If you successfully purchased a Wii this holiday season, I recommend you hide it from the ravenous crowds. Like hordes of zombies in search of brains, Christmas shoppers are on the prowl for Nintendo’s console. It seems Nintendo miscalculated demand (or did they?), and now Wii-shortages have shoppers around the world shaking their non-Wiimote-holding fists in the air. It’s gotten so bad that Nintendo has started pulling some of its Wii advertising, since taunting consumers with images of the coveted console would just be cruel and unusual. Looks like Santa will be getting plenty of hate mail from lots of little gamer girls and boys who had the Wii at the top of their lists this year.

Those of you who missed out on the Wii might want to consider getting a Falcon instead. The Falcon is a force feedback controller for computer games. In other words, it’s a controller that actually lets you feel objects in the game. I could try to explain it, but you can just see how it works by watching this video. It looks quite cool, and it makes the rumble capabilities in console controllers seem like child’s play.

But if you’re still bitter about the Wii shortage, why not get a Vii shipped from China instead? Apparently there’s nothing in the world like it (note: the console is real, the commercial’s subtitles are not):

-Phil Malaczewski