wow, return of the king.

@Baratation, good games will come, took the 360 a year to get a decent library built up

Theres are least 4 Wii games worth buying atm, and the VC isn't too bad if you never owned any of the old stuff.

At least 4 versus the PS3's 2. Virtua Fighter 5 looks fuck-off amazing, but a great figher and Resistance aren't enough to sell me a $500 console.

I think the console has sparked great interest in the console

Dear Nintendo:

You're doing well, I see. That's good! Now, for the important stuff.

Don't fuck it up!

You've already got a great install base, now give us something, anything! You can connect the damn thing to this 'interweb' thing, so make use of it w/ some of your games. Get dev kits out double-quick, and put some pressure on the 3rd parties to crank out some games.

With love;

Karl

Ignignokt, I hear you. Personally, I'm feeling the hurt on both of my new-gen consoles -- Wii and 360 both. I got my 360 in August when Dead Rising came out, played two or three games I had been meaning to play, got Gears of War, and that's about it. As far as my interests are concerned, the 360 is getting about as much playtime as my Wii -- a new game a month or thereabouts. I'd like more, and I'd like it quicker, for both my Wii and my 360.

Meanwhile, my PS2 and DS games are stockpiling up fast as hell. It just takes some time.

I won't hate on Nintendo too much because I love my N64 and SNES, but I should point out that high sales numbers do not a good console make. That isn't to say that the Wii is a bad console, but the fact that 400,000 other jokers bought a Wii isn't convincing me to shell out the $250. My point is, 400,000 units moved makes a console successful; whether those 400,000 sales were good consumer decisions is an entirely different matter.

I just don't wanna move around too much, ya know? I've been sitting still playing Crackdown for the past 6 hours, and I feel very fulfilled.

well hipple, the wii is definitely not for you. i'm feeling quite fulfilled playing with my wii, so i'd say i made a good business decision. but that's my opinion isn't it? your entitled to yours. and you said 400,000 jokers bought a wii? um, you left out a zero. try 4 million jokers and counting, and going strong. but i would definitely say the joke is really on you. that's like saying everyone in the world likes soccer, but it doesn't mean its a good sport; american football is better. come on, give me a break brother.

"DS games are stockpiling up fast as hell"

I hear that. I went in to drool over crackdown on Monday, and ended up buying 3 more DS games. And I still have 1-2 that I haven't finished yet. So many games, so little time.

Honestly I'm not all that impressed with my Wii purchase at the moment. I'll wait until Mario and Brawl is released before I take the comment back but I could be playing GoW and Halo3 soon...

I want a Wii, I just don't need one right now. It will be the first next gen console that I'm gonna buy. The support of those console isn't there yet. I guess I could go for a X360 if only it didn't have too many shooters for my taste. Also PS2 is still going strong, so I'm in no hurry. I kinda hoped that the Paper Mario game would get a Cube release too, now I've just have to play it on a later date maybe I can pick up a copy with some discount later on.

Just like pretty much everyone who owns a Wii here, I haven't played with mine for a while. In fact, the last game I bought for it was Mario Kart 64 and the amazing Contra III, which lasted for 3 days. Right now, there's nothing out for it that sounds interesting (got 4 games already).

But last week, I decided to spend my hard earned pesos on a Xbox360, and seriously, it was the best choice ever to have waited a year after its release. Right now, 360 have a wide selection of games, including some extremely addictive ones like Gears of War, Dead Rising and Viva Pinata. Those games got something Wii doesn't have much for now: replay value. As long as Wii games are only single players, we'll beat them and get tired of them. I mean, I am a huge Zelda fan, but there's no point for me to keep playing Twilight Princess now that I have cleared it.

But multiplayer can keep a game alive for a while, look at Halo 2! Not only that, but now that I'm playing Gears of War online, I already restarted the single player campaign on harder difficulty just to practice my skills for online matches. And I know I won't quit playing this game for a while.

So my point is, maybe the Wii is outselling every other consoles right now, but if the big games, especialy those with multiplayer, don't come out quick in the next months, there's gonna be shitload of pre-owned Wiis available next christmas at Ebgames!

The Wii is a great everyday-use console imo. It doesn't have any immersive or atmospheric games other than The Legend of Zelda and Sonic and the Secret Rings(I think that's what it's called?) at the moment. But I don't think that's what it needs to be fun to play.

Sometimes you just want to have fun instead of sitting through another Oblivion-like experience. The Nintendo Wii has gone for the casual gamer's market, and it has succeeded extremely well. I even got to play mine with my whole family, and they don't even play video games.

The Nintendo Wii really is amazing, despite the fact that it could have been so much more to gamers.

What I'd like the Wii to have in the future:
*at least 720p HD
*User ID's instead of Friend Codes
*Achievement points
*DVD playback
*A better internet browser (that huge bottom bar bugs me)
*Add gamer-centric features to Everybody Votes and the News channel. It certainly wouldn't hurt to have a gamer's poll, or a gaming news channel.

@apc

Wow, sorry if I offended you. I was using "jokers" as a synonym for "people" there, not as some disparaging remark about Wii owners.

I'm also fully aware that there are, in fact, 4 million Wii owners, but I fail to see how this proves that the Wii is a worthwhile purchase. JoeyBuckets has a good example here. In the 70's millions of kids bought Pet Rocks (just a rock in a box), but the sales numbers of Pet Rocks are never going to convince me to buy a one. When it comes down to it, I just don't see what all the fuss is about. I'm sure you're very fulfilled by your Wii, and I'm happy for you, but it's just not appealing to me right now. I guess the joke is still on me... What does that mean? You're one of only a couple of people on this post who is happy with your Wii purchase at the moment. Again, I'm sure there were kids who were happy with their Pet Rocks; I'm happy for you all.

Don't get me wrong here. I love my Wii (Lord, I feel dirty when I say that). I understand that there are good things on the horizon and all of that, but I'm a little disheartened by the dearth of titles on the console.

Of course, my kids could care less. They love Wii Sports and WarioWare. They're content with what's available and I've got the 360 to keep me plenty occupied until some of Nintendo's big first-party titles start rolling out.

The more consoles sell, the more games developers will produce for the system. I recently read a blurb that some people in EA were kinda pissed that the company didn't throw more support behind the console at launch, due to it being a surprise hit. There's also apparently a lot of stuff in the pipeline that Nintendo's staying mum on, being the inscrutable bastards they are. They'd get a lot less shit from interweb fanboys if they were more open, but that's how they've always been.

I got the #257,091th wii last sunday. and from what I saw, people still are willing to get up early and stand in line for one. I got there an hour, 30 minutes before my local store opened, and people were still waiting in line. By te time the store opened, there were about 30 people waiting for a wii, so yeah, the will is still selling and will sell like hotcakes for a few more months.

Larger install base means more games from third party, means healthy game system, so regardless of the price differences adding up to same spending on each system, its irrelevant. 2 mil vs 8 mil is no contest on which a publisher will choose. Reason why the 360 has most 3rd party support. Sony is in for a big hurdle this time around. What goes up must come down so guess sony must face this fact this gen.