Oggy:

1) People like FF7, but it's not a very popular game in the grand scheme of things.
2) What Wynney said - Bub and Bob beat Master Chief.

Freeman now has a lead of over 20000 votes.

Sadly snake wont win
due to steam and snake is followed by a cult

Mario would EASLIY win if Nintendo ahd the balls to do what steam did, and ask for all users to vote for mario, there being 8 million on steam and 40 million (or so) on wii's

39.9 million not turned back on after the first week of course.

Hurr Hurr.

The only way nintendo can advertise is via mail, how much are you willing to bet there arent that many subscribers to the newsletter?(also, steam has about 16mil users last time i checked)

Actually, they could just send a message to all the wii's like they would if an update came out.

Scottie and Oggy have it right, through one way or another, the Wii user base would be unlikely to vote.

Wiimail, /thread

Who reads their wiimail?
/Unthread

I do, just to stop the light.

Same Although the light can be quite cool if you turn all the lights off in the room and close the curtains, you then suffer the risk of people thinking your a peado but its totally worth it!

Add onto the fact that 39.9 million people only ever played wii bowling and a lesser number wii fit, and you gauge how many active mario fans their would likely be on the wii. lol

More than the people who voted for Gordan from Steam...

Doubt it.

Lets say double the people vote for each of them than in the last comps, then freeman will get about 250000 votes, theres a few more than that in the world who regulary play wii

The likelyhood of people reading the Wii message and then voting is very low. Firstly, a lot of Wii owners don't read/use their Wii. Secondly, most won't care about Mario. Third, those that do, would probably not be bothered to vote anyway.

...fourth, even fanboys know physicist > plumber

I'm saying that if EVERYONE in the world new about this competition and voted that mario would defo win, however there are more people who care / can use a computer / use facebook / are pr0 enough at the moment on the internet that mario would never win.

Also "active wii players", lol. Wth are they playing.

Saying that I do plan on getting the new silent hill game, new super bros and dead space on wii. But I can only seem to play the wii for a max of 30 mins then i'm tired.

Unless I bought a normal controller.

The assumption that if a message was sent out on the Wii about this, that those people would vote, relies on another factor: the factor that those owning Wii's would need to own PCs as well.

If they had an internet connection for their Wii, they probably own PCs.

And whats wrong with the "Internet Channel"?

All the guitar hero games
Madworld
Super Mario Galaxy
No More Heroes
Call Of Duty
Metroid Prime Trilogy
Wii sports resort
Super Smash Brothers
Rock Band
Okami

Should be enough for a moderately interesed gamer.

Yeah the internet channel is free these days, just use that, it also has flash player 10 now so all good

It would appear I found a bug to allow two votes