The Daily ‘Shroom – 5/9/07
- Wal-Mart is getting an exclusive TransFormers 2-pack featuring Movie Bumblebee and Barricade, and you’ll save a few bucks buying them that way as well. Plus, Allspark has a review of Bumblebee, in case you’re wondering how he is.
Not much else happening, though some information has come out regarding the next cartoon, and BWTF.com has a review of Movie Jazz.
- Funny, just the past Sunday, my brother-in-law and I were discussing movies, including TV shows that have been adapted, and we were a little surprised that after two Flintstones and two Scooby-Doo movies, that The Jetsons remained untouched.
I must admit, though, the Jetson-ized view of the future is… well, let’s face it, a bit cheesey. Perhaps even “lame” in that it pretty boils down to little more than moving walkways and everything having arms. But that’s what makes this such a curious concept to me; going to live-action, there are only so many ways you can expect something like The Flintstones, Scooby-Doo, or others to go. But The Jetsons? It seems there’s a lot more potential going on there for it to be given a more contemporary makeover without necessarily losing the essence of what makes it what it is.
On a related note, we also discussed how it’s probably only a matter of time before Saved By The Bell gets a big-screen treatment. We think something like The Brady Bunch Movie might be sort of ideal, with the kids timelocked in the early 90s while the rest of the world is in… I don’t know, 2010 or whatever.
- Go Nintendo reports that EB Games has a pretty nifty Wii bundle up for sale.
The contents look good, but I can’t speak for the price. Not to say that it’s bad, I just haven’t calculated everything to see if there’s a true “value” to the deal.
- Go Nintendo confirms the ongoing news regarding Nintendo moving portions of their business out of Redmond. But only about 80 people from sales, marketing, and advertising.
Strikes me as a less-than-stellar idea. Having them right there in the thick of things seemed ideal. Less mix-ups and the like.
- WHY.
WON’T.
THIS.
GUY.*
Every time I think this idiot has hit rock-bottom, SOMEONE has to throw him a shovel!
* …what, you think I’d call him a man? Get real.
- So the latest from the Land O’ Gates is that Peter Moore is ducking questions about the XBox 360′s failure rate, and instead trying to tout their customer service, which as has been covered by Go Nintendo, isn’t batting a thousand, either.
- Touching is good.
And I guess even if you’re not.
- So, as reported yesterday, Nintendo’s Wii site is offering preview videos of Virtual Console games.
That’s good.
But, you can’t view them on the Wii Opera browser.
That’s bad.
Um, I really don’t have anything else to pad out that sequence from The Simpsons. So we’ll just move on…
- Assuming your 360 isn’t a member of Club Old’n Busted, then good news tomorrow on the arcade front as you’ll be able to Double your Dragons, and double your fun.
And, there are six more games announced that are on the way, including Rush’n Attack, which in conversations as a child I mistook as RUSSIAN Attack.
- For those who do more than just a little web surfing on their Wii, good news is that Google has released a special RSS feed reader for the Wii browser.
- Spider-man 3: The Game only just came out, to a lukewarm reception no less, and already Activision is hyping the next.
Friend or Foe? How about “Good or Bad?”
–LBD “Nytetrayn”
May 9th, 2007 at 9:35 am
3. When they had bundles for the 360, I actually took the time to calculate the value of each bundle based off the MSRPs. They provided NO BARGAIN AT ALL, no matter how big the bundle got. On the plus side, they didn’t total more than the combined MSRP either… Bundles (when GameStop/EB is concerned, anyway) is just a big scam. It’s a way for them to move a lot of merchandise in a single purchase, rather than hoping each individual item sells on its own.
It may help out some consumers, though. Some people will look at the bundle and think, “I can’t afford that. I’ll have to just get each item separately when I can.” But if you’ve got the money, and you’re desperate enough for the system, the bundle is there for you, and it’s more likely it to be in stock than just the system itself.
However, this case is a bit of an exception, since they throw in the SD memory card. Unlike the other items, the price on this isn’t quite as fixed. Once you factor out the MSRPs of all the other items, it basically boils down to a $50 1 GB SD memory card, which is a very poor price. If they had decided to throw in a 256 MB card for free, even that would’ve been better… At this point they’re just trying to gouge you on the memory card and hope you won’t take the time to figure out what it’s really worth or that you won’t know enough to see it’s a rip-off.