Sam’s Club is offering a gargantuan Wii deal for Black Friday. The store is selling a Wii (With accompanying Wii Sports), three Wii Remote controllers, three Nunchuck controllers and two games for just $224. The games included are "Mario Super Sluggers" and "King of Clubs Mini Golf." That price point is about $250 less than what it’d be to buy all of this stuff separate. With that said, it will be a mad house at Sam’s Club come November 28th. You had better get there early, or camp out.

Us techies love to see our favorite gadgets broken apart to help us gleam some understanding. The latest gadget to become naked and humiliated is Nintendo’s forthcoming portable DSi, the followup to the popular DS. The DSi features a camera and MP3 player, and from the looks of it, one nifty motherboard. See below for more pictures.

An independent research study has issued their results regarding the attachment rates for each video game console. An attachment rate is taken to be the amount of games sold per console per person. After 23 months on the market, the PS3 and Wii are virtually tied, with 5.3 and 5.5 games sold per system, respectively. During that same time, the Xbox 360 was hanging high at 6.6 games sold per system.

The Xbox 360 does have the benefit of being the first kid on the block, being released a good year before the other two. However, they’ve always had an excellent attachment rate. Whereas, a good portion of Nintendo Wii owners may have never bought anything besides the pack-in Wii Sports, which would bring down their number considerably.

Nintendo’s dual-screen DSi was released in Japan yesterday, and several flash card devices were tested on the system. The results were bad, with every single device failing on the system.

R4 – Failed
EZ Flash V – Failed
CycloDS – Failed
G6 DS Real – Failed
M3 DS Real – Failed
Supercard DS One – Failed
iTouch DS – Failed
FCard – Failed
NCard – Failed
M3 DS Simply – Failed
U2DS – Failed

There may be more that have yet to be tried, but as for now, the DSi seems to be impervious to the wonders of pirated flash cards.

Sony Computer Entertainment America recently filed for a patent detailing a break-apart DualShock 3 controller that recognizes 3D inputs. Rumors had been swirling since June that the company was working on something of this kind, to combat the success of the Wii and their infrared-enabled remote control. The patent dictates that the gamepad would consist of two connectable pieces that would each utilize an "ultrasonic tracking system." The controllers would link up to a game console or peripheral of some kind that has yet to be patented. The tech at play here also seems to differ significantly from the Wii so a lawsuit should not be a problem. Obviously, no word on a release date or even exactly what it is yet.