Do you hate your wii

[Eclectic Dreck]

The reality is that the PS3's of me and my friends are sitting in the dark, gathering cobwebs, because not even Killzone 2 could keep us playing it long enough to care about it.

My stance on the Wii is I don't exactly hate it, it just clearly wasn't designed for me. The PS3 expresses a similar problem. It mostly plays games I can play on a different console (where I actually don't resent my controller), and has thus far handed me little more than a cavalcade of mediocrity with a few brief and shining moments of hope in it's exclusive lineup.

That said, the only thing that keeps me from using a system is the game lineup. The Wii so rarely delivers anything I actually care about that it mostly exists to provide some airspace between my 360 and my PS3.

 

[Echolocating]

If I had bought the Wii for myself, I would be slightly disappointed. However, I bought it for my family and the thing is awesome in that respect. My son and I have a blast with it while my wife pretends to show some interest until she feels like Wii bowling again. ;-)

 

[Froobyx]

I got mine for Christmas just gone, haven't found a game that really screams at me. So it's been sat on my desk since I completed Tomb Raider (came free with wii) just collecting dust.

 

[Lawlz Bawlz]

U godamn nintendo fanboy! And if u can't take the lingo, get off the net

 

[darrinwright]

Still like mine. Madworld, with Punch-Out and Conduit coming soon, will keep me busy.

 

[Mockingjay]

I look at the thing like a hypothetical child who ran amok with the high school druggies, failed school and now lives on my sofa. I look at it and see all the potential... Then cry myself to sleep over it failing so miserably.

 

[Lawlz Bawlz]

i need a frikin' 360 or ppl frendz 2 play COD5 w/

 

[Usagi Vindaloo]

I love mine to bits. ^_^ Haven't even bothered looking at XBox 360 and PS3 until recently (was able to get a used 360 with tons of bells and whistles for only 200 Canadian). With the exception of stuff like Rock Band, Assassin's Creed and Mass Effect, the Wii pretty much had everything I wanted in a console (well, not so many JRPGs, but I have a PS2 for that). And I haven't even gotten into the Virtual Console yet... I suspect that will make it even better (I know its XBox equivalent Marketplace is intriguing me so far)

EDIT: Should note that the thing the Wii really excels at is party games, getting a bunch of people together and playing SSBB or Rayman Raving Rabbids or what have you. Haven't played enough of the XBox 360 to know if it's as good that way, but my friend who works at EB games says there's less emphasis on local multiplayer and more on online multiplayer... great, except I love to game with my RL friends. XD

 

[Twilight_guy]

No, I don't actually. I hate that there's a whole lot of junk games and the only good games from from Nintendo which isn't putting anything out right now, but I don't hate the Wii itself.

 

[Nia-san]

I do not hate my Wii per-say but there are some features I wish were improved. The motion stuff needs improvement badly. its either too sensitive or not sensitive enough. When I play metal of honor, its almost impossible to reload on command. I just got used to running out of bullets and letting the game make me reload. Another improvement should be more choices for your characters. The Xbox 360 took the same idea and made it a lot cooler with tons of options, why can't the Wii do that?

 

[Zeraki]

I love that little system. Even if there aren't as many actual Wii games that I like for the system, the Virtual Console more than makes up for it. It's a good way for me to get some older games I never got a chance to get for my SNES(and other consoles I never owned) without having to pay $50 per cartridge on E-Bay for some of the rare games. And now that Nintendo has finally allowed us to play our Virtual Console games/Wii channels off of the SD card, I can't think of anything bad to say about it really. Between Metroid Prime 3, and Lords of Thunder(TurboGrafx), I have hardly touched my 360 for a while now.

Only thing I don't like about it is that this system has so much potential for something great, but Nintendo is going where the money is, the casual market.

i need a frikin' 360 or ppl frendz 2 play COD5 w/

That made absolutely no sense whatsoever, could you repeat that in a real language?

 

[dragonflygirl]

i hate the wii for one point only. it is the first console that is movement sensored and yet there are very very few games out that use this new idea to its advantage. many if not most wii games are not unique to the console and can be played on the 360,pc or ps3.Games that take advantage of the wiis abilities such is Okami, Mario and Sonic and rayman raving rabits are few in number. This is the only thing that makes me hate the wii so much. Infact the only reason i have keept my wii and not soled it is because of the games mentioned above, and that i love zelda games and shootem ups games such as RE:the umbrella chonices and house on the dead 1 & 2.

p.s please forgive me for my poor spelling and grammar mistakes

 

[quack35]

It has Super Smash Brothers Brawl.

That is all. (Oh, and the Conduit doesn't look to bad either.)

 

[msobetzko]

I love my wii.

Now I do much of my gaming on a PC, but I have a 5 year old and the wii is perfect for her. Additionally, the wife and I rock out to Rockband2 on the wii. So the family is certainly getting enjoyment out of it.

 

[SquirrelPants]

Before my Wii was stolen, it was my favorite console I owned. I like the 360 more now, but if someone maybe took the Wii's massive potential and made a game that uses it, I would like it more. I hear Madworld does just that rather nicely.

 

[Dorian]

I've regretting buying that arthritis-machine a month since I bought it. You have more fingers on one hand than there are good games for it*. I'm just glad I saw the light and dropped Nintendo faster than the Flash on meth.


*Not counting Gamecube games.

 

[NinjaSkills]

I don't hate it, it's that there is nothing coming out for it that I would like

 

[fenixrising]

The only good thing is it shows how good the gamecube actually was.

 

[irishstormtrooper]

I hate my friend's. Does that count?

 

[Jimivonhendrix]

personally my feelings toward that little white box are like those of rather massive dissapointment I mean yeah its great for parties no doubt, but the potential for it to be a true addiction of a console failed since now nintendo are always portraying it as a 'family' console.

Still I have heard of a few developers who are trying something wit ha bit more gore in it than mario which is nice but until they start chugging out the goods mines collecting dust and propping up my ps2.

pc>xbox>ps3>ps2>dreamcast>nintendo pikachu version>sega>wii