MCV home page

Newsflash Signup

Retail biz

Develop 100

Sourcebook

Jobs

more jobs

Global Product Mktg Manager
£30 – 40k
UK - London

NEWS

Subscribe to NEWS RSS Feeds

Next Article Rockstar Steams up Next Article CES 2008: HD-DVD conference cancelled

Monday, 7th January 2008 at 11:48 am

Even the Queen loves Wii

by Ben Parfitt | Email a friend | Print

9 comments

Bookmark with Social network

Her Royal Highness is reportedly hooked on William’s new Nintendo console

The People reports that Prince William is struggling to find time to play the Wii he received for Christmas recently – as his grandmother, who is the Queen incidentally, is apparently “hooked” on the machine.

The paper quotes a Sandringham source as saying: "When she saw William playing a game after lunch she thought the Nintendo looked tremendous fun and begged to join in. She played a simple ten-pin bowling game and by all accounts was a natural.

"It was hilarious. William was in fits of laughter. He was enormously impressed at having such a cool gran. His only difficulty now is prising it away from the Queen's clutches. She showed all the signs of becoming a Nintendo addict."

The paper explains that the Queen is apparently somewhat of a technical whiz, owning a BlackBerry, iPod and a number of flash mobile phones. We only wish we’d been there to see her excitement when the news broke of Sony’s recent PS3 update that saw its Blu-Ray player upgraded to Profile 1.1 and DivX and wmv support added – imagine her joy.

Article continues below

Koch

Tags: elizabeth ii, queen loves wii, queen of england, queen wii

news Archive

Bookmark with Social network

Comments

9 comments | Add a Comment

Yeah right?!

posted by Jan 07, 2008 at 2:57 pm

What a load of B**locks......

She probably doesnt even know what a Wii is!

+ 0
- 0
= 0
Login to rate this comment

Re: Yeah right?!

posted by Jan 07, 2008 at 5:15 pm

as if even the princes played on a Wii....theyre just latching onto the newest 'cool' thing...they'll be telling us she got a ipod phone for xmas next!

+ 0
- 0
= 0
Login to rate this comment

Re: Yeah right?!

posted by Jan 07, 2008 at 5:56 pm

Great PR for Nintendo, Apple BB AND the Palace, though, isn't it?

+ 0
- 0
= 0
Login to rate this comment

Re: Yeah right?!

posted by Jan 08, 2008 at 9:11 am

er...?!
Yeah, if you want your products to suddenly become really un-cool........

+ 0
- 0
= 0
Login to rate this comment

Re: Yeah right?!

posted by Jan 08, 2008 at 9:32 am

I'm so glad you are concerned about being cool.
...Who cares?

+ 0
- 0
= 0
Login to rate this comment

Re: Yeah right?!

posted by Tarquin Farquahar Jan 08, 2008 at 1:51 pm

So why don't they buy a second ******* wii - they've got the bloody money.

+ 0
- 0
= 0
Login to rate this comment

Re: Yeah right?!

posted by Jan 09, 2008 at 1:25 pm

In response to comment 5.

I'm not concerned with being cool, the companies are because if their products arent cool, then they're not desirable, if they're not desirable, then nobody will want them, if nobody wants them, then nobody will buy them.

Need I go on?

When I said 'your' I meant the companies in question: Nintendo, Apple etc.

+ 0
- 0
= 0
Login to rate this comment

Re: Yeah right?!

posted by owen griffin Feb 04, 2008 at 11:58 pm

What is the problem? nintendo wii can be fun. She is only human and a very nice person who can have fun just the same as you. Good on her, and i would be proud if she was my grandma. Life is too short and to be in her position and in the public eye all the time at the age of 81. You should be proud to have her as your queen.
Get some humanities