The Wii nay-sayers are going to start having their comeuppance in the next few months, and I say... It's about time. Maybe everyone will shut up about how slow the Wii game market has been and how they're so bored with their Wii and how they're sick of bowling. (But aren't willing to actually sell their Wii for a hefty profit, I might add, seeing as how retail Wiis are still sold out, almost 12 months after release.)

I started college, so I was completely unaware of the fact that Mario Strikers Charged was finally released in the United States! I was aware of Metroid Prime 3: Corruption coming out a few weeks ago, though. But in addition to these two amazingly fun looking games, Super Mario Galaxy is slated to come out on November 12th, and Super Smash Bros. Brawl is coming out on December 3rd.

I am in a... very odd predicament. I am raising money for a new PC, while having preordered Halo 3 Legendary as well. In addition to that, I have four Wii games on my list, plus the Orange Box from Valve that's going to come out soon, too.

Brawl is a no-brainer. I may even preorder that soon with my new handy-dandy Amazon certificate I got in the mail a few days ago. I want Mario Strikers, too, but I have a feeling that nobody else will, and I'll be playing that alone. Metroid is high up on my list, but I didn't realize that all three Metroid Prime games were to make up a trilogy, so I'm going to have to find Metroid Prime 2 and play that. Mario Galaxy is pretty low on my list, though, much to the very oddly placed chagrin of Edrick. (What does it matter to him if I buy a single-player game at release or 2 years later? )

But anyway, the games are coming, people. All you need is some patience for just a little bit longer! Mark my words, after this year, more people will start announcing and releasing far better games. Remember! Nobody expected the Wii to do so well and they're all scrambling to make the next blockbuster for it.

Ah, what fun it is to wake up in the morning all rested up and looking forward to a new day and getting online to check up on the latest news... And get a screen full of typical humanity upset at some incredibly unimportant thing.

Case in point: Valve fails to deliver Team Fortress 2 Beta to Paying Customers, via tomsgames.com, through the respective Digg submission.

The general history of the article is this: Valve opens preorders for their long anticipated "Orange Box", which includes Half-Life Episode 2, Team Fortress 2, and an awesome game called Portal. With the preorders, Valve told people they could save 10% and get into an exclusive Team Fortress 2 Beta on September 17. (Yesterday.)

What happened? Well, apparently, the beta wasn't released as quickly as all the impatient gamers wanted. What does this mean? Oh, well, it means Valve just stole everyone's money, of course! Valve clearly lied to everyone, promised something they weren't going to deliver, and now everyone's upset and wants their money back, and some are just far too upset to do anything but curse at Valve for wasting their the time they took to not go to work or school so they could stay home and play the beta all day. Seriously.

Not only do I think these people need to be put in their place, with the proper perspective, but they also need to get a life... And I mean it in every sense of the word! Who, in their right minds, takes a day off of work and school for a BETA TEST. I can maybe understand taking a day off work for playing the final product, but I understand the vast importance of school, and can't understand not going to school because of any form of entertainment.

The main argument, though, was the fact that people say they paid money for the Beta, which is a lie, plain and simple. They paid money early for the retail games, and, as a FREE added bonus, were allowed to play the beta of TF2. It surprised me with all the people who bought Crackdown just so they could play the Halo 3 Beta. If getting into a beta test is that important to you, you need a severe reality check. No beta access should ever be charged for, and if you're too stupid to realize that, you deserve to lose your money.

Not only that, but the very definition of the term "beta" in the software industry is supposed to mean a program that is more or less finished, but the developers want to distribute the program to a large number of many differently configured systems so they can find all the special bugs that they couldn't find on their own. Guess what! They found a bug that prevented them from starting the beta.

Imagine the outcry from players who would attempt to start this game had they allowed everyone to get online with the bug still there? Actually, you don't have to... Just look at Digg. If they experience a game-crashing bug, they'll complain. If they experience a delay due to fixing a game-crashing bug, they'll complain.

The multiple posts saying they're canceling their preorders for something as paltry as a delay of a few hours for a silly beta test is just shocking. However, I say good riddance to them. It's like the whiners on the World of Warcraft forums who get upset at something Blizzard did or didn't do. Those of us who are intelligent enough to realize it's not important just wave and say our good-byes, because we all realize that the game is now a better place without that one player who takes offense at everything.

After all this racket, the beta has been released and everything seems to be working normally... Other than, of course, the fact that it's a beta, and there will be bugs all over the place that you're supposed to be reporting. Just remember that, people. You're supposed to hunt for bugs, first and foremost, while having fun at the same time. You're not supposed to have fun, first and foremost, while reporting whatever bugs you might happen across.

Go explore, do stupid stuff! Try to break the game! I'm sure that Valve has already picked up most of the bugs during a normal game. Try to climb out of the map and crash the server! That's what you're there for... It's not a demo version.