studies say whether it's going up or down conflict each other, so they cancel all meaning either of them have.
"There is no evidence that (a favorable FCC ruling) will lead to large increases in telemarketing calls," he said. He, obviously, does not consider the fact that the large amount of telemarketing calls before the DNC list took effect is evidence that, without a list, that they would once again reach their old levels.
Excuse me, I mean't let us hope that that is NOT spoken.... I really want this mission to succeed. Because if it doesn't.... I don't want to think about that.
Let's just hope the other HAL quote is spoken: "Houston, we have a problem".
...MY COMPUTER WILL SET ITSELF TO NON-DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME 2 MONTHS TOO EARLY! ....Uhhh, hello, has anyone thought that maybe, you could, well, O, TURN IT BACK MANUALLY!