Wii are a bit sad....

We have one bit of sadness to our Christmas season this year - stupid Nintendo (I know harsh words). Apparently they weren't supposed to make the Wii with country codes. This means that you can buy games in the U.S. for example and still play them on your Australian bought Wii. Well, not the case, as we found out upon our arrival back to the land down under. We had bought a few new games for Christmas pressies for the kids - one that was only $10 US we decided to just open up and play now. Good thing we did because it doesn't work. Kev searched and searched the internet - Google got a good work-out. He found a few fixes, but apparently since we have had to reset our Wii recently (Cooper hit some button and it all disappeared - that is another story entirely) they don't work. In fact if you use some of the fixes Nintendo has made it so that it sets up bricks on your Wii and you can't even get it in English anymore. We even paid an Aussie company for a disc that was supposed to fix everything. You just put in the disc and then put in your US game and it should work - well apparently not if you have reset your computer recently (good to know). So what does that mean for us? Well those few games that we bought in the US can't be played here (sad since they were for Madi), and we have to sale our Wii along with every thing else when we leave. Also means we won't be buying very many games either. We were hoping that it would be our investment piece and we could just move it over and change the plug - no such luck. Why do the big companies have to be so greedy? Just make it universal and everyone would be happy.