I left the warmth of my igloo and crossed the arctic tundra to get a Wii myself. I encountered a wild moose, but thankfully avoided the ice spiders. It was worth it.

Fyrinn

@enigma89: Actually I am an arachnaphobe. I do it to test myslef. :)

Mike Fahey

@BritBloke916: If Canada DID have deep crows, they'd be larger than their southern cousins, and would drink better beer.

TitillatedOcelot

The Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen are our only defense against those vicious beasts.

liquid_kore

@ReadNLearn:
You folks have horses up North? Here in Ontario, we are limited to dog sleds during winters. These things break down so easily and it's so damn hard to find replacement limbs for them. Problems have gotten worse after I bought these consoles. It's becoming harder and harder to get enough dogs to generate enough power for my igloo.

eternalsunshineofcoralfang

@enigma89: Better not visit the great white north then :)

FrigidAir44

Ice spiders are a menace. If we had a Colert figure in Canada, they'd be Number 1 on the Threat Down (equivalent) every time.

Crawl to China

@Ryumeka: Yeah, they'll probably report about Wii being unsuccessful and not breaking records right about the time they're reporting that 'intelligent design' has turned out to be true, global warming isn't happening, and gravity was only a theory. Whoops! I'm suddenly floating through the air!

Or not.

quen

Ice Spiders are no match for deep crows...

BritBloke916

@CanadianZero: All hail the Bear Cavalry!

TRT-X

@Inhert:

Nevermind I'm an idiot haha

Inhert

@NES8bt:

10% :P

Haha, I like how Kotaku didn't have to use terrible 50 year old jokes when referring to Canada. XD Ice Spiders

Inhert

Tim Hortons

NSFU

I fight Ice Spider's off Devil May Cry style everyday on the way to work. It ain't no thing like a chicken wing! eh!

NexusSIX

Arctic hicks with their ice spiders...

Here in Calgary we ride horses to work in the summer. The other 11.5 months of the year we just sled down the hills and skate the rest of the way.

ReadNLearn

Ice spiders! I love that movie! AIIEEE A SPIDER CAME IN AND IT KILLED TWO DUDES AND THEN I KILLED IT WITH AN ANTLER hahaha let's all laugh together. We're safe now. (never mind the dudes that just died)

It's like a mix of the video to Wham's Last christmas and a really crappy 8 legged freaks do-over.

I AM A FAN.

Sunjammer

I just heard that if you feed a Ice spider some canadian maple syrup itll explode out cotton candy.

gold5225

Is there any chance you can report on the Wii not breaking records and marks? I'd like to read that.

Ryumeka

@CanadianZero: Polar bears totally pwn Ice Spiders. But the glacier moose are a close second.

dowingba

I would fight 4 ice spiders to get Animal Crossing.

Crispy-Hypocrite

I hear those things are awesome at ice hockey too.

phicaluk

Ice Spiders ruled!

ComixZone

i like riding my polar bear over a spider, but thats just me.

CanadianZero

I would like to say that I ride one of those Ice Spiders to work. They get a bad rap.

GO CANADA! 3% of us are Wii Oners!

NES8bt

Goddammit, did you really need the picture of the huge spider? I mean, could you be more considerate to the arachnophobes?

enigma89

Last I counted, Canada had about 30 million folks living here, so 1 million Wii sold is a pretty damn good number.

dowingba

Ice spiders are no laughing matter.
I live in the far north and was bitten by a baby one a few years ago. It' took nearly 72 hours for my foot to thaw out and 3 operations to save it from amputation!

Nitemare1

@Audemars: It's because it doesn't come with Wii Ice Hockey, and Nintendo can only be tricked into taking silly Canadian moniez so many times.

Chanthas

I would rather get the 3 red rings of death every month of the year and buy a new one than get 1 cheap long lasting Wii. We Canadians need to get with it. Wii Tennis? That's embarrassing, we like Tennis?

Audemars

I live in Toronto because they told me they can't reach here....

mikeevd

Im glad they put ice-spiders on the side
it is by cover alone, a "fine film"

Bone Structure

It's really easy to get a Wii in Canada. If someone else is about to get the last one, just use your maple syrup to root them, and then trample them with a moose.

This also works in MMOs. Replace "maple syrup" with "class skills" and "moose" with "zerg"

Chanthas

Wii is the greatest invention of the millennium.

ChinChinPaiPai

Yep, the typical Canada tundra stereotype (btw I am Canadian). Oh but wait in next couple of decades that might all change due to global warming and climate change, then Canada might not be so arctic like. Meantime I keep warm by the warmth given out by my wii, ps3, and xbox360.

PS. Summers are bad too. The mosquitoes here in Manitoba grow as big as large rats XD

zorkan555

Sadly I cannot get a Wii, because there's nowhere in my igloo to plug it in.

Quilt

My Canadian friend sleeps in a bathtub to protect himself from the bands of Ice Spiders that terrorize his land.

Demonbird

Mostly we just don't talk about the Ice Spiders; they rarely come down to Ontario, preferring to feast on New Brunswickers instead.

Usually we just ignore them in hopes that one day, our fallen hero, Jean Chretien, will return to slay them once and for all.
Long live Chretien... O' Captain, My Captain.

Toastbusters

I lost my brother to those ice spiders... it was horrible. i miss him

Rubykitten

Wonder how high this number would be if there wasn't a shortage...

RaptureScientist

Yeah, Wii is popular up here. Regular practice gives us the skills we need to fend off those damn ice spiders with our hockey sticks. It's practically a national sport up here.

Ber'Zophus

Okay, here's the question-- Which is worse, an Ice Spider or a Brown Recluse?

Cause Brown Recs do NOT fuck around......

dae_giovanni

...those damn spiders took my first-born...

MysteriousStranger

You insensitive clod, you just single-handedly killed off our tourism industry with that ice spider pic. We routinely sacrifice unsuspecting tourists to appease our hairy 8 legged arachnoid overlords. What the hell are we suppose to do now????

Sheky

I own all 3 consoles (PS3, Wii and Xbox360), and so far I prefer the Ps3 first, Wii second and Xbox360 third (Xbox was my 2nd preferred but too many experiences with RROD had soured my experience, plus i like the multifunctionality and the games for Ps3. I do also like some of the games (Super Mario Galaxy) for wii as well as virtual console....

zorkan555

Thanks to the Wii we Canadians get good practice for preparation of operation "slap shots of exploding hockey pucks" at those damn ice spiders

Fstrike

I have 4 friends in Canada who bought a Wii, then eventually bought a 360 after. I think that happens often since the Wii and its library won't satisfy most gamers 100%

LittleBigPlaneteer

My only question is, how do they plug the Wii into their igloo? Plus I think Nintendo should make games specific to Canada featuring penguins and Polar Bears, and also localize said games by including pictures of eskimos and the word "Eh" at the end of every sentence.

LittleBigPlaneteer

i live in california, but my cousins live in ontario.

we were in a blockbuster looking at movies and i picked up "ice spiders" to look at it, and my cousin didn't talk for 3 days straight.

all he said for the duration of my trip was "they could smell my fear..."

i never knew what he meant until now...

presto117

@Zatoichi666:

Peanut Butter potato hybrid eh? I would like to invest in such technology. Do you accept Brussels sprouts as a form of currency?

LittleBigPlaneteer

@LittleBigPlaneteer: Ease up on the stereotypes there, hoser! Yer killin' us, eh? Bah, nuts to you, I bet you don't even know what yer talkin' aboot.

That was harsh. I apologize. ;)

TitillatedOcelot

The real shortage is Wii Fit. Send some to the canucks, eh.

underthechestnuttree

@RaptureScientist:

What shortage? The shelves are always full of Wiis up here.

Mutton-Chops

Ok first off Eskimos are a myth like the Easter Bunny , Santa , and Jesus. and as for the penguins they only reside in zoo's like foolish American tourists who beleive we Canadians are clean freaks and nice. Our main source of energy is based on a cold fusion peanut butter potato hybrid, you would also need a paper plate and a coathanger and a small plutonium 239 rod... good luck gettin the paper plate losers......

Oh yes one more thing "EH" if you onhly knew what it really meant EH! it's not like its a secret code word or anything. really . its not like we have all gone through extensive plastic surgery to look like you humans for nothing ....... did i say humans I meant Americans yes thats it Americans.........
SLEEP TIGHT..........................................

Zatoichi666

33.4 million Canadians (roughly), average of 2.5 people per household equals 13.36 million households. With 1 million Wii sold, that is roughly one Wii for every 13.36 homes.

So close 7.5% of homes have a Wii.

dyl604

Man, all you Canadians are making Canada more fun than I'm sure it is. After all, no way can a country repeatedly attacked by ice spiders be all that great.

Do Kesubei

Well we Canadians sure like our soneeyz, nintendoos, and Xbooxes. We also constantly fear the danm snoow Piareate. Time for Hookey.

Desertwolf

I´m so sad, I never saw giant Ice Spiders when I went to Canada. Maybe I was too distracted looking at the Sasquatches playing hockey. But they´re no match for our giante city snakes and monkeys here in Brazil! LOL

lucasreis

@LittleBigPlaneteer: Man that is such an ignorant stereotype. Everyone knows our igloos have had hydro since at least 1998. How else can we heat up our skates before a long hard day of hockey playing?

dowingba

Another thing not all of us like hockey. of course we are shunned from society and shipped off to the sunny beaches of Nunavut.
I of course am living in fear on the streets of Toronto trying to make a living working in the acid mines.

Zatoichi666

1 in 30 Canadians own a Wii.

I'm proud to be one of the owners.

KillerCRS

Ice spiders? That's not why I heard Canadians are amassing their entire population next to our border.

[www.veoh.com]

ceilingFANBOY

+ Watch video

Zatoichi666

We be fighting Ice spiders everyday, keeping you Yanks safe.

It like the movie Starship troopers, but in the tundra.

Diesel_Power

@dae_giovanni:
Depends. Ice spiders aren't poisonous, but the brown recluse can't stab clean through you with its forelegs or suck all your blood out in thirty seconds.

Pantsman

The Ice spiders are actually one of the main customers for the Wii. They love waggling those little remotes. Only problem is the Canadians keep on killing them every time they go out to buy the Wii so they are a bit slow to reach the million mark.

Spiderbait

That cover is so misleading; those spiders were only the size of dogs in the film. I kept waiting for a mama spider to attack them.

freecajunlove

I don't know why I came back and read through the comments, but most of you pretty much ruined any kind of chance of me even thinking of going near Canada. Ever. Fuck spiders.

enigma89

@enigma89: Don't worry, it's plenty safe so long as you keep to the main cities and never visit anything else, ever.

I should know, I work in a Tourist Bureau, which means I've experience with the giant buggers. They didn't hire me for my skills in customer service, of course.

CommentatorHatman

Lol kotaku definitely did a better job then Joystiq reporting on this news, good job this has always been the better site. _________________________________________________________________

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