Does your Wii collect dust?

[Seriin]

Mine does not collect dust, but not through any action of my own. My little brother and sister play it damn near every day still. I go home to visit and play Smash Bros or Mario Kart with them now and then, but not really much else. But the twins? They love the thing still.

 

[RedDeadFred]

I only play it when my mentally handicapped half sister comes over. Then we play Mario Party. It's agonizing but she enjoys it so I do it anyway.

Other than that. The last time I seriously gamed on it would be with Skyward Sword. I played through it once, was mildly disappointed, and haven't played it since.

So yes, the Wii in my house gathers dust.

 

[Arqus_Zed]

It depends...

It's gathering more dust than my PS3, PC or iMac, but not nearly as much as my X360. Though to be fair, I hardly play any games on my PC or iMac, so it kind of depends if you count "work" as "gathering dust".

I've used my Wii for Xenoblade Chronicles, The Last Story and Pandora's Tower. MadWorld and No More Heroes 1 & 2 as well, but I never finished them. (Nice concepts, but the execution wasn't entertaining enough to keep me interested beyond the halfway point.) But, nonetheless, the first three titles I mentioned have kept me somewhat occupied and I still fire 'em up sometimes (you know, to get that 100%).

I also have New Super Mario Bros. Wii, but never finished that either - I don't need to play some Super Mario World meets Super Mario Bros. 3 re-hash if I can just play either of those original games. Same for Super Mario Galaxy, for a game than got nothing but 10s and the occasional 9, I was severely disappointed. Same with Zelda: Twilight Princess. I don't care if Okami copy/pasted its formula from the Zelda series, at least they finally did something else than repackaging Ocarina of Time and selling it as a new game. God, I've started ranting, time to wrap it up.

 

[Fasckira]

Havent played with it in years, hell, I dont even know if I still own it! The only two games I would play again now are Mario Kart and Animal Crossing, neither of which are that amazing enough to warrant digging it out and setting it up.

 

[Strain42]

Technically yes, yes it does because I don't ever really move it much, and I'm really bad when it comes to cleaning.

So yeah, my Wii does collect dust, but so does my 360 and PS3.

However, I would say my Wii is actually my most used console right now. Not just for games, but also for Netflix (the wii is in the same room as my computer, so it gets used for Netflix a lot)

PS3 is second, also for games and also for Netflix

and 360 is dead last for not really releasing any games I want on it lately and expecting me to pay $15 a month for the privilege of using Netflix on it...

 

[krugerrand123]

Only because I use it for Netflix, but I haven't played any games on it since March.

 

[Callate]

No, though admittedly it gets more use as a Netflix streaming device than a game machine.

 

[Guffe]

Of course it collects dust, it's an object that can't move...
But the way you mean it, nope, Using it. Sometimes more, sometimes less but it never stands untouched for too long.

 

[Tryforlive]

No because i have both the gamecube fire emblem and the wii fire emblem so those keep the wii nice and running

 

[Folksoul]

Nope. Still playing Xenoblade.
However, I haven't touched my 360 since I beat Fable 3.

 

[Xman490]

Now that I've almost become a PC gamer (transformation will be complete when I get Windows 7 on my Mac and dive into Skyrim for a few weeks), my Wii has only been used when I make YouTube videos (see: my Wario Land and Super Mario Bros playthroughs) and when I feel like playing through Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels again.

My Xbox 360's following suit, as I've only played it a couple hours per day, even though I'm with it 3/14 of the week. Part of the reason is that I'm running out of fun games to play, like Grand Theft Auto IV multiplayer in which I ALWAYS get kicked immediately.

 

[DrRockor]

I sold mine about a year and a half ago so I don't know. might do in the persons house or maybe they sold it aswell who knows

 

[ToxicOranges]

I never use it ever ever ever. Ever. Seriously. It was a massive regret buying it.

 

[oppp7]

Which will you choose?
Yes, although I plan on getting more games soon.
Yes, although maybe I should try playing it more.
Yes, and I wish they made more games for it.
Yes, because the thing is a total failure

I choose orange.

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TBH I don't actually feel like there aren't games for it in general. I mean, some people who buy a different shooter every week and don't spend more than a few days on a game might feel that way, but for people like me who don't need more than a few games I don't see the Wii as having too many problems. For comparison, I do have about the same amount of games for my DS. The Wii just doesn't seem to have any games with the same level of playtime/replayability as the majority of DS games I've played (2 generations of Pokemon, 2 Scribblenauts, the World Ends with You). There are some that come close, such as SSBB, but I just don't see myself putting the same amount of time into it any time soon (unless there are games already out with this kind of playtime and I haven't heard of them, although the same could be said for the DS).

 

[Cheesepower5]

No more than my 360, PS2, SNES, N64 or theoretical dust collecting unused PC software.

Although when it plays a disc my Wii will start to make a dreadful humming sounds, so while I'd love to finish Skyward Sword or plop in a Gamecube controller and play some Wind Waker or Baten Kaitos, it'd sound like a bag of kittens in a wood chipper. Also the PS2 is broken, I loaned Majora's Mask to a guy who I haven't seen in years (not his fault) and my Super Mario World Cartridge is broken, so in a way, the 360 is my only option.

Don't feel like Skyrim or Red Dead at the moment though, so eh.

 

[kortin]

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.

 

[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?

 

[karloss01]

mine collected dust for two years until i decided to sell it to my sister and get a PS3, then it collected dust for a year at her house until she traded it in for money.

 

[Ashadowpie]

yeah it defiantly collects dust for me, i personally use the Wii as a port for older games, i only have 2 wii games and everything else is downloaded Nes/Snes/N64 and i have a 3 gamecube games.

now..my PS2/XBOX360 * stares at massive collection * ....

wheres Donkey Kong 64 or Diddy Kong racing for download on the wii anyways? i know its from the old Rare, but Wii made Donkey kong returns with updated music from the old awesome games. wtf