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Wii worth buying?
Burgu
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So when the Wii came out I was pretty excited about the system and figured that I would pick one up if i could find one. Fast forward a few months and I've been thinking about it and hearing how people are waggled out, etc. The game selection for the wii seems to be mostly mini games and party games, with zelda seemingly the only real game with a single player experience worth keeping my attention.
Then I look over at the 360. Dead Rising, Gears of War, Armored Core, the kind of games I'm interested in. Now I'm not sure if i should just wait for the wii and see how it does in the next few months, or if i should invest in one now.
I'm hoping to get some responses from Wii owners and hear about their experiences.
Help me G&T!
Then I look over at the 360. Dead Rising, Gears of War, Armored Core, the kind of games I'm interested in. Now I'm not sure if i should just wait for the wii and see how it does in the next few months, or if i should invest in one now.
I'm hoping to get some responses from Wii owners and hear about their experiences.
Help me G&T!
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If you aren't sure whether to get it now, save your money and wait a few months. By then there will be more games out for you to make a decision and you might get a chance to buy it for less. No reason to rush into it if you aren't sure how much you want it.
Ask again later.
Just from this, I would say wait it out. I have a wii and I have the same problem. I just haven't found any games "meaty" enough to hold my attention. Alot of the wii games are great fun, but I found them to be fun in short bursts.
So yeah, wait it out.
Well, if you're not frothing at the mouth for it, then it's not going to hurt to wait. All the good games that are out now (and IMO that's a hefty pile of 'em) will still be available later.
But the same could be said about a 360 too (I got the impression from your OP that you were trying to decide between the two). We're just at the start of this generation, so it's not like you're gonna miss your shot to play it if you don't buy it right now.
So the answer to what you should buy next is inevitably "what do you want to play next?"
Zelda.
What are you talking about?
Zelda was really fucking great, though.
And Marvel: Ultimate Alliance is a fun experience, although that's cross-system too.
Elebits is pretty great, but kinda frustrating towards the end.
Budokai 2, while cross-system, is better in terms of load time, graphics, and controls on the Wii. Perfect motion-control utlization, and it has GC and Classic support if that's your thing.
Excite Truck is a very nice arcade racing game, with quite a few unlockables and a bit of depth.
VC? Fantastic if you're rich.
Wii sports is tons of fun with friends. It gets people hooked.
Overall, it's a very nice system, and Paper Mario coming out tomorrow will hopefully contribute to the awesome.
By the end of the year, I expect it'll be twice as good though. Metroid Prime 3, Smash Brothers, Super Mario Galaxy, probably another Zelda announced, more third party titles, Umbrella Chronicles reaching completion? Right now, I think the 360 has a slight edge on games. This might just be console envy, though, since I don't have one and my computer is kinda crappy so I haven't played a nice-looking FPS in a while.
So, my opinion:
If you never had a GC, get a Wii, Zelda, and the GC titles you missed out on. Excite truck too if you like racing. Budokai Tenkachi 2 if you like fighting and/or hilariously bad voice-acting. Elebits if you like puzzles. M: UA if you want to see what a middling/decent Wii port looks like.
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What are you talking about?
Such a thing does not exist.
Sure it does.
Personally, the thing isn't even on my radar until Super Mario Galaxy hits the streets and is declared good.
For the Wii Wii Sports and Zelda made a launch purchase fine. (I really believe most "Gamers" don't get Wii Sports. It's truely the best game computer ever made. And that isn't hyperbole. I have a tennis court, half a golf course and a bowling alley in my living room. If I didn't ever buy another Wii game I would be happy.
From what you say - that would not be the case. So give it till xmas at least.
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Nintendo partnered with Roxio on this .. Roxio who makes DVD playback software, not hardware. The system already has a drive capable of reading discs, and the power to play back in software ... so this will probably be a channel for download for the rest of us who already have Wiis.
So in other words a Wii version of the Panasonic Q.
It won't leave Japan and will just be a useless added expence to the Wii. Not what I'd call a "better" version.
Also, don't expect a price drop any time soon.
And it is hells of dumb because Jesus Christ I already own like 5 dvd players what the hellllll
It said in the article that it's coming to North America.
To save you some time though:
I mean, it is right there, in the bolded paragraph at the top.
And then the second you'll buy it they'll announce the wii-SP-lite-elite with like 1gb of storage and dvd playback for $300. Right? ha
edit: beaten by 500 people. who needs another dvd player anyway. I've got like six growing out of my ass
Durr.
If you do not have a great interest in the library available right now, then obviously it's not going to be worth it to hunt one down when they're not exactly common at the moment. Waiting a year or more to pick up a console after its launch isn't uncommon and is often recommended.
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He's a PR guy, he doesn't know what he's talking about. The GCN was more than capable of playing back DVD/MPEG2 data streams (hell, Sega did it all the time using CRI middleware).
Never trust PR people to tell you what hardware is capable of doing. That's where we get 4D gaming, game 3.0, and region-free Wiis.
It definitely doesn't require more than a firmware upgrade ... they may not offer it as one, but it's easily feasible.
I would recommend a PS3, just to balance out the off-topicness of this post.
It is old... it's from November last year 6 days before launch. We heard about it from this Atwood guy and then never again in the almost 5 months since. It's kind-of up in the air at the moment. They haven't said anything about canning the project, but they also haven't offered any updates.
And more recent news on that subject has pretty much cemented the fact that the DVD wii is jsut that,a wii with dvd playback, and is Japan only.
I'd find links and such but it is 12:30.
For me the biggest argument in it's favour is than it's SEVEN consoles in one. You dont only get a Wii but also a Gamecube, a N64, a SNES, a NES , a Genesis and a TG-16.
In addition to Zelda, Sonic and the three-days-away Paper Mario have meaty single-player experiences, not counting all the ports. So it's worth it for me personally. But if you aren't interested enough in it to lay down $250 now without major convincing, then go ahead and wait and see what else comes out before buying it.