Update 2: Congratulations to Kurifurisan, Mr. Scolex, Oro, and Jennifer for successfully completing the ARG! The clues are explained below.
Clue 1: As you can see below, the word Wii and the numbers 10 and 29 are highlighted in bold. This obviously refers to the Wii Fanboy blog in particular, on the date October 29th. Only one article was published on this date: Toys R' Us nonsense.
Clue 2: In this post, we can immediately see that the post picture has been altered. It features four DS games: Spyro: A New Beginning, Contact, and Nintendogs (presumably the newer Dalmatian Edition). These games were all released on the same week, and thus, should have led you to the DS Fanboy post DS Releases for the Week of October 16th.
Clue 3: This post had an extra final line added: "4 leaves take 5 4 good, 6 feet under. A shame, really." Silly numbers games aside, the death and departure of four leaves refers to the untimely dissolution of Clover Studios, makers of such fine games as Viewtiful Joe and Okami. This should have referred you to the final destination post, Clover Studios Goes Six Feet Under on Nintendo Wii Fanboy. If you found the cross-linked post on DS Fanboy, there was a message saying you had the wrong blog.
We hope you enjoyed the game, and if you failed to complete it, you'll have some chances next year to prove your mettle. If you gain any, that is. Hah!
For the uninformed, ARG stands for "Alternate Reality Gaming". That's really just a silly hype-word, we think, but here we go. Your task: follow the sequence of clues to various past posts in both Nintendo Wii Fanboy and DS Fanboy. Should you manage to defeat our ingenious riddles, post a comment on the final post to declare your victory to the world. Heck, we'll even go back and give you a star for doing it, too ... the feature is temporarily out of service, but our tech guys should have it back up and running soon.
Below are the sales figures for this week, and contained therein, the first clue.
- DS Lite: 319,708
10,078 (3.25%)- Wii: 108,237
22,798 (26.68%)- PS3: 70,942
20,771 (41.40%) - PSP: 48,962
20,032 (69.24%)- PS2: 37,730
7,270 (23.87%)- Xbox 360: 17,168
18,175 (51.42%)- GBA SP: 1,867
29 (1.53%)- Game Boy Micro: 1,491
64 (4.12%)- Gamecube: 1,152
583 (102.46%)- DS Phat: 158
9 (5.39%)- GBA: 42
25 (147.06%)- Xbox: 3
3 (50.00%)[Source: Media Create]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
12-23-2006 @ 1:22AM
kurifurisan said...
I found the end of the ARG trail! I found....that I have a lot of free time. Ok, back to the Wii!
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12-23-2006 @ 3:58AM
Justin Larsen said...
Ive had it, im going to japan next week and buying 6 orginaly xbox's to see how accurate these stats are.
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12-23-2006 @ 6:27PM
Kai said...
I love playing the Wii, but sadly I have not been able to find one in a store anywhere. I've even tried camping, but when I show up over 12 hours early and there are already 40 people in line for 18 systems, I have no hope.
Anyway, I don't understand why I don't hear more about how Nintendo promised 4 million units sold by the end of the year, but under 2 million are sold right now (only 8 days left). So they are going to ship/sell over 2 million in the next week?
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12-23-2006 @ 6:37PM
Mr. Khan said...
@ Kai, well, Nintendo was a little too optimistic about their manufacturing capabilities, which is odd, because the only original technology in the Wii is the gyroscopic Technology in the Controller
Remember, to meet their promised goals, Microsoft has to sell 1.2 million 360s in the next 8 days too (Their sales have stagnated a bit, but still pretty robust)
On the 11th Day of Christmas, my true love gave to me
11 BRDs a playing ($25*11=$275)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000K4X5XA/ref=nosim?s=merchant&m=&v=glance&tag=yahoo-dvd-mp-new-20&camp=212325&creative=380341
10 Gfx Cards a threading ($3000)
9 Styluses a Drawing ($21)
8 Wiimotes a flying ($320)
7 SIXAXIS Tilting ($350)
6 360 Movies Downloading ($36)
5 Mod Chips ($500)
4 Alienwares ($9600)
3 SEGA Games ($160)
2 CELL Processors ($1200)
And 1 Nintendo Wii ($250)
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12-23-2006 @ 8:08PM
Moogle said...
Mr. Khan, at least be realistic. The accelerometers, not gyroscopes, are off the shelf parts and have been around for years. Digikey has over 10,000 ADXL330's in stock right now, and they're a small orders dealer. Even the IR camera is probably an easily available bulk item, digital camera tech is highly developed and a monochrome 1 megapixel sensor is a piece of cake.
The cpu and the gpu, however, are new designs that had to have special runs done specifically for the Wii.
The truth is that since Nintendo plays their cards close to their chest, there's no way of telling what the problem might be if there even is one.
The numbers for everyone are still kinda fuzzy. Right now I wouldn't bet on any outcome for the new year.
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12-23-2006 @ 11:36PM
Kenny! said...
29/10 (29th of October)
Something about Wii...
Toys'R'Us took pre-orders- http://gonintendo.com/?p=7072
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