{"id":686,"date":"2006-09-15T20:57:55","date_gmt":"2006-09-16T00:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/09\/15\/wii-november-19-2006-street-date\/"},"modified":"2006-09-15T20:59:28","modified_gmt":"2006-09-16T00:59:28","slug":"wii-november-19-2006-street-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/09\/15\/wii-november-19-2006-street-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Wii (November 19, 2006 Street Date)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone want to bet how many crap games have to be purchased as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamestop.com\/gs\/wii\/wii_signup.asp?cookie%5Ftest=1\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.gamestop.com\/gs\/wii\/wii_signup.asp?cookie%5Ftest=1', 'GameStop.com Wii bundle');\" target=\"new\">GameStop.com Wii bundle<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Check back soon for information on our exciting pre-order bundles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am not sure I would say exciting Bob.\u00a0 Maybe expensive.<\/p>\n<p>I have still not decided what I am going to do as far as next generation systems go.\u00a0 I doubt I am going to get a 360 anytime soon.\u00a0 I am not so sure I want to spend a mortgage payment on a PS3.\u00a0 And while the Wii looks interesting, I have yet to see how much the backwards compatible game will cost, or what sort of support the thing is going to get.\u00a0 Right now I could care less about the audio\/video capabilities, because I do not have a fancy pants HDTV set, so if the Wii is on par with my PS2 and GameCube, I can live with that.\u00a0 No Mario on the tentative release list?\u00a0 That could be a problem.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone want to bet how many crap games have to be purchased as part of the GameStop.com Wii bundle? Check back soon for information on our exciting pre-order bundles. I am not sure I would say exciting Bob.\u00a0 Maybe expensive. I have still not decided what I am going to do as far as next &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/09\/15\/wii-november-19-2006-street-date\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wii (November 19, 2006 Street Date)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}