Mexico getas the Wii before anyone else....

.....or at least these two mexicans did:












Anyway, I'm going to jump the border so I may be able to have a decent quality of life in a country where I dont have to wait weeks to get a console:dance:

Kudos to nintendo for another Apple rip-off with the packaging, not too shaby for the fact we're paying and extra $150 for an overhauled NGC.....


PS: I want that Kasumi pillow for my love stains....

 

Its times like these that I miss California

Mexicans what Americant

 

Buritos, J-lo and Wii.

 

Very apple-esque packaging, I demand more pictures though!

 

More photos


FUCK! it even has an spanish menu?


Here we can see all thats in the box: Wiimote, AVcable, sensorbar and the power brick

 

judging by the NR cube on the shelf, they re probably "in the know". Hispanics have a right to be reviewers too Shadowlayer, dont be mean

 

It didn't come out early. That junk was stolen lol

 

I think those guys work at Atomix, a famous videogame magazine in Mexico. (i read this on a message board)

 

I'm not being racist, I even said they were mexicans and not "latinos" like most people do.

And atomix is a crappy-ass gamepro ripoff if you ask me.

Anyway, isnt weird how these guys got a Wii before IGN or EGM? After all the US is getting most of the units worldwide.

 

Who is to say IGN does not yet? A few from IGN are in seattle playing zelda the past two days.

Anyways IGN does have a dev unit (the equivilent to a gamecube NR unit).

 

Yeh its most likely the guys from Atomix. Of course you wouldnt' see IGN or EGM showing off the Wii because then Nintendo would get on their ass, even though they got theirs way earlier than those guys if they posted those pics on the internet the past few days ago.

 

these guys are using retail, not NR units like IGN. there's probably a good reason for that.. and the fact that there is an NR cube in the background

 

Anyway, i'm sure they got their reasons why they got one. I'm kinda sure you wouldn't put a bunch of pics with yourself and a stolen Wii on the net (well, there are always people stupid enough to do that, but...)

 

Maybe they think there wont be any repercussions from nintendo. Plus if you see whats happening now in oaxaca, a stolen Wii is the last of mexico's police problems.

 

You are talking nonsense, Sir!
I have always admired Mexico for their legislation and efficient police force. Way to go lads!

 

Wouldn't be the first Nintendo console to be released in Mexico before the rest of the continent. The N64 was launched almost an entire month earlier here.
But yeah, this is not the case this time, as has been said before.

Yeah it's Atomix alright. You can see that horrible man with the Extend Extra T-Shirt, Akira. He's scum, for real. Ask anyone with editorial experience in the gaming mags or sites in México or just go to Madman's cafe.

Having said that, his magazine is almost decent, and always have awesome design and layouts and his TV show has also decent production values. But their content leaves a lot to be desired.

Them getting a retail Wii first, instead of a dev unit first is interesting. Or maybe they got a dev first, and decided not to show it?

 

Man making a mag from scratch is expensive, how he got the money if hes scum? I mean, is he a drug dealer or something? or just a rich kid using daddy's money for his dumb projects?

Anyway, hes ugly as hell and nothing will change that...

 

Well, he actually boasts that he managed to create his little media empire after droping out of ITESM. So either he was a hard working student with a huge scholarship or...

No, really. I respect his achivements. If it were easy to do a mag and everything, hey, I would do it. But he's still a jackass. Many of Mexico's current game mag editors are ex-Atomix, and not a single person talks about him positively. No wonder their Editor and Chief (and two other staff members) quited after E3, at the airport before heading back into the country. And of course, Akira became the laughing stock of the editorial industry by placing an online Ad, looking for a new editor in chief ASAP with a degree (yet he is proud of not having one!) and offering 10,000 pesos a month for the position. Yet the average magazine editor makes more than twice that amount. The ex-editor in chief even commented in his blog that he made that ammount colaborating articles for other magazines, and, without being too specific, he was being paid more or less the average for that position in Atomix.

And there's so much more to this man...but I think I spent enough energy on this post to even say more. If you speak spanish, just google for "Songoneando" for more stuff. The guys at Madman's Cafe also have a story or two about this guy, and me, well, I know quite a few that have never been said, since I used to write for a fansite that had a few encounters with Atomix. Yeah, imagine that, a profesional site trying to harrass a fan site. Imagine EGM purchasing, say, assemblergames.com and redirecting it to their site, for example.

I actually sent him my CV, hoping for some laughs. Didn't recive a response

 

I see, no wonder why nobody took the job: $900 per month is just too cheap...

But how did the guy came up with atomix in the first place?

 

Lesson: Dropping out of ITESM is the best thing you can do. EVER. I still regret never doing it. Now I'm in debt for like... forever.

Yup, Atomix used to be awesome, back in the days of the dreamcast. Then their heads started growing, inflated with self-adoration. Then they started to fucking suck. Don't even get me started about their TV show.
And the practices! Muscling out the competition with monetary power! Underpaying and humilliating people with a degree! Egothistical self-serving mania!
Sure does sound like a stereotypical ITESM man. Fucking hate those bastards.

(as for myself, I have been an ITESM student for 10 years so far... High School, Class of 99 - College, Class of 2004 - Humanities Graduate School, Class of 2007)

Now, in Mexico, 10,000 pesos a Month is a whole lot. I'm a teacher and I only make 1,700 a month, for example.