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I've been focusing a lot on Brawl on this site, but I think I should maybe talk about the other game I'm really looking forward to: Mario Kart Wii. I've done my homework and I have some news.
- Miis are playable drivers that you can upload from the Mii Channel. This is good news. (I wanted them to be in Brawl, but this isn't about Brawl. It's about the poor, over-looked Mario Kart Wii.) Miis need to be in more compilation games, like a certain upcoming brawling game that shall go nameless. They've been in plenty of games, more than Pikmin & Olimar, but that's a bit off topic, right?
- The Gamecube controller may or may not be an optional controller. Seems like a rip-off to me. When they first announced this game they said that it would a revolutionary game in that it would level the playing field between pros and amateurs with the Wii Wheel, but that won't work if the pros are going back to the familiar Gamecube controller.
- Now for the online play news: Their will be twelve players online... interesting. They will introduce a new channel solely for Mario Kart Wii Online data. I don't want this sucking the memory, but oh well.

I was playing Guitar Hero online and it got me thinking: How long will it be until there's absolutely no one that owns Guitar Hero and wants to play online? Tomorrow? 400 years from now?
I got to picturing myself forty years from now: /cue dream sequence harp chords/ I'm cleaning out the basement. I pull out a box marked "Nintendo". At the bottom of the box I find a strange looking Guitar. I consider hopping into my hover-car to bring it to the pawn shop, but I pull something else out of the box: a case marked "Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock." It all comes back to me. I pop it into the dusty Nintendo Wii. I play Cliffs of Dover on Expert. I click "Nintendo WFC." I search endlessly for an opponent - nothing. Then I create a game of my own - nothing. After fourteen hours someone finally appears, but it's clearly some four year old who found this "antique" in his grandpa's attic. /end dream sequence/

Last night, I flipped on the Simpsons (Season 2, Disc 1, Episode: Simpson and Delilah) and just as I did so, my Wii Optical Disc Light lit up with that stunning bright distracting blue. I didn't want the light on all night so I turned on the Wii and checked the message board.
Sure enough there was a message from Nintendo. Apparently there was a new Wii System Update available for the Check Mii Out. I clicked "Update" like the friendly message told me. So I try to go to the Check Mii Out Channel after that and I get this message:

So, I go to the Wii Shop Channel and download the newest version. I go back to the Check Mii Out Channel and get turned away again with the same message. I tried doing another Wii System Update. That didn't work.
Is this a widespread problem or am I going crazy? I'm pretty sure I'm going crazy.

(Please excuse the obscure Wayne's World reference in the title.)