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Our local coverage of the PS3/Wii launches will begin this coming Thursday. We will give you our thoughts on the games, systems, lines and limited supply. With some pictures of the madness here in Colorado as well as a speacial podcast. Make sure to come back to us Thursday.

Nintendo Wii Commercial

In case you missed it, here it is again and again and again…you get the picture. Just a note, this video did not allow embedding so you must click on the player to take you to the video on youtubes site.

Update by Chris Sack: As of 10:47 MST, YouTube is undergoing some scheduled downtime. If you just see white space above, try back later. Or, if you just can’t wait, the commercial was about 47 minutes through tonight’s Dancing With The Stars on ABC.

Nintendo Wii Commercials Airing Tonight on ABC

Tonight, during ABC’s Dancing With the Stars (8/7c), Nintendo will be airing the first of four 30 second TV spots advertising the Wii. Here is the press release from Nintendo:

DID YOU KNOW? NINTENDO’S FIRST WII COMMERCIAL AIRS TUESDAY NIGHT

Nov. 14, 2006

Call your friends, cancel your plans and set your cell phone on vibrate. The first TV commercial for Nintendo’s amazing new Wii™ video game system is set to air Tuesday night. The first in a series of four 30-second ads runs during the performance finals of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars.

The commercials feature two Japanese men who show up at homes across the United States and announce: “Wii would like to play.” The fun ads demonstrate the motion-sensitive abilities of the Wii Remote controller while a cool Japanese pop tune plays.

“The fact that we have people all but begging to see Wii commercials demonstrates the huge amount of interest in our new system,” says George Harrison, Nintendo of America’s senior vice president of marketing and corporate communications.

The commercials will be posted to Nintendo.com and YouTube.com. The first place that viewers can see all four of them together in a two-minute film will be Nov. 15 on MTV2’s Sucker Free. To accomplish Wii’s goal of bringing gaming to the masses, ads will air on ABC, NBC, Comedy Central, BET, USA, TBS, Discovery, Animal Planet, ABC Family, Nick at Nite, Sci-Fi, TLC, Fox, The CW, MTV 10 Spot, MTV, MTV2, MTVU, Adult Swim, Fuse, Si TV, The N, VH-1 and Black Family Channel.

Usually an anticipated commercial airs toward the end of a show, but you never know. Unless you were already planning to watch Dancing With the Stars tonight, I would recommend recording it and fast forwarding through it until you get to the commercial. That way, you will have it, so you can watch it over and over and over and over again to keep you entertained until the Wii releases.

GameStop’s PS3 Pre-Orders cut by 40% – Response

What a bummer. Betrayed by Sony again. I don’t even plan to buy a PS3 at all, and this makes me angry all the same. And as customers so loyal that you were willing to camp out just to have the possibility of getting this system, you should be angry, too. If you are one of the many who camped out for the pre-order and don’t get the system on Friday, I would write a letter of disgust to Sony. They have screwed up too many times, and they need to have that beaten into them until they finally get it. Interestingly enough, two Target stores (that are about 5 miles apart) in my city have PS3 demo kiosks. So, there is a good chance many other Target stores across the US have kiosks as well. How many units might that be that you loyal fans could be getting? 500? 1000? Even more? Excellent decision, Sony.

A word of advice to those of you who choose to write a letter of disgust – keep the letter professional, and only send it to the responsible party, Sony. GameStop and Target are most likely not at fault for this. It won’t do too much good contacting them if they have nothing to do with this decision.