Wii sales mean nothing if you don't play it

Citing a study, Famitsu publisher, Hirokazu Hamamura, explained in an interview that 67 percent of Wii owners simply don't use their Wiis. And as a Wii owner who played it constantly for about a month, then proceeded to allow it to collect dust, I can relate to the study.

But besides my own preferences, I can't help but think that the Wii is in trouble. Sure, some go out and tell us about the Wii sales figures, but there are no figures showing us that people actually play Wii games. Worse, Wii video game sales barely scratch the top ten when matched with titles from Microsoft or Sony -- another dust competitor.

[bung tickler]

yep this article hit the nail on the head.

[Fisher339]

i only played it for about 1 month, haven't touched it in a while.

My family played it longer than i did, but no one has used it in over a month.

[Evil0Angel]

they make profit out of each box(even if u do not buy any-game),they make alot of profit from the prehiples(especially controler 45£), i am in UK and to get the WII you still have to put your name in list and wait around 1-2 month to get your hand in it.games like
super mario glaxy/ wii fit has not been relased yet

[darkequitus]

traded my wii at game before the value falls

PC/PS360 Gamer

Steam/xfire/gamespy/PSN/XBL : darkequitus

Currently playing:

360 - PGR4 + Halo3 MP +Orange box
PC - Crysis MP beta + Tabula Rasa Beta
PS3 - Warhawk (when server works)
Wii - Sold

[TruthbeTold]

How many times is this B.S. article about "No one playing their Wii" going to be circulated? No one has yet come up with the evidence for this claim of "67%" of Wii owners who don't play the system. Why? Because apparently it is not a scientific measurement. I know they didn't ask me or my group of Wii owning friends...
Be that as it may, PS3, 360 owners, and so-called Gamer-purists slither all over this kind of crap. Continually. Why? Because "Only their idea of what gaming is and should be is correct" (That and they paid alot more and can't stand to hear that the cheaper choice is more fun for many.)
But that isn't even the main point here. Who reads this garbage? For the most part, the "Purist" choir who hates the Wii and is ready to "Amen" anything negative written about it. And Wii owners who come across this B.S. while looking for upcoming games, news, and what-not. While I wouldn't doubt that there are alot of Wii owners that are waiting somewhat impatiently for more games, the sky isn't falling. Though the hateful fanboys of the less fortunate systems would like us to think so.
Nintendo does have a problem currently in that their best games such as Zelda, and Metroid Prime 3, (while immensely fun), do not have the type of replay value that people are looking for. You play them through once, maybe twice or three times, and you are done with the game for a year or so. Or in some cases such as Resident Evil 4, you've played the game before and are only playing it again on the Wii for the improved graphics and Wii Remote shooting. This is true. However. There are many other games out there that are fun, including the immense lineup of the virtual console, which I personally have bought several of and am having fun with. In my own waiting, I have discovered games such as Big Brain Academy, Mario Strikers Charged, and Dragonball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 2. Such things are good not only for the Market, but also for me personally as a gamer.
So in a nut-shell, why are these "hearsay", unsubstantiated, "crap talking" articles going around right now? Because Nintendo Wii's slight weakness (By slight I mean that we are still in and around the system's first year of being released!) of not having many games that are truly renowned for replay value is something they believe they can exploit to the absurd extent that politicians do. What on earth will they do when Super Mario Galaxy comes out? (People still play and have fun with Mario Sunshine, a vastly inferior game). And with Super Smash Bros Brawl, likely to become (Yes, you heard it here first) the game with the most Replay value of all time around the corner, they'll have nothing that even the uninformed will listen to.
The PS3 and XBOX 360 fanboy would try to turn people away from the Wii and so-called casual gaming, by influencing the casual observer and reader. But all they do in the end is preach to the choir. Their strategy come February 10th will have to be to shut up in order to keep Wii publicity down as much as possible. Amen to that.

[Rooftrellen]

Let the truth be told!

+bubbles, +bubbles a million times over!

And while we're talking about fanboys of other systems giving an "amen" to negative Wii news, let me give one to you.

Amen!

[forum_crawler]

They didn't ask me either if I play wii on a regular basis or not. Truth be told, I don't spend hours on it everyday (I do have a life) but when I do get those precious hours to myself, I do play.

The wii is not in trouble, if it was then the XBox and PS3 are too since they are not moving the same number of consoles...

Please stop the madness, the wii is doing well and will continue to do well for the foreseeable future. And please to all the fanboys out there, make up your minds, is it console sales, attach rate, how many people playing it, or how many developers are developing for it, or whatever new metric you will dream of? Please at least try to agree on a metric to knock the wii!!!

[Almighty]

Kinda ironic. So if that percentage of people doesn't play the Wii, being this the best selling system in that country. What the FuqcK they play?

[hfaze]

Where you have people that got a Wii just for the novelty Wii Sports. You're talking about a market segment that MIGHT buy two games a year.

Good thing that Nintendo is making money off of the consoles from the beginning... Because they sure don't seem to be making the killing off of software they should be with all of those consoles sold...

[Darkiewonder]

JK.
Of course, When there's game to play the system won't be left unused :p

[Mine hasn't been "used" for over 3 months now]

[darthv72]

Neo Geo VC games. I do play my GC games through it but I want some new VC games. Having just gotten the Neo Geo system running in the VC, Nintendo should try for more obscure systems like the Jaguar, 32x, Master System, MSX. Since they can't do anything with optical format games (leaves out Sega CD, Duo CD, 3DO, etc) they have to stick to games and systems that offered solid state format.

As with the PS3....where are the GAMES????

[unsunghero28]

I love the PS3 and the Wii, but most of the time it's just the Wii that's stuck with the "lack of games" hate.

[gnothe1]

NOTHING!! the only game I played was Wii sports. the super moneky ball game was extremly short an I didnt care for it to much. now my Wii isnt even in my entertainment shelf anymore!!

[unsunghero28]

The launch titles couldn't hold you over all this long.

Gee, what a surprise.

[Almighty]

The Wii sux.

LOL.

[Vicophine]

I have not, and will not, buy a Wii. That and other obvious reasons.

[unsunghero28]

I'm still not sure about that statistic... I mean, realistically, rates could be equal to that on the other consoles and for what it's worth I have no idea how they could have tested this anyway unless they hacked the Everybody Votes channel.

Plus, CNet isn't exactly my #1 source for unbiased non-Microsoft news. Far from it, actually.

I still play my Wii a lot, and when Galaxy, BWii, SSBB, Manhunt 2, Umbrella Chronicles, Zack and Wiki, Monster Hunter 3, Okami, etc. etc. etc. come out I doubt I'll do much else than sit and play my Wii.

[crck]

So bash the ps3 last week. Bash the Wii this week. Umm... I guess we know where his loyalties lie.

[PS360WII]

Well I don't know. Can't go against a study. All I know is I play mine a lot and buy many games for it. Games are being purchased however so those who are playing it are supporting it.

[mcgrawgamer]

for the wii votes channel. My kids play wii sports all the time, namely my daughter my stepson stays on his psp too much to even care, but as far as serious gaming goes once I beat RE4, and Metroid I haven't played anygames on it, let my buddy borrow metroid and I only rented re4 so I guess I'll be waiting for the true hardcore stuff to hit the wii. galaxy, battalion wars, fire emblem, manhunt 2, soul caliber legends, RE: umbrella chronicles, geometry wars: galaxies, nitro bike, ghost squad, etc,. Okay maybe Nintendo hasn't forgot about the hardcore gamer after all.

[Bathyj]

I got a Wii at launch for Zelda. Bought a few VC games, classic controllers, usb-broadband adaptor (man they keep milking you dont they?) and have't touched it since about Jan-Feb.

My least favourite console of ALL time, including Game & Watches. If I didnt insist on owning all consoles (and I'll eventualy get Mario Galaxy and Metroid 3) I would have sold, given away or just chuck the highly overratted Wii by now.

I cant wait til GAMERS take their domain back over again.

[Snukadaman]

buying consoles dont mean nothing unless you buy software and play it.

bottom...funny how you bring that study up and its from july 26th 2007..this being october 17th i dont think it has any merit anymore..look at vgcharts with no one buying folklore or either heavenly sword and you see im telling the truth..but nice try anyways.

Im sure you have seen the charts but if you can put up links so can I
http://www.vgchartz.com/awe...

[d3l33t]

hate to tell you, but there was a recent study that said ps3 owners spend more time with their console than others.

[d3l33t]

i wouldn't make up such a thing...

http://slinux.net/ps3-owner...

[BIadestarX]

Well... who didn't know this was going to happen... Even Nintendo knew this was going to happen.. but how can they resist milking the idea of making money... who can blame them.

The fact that Nintendo makes money on hardware sells is an obvious indication that knew eventually the wii will just die out...

the wii was NOT designed with developers or gamers in mind... but with making quick cash at the expense of those that are NOT Gamers and those that were too excited at seing this new revolutionary way of playing games using motion control.. that completely forgot that eventually... the wiimote would not be the novelty it once was.. and casual gamers would simply go back at what they used to do [NOT PLAY GAMES]... Gamers will go past the "WOW WIIMOTE" and focus on games...
In the meantime... $$$ to Nintendo... Come on let's be realistic.. it's not a Troll against the wii.... it's fact... look at the wii sells how they are going down... casual gamers don't buy games... hard core gamers the new controlling way.. gets old.. will not settle for cheap games that look nothing next gen.. and simply repeat the same motion/way to play as existing games...

Wii sells are going down... casual gamers are losing interest... developers will soon realise (as indicated by study) that the wii installbase is infected with people that don't buy games specially 3rd party... 2 years from now... one can only imagine what people will think about the wii...

but who cares! Nintendo is the smarter company in the world... they figured how to make money.. so... go Nintendo... I guess... (no money from me though)...

[dexterwang]

Coming from a PS3, 360, Wii owner, Wii is the only console I've ever regreted purchasing. Lined up for 5 hrs a week after launch day to get it and I would like it back.
Not that I haven't bought any games for it... got zelda, strikers, trauma center, paper mario and metriod. None could hold the attenion of a hardcore gamer for more then 2 hrs. Its a great novelty but once it runs out its just a dust collector.

*IT is a good party system though, especially whens theres girls ;)

[jessupj]

Can't say I didn't see this coming. I agree with him that it's a novelty because it's mostly only casual gamers that play the wii. Do you think casual gamers are going to play it as much as us truely passionate gaming enthusiasts? They said there's a huge market in casual gamers, but when they play so little and will definitely not be buying gamers regually (specially when it seems there isn't any for the wii) i have to wonder about how much of a 'gold mine' that market really is.

Besides if it's a really good game we'll generally keep playing it a bit after we finish it, being it online or going through again or a harder difficulty etc. i usually come back after a month and play it again as well. Doesn't seem like this happens on the wii though, specially if that 67% is accurate.

[MK_Red]

The title says "Wii sales mean nothing if you don't play it" which is what the write believe.
But what I personally believe is "Wii sales mean nothing" no matter what IMO.

[Gina-get-u]

I haven't used my wii much since Zelda TP. It used to get heavy rotation when my GF was playing wii play/sports, but even she doesn't use it much anymore. Nowadays the only time my wii gets any kind of action is when guests who don't own any consoles come over, but they always want to play the same old casual crap that I got sick of months ago. It's so bad I want to disconnect the wii and hide it before people showed up. I am looking forward to the new Mario, but I will wait until I can get a 2nd hand copy.

[FadeToBlack]

I havent played mine in months.

[antoinetm]

my worst investment this year... that damned wii

its about time pple realize that its only fun the first time you try it with your friends... after all , its just an overclocked pocket calculator

[cooke15]

Oh and im sure PS3 is time consuming right now.. with what? Heavanly sword and uhh ... lair?

[CrazzyMan]

Resistance, Motorstorm, VF5, T5:DR, F1, NGS, Warhawk, Lair, HS, Folklore
and coming soon Ratchet, Uncharted, Haze, UT3.

[fenderputty]

all keep me very busy with my PS3. Soon I'll be busy with Ratchet and Drakes Fortune too. Sheesh.

[jackdoe]

Cooke15, sigh. I'm busy with Oblivion, finally bought it, Ghost Recon AW 2, and will be busy with Uncharted, DMC4, MGS4, CoD4, UT3, and maybe Assassins Creed.

[cooke15]

dude half the games you listed came out at least 6 months ago :|

[Rooftrellen]

Can you seriously say you don't enjoy Bleach: Shattered Blade?

That, alone, makes the Wii a good value for Bleach fans, such as yourself, and I think it would be pretty darn good even if you got it having no clue who the people are.

[cooke15]

How many more times are we going to allow this article to be published on N4G? This is just stupid now.

[d3l33t]

diffrent article, same study.

[d3l33t]

im sick of this disagree because i can BS

"Posted by Don Reisinger
October 17, 2007 11:50 AM PDT" <-------- Look @ the date

[Vicophine]

Heres that list of big name PS3 exclusives this year that you wanted
Haze
Uncharted
UT3
____
And heres big name games that the Wii will not get =D
CoD4
Assassin's Creed
Rock Band
Blacksite
Mass Effect

If you need anymore, you are truly pathetic.

[ShadoWulf]

Dude, every console has exclusives. Get over it. I'm not paying more than I make in a year (under legal working age) just to get these 'special' games. I bought Wii for it's exclusives just like you bought a PS3 for Sony's. Not everyone likes the same games as you, so learn to recognize other's opinions.

[jackdoe]

The Wii just didn't have any good games for a long spell. It was funny how everyone was riding on the PS3 for not having a lot of games when the Wii was just the same. Probably by next year, it would be played more often.

[cooke15]

Wii and PS3 are both in a drought. PS3 more so since it doesnt really have any blockbusters left this year. And for those disagreeing with me Id love to see a list of great games coming to PS3 this year.

[Mr_Kuwabara]

Ratchet and Uncharted to name the top best games coming this year. (Although theres more like Folklore and the likes )

I can see you like Nintendo a lot judging your avatar so if you enjoy games like Mario and whatnot, Ratchet could be a game for you. =P

[jackdoe]

Not like Nintendo is any better. The only big name left is Mario Galaxy. And good blockbusters don't have to be exclusive to be good. CoD 4 for example.

[cooke15]

Yes, Ratchet does look good, but was it ever a huge title for Sony? Its solid no doubt! And as for uncharted, how does it play? I see screen shots but never any info about gameplay. Can you link me to an article?

BTW I think i need to change my avatar, Im not strictly nintendo, i just tend to defend them because this place happens to be very anti nintendo. I like all 3 consoles.

For JACKDOE, (im outta bubbles :( )

Rockstar's Table Tennis
Zack & Wiki
Guitar Hero 3
Battalion Wars 2
Manhunt 2
Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
Super Mario Galaxy
Geometry Wars: Galaxies
Medal of Honor Heroes 2
Puzzle Quest
Rayman 2
Resident Evil Umbrella Chronicles
Soul Calibur Legends
Ghost Squad
Trauma Center New Blood
NiGHTS

[jackdoe]

Cooke15, how bout I see a great list of all the Wii games coming out this year?

No real big blockbusters up in your there list buddy outside of Mario Galaxy.

[ShadoWulf]

What about Smash Bros? I mean, they've been releasing content every day for that game since May 22nd and we still don't know everything in there. This is going to be one huge game, don't try to deny it.

[Rooftrellen]

Who said they had to be blockbusters to be good?

Trauma Center may not be a million seller, but I can promise you that I'll have more fun with it than with all 3 Halos combined.

[DJ]

This is pretty shocking news...

[zerolinkgannon]

Ok ok..who the heck waste time to try and figure out if people plays their wii? A nobody, that's who! This guy has too much time on his hands.

[bootsielon]

But I guess you're the exception. After all, you probably love playing mini-games over and over again. Not to mention gamecube and PS2 ports. Enjoy your last-gen leftovers, morons.

Edit:

lol

Metroid Prime 3 is a gamecube port, jackass. The game would have been no worse on gamecube and the changes would have been very little. No wait... the controls would have been better. There you go.

[ShadoWulf]

Get with the picture, man. Mini game, Gamecube ports, and Gamecube 1.5 jokes all were disproved after Metroid Prime 3 came out.

Please try to be current in your insults. Here's a list of current valid Wii insults:

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You might want to use those in your next comments.

[Rooftrellen]

If someone says something stupid, and then edits it to add some more, we should be able to disagree twice.

[bootsielon]

Calling stupid what you don't like, especially the truth. Group up wiitards. Admit the Wii isn't all that and that, even though they bought it, people are not really using it. VERY telling.

[TruthbeTold]

How many times is this B.S. article about "No one playing their Wii" going to be circulated? No one has yet come up with the evidence for this claim of "67%" of Wii owners who don't play the system. Why? Because apparently it is not a scientific measurement. I know they didn't ask me or my group of Wii owning friends...
Be that as it may, PS3, 360 owners, and so-called Gamer-purists slither all over this kind of crap. Continually. Why? Because "Only their idea of what gaming is and should be is correct" (That and they paid alot more and can't stand to hear that the cheaper choice is more fun for many.)
But that isn't even the main point here. Who reads this garbage? For the most part, the "Purist" choir who hates the Wii and is ready to "Amen" anything negative written about it. And Wii owners who come across this B.S. while looking for upcoming games, news, and what-not. While I wouldn't doubt that there are alot of Wii owners that are waiting somewhat impatiently for more games, the sky isn't falling. Though the hateful fanboys of the less fortunate systems would like us to think so.
Nintendo does have a problem currently in that their best games such as Zelda, and Metroid Prime 3, (while immensely fun), do not have the type of replay value that people are looking for. You play them through once, maybe twice or three times, and you are done with the game for a year or so. Or in some cases such as Resident Evil 4, you've played the game before and are only playing it again on the Wii for the improved graphics and Wii Remote shooting. This is true. However. There are many other games out there that are fun, including the immense lineup of the virtual console, which I personally have bought several of and am having fun with. In my own waiting, I have discovered games such as Big Brain Academy, Mario Strikers Charged, and Dragonball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 2. Such things are good not only for the Market, but also for me personally as a gamer.
So in a nut-shell, why are these "hearsay", unsubstantiated, "crap talking" articles going around right now? Because Nintendo Wii's slight weakness (By slight I mean that we are still in and around the system's first year of being released!) of not having many games that are truly renowned for replay value is something they believe they can exploit to the absurd extent that politicians do. What on earth will they do when Super Mario Galaxy comes out? (People still play and have fun with Mario Sunshine, a vastly inferior game). And with Super Smash Bros Brawl, likely to become (Yes, you heard it here first) the game with the most Replay value of all time around the corner, they'll have nothing that even the uninformed will listen to.
The PS3 and XBOX 360 fanboy would try to turn people away from the Wii and so-called casual gaming, by influencing the casual observer and reader. But all they do in the end is preach to the choir. Their strategy come February 10th will have to be to shut up in order to keep Wii publicity down as much as possible. Amen to that.

[Filanime03]

dude ur spamming now you already posted this same crap earlier we get yyour point. Whats the point of double posting.

[TruthbeTold]

I didn't mean for my post to be a reply to what someone else said, only as a reply to the article itself so I reposted it. Of course it is not my intention to spam. Spam would be the article and it's unsubstantiated "study" we are all discussing, and derivatives of it which have been circulating for weeks now.

[BlazinEurasian]

Wii's are a group activity. No group, no playing.

[remix]

check it out cookie15

[Primetimebt]

The Wii fad is starting to be seen.. Give the kiddies a mario game and maybe 67% may go down to 25%.

[ShadoWulf]

Put out a good game and the number of players go down? I don't suppose you know what "common sense" is, do you? You might want to find some.

[ShadoWulf]

"Wii sales mean nothing if you don't play it"

Biggest load of BS ever written as an article title.

Even if people don't play the thing, SALES mean MONEY. Once Nintendo has SOLD the thing, they get MONEY. They could sell them to someone who threw them straight into the furnace and they would still make MONEY. They would still be a profitable company, and they would still be #3 in the Japanese stock market, not to mention #1 (are they still?) in the console market.

Now, for the record, I own a Wii, and I play with it nearly every day, and they never asked ME if I played it. I'll bet they interviewed some teenaged girls just for the statistic.

[TruthbeTold]

First of all, all we've ever heard about this 67% of people that don't play their Wii is that someone claimed there was a study done. We don't know if any of it's true at all, or who they asked. Yet a bunch of knuckleheads jump on it to try and claim that the Wii is no fun. Here are the questions I believe should be used on such a study:

1. What systems do/did you own before purchasing the Wii/PS3/XBOX360?

2. How many hours did you spend on average playing each one per week respectively?

3. How many hourse do you now spend on average playing your Wii/PS3/XBOX360?

Also, say for instance 12,000,000 Wii's have been sold. What kind of sample size did they use in order to gain that statistic? I never even heard of such a study until these BS articles started seeing print. What did they do? Ask 100 Wii owners who may or may not have money for more than a few games if they play regularly? I mean come on. If there is to be any credibility, then "Take my word for it, the Wii sucks" statistics have to be open, transparent, and accessible to all. A boring system does not sell 4 and 500,000 per month. If that were the case, we're seeing a year long anomaly of historic proportion.

[IntelligentAj]

http://www.reghardware.co.u...
Let's keep in ind that Nintendo makes at least $30 on every console sold due to the low production cost. I really don't think Nintendo cares whether the console is played or not because it has already been bought.Do the math:using the lowest profit margin $30 X 12 Million=$360 profit on the Hardware alone. And Nintendo still has some good games coming out to remove some of that dust.

[mikeslemonade]

I disagree. The Wii has not met demand and it has been out for a year. And it won't meet demand until summer at earliest. And Nintendo makes money off the hardware.

And one thing you cannot argue with is that Wii and 360 sold about the same # of units. The Wii has a bit more but has made way more money than MS has had in 2 years. In fact the 360 actually is losing money and won't make money until 2008.

[jmare]

Demand hasn't been met because Nintendo wants to keep interest high. If there are enough, sales slow down. Look at the halo numbers, it sold like water in a fire the first few days, then when the majority of the people who wanted it, bought it the numbers slowed down. the same thing will happen with the wii. As soon as nintendo makes enough for people to walk into a store and just buy one without having to hunt for one, the numbers will drop off.

[DeckUKold]

i think console selling is just not they thing i still cannot believe after halo3 and they still ain't make money if i was them i would quit im losing money wow guess they got confidence serious ones

[JokesOnYou]

of course I can't speak for the millions who bought a wii, but I believe its true because in general between co-workers, friends, family and others that I've talked to its surprising to learn how many of them admit they are not really a "gamer" but still bought a wii or in other words they dont play games much at all, many of them are the very casual types that loved the novelty idea of the controls, most adults that bought it thought it was a better for their young kids, kids absolutely love it, and those who don't own it I bet are buggin mommy for one so they can be cool like the other kids, uhm and yes to play it (props to nintendo for that) and of course there are some adult hardcore or avg gamers who find the wii's style of gaming great too, (nothing wrong with that) but the problem nintendo or actually the dev's that make games for nintendo will always have is by and large their fanbase is made up of many "non gamers" who just thought the controls for Wii sports was cool + mixed with a large percentage of kiddies that only get games on special occasions from mommy= the hardcore gamer types(buy and plays lots of games) makes up a very small percent of the wii's fanbase= low game sales even with a large fanbase

JOY

^^^ OK yeah sure nintendo is making a killing off their hardware, nobody's saying otherwise, but that goes in nintendo's pocket the 3rd party dev's are on their own.

[Genki]

It's half the reason people scour the internet for news to dump here, troll here, or whatever the case. This means squat. The games will and have been coming, and regardless...it's still money in the pocket.

[TheHater]

I have to disagree with you on not playing their system. I am actually playing NBA 2K8 right now on my PS3 and surfing the internet with my Laptop. Most of the time when I am on the internet, my ps3 is on, and I am usually playing Nba 2k8, resistance, warhawk or heavenly sword.

[Maddens Raiders]

Well since we're trolling then:

Wii is just plain silly nonsense *fit for those who don't return it

PS3 is red hot molten lava (in a good way) reborn

The 360 was ringing w/ cheer after the first year and gears, but is fading faster than an MJ jumper

P.S.- this is for that B*tch ass ni99a snukadaf@g saying PS3 owners don't play their games -- fkn dumbass:

[Genki]

Maybe I wasn't clear enough.

I don't think this is relevant because it could potentially pertain to all of the systems.

Simply put, there's isn't a huge library of killer apps for any console right now, so I this is just spin, and a spin that could be directed at any console. Heck, I've got almost 600 WU done on F@H. Check out some stats. I'm not the only one.

All in all though, I'm just a bit sick of these armageddon prophecies that pop up all over the place. These crazy theories in no way form a reasonable conclusion that any console is done for or obsolete just yet. That's all this is. Spin to make it seem as though the Wii is already out of commission.

We've seen it for the PS3 and the 360 as well. Guess what? They're still here. Game on.

[Prismo_Fillusion]

Wait, I haven't played my wii in almost a month.

Crap.

But I don't mind not having two amazing games a month, then I'd just be spending $100+ a month on games, which I could be spending on alcohol! I'm fine with waiting for Galaxy, MOH, NiGHTS, Smash, and MarioKart. Besides, I have friends who own the other systems, and it's easy enough to mooch off of them.

[TheHater]

This was the biggest problem I had with my Wii when I got one on launch last November. I played Wii sports for about 3 hours on day one, but after than, I didn't even pick it up again. I ended up selling my Wii three days later to a kid next door to me for 290 dollars(that how much it came up too with tax). After that I don't know what happen to it, I don't even know if he played it or not.
But I will be getting another Wii when Monster Hunter come out for the Wii(F U Gaycom for F***ing the PS3 over with this game).

[Agent VX]

Why would anyone want to play a new console that has the same graphics as last gen machines? I thought new gen machines were to improve on the last gen machines.

All Nintendo did was slap motion control on the GameCube and the Nintendo suckers bought it up like hotcakes.

The Wii is a fad, a mini-game kiddie console. That's all it is, and all it will ever be.

[TruthbeTold]

The Wii isn't a Gamecube with motion controllers, it's supposed to be TWO Gamecubes duct taped together. :P
Though if you ask that certain Game Developer at the unveiling of the Monster Hunter 3 trailer, he'd tell you that they must have crammed another Gamecube engine in there somehow.
Knock it all you want, but the Wii is the "little engine that can do just enough". Not for everyone of course, but for enough people to put Nintendo back on top of the gaming world for the time being. Quit hating, and go enjoy your Superior console. Whichever that may be. Nintendo nor it's fans are interested in silly fanboyish hate.

[PopEmUp]

Man the Wii so dusty these days I better get the vacuum cleaner to clean it

[ChickeyCantor]

all i can say is OBJECTION!
*deskslam*

the only thing that counts in court is evidence!

this guy first starts about FAMITSU having some study, you know most of the time these studys are OFF ( SHOW EVIDENCE), and then he goes brabling about his own thing.

As for sales they do matter, if no one plays on their N-Wii and its still selling like crazy, then i dont know....that could mean TROUBLE for the other 2 dont you think?

[ShadoWulf]

fanboys- TAKE THAT!!

That was awesome.

Here you go dude- I sacrificed my last bubble for this- http://objection.mrdictiona...
Fully objection-ized (and edited for spelling/grammar :P)

[DeckUKold]

some times i swear im the only wi lover on this site and i graduate from high schol this year and all we talk about the wii sometimes about the crazy games listen get some games some of you don't bother to look if you played MOH Airborne and didn't like it try MOH:H2 it has the same possible better controls than MP3 and a lot more players online if you don't think wii has games hear this

zack and wiki
BWii
Nitrobike
Mario Kart
Nights
MOH:H2
Soulcalibur legends
Tales of symphonia 2
Final Fantasy CC2
MH3
Fatal frame 4
Rygar
Resident evil UC
if u like GH GHIII
Links crossbow training
Disaster day of crisis
and soon to be some starfox DK and pikmin coming soon

Edit: wow did just name great games without mentioning MP3 SMG and GOTY 08(SSBB)

[bootsielon]

Wii Sports- After an hour I beat the whole game
Wii Play - The same
Wario Ware - 3 hours
(Coming up next; Wii Music and Wii Fit, which will last something similar)
Mario Party 8- More minigames
Mario Strikers Charged- An excuse to release a mario game, but I bought it because it has mario in it
That EA game which was critically slammed.
I can't wait for Mario and Sonic, a great excuse to put mario and sonic fighting! But hey, at least you can trust SEGA, what with their latest RUSH of great sonic games... oh wait.
Resident Evil 4 which I had already played on Gamecube
Paper Mario, a game that was gonna be on gamecube
MP3, a game that uses a tweaked gamecube engine (and still took a long time to be launched; without multiplayer)
Zelda, a game I prefer on gamecube. But not only me, look at metacritic scores.
And in the future, Okami! the PS2 adventure I loved so much!
And how to forget Bully, another PS2 game.
What's next, a resident evil arcade game remake of every other resident evil storyline? Oh wait...

Seriously, that's what Wiitards love, and there's nothing else except your typical "Mario, Mario Kart, Smash Bros". I guess you're also salivating for yet another F-Zero, DK bongos, Pikmin 3, Animal Crossing and Mario Party 9. What the hell is wrong with you?? I guess you're too easily satisfied...

Anyway, back to Bioshock...

[DeckUKold]

i only mentioned 2 F*king mario games do u really think i care for a sports mario i only play 2 kart and the real deal bully is also on xbox so u need to stop talking and don't let me get to the ps2 ports to the 360 im in school i'll hit ya lata
IM A WIITARD
OBAMA 4 08