The nintendo Wii

[LimpingFish]

Also, it has four ports for Gamecube controllers and memory cards. For playing...Gamecube games...of course.

[ManicMatt]

http://videogames.yahoo.com/ongoingfeature?eid=494785&page=0

hahahaha.

[MrColossal]

I really don't get it. Why let go of the wiimote when doing a gesture? That would put stress on the strap and break it. "They didn't let go, they have sweaty palms" O..k, why are you putting so much strength into your gestures? Because you are probably over compensating for what you need to do.

http://www.wiihaveaproblem.com/show_article.php?id=23

Like this guy.

[Huw Dawson]

Oooh. I'm commenting.

The problem is, everybody's flinging themselves behind one particular console. Not like that's a bad thing or anything... but isn't the Wii designed to be the best friend of the worst of enemies?

And to lay to rest something about graphics that was said... I'm 15. I happen to love sprite art. However, blurred skins in a game usually make me cringe, so I prefer games with crystal clear graphics. For instance, I happen to love playing on the 360 in my local game. The graphics are awsome to the third degree. But what do I do when I go home? I play on my PS2 and RUNESCAPE.

For the record, I'm staying out of the fight until three years in when the PS3 is somewhere in my price range. Or I might get the Wii. I don't know.

- Huw

PS: Only 25 more days until I get my hands on DBZ Boudaki Tenachi 2! If your looking for a neat and dynamic fighting game, and you've played Tekken to death... Just a thought.

[Dmitri]

My opinion is that this generation of consoles is going to rock no matter what console you get... as long as you get a console with games you want to play. I played Wiisports in the Myer center yesterday and it was a blast, I played a mech game on Xbox 360 earlier in the week and that rocked the house. The specs of the PS3 gives room for some really good grafix and audio effects.

Right now I'm sold on the nintendo wii because I heard it was possible to get all your favourite SNES, NES and SEGA games running on it.

[Vince Twelve]

I got my Wii this morning on Japanese launch day.  Okinawa isn't as gamer-y as Tokyo, so we didn't have the kind of lines they had there.  Nevertheless, the store I went to had 70 Wiis and sold every one as soon as the doors opened.  I picked up Wii Sports (not bundled in Japan), Odoru Made In Wario (Wario Ware), and Hajimete no Wii (Wii Play, comes bundled with an extra Wiimote).  I spent a little while playing with Miis and then my 4 year old niece came over and we spent three hours experimenting with all the mini-game goodness.  It was great fun and pretty amazing to watch a four year old immediately figure out what was going on.  Her favorite game was Wii Sports Boxing, because you just wave your arms about like a lunatic for five minutes.

Tomorrow is my daughter's b-day and we're having a bunch of family over.  My wife is excited to get a lot of people in on some Wii action.  It'll be a good test of the Wii's non-gamer appeal.

[LimpingFish]

Wii hits here Dec 8th. Launch line-up looks a little uninspired 

And Nintendo have been very bad boys. Apparently the European Gamecube version of Twilight Princess in only available in limited numbers and exclusively from Nintendo's website.

Sneaks.

[TheYak]

I like the thing, quite a bit.  A guy at work's got most of the recent consoles set up (XBox, PS2, 360, GameCube, Wii, PS3) and the only one I've felt compelled to play was the Wii.  I want 'em all, but the PS3 doesn't have any games that are "Must have" for me, and the 360's only got a couple I want to play. 

I've only tried Wii sports so far.  It looks like absolute ass, but I've killed a good few hours without noticing the time go by.  I probably won't get one, though, until there are at least two games that I've been anticipating (Zelda and... Metroid maybe). 

I'm a little disappointed by the accuracy of the motion, and how quickly the thing loses track of you if you move quickly, but even being critical of it, I enjoy the natural motion while playing versus essentially translating everything mentally from analog to digital.