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Wii and Zelda Production Lines In VIDEO

youtube.com — This video shows the Wii and Zelda production lines for the United States. Perrin Kaplan provides sound bytes throughout. Very interesting that she says demand is going to outstrip supply even though all those units are flying past.

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  • otatop, on 10/12/2007, -2/+36Only 10 agonizingly long days to go...

    It's nice to see that Twilight Princess does have gold on the disc, though.

    God, I'm such a nerd. *pushes up glasses*
    • Nobi-Wan, on 10/12/2007, -6/+18They should just throw Zelda right in with the Wii. I mean, is anyone that's buying the system NOT getting Zelda?

      The camera man should have grabbed a box and RUN!
    • cambrown99, on 10/12/2007, -19/+1Does anyone know if the extra controllers are coming in different colors or are they just white? I also hope there are plenty of controllers available at launch. I seem to remember the N64 suffering from a shortage of controllers that first Christmas.

      http://www.cafepress.com/colbert08hq
    • birkoph, on 10/12/2007, -17/+8Can the Wii Mote double as a vibrator?
    • fatcat, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3does anyone have a mirror? YouTube is blocked at work.
    • thcobbs, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2@birkoph

      Sure. If you can move your hand fast enough, that is.
    • chris9902, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1even without the Wii control I can just tell there are a lot of people out they using their wrists right now.
    • xrisnothing, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1I'll be in line on the 19th and I'm as excited as anyone, but that video was hella gay. It was almost as gay as someone using "cartman voice" tags.
    • neiltc13, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2I won't be buying Zelda with my Wii on December 8th. None of the games in the series have ever interested me and this is no different.
  • tonictaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Great Video!! Good to see how they package the controllers!!!
    • skyshock21, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I've got such a raging clue right now...
  • specb, on 10/12/2007, -2/+35Riiight around 2:27 you can see the Wii I'll be buying in 2 weeks, my Zelda disc is around 3:05.
  • FrayWing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I would steal them all.....
    • thcobbs, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1Ever think he gets paid too much to risk his job on something stupid like that?
    • crilen007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8No.
    • z0l0pht, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2thcobbs: Nope. They all look Asian to me...
    • Noffie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Asian? Are you serious? I don't think I saw a single Asian looking person in that entire video. Maybe a couple of Hispanic people, white people, an Indian or Islamic woman of some sort, but not a single Asian person.

      edit - yes, I'm aware that India is considered part of Asia.
  • binder520, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27Did you guys see how they were hand packing the Wii remote for retail sales? It is amazing how manual some of the processes still are.
    • Raian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20In a way it's actually nice to see that they do employ people to do this, when this could be easily automated.
    • thcobbs, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2Actually, these remotes look like they would be to oddly shaped to be easily handled by an automated procedure. Also, they'd likely lose a great number due to physical scratching and such.
    • honavery, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7That was the most interesting thing about the video, I thought.

      Not that seeing all those shiny wii boxes wasn't great too.
  • noseeme, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1It's just a press reel. :|
  • paku, on 10/12/2007, -13/+6I couldn't help but to stick a pinky in my butt when I watched this..

    /bites lip
  • tmbg47, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6/drooooool
  • Kerr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16This is brainwashing, I was not planning on getting a Wii but it looks like I will get on after all.
    • chris9902, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8because you watched a man push some boxes?

      wow.
    • skyshock21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2So the viral marketing worked?
    • rtfx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Deeemand iss greeeater thaan ssuppllly....... *echo*
  • ohgr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18
    • tuxidomasx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20you could just freeze yourself for a 2 weeks...
    • Ralphy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25NO! DON'T DO IT! Listen to me! It's you, from the future, DO NOT FREEZE YOURSELF!
    • sulthernao, on 10/12/2007, -9/+116 minutes in the future?
    • Landonr, on 06/30/2008, -1/+10@Ralphy
      Suck my balls Kyle!
    • DanteDefiance, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@Mixxoys

      ....I will. I will suck your balls.
  • fanboydcs, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4I thought the wii remotes would have been packaged in that silver card board box we have been seeing on engadget and joystick, I guess not.

    Japanese get all the cool packaging... * we have to many people wanting to steal them (look at the above comments) that we need the blister packaging.
  • markthegoth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8damn it was hard enough waiting for the Wii before i saw this, now its like waiting for Christmas TIMES TEN!!!!!!

    how to make the time go faster........
    • SleepJunkie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Song of double time should work.
    • fanboydcs, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Freeze your self...
    • Jaryd2006, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Sleep, Put yourself into a coma for 10 cuz if you think about it when you sleep time seems to pass instantly.
  • loureiro97, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6where is this factory?? i must get there asap!
    I can't wait any longer!!!
    • gharding, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14It's in Washington. I'll be flying out there with a few ski-masks soon.
    • Ralphy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7ok, heres what we do, I'm gonna lead an all out assault on the factory to receive our Wiis, loureiro97 back me up. Gharding, be sure to give me some covering fire.
    • 66np66ip, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I'll bring the sandwiches!
    • DanteDefiance, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'm in fellas.

      Operation Set My Wii Free is a go.
  • Chugaboy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Its like waiting for christmas.. times a thousand.. cmmmooooooon!
  • gardnmi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I would be like Lucy when she is on the chocolate factory line except instead of having chocolate all in my mouth I'd have about 50 wii motes stuffed in my pants.
    • bills534, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17is that 50 wii motes in your pants, or are you just really really happy to see me?
  • markingtime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3So Are those Zeldas going to be limited edition gold ones like we've seen over the years? I sure hope so :)
    Can't Wait!!
    • wallistyler, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2i need to take a wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
    • loureiro97, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@wallistyler
      you must have really been wanting to plug in that Wii joke,
      I fear for the ones we'll be hearing after the release...
  • dgcrazykid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1well, this is really cool, I wish i could hear it. (school doesn't have sound and i forgot my headphones) but this just gets me more excited for it. It would have been nice if Nintendo told us Zelda had gone gold, but since we see it being packaged, we know it is finished.
  • UberC, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2oh god, it must be horrible to work in a factory like that.
    • skyshock21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10It's probably as bad as the people who work in a US Mint sorting sheets of $100 bills. They watch their whole year's salary fly past their eyes in a matter of 3 minutes and 23 seconds.
  • twesterm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1The fact that it's the Wii being packages is pretty cool, but even just seeing the process by itself is kind of neat.

    Of course I'm easily entertained.
  • LordHalo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Imagine if you're a worker there...will you be able to resist the temptation of not snagging a box.
  • swaxhog, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1It can't be worse than what it's been like for about 5 years now. Around here people consider stop signs a yield with right of way privilege and a red lights mean you can go through if you saw it was green at some point.

  • chrissg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I wonder what's longer... The Wii asembly line or the lineups at Wal-Mart to get one when it comes out?
  • iameightyseven, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2God, I cannot wait for the Wii to come out.
    • MaHaGoN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Oh my Science!!! You believe in a supernatural being!

      MaHaGoN
  • BabyWookie, on 10/12/2007, -12/+1The Wii is teh suck. Once the novelty of the wii-mote wears off (I give it 2 weeks), you will realize how ***** the graphics are and want to get a 360 with GoW instead. This POS system has been way overhyped since the E3. *****, I'd even give it a chance if it had a decent price, but $250 for an overclocked GameCube with dildonics is just ***** up. Cheers.
    • akinder, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Eeesh, somebody missed their nap today :P
    • imbiginjapan, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1This is the 436th time I've heard somebody call the Wii an "overclocked Gamecube" but your cogent and detailed argument that it is "teh suck", is what really convinced me that I shouldn't buy one.
    • mushoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Hey give the guy some credit, he's the first one to mention "dildonics."
  • daridave, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Usually I would laugh at the "Wii And Zelda Porn" title, but geez, I'm not, because it is, and I freakin' want more.

    10 days... if I wasn't scared of waking up in 500 years too, I would be in my freezer right now...
  • angryemu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It does kinda bug me to know that someone else will have their hands on my Wiimote before I get my hands on it...
  • darryl242, on 10/12/2007, -8/+5Sad, pathetic, Wii-SPAM... Am I right, is there anything worse than a Wiitard? Rhetorical question, no answer required. Just hit the red thumb kiddies...
    • SeVeRyourTies, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2I'm digging you up out of spite.
  • Charron, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I figure someone else would have caught this too, and I haven't looked at all the comments everywhere. But pay attention around 2:23, when they're packing the Wiimotes. There's a disc in there. If those are Japan/EU bound, then no surprise, it's Wii Play. But if they're US bound, surprise, it's Wii Play!

    (At least, that's what I'm guessing. Could also just be the blue circle you can see on the front, made really blurry so it looks like a disc.)
    • solarisom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If anything, it's the firmware disc.
    • bab7880, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The blue you see is actually the backing of the package itself ..

      a blue circle (with "fade" dots) to make the Wii remote stand out

      keep watching for about 5-15 more seconds
    • Charron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I did keep watching, hence the little amendment on the bottom. I doubt it'd be a firmware disc, though.... what firmware does the remote even need?
  • bokchoi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I guess this console is so popular that even videos of its production line is amazing? o_O. Interesting video though.
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