What a waste of potential.
One week after purchasing my Wii, I was so excited for the possibilities. If a tech demo like Wii Sports could be so awesome, just imagine how great the titles were going to be a year from then! Trauma Center was fun, the motion controls definitely added something to Zelda, and it was a blast to play classic games on the virtual console.
Then I waited. And waited.
More than two years later, the Wii has absolutely nothing to show for it. Nothing. Half-assed PS2 ports, hordes of embarrassingly clunky mini-game compilations, and dumbed down first party titles like Mario Galaxy and Mario Kart Wii. How is it that Wii Sports is still the best tennis, boxing, golf and bowling game on the system? How is that even freaking possible? Don't even get me started on the lack of decent virtual console releases.
If it weren't for the brilliance of Metroid Prime 3 and the awesome port of Resident Evil 4, I would have burned my Wii instead of selling it.
Instead, I sold the damn thing on craigslist for just about the same price I paid for it 2 years ago. Good riddance.
Feb 17 2009, 9:03 am
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Yash 69
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Bout damn time
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And thus I predict a post titled "Why did I sell my Wii?" sometime near the end of this year. You managed to sell your Wii at the start of what is hyped to be the best year for Wii originals yet.
I love the PS3 as much as the next guy, but the Wii will always be my favorite. As for the 360.. bleh. | |
Mechana2412 wrote:
And thus I predict a post titled "Why did I sell my Wii?" sometime near the end of this year. You managed to sell your Wii at the start of what is hyped to be the best year for Wii originals yet. I don't particularly blame him to be honest. I've had all 3 consoles since about the dae they were released. Xbox 360, got 32 games for it, well worth the money. Given me hundreds, probably thousands of hours of enjoyment. PS3, got 3 games for it. At the moment it is covered in an inch of dust. What a total waste of money, easily the most expensive doorstop I have ever purchased. Wii... 3 games again. Too make it worse, they were flaming casual games and were rather easy and shallow. Most dissapointing console I have ever owned. No offence guys, but every god damn year you say "this is THE YEAR when my console gets the games!! YEAAAAHHHHHH!!!". But at the end of the year you're all left crying because the Xbox 360 got about 5x as many good games as your console did, and the games you got were probably not as good as they were hyped to be either. When I buy a console... I do it because I want to play games. I'm not sure about the rest of you, but I generally get bored of repetative games, or ones with no or low replay value after finishing them once, which at most takes a week. When I am only getting 1 or 2 of these games a year... It kind of leaves me with nothing to use the console for the other 50 weeks in a year!! Also, I hate Nintendo. They (probably) use to care about having a decent console with decent games, but they turned into a company that cares about making big buxxx, and it clearly shows. | |
Meh. Just heavily lacking 3rd party support. I would of just gritted my teeth and kept it.
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Told you (all) so! I've had my 360 since they came out, and loved it every moment*. I've never seen the need to have anything else(except for my PC), and it weren't for a lack of Blu-Ray disc support I'd call it as close to perfect as consoles come.
If you don't mind me asking, what are you going to spend the money on? There's a lot of iCrap you can buy with $250 big ones(assuming you sold it for full price). *There was a point in time about a week after Assassin's Creed came out that it RoD'd me, and then I was left 2 weeks twiddling my thumbs on my PC. | |
i am disappointed that it lack 3rd party support but i don't regret buying it. its a good party system, fun to play when you have friends over but thats all I use it for. 360 still beats both the ps3 and the wii in terms of price and fun factor.
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Disturbed Puppy wrote:
Told you (all) so! I've had my 360 since they came out, and loved it every moment*. I've never seen the need to have anything else(except for my PC), and it weren't for a lack of Blu-Ray disc support I'd call it as close to perfect as consoles come. He could just use the money to buy more games for his Xbox. It's sort of perplexing to me that despite it's insanely strong console sales 3rd party developers aren't focusing on the Wii. Granted it doesn't help when Nintendo is purposely keeping Wii development stuff to their selves. Case in point the Wii Lightsaber game and the attachment for the wiimote that makes it more precise. | |
Disturbed Puppy wrote:
If you don't mind me asking, what are you going to spend the money on? There's a lot of iCrap you can buy with $250 big ones(assuming you sold it for full price). Just popped it into savings. I bought the new limited edition of Mass Effect that came out a few days ago for the 360, because I've been meaning to play through it again. I probably need to get a new Mac here sometime soon, but I'm waiting for the next refresh on the iMacs. | |
It's getting around that time of year where nintendo runs out of games and starts sucking. It's JUST like the gamecube, now we wait for the next one to be announced, and all of the fanboys can have something to argue about.
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IcewarriorX wrote:
It's getting around that time of year where nintendo runs out of games and starts sucking. It's JUST like the gamecube, now we wait for the next one to be announced, and all of the fanboys can have something to argue about. That's not even a fair comparison. With the Gamecube, nobody bought it and Nintendo actually gave a shit about the quality of its' games. The wii is just a complete flip of this. | |
Good thing I have a 360, Frontlines:Fuel of War FTW! That game owns, I nailed a guy with a air-to-ground bomb in the face, three inches from his head, in a jet going 600 mph.
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What is it with people thinking that Nintendo cares only about money? They already won the console wars.
The nintendo DS is debatebly the most profitable console I have ever invested on. It's that good. As for the Wii, It has alot of great games. And I own alot of them. I also have a Xbox 360, and I'd have to say I have more fun on my Wii than I would 360. But yeah. Nintendo doesn't need to win any console wars anytime soon; the nintendo fanboys are satisfied with our current lineup and nintendo itself is continuing to overlap other consoles with the Nintendo DS. The rest is just opinion. | |
Zxcvdnm wrote:
i am disappointed that it lack 3rd party support but i don't regret buying it. its a good party system, fun to play when you have friends over but thats all I use it for. 360 still beats both the ps3 and the wii in terms of price and fun factor. I very much concur with this, and if you're going to complain so much, why don't you mod it and develop your own software for it? Make it more like you want it? Then you'd kwitcherbitchin and we'd be seein' one less whiny post. | |
As someone who had a GameCube I really don't have much of a problem with the Wii. I'm used the only good games coming from Nintendo and the worthwhile release list being one every couple of months on a good year. It's the price you pay for the really good stuff like Metroid Prime.
It stings a little that almost everything on the console is movie tie-in quality, but after ignoring all the garbage I'm happy with what's left. [I should probably have mentioned that after Christmas this year I have literally got more awesome 360 games than I can play. Seriously, I'll be lucky if I'm caught up by June.] | |
loool... funny.. that's y there's a new xbox coming out.. and PS isn't coming out with anything new for the next 10 years since PS3 will be upgradeable. There was a video I saw of 1 of the PS3 developers talking about PS3 and its competition.
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The Magic Man wrote:
I've had all 3 consoles since about the dae they were released.Xbox 360, got 32 games for it, well worth the money. Given me hundreds, probably thousands of hours of enjoyment. PS3, got 3 games for it. At the moment it is covered in an inch of dust. What a total waste of money, easily the most expensive doorstop I have ever purchased. Wii... 3 games again. Too make it worse, they were flaming casual games and were rather easy and shallow. Most dissapointing console I have ever owned. No offence guys, but every god damn year you say "this is THE YEAR when my console gets the games!! YEAAAAHHHHHH!!!". But at the end of the year you're all left crying because the Xbox 360 got about 5x as many good games as your console did, and the games you got were probably not as good as they were hyped to be either. When I buy a console... I do it because I want to play games. I'm not sure about the rest of you, but I generally get bored of repetative games, or ones with no or low replay value after finishing them once, which at most takes a week. When I am only getting 1 or 2 of these games a year... It kind of leaves me with nothing to use the console for the other 50 weeks in a year!! Also, I hate Nintendo. They (probably) use to care about having a decent console with decent games, but they turned into a company that cares about making big buxxx, and it clearly shows. I couldn't agree with this more. I have 3 games for my Nintendo Wii (that includes Wii Sports, so more like two), 4 for the PlayStation 3, and a ton for my X-Box 360. The PS3 has been coming out with games that also come out for the X-Box 360, and since I like the controller for the X-Box 360 better, and just how the console works, I buy the games for the X-Box 360. If the PS3 comes out with a game just for their console, that is good, I will buy it, but they haven't had anything good lately. The Nintendo Wii is the samething as every other Nintendo system out there. My favorite console of all times is the SNES, so don't think I am hating on Nintendo. I don't mean it's the same in how it works, because it isn't, obviously, seeing as how you can move things by moving the controller. What I meant was, the games. The Nintendo releases the same exact games all the time. They have nothing new. All they release is Metroid (which I don't play), Mario (Mario got old after the Nintendo 64, they haven't released anything new with this, it's the same crap with added tricks. These games are for 5 year olds now), and other Mario type games like Mario Kart, Super Smash Bro's, etc. Oh yeah, and Zelda, but I don't play Zelda either. If they actually have an action game (and not a game meant for kids under the age of 12) then it's on the X-Box 360 or the PS3, so I buy it for those consoles. Moving my entire body to play a game like Resident Evil or Silent Hill isn't my idea of fun. It's kind of annoying. It's only fun on sports games. Everytime I go to Best Buy to check out some video games, I might stroll into the Nintendo Wii section to see what's new and all I see are moms, holding their 5 year old kids hands looking to buy games for them. Seriously, why can't Nintendo release some original action games that would work well with how their controls are, rather than trying to make it work for X-Box 360 or PS3 titles. It would make that system so cool. Right now my Wii is sitting in my closet, I haven't used it since I first bought it. I might pop in Wii Sports now and again, but that is all. That is their only good game. | |
IcewarriorX wrote:
It's getting around that time of year where nintendo runs out of games and starts sucking. It's JUST like the gamecube, now we wait for the next one to be announced, and all of the fanboys can have something to argue about. I'm not exactly a fanboy, but if I were you, Silk, I would have waited six months to see what happens with Wii Motion Plus. Chances are that it will fail and the next console with have it built in, but until then, I want to see if I can get my perfect response sword fighting game =(. | |
I'm not trying to start a fanboy argument here BxS0ldi3R, but the only thing that was even remotely correct about what you said is that Sony (currently) plans to keep the PS3 going for the next ten years. They'll openly admit that the PS4 will be here before then and that the PS3 will have a few years out of the spotlight to cool down.
Oh, that and a new XBOX. Both the new XBOX and the next Playstation have probably been in R&D since the before the launch of their current generation hardware. It takes a long time to get these things to the shelves. Also, you were half-right on the upgrade thing. The PS3 has very limited potential for upgrade. Software, hard-drives and controllers, that's it. You can't replace any of the core hardware, and even if you could they wouldn't allow it because it would make some games incompatible with earlier model consoles. If God of War IV required a graphic card upgrade the game would probably end up selling pretty poorly because a large chunk of the PS3 install base wouldn't have that graphics card. What you're probably thinking of is the architecture. Basically it's designed so that developing for the PS4 will be pretty much the same as developing games for the PS3. However this has really blown up in their face. They put a lot of work into it and they're going to have to flush it all down the drain and start again with the PS4 because developers have made it clear that the console is too difficult to develop for. The Nintendo 64 ran into a similar problem with similar results (an ever decreasing steam of new games to the console). Again, I'm not trying to start a fanboy war here but your facts are really off-base. | |
Cavern wrote:
Everytime I go to Best Buy to check out some video games, I might stroll into the Nintendo Wii section to see what's new and all I see are moms, holding their 5 year old kids hands looking to buy games for them. Seriously, why can't Nintendo release some original action games that would work well with how their controls are, rather than trying to make it work for X-Box 360 or PS3 titles. It would make that system so cool. Right now my Wii is sitting in my closet, I haven't used it since I first bought it. I might pop in Wii Sports now and again, but that is all. That is their only good game. Yeah, what happened to the good ol' days when parents would buy their kids Halo and GTA? Also, you must not really like any good games :P. The Wii has Super Mario Galaxy, Super Smash Bros Brawl, Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, and a few other good games. It's common sense that Nintendo would continue its best selling franchises, and that they would dominate the market, so if you didn't like those, why did you get a Wii? | |