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Would I be crazy? (Trade advice?)
Grizzly_Addams
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Let's make this simple, should I trade:
Wii System
PS2 System (I have an extra one)
GTA IV
Soul Calibur IV
Dead Rising
Burnout Paradise
(All those games were for 360)
and get:
Nintendo DS System
World Ends With You
Phantom Hourglass
FFTA2
Yoshis Island 2
Maybe another DS game depending on price
Rock Band 2 and a Guitar for 360
Pros: I dont even own any games for the Wii except Wii Sports, and I can't find any in the coming months I even care about. It's also hooked up to my living room TV which is mostly monopolized by my wife and kids. The 4 360 games I'm considering trading I've beaten and have been warming the shelf for some time. I also don't own a handheld currently. Rock Band 2.
Cons: I may wish I still had a Wii when Nintendo releases a new Mario platformer or Zelda RPG. Whenever that may be. The DS may also see the same fate as the Wii, sitting on my desk, unplayed and unloved after a month or two. I'm not sure if that will be the case though, since I quit WoW.
I can't make decisions on my own. Help me.
Wii System
PS2 System (I have an extra one)
GTA IV
Soul Calibur IV
Dead Rising
Burnout Paradise
(All those games were for 360)
and get:
Nintendo DS System
World Ends With You
Phantom Hourglass
FFTA2
Yoshis Island 2
Maybe another DS game depending on price
Rock Band 2 and a Guitar for 360
Pros: I dont even own any games for the Wii except Wii Sports, and I can't find any in the coming months I even care about. It's also hooked up to my living room TV which is mostly monopolized by my wife and kids. The 4 360 games I'm considering trading I've beaten and have been warming the shelf for some time. I also don't own a handheld currently. Rock Band 2.
Cons: I may wish I still had a Wii when Nintendo releases a new Mario platformer or Zelda RPG. Whenever that may be. The DS may also see the same fate as the Wii, sitting on my desk, unplayed and unloved after a month or two. I'm not sure if that will be the case though, since I quit WoW.
I can't make decisions on my own. Help me.
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EDIT: although yes you would get mad cash moneys for ebaying your Wii around the beginning of December
@gamefacts - Totally and utterly true gaming facts on the regular!
I think your best bet is probably to ebay your Wii stuff if you decide you don't want it anymore and just turn the cash into whatever games you specifically want to own.
I'm not quite sure I understand the problem here.. You say that your Wii has sat there, unloved after a month or two, and that you'd look forward to a new Zelda or Mario game. And yet, both of these are available for the system. Have you played through them both already? There is also Wario Shake it!, and a bunch of good Wiiware/virtual console stuff, if that matters to you at all. Believe it or not, there are actually some really worthwhile third party games for the system too, and I think you'd be doing yourself a disservice by ignoring them simply by virtue of not being Nintendo.
There's a ton of stuff for the NDS, but I can't tell you whether or not you'd enjoy it unless you specify what your gaming tastes are more clearly.
Steam ID: slashx000______Twitter: @bill_at_zeboyd______ Facebook: Zeboyd Games
Yeah, Twilight Princess I beat Launch Week, and Mario Galaxy I got all 241 Stars. Smash Bros, Mario Kart, it all got played to death then sold them to a friend.
I just rented Wario Land: Shake It and loved the game. I'm a sucker for 2D Platformers especially with the collection goals for each stage (a la Super Princess Peach, New SMB, etc) but I barely got to play it during my rental duration, and barely get to play the Wii at all, like I said, since the TV it is hooked up to is almost constantly in use by my family.
My xbox 360 is hooked up to my computer monitor and it gets played everyday. If I could hook the wii up to VGA I wouldnt even have a problem. I do realize there is a Wii VGA cable available from a 3rd party, but i also understand that it doesnt do non-progressive scan output and I really would like to avoid the day that I can't play a game I want in my wii because I have it hooked up that way.
Ooooooooooooh. Now that makes more sense.
Your problem is not that you don't play it, it's that you can't play it since it's hooked up to the family TV, which is often in use.
Well, you could get a TV converter box if you really wanted to play your Wii on a monitor. They make ones that will take almost any signal from composite/svid/component and output to a monitor, regardless of whether the input is progressive or not. Usually converter boxes don't introduce lag either. I have one that was about $80, and it not only takes everything from 480i/480p/720p/1080i, and outputs to my monitor at a variety of resolutions, it also has a built-in TV tuner, comes with a remote, and allows me to switch instantly between TV/input and my computer screen. But mine cost like $80, and I think that the Wii looks better on an SDTV or a proper hidef television than on a monitor... oh also monitors are 16x10 and not 16x9... poop.
Anyway, if you are finding yourself essentially unable to play more than 1 console due to whatever your constraints, then I think it's not a bad idea per se to sell one and get a handheld. Because a handheld won't restrict you to a television, will have different types of games, and it's portable.
Rock Band though. Would you be playing this on yoru monitor? Or in the family room on the family tv?
Steam ID: slashx000______Twitter: @bill_at_zeboyd______ Facebook: Zeboyd Games
That's exactly my situation. My Wii gets substantially less playtime from me because it's hooked up to the family TV and it's hard to get the TV to myself whereas my 360 is hooked up to a monitor in my bedroom so it's available 95% of the time (the other 5% being when my daughter or wife want to play a 360 game).
My DS gets more use than my Wii since I can use it on the bus, at the laundromat, or during my lunch break. I'm not sure that I would recommend the DS games you mentioned though. The two must-play DS games IMO are Professor Layton & the Curious Village, and Elite Beat Agents (TWEWY is probably there as well judging from everyone's reactions, but I haven't played it yet). Space Invaders Extreme also comes highly recommended.
Steam ID : rwb36, Twitter : Werezompire,
Go to your local game store. Buy a copy of TWEWY. Sell a kidney if you have to.
don't get rid of your wii especially if your wife and kids play it
If you have 4 crappy games, there's actually a fairly decent trade in deal at the moment:
$100 for a PS2 + 4 games
Which'll let you get a new DS lite for only 30
honestly I've heard no mention of if they play it but that would be my deciding factor. My kid (5 yr old boy) loves the wii and loves "forcing" (I really want to play) me to play games like mario kart and mario galaxy so he can tell me what to do so I couldn't picture getting rid of mine. My wife likes mario party and wii sports other than that I rock my xbox and PC a lot more than the wii but I guess the value seems similar.
Do this. With the PS2, 4 cheapo games and then the 360 games (which will give an extra $20 bonus with the current trade 2 get $10 extra deal) you'll have more than enough for the DS plus a couple of used games. Oh, it's buy 2 get 1 free on used stuff this weekend only too - so try to get the DS stuff used
Makes sense why the October 2nd conference is a global one.
You have a wife and kids.
And a wii.
And it's not being used?
Your hypothetical DS would NOT sit unused, I can almost guarantee you. The DS easily has one of the strongest libraries of any console or handheld ever. Especially if you like 2D platformers (which you say you do), RPGs, arcade-style games and point-and-click adventures.
On the other side of the coin, the DS' success is precisely why I'd be hesitant to recommend you sell your Wii. The DS had a tough first year or so before becoming such a shining beacon of concentrated awesome, and I'm hoping that the Wii will follow a similar pattern.
With $250 you can buy everything on that list, and keep your PS2 and 360 stuff. Or sell the PS2 and 360 stuff(on Ebay or craigslist, NOT to gamestop) and buy a DS.
Whatever you do, don't take that trade - you would be getting ripped off.