wii

[muddy4x4]

Ok hands up who got one for christmas ?
I paid over the odds to get my son one, sad I know but I can`t stop playing on it.
Jump up every time I get a strike in bowling.  :lol:

[4 landies]

How sad  :lol:

[Guardian.]

yes got my daughter one, took about 6 months to get hold of it.
its a wicked bit of kit, only had a go at boxing, killed 3 muppets and danced around like a loony, only to wake up the next day in agony with my back and shoulders.
stick with the old boys scalextrix i think.

[adafish]

brought meself one before Xmas, kids love it....

[muddy4x4]

Sat ere watching a 40 year old play baseball. So funny watching him puff and pant. Erm could that be the person that posted 2nd  :lol:

[adafish]

TSET HIM ON THE EXERCISE ONE......you do all th events and at the end find out your physical age........i was 36, i'm 41....my youngest MASON , only 3, is wicked on the BOXING...

[Lincs niva]

Boxing is good,Its not to hard to win each round either :D

Cheers Gav

[chris.hunt22]

I was round at my Aunts house the other day and my cousin has got one for Christmas, drunken game of 10 pin with no strap on and now they have 2 star shaped cracks the width apart of a Wii controller and 1/4 of the screen on their 6 month old 42" LCD TV knackered.....oops :shock:

[muddy4x4]

:(bigshock):

[corrosiverob]

I was round at my Aunts house the other day and my cousin has got one for Christmas, drunken game of 10 pin with no strap on and now they have 2 star shaped cracks the width apart of a Wii controller and 1/4 of the screen on their 6 month old 42" LCD TV knackered.....oops :shock:

 :roll:

[Daz800]

go on the fitness training.
iam  42 next year...wii says i am 80 :oops:

ten pin makes me  :(biglaugh):  as swmbo takes a run toward the tv  :(biglaugh):  :(biglaugh):

Daz

[Guardian.]

BOXING NOT TO HARD, I WAS CREAM CRACKERED AFTER SLAUGHTERING MATEY :shock:

[landraver]

wii boxing online!, that's what we need to sort a few Mud-Club "disagreements" out  :lol:

Jeff

[Disco Matt]

My brothers' flatmate has one, rather worryingly she's a medical student and plays the Trauma Centre games rather a lot. I just hope she's not learning surgical techniques that way!

[Smego]

had a play tonight at the in laws, game play ok but got boring in the end, but the graphics are pathetic!!

[corrosiverob]

Cant get enough of it at the mo but like a few on here my arms hurt! :(

[sleeplessparadise]

we have been playing on our wii (which we bought just after last christmas) with my dad who is 67. Ten pin bowling wasn't so bad, golf we can do.......... baseball can't even hit the ball without it being a foul ball or being out  :roll:  Our daughter did the boxing an had us all cringing when she punched below the belt  :lol: Tis great fun for all the family  :D

[strapping young lad]

there are only a few games which can be played online against each other...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wii_Wi-Fi_Connection_games


battalion wars 2 which is coming out next year looks ace, as does fifa 08 but dont expect ace graphics!

ive got about 7 games at the moment, and have just ordered the wii zapper in anticipation for games such as medal of honor etc which are FPS games and need to point and shoot (red steel is similar but im still getting battered on it!)

[Sharpshooter]

had a play tonight at the in laws, game play ok but got boring in the end, but the graphics are pathetic!!

When you say Pathetic. I assume your comparing it to the Xbox 360 or the PS3. What games have you seen on it. I have some of the other games like sonic and Call of Duty. The graphics are much better on those.

But remember that Nintendo have the edge when it comes to gaming. The Wii has always been under £200. The xbox and PS3 were bothe over £400, but due to poor sales, have come down dramatically.

The Wii has been sold out for two Crimbos in a row.

For fun i would allways choose the Wii. And yes i have all 3.

[strapping young lad]

this is the same comment i get from colleagues in work but all of them own a ps3 or 360 and compare it which is pointless.

you can have the same argument when comparing the 360 and ps3 but the wii isnt after the same kind of market.

when investing in something like this which, to be honest, was more for the personal benefit rather than the family's then i had to justify the purchase to the missus, to which the ps3 and 360 were dismissed as the kids couldnt play on them (they are 3 and 2) however the eldest is good on golf and boxing and the youngest just throws punches everywhere but they both have a good time.

the argument over the 3 consoles has been dragged on for months now and there is no clear winner if indeed there needs to be one.  i for one am chuffed to bits with the wii mainly because of the interaction, plus the fact you can get games like the lego star wars and you can get a light sabre attachment to your remote and play like a jedi, or a steering wheel attachment for the upcoming mario kart and drive it like you would in an arcade.

[Kaneda]

The reason Nintendo's are so hard to get hold of, is because Nintendo made it that way. It is called supply and demand. It would not stand up against the other 2 major consoles if it was available and didn't have that "ooh it's sold out it must be good" air about it.

The same with the DS. Throughout the year, easy to get hold of, but on the run up to Christmas - supply not fulfilled. ON PURPOSE.

Do you really think that more people are buying more Wii's than PS3's and Xbox360's? Nope. In our office about 15 of us have Xbox 360's, 10 have PS3's and 1 has a wii, and he sold it for double what he paid just before christmas.

The console is not the same as the other 2, and the simplistic graphics are there to make sure the gameplay doesn't suffer from the alternative controller. The PS3 has a 6 axis controller, which can be used to control certain games, but it's hard to use in full frame realistic gaming.

So, at the end of the day the Wii is not in competition with the Xbox or the PS, mainly because it is nothing like them. The main reason they are so expensive/hard to get hold of is because Nintendo make it that way.

Remember the year Sony released the PS2 slimline? European shortage at Christmas, the excuse they gave was that the ship got stuck on the way to Europe. The real reason was to build up the hype for the console. It worked and the PS2 slimline was the "must have" console for that christmas.

[Disco Matt]

It's not just that - the Wii is aimed at a different market (casual gamers as opposed to those who want a realistic simulator like Gran Turismo). Nintendo do seem to have underestimated demand though - they could easily have sold twice as many had they been able to make them. There's creating demand and there's not profiting from that demand, in this case it's definitely the latter. By next Christmas there'll be another new wondertoy competing, against which the Wii will be older and less in demand.

[strapping young lad]

kaneda...

those who bought the 360/ps3 as opposed to the wii... why did they buy it and for who was it for? family or for themselves?

[Damonski]

Great fun :)

Most entertaining for those playing and watching  :)

[Bouncy]

we've had one for 6 months and within 10 mins i had broken a light fitting ;D.

The kids love it even the big ones even the 66yr olds ( fathers)

[Hightower]

We bought ourselves a Wii for crimbo.  Fantastic fun for the family, which is why we got it.

If it was for me I would've got a 360 (I may treat myself later in the year), but it wasn't.  It was so that we could all play silly games together.  Have enjoyed sports, mario olympics, mario party and ravin rabbids.  Yeah the graphics aren't leading edge, but it's much more fun than the other consoles.

[strapping young lad]

if you think the games are ace wait till you buy the older games on Virtual Console!

you can get the games from
nes
snes
n64
megadrive
turbografx16
neo geo (i think)
and you can also put your gamecube discs in the wii and it will work (the wii comes with 4 gamecube controller ports on it, pluis slots for memory cards)

[muddy4x4]

Well I enjoy the wii  :D  My son`s face was a picture when he opened it on christmas day.
The wii is great for the whole family and every age can take part.
I guess it`s  up to each person what they prefer tho.
What a boring world it would be if we were all the same  :clap:

[mentalmoshio sophs V8i]

wee i looked alot of times also at a ps3 think 2008 will be a case of boys and there toys again

[Lord Shagg-Pyle]

I've just got back from playing with my brother's wii :shock:
Blazing Angels was the game, a WW2 aerial fest! I managed an inverted loop followed by an Immelman turn and managed to bag a couple of Fockers! Tally Ho!