The nintendo Wii

[SinSin]

Yes on december 8th  the almighty long awaited Nintendo wii is arriving on English Shores.
Wii

Wii channels
 

so get down to Game or Gamestation (or any other trusted computer game retailer and preorder yours now (only £20 quid a preorder ) 
I know i'll be there

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[Pumaman]

I can't believe you're even considering buying something with such a ridiculous name.

[Steel Drummer]

It's gonna have better features than the PS3 or XBOX360.

[alimpo83]

Better features like different gameplay and so, not graphically. But really, I'm much more interested in Wii than in the other consoles because of the sense of imersion in a game.

[Darth Mandarb]

Not HD = Not for me.

I can't believe that Nintendo would even consider releasing something that isn't HD.

They always seem to do something like that with each new release ... like the N64 was cartridge based, for example.

I don't know ... just seems odd that it doesn't have HD support.

Don't get me wrong, I'm ready to (and will happily) stand corrected if it's mind blowing, I just don't see it happening.

When they changed the name from "Revolution" to "Wii" I knew something was wrong

[R4L]

I think Nintendo deserves just as good of an applause as the Xbox 360 and PS3. I haven't forgotten my roots as a gamer. I think the Wii will be great. I can't wait to play the games, and judging by Sinsin's link, some of the games will be awesome.

I can't believe that Nintendo has lost such sacred fans. I know friends from when we were very young, who would come over and play Metroid. Then when SNES came out, I got one, and we played Super Metroid, along with Contra 3, and Super Mario World. I admit that today I don't even own a Nintendo console, I have an Xbox, and I hate it. The only game I find fun that I own is Halo 2...

Nowadays everyone seems concerned with graphics... graphics, graphics, graphics.
My friends that used to come over and play Nintendo now play Xbox 360, and everytime I ask them why they play Xbox, they complain and tell me to look at the "superhyper-realistic graphics" in Fight Night. Sorry, but I don't need to see Sugar Ray Leonard's sweat pour down his face. That isn't fun to me. So why is it fun to you?

I'm not saying that Xbox is worthless and that Playstation sucks, both are great consoles with some great games if you can find them, but it'll be a sad day when your deciding between an Xbox 4 and PS5.

[Nacho]

Another proof that everybody has its opinion...  I allways hated Nintendo. I hate Mario, oh, how ridiculous he is, and his brother, and Yoshi and Wario. How boring their games are, and how annoying the music was. Nothing to see with the dynamic Sonic, he is soo coool. The machine itself was better than Sega? Who cares, the overall Villagepeoplesh feeling Mario gives makes me prefer Sega. And now there are better consoles, so, who wants to see childish cartoony oversized heads and the ridiculous moustache again?

I hope this is going to be a big crash and the end of the company. The command does not inspire me a lot of confidence... Seems that they are putting too much confidence in eyetoyish games... Anyway, even if it's the better idea ever it' s going to be difficult to show, because people might be reluctant like me, and the other marks have a lot of advantage...

Let's see.

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

They lost me as a fan when they released that abortion the N64 and got barely any third party support-- and the support it did get was rather terrible.  Castlevania 64, anyone?

[Babar]

THE MACHINE WAS BETTER THAN SEGA?! WHO SAID THIS?

I thought that the SNES (or was it the NES?) had less RAM or something because it was expected to be used mostly for RPGs, while the SEGA had it better, thus more actiony games.

Contra. I just can't get over Contra. Why can't they make games like that anymore? It was so great, it entered your dreams. It was the type of game that made you come away wishing you could do flips while splattering your bolts in all directions, and boring holes into the earth all the way to hell. I played it on the NES, but Contra came on the Sega later on, didn't it?

[Nacho]

I am just talking because some roms I' ve played, some of them were SNES, some SEGA, and the SNES versions of the same game were better... Could be an issue of the Rom or something, don' t mind me.

[skyfire2]

I hope that nintendo gives up on making games forever. Their games are always too easy and they suck ass. What's even worse, Far Cry Wii looks like it's 10 years old because they didn't try to make the graphics like most companys do for console games.

Oh sure, these graphics next generation all right.

[Haddas]

How prjudiced of you. And the fact that many people want a Wii just makes it right out wrong to say their games suck ass. Actually, can anyone name a game nintendo has made?

[BOYD1981]

OH NOES! TEH GRAFICX ARE HORRIBLEB!
you do realise that the Wii isn't as powerful as the 360 and PS3 right? it's slightly more powerful than the gamecube hence the low price, and it's aimed more at the casual gamer.
plus the graphics for any game are down to the competance of the programmers with the hardware they work with, compare most games made early in a console's life to those made a few years on and most of the time they look better, just look at the difference between GTA3 and GTA:SA, or even the PS2 version of Just Cause, it ain't as pretty as the xbox, 360 or pc versions but they've made it look the best they possibly can with the hardware.
if all you care about is pretty get yourself a high spec pc and two £500 graphics card.

[Steel Drummer]

The Xbox 360 sucks. It's not even next gen. Wii is actually an African word, believe it or not...

[Steel Drummer]

The Xbox 360 sucks. It's not even next gen. That and the PS2 usually just have games that are copied onto all three systems, never any original games, like Nintendo always does.

[ManicMatt]

I have no interest in Nintendo's wee. I never have been into Nintendo stuff, ever. But that doesn't mean I want them to disappear. Competition with companies is good for us.

Look at the PC market, the choices have become rather limited for the basic home user. Ack! I even called it a "PC market"! Damn me!!! The COMPUTER market! Sigh..

Oh, I never got an Xbox 360 either, as my Xbox lasted me about a year until the exclusives dried up and the machine doesn't work sometimes. Comapre that to my old "grandad" PS2 that still works fine! (Touch wood)

EDIT: Steel Drummer, there are tons of PS2 exclusives. the last game I got was Kingdom hearts 2. You just aren't looking very hard now are you?

[timlump]

Why would anyone buy the Wii it is basically a slightly better Gamecube but get this its 3 times the price only now you have to use two different controllers and they both cost 35 euros, now we all get a bit pissed off when we only have one controller and we want to play multiplayer but now with the wii if you want to play multiplayer (like the ad shows) you've got to go out and buy SIX more controllers (3 thumb chucks and 3 wi-motes) that will pump that 250 price up to 460, Yipee.Nothing says great than a severly outdated re-release of a failure of a console (when did you ever see anyone except NINTENDO make a game for the gamecube other than a port.)

And although the innovative motion sensing thumb chucks look i admit good in RED STEEl,
I know the first thing I would do is rip the wire in between by mistake ,wow another 35 euro and some friends of mine sadly due to medical reasons would not be able to use these controllers due to coordination issues , what about them?


If you want a console buy the 360 its cheaper than the ps3, is easier to program for and already has a head start (and if you want you can even make your own games for it since microsoft released the software suite to the public) although you could  be smart and just get a computer.

Edit:Maniac matt all my friends and my brothers ps2's broke because all early versions had defective lasers and also to everyone else dont say im a microsoft fan boy, I have a gameboy advance which i play alot, a psp which is great a ps2 which has its moments although multiplayer is extremely dead,an xbox which is uber cool, an amiga which was before my time but enjoyable,a gameboy original,a gameboy colour,a commodore vic 20,an atari 2600 and of course a computer - im an all rounder so im the least biased.

[LimpingFish]

I'm looking foward to the Wii, and dismissing on the basis of its graphics (or its name! For shame! ), or it's lack of HD support, or any number of technological reasons is kind of missing the point.

Nintendo has always been about gameplay (and console) innovations, not whizz bang eye candy. The N64's analog controller, the DS's miriad of features never before utilized on a mainstream gaming portable, etc...it's always been about giving the gamer new ways to play and interact.

Frankly, I couldn't give a fiddlers f*ck if it's not HD compatible, or if the graphics aren't exactly cutting-edge. If the controller works like the say it will, I'm sure I'll enjoy playing the best games Nintendo has to offer.

This graphics erection that people seem to get is pointless and self-defeating, as something shinier and flashier is always just around the corner.

I still say that the coming console generation has happened to soon, and for the wrong reasons.

btw, I play my DS far more than my PSP. It's not a Nintendo thing, it's a games thing.

[R4L]

I agree with LimpingFish.

[skyfire2]

I don't know what people are talking about when they say that the Wii will have great unsurpased gameplay. Look at Red Steel. You are able to take 100 gunshot wounds, autoaim is implemented , and the enemies don't even bother moving around much. (The graphics in Red Steel are pretty good though so I guess LimpingFish won't be buying it.) I thought theÃ,  Wii was supposed to be the next step in virtual reality. The Wii is just another one of nintendo's gimmicks and it'll fade out soon after people realize they paid $200 to have their gamecube controller split into 2 pieces.