Really Slow and Other Interesting Things

As you can tell by the less frequent posts, there’s just little out there in terms of sports gaming news.

In the void, there are tons of stuff in you like electronics coming out of CES. Engadget at CES.

NFL Street comes out this week. Which I’ll look at later this year as a rental.

In the world of politics, WoW’ers have formed an online march for Ron Paul. See Game Politics. Put this in the list of things, the founding fathers would have never envisioned.

Kotaku has done a piece, on the Wii tackling the grey (Ebay) market.

As of this writing I cannot say if this was a calculated move by Nintendo to thwart the profit-hungry eBay grey market or simply a happy side-effect of a last-ditch effort to save face in the eyes of consumers worrying about where the product they wanted to purchase was, but Reggie’s press conference and the subsequent console flood neatly nipped in the bud what could have been a terribly expensive Christmas for families looking for a little motion-controlled joy. Whatever the case may be, the end result is a small victory for the hardworking folks out there more worried about the smiles on their children’s face than the thickness of their wallet.

The million dollar question is when will we see the Wii regularly on the store selves? And could it be another year of Wii shortages?