Does your Wii collect dust?

[bandman232]

Haven't touched it since I played through Skyward Sword (which was terrible).

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

Yup, both the one next to my TV and the one in my pants.

[sub]*sobs*[/sub]

 

[Ryu-Kage]

No, but my sisters tend to play on it more. Usually Mario Kart, New Super Mario, and Super Smash Bros. I jump in for that sometimes, but lately I've been using it more for Netflix (or Metal Slug). I popped Skyward Sword into my Wii once, saved my bird, and it hasn't gone back into my Wii since then. Maybe it was the freaking THREE MINUTE TUTORIAL on how to insert the Wii Motion Plus (which I don't even have, I just got a remote that had Motion Plus built into it) that made me feel like a moron that really turned me off from Skyward Sword. I need to find another Virtual Console game to try and tackle (repeating Act 6-2 of Ninja Gaiden gets tedious and irritating after a while). Or I need to motivate myself into playing Xenoblade before that gets buried in dust. Or I need to finish Wind Waker or Thousand-Year Door again.

I guess the point is that we're still using my Wii. Even for Wii games. Although the selection is kind of small, and I'm not that motivated to play it when I have my DS.

Nintendo Consoles by how much I enjoy them (handhelds not included):
NES > GC > SNES > Wii > N64

 

[Cecilthedarkknight_234]

nope not at all, I have my fully modded to play back-ups of wii and game-cube games. Then I play through old psx iso, sega saturn, snes, mame, gensis/game gear, sega master, gba/gbc/gb, neogeo and turbo grafix roms~. Hell I get more game-play out of my wii then I do on my xbox and ps3 combined.

 

[Retronemesis]

im sure it is just somewhere new

 

[BenRK]

Mine is still in use. Not so much for Wii games, but I still use it a fair amount for virtual console games and as an emulation box. It's everything the Ouya will be, but I already own!

 

[Nalgas D. Lemur]

Yes. It does. The stupid piece of shit doesn't work anymore because Nintendo decided to change the way they made their disks halfway through the Wii's life cycle and required you to send it in to get it fixed. The problem? We lived in Okinawa at the time. We could not send it in from Okinawa for some reason. So yeah, it's collecting dust alright.

When did this happen? I have a year 1 Wii and can play Skyward Sword, No More Heroes 2 and etc. just fine. Is this a thing that only happened in Japan?

That description isn't entirely accurate. Some of the earlier ones had trouble reading double-layer discs, which no games before SSBB used, so no one was able to tell that it affected them until that time. When bigger games started coming out that needed the extra storage space, it became kind of obvious. I'm pretty sure they kept the repair/replacement program going for the optical drives going for a looooooong time though (might even still be going), because my girlfriend didn't have hers fixed until maybe the beginning of last year, and they still did it at no charge then.

As far as mine, I got it at launch, and the only reason there's no dust on it is that it's somewhere that gets cleaned weekly. I probably use it at most once a year at this point. The slow pace of game releases, as awesome as they are when they come out, the relatively high price of games, and the sheer insanity of Steam/Amazon/GOG sales and Indie Bundles has pretty much completely turned me into a PC gamer at this point. There are still a handful of Wii games I've missed that I'd like to go back and play at some point, but I just can't justify paying $20-50 each for them when I have a huge backlog of great PC games that cost 10% of that.

 

[PureChaos]

I only have a Wii so I use it regularly. Planning on getting Xenoblade Chronicles soon so will probably be getting a lot more use out of it.

 

[Cheesepower5]

Yes. It does. The stupid piece of shit doesn't work anymore because Nintendo decided to change the way they made their disks halfway through the Wii's life cycle and required you to send it in to get it fixed. The problem? We lived in Okinawa at the time. We could not send it in from Okinawa for some reason. So yeah, it's collecting dust alright.

When did this happen? I have a year 1 Wii and can play Skyward Sword, No More Heroes 2 and etc. just fine. Is this a thing that only happened in Japan?

That description isn't entirely accurate. Some of the earlier ones had trouble reading double-layer discs, which no games before SSBB used, so no one was able to tell that it affected them until that time. When bigger games started coming out that needed the extra storage space, it became kind of obvious. I'm pretty sure they kept the repair/replacement program going for the optical drives going for a looooooong time though (might even still be going), because my girlfriend didn't have hers fixed until maybe the beginning of last year, and they still did it at no charge then.

As far as mine, I got it at launch, and the only reason there's no dust on it is that it's somewhere that gets cleaned weekly. I probably use it at most once a year at this point. The slow pace of game releases, as awesome as they are when they come out, the relatively high price of games, and the sheer insanity of Steam/Amazon/GOG sales and Indie Bundles has pretty much completely turned me into a PC gamer at this point. There are still a handful of Wii games I've missed that I'd like to go back and play at some point, but I just can't justify paying $20-50 each for them when I have a huge backlog of great PC games that cost 10% of that.

Ah I see, so it was more like a Red Ring deal where early Wii's were more vulnerable, but it didn't happen to everyone.

Thanks for clearing that up.

 

[Pedro Russo]

Actually, I keep playing Monster Hunter Tri and House of the Dead : Roadkill from time to time.

 

[Zenn3k]

I haven't powered mine on in 3 years.