At my local Target they had 42wiis, at Walmart they had 40 and Blockbuster had 4. They were sold out within minutes. A Target employee told me that they had people in line at midnight and had way more people than they had consoles.



I personally think the wii is ok but not worth it right now to buy for the little choice of games they have. I think that they wii controller is somewhat gimmicky and not as important than the graphics and other features such as high def. The best thing that will help sell the wii is the fact that you can play the classic games. I have not heard of any game compatibility problems or if certain classic games they don't have available or not. I personally would love to play Starfox again without glitches and also FZero X. There are many others that I enjoy but those would be cool to play at full speed and no problems.



As far as the XBOX 360 and the PS3 goes I would prefer a PS3. XBOX 360 is good but I also think that it is way too much money for what you get. I think that the PS3 is a better value even though it costs more due to the fact of the Bluray player and it has more features than the 360. Maybe when the 360 goes down in price about $150 I will buy one.



Peace game fans!

there are and will be more 100 hour long rpgs for the 360.

i traded in my Gamecube yesterday. i never played it. my fiance plays the X Box, so she won't let me get rid of that, and there's no way i'm trading my PS2 (too many games i have and still want).



i played the Wii last night, and it's...meh. Wii Sports is fun for a party game (it wouldn't be nearly as fun playing it by yourself), and Zelda is a Gamecube game (it was the only reason i was keeping my Gamecube, but after Nintendo made me wait 2 years, then delayed it until *after* the Wii launch while releasing a Wii version first made me lose all interest in Zelda, and Nintendo).



unfortunately, i don't play games for Nintendo titles anymore, and honestly, that's all the Wii has going for it: titles made by Nintendo. outside of Zelda, Smash Bros. and Metroid, nothing else i've seen on the Wii piques my interest.



and, being the graphics whore that i am, any multi-platform titles i'll get on the more powerful systems. after playing games like Resistance, Motorstorm, and Ultimate Alliance last night on the PS3, i'm in no hurry to relive the Gamecube days (which weren't many for me. in the four years i had it, i barely touched it). the future that the PS3 and 360 will bring looks much more interesting, and not just from a graphics standpoint. games like Mass Effect, Bioshock, Resistance, Assassin's Creed, Heavenly Sword, MGS4, Final Fantasy XIII, White Knight Story, etc are promising more than just graphical upgrades.



what bloggers and writers the world over seem to ignore completely (in their never ceasing quest for more hits and readership), is that more power brings about different types of gameplay just like a new controller interface (ie, the Wii Remote) will. Nintendo sacrificed one for the other, and they didn't have to.



tell me, would GTA3 have been possible on an NES? or an SNES? or even an N64 and PS1? no. they wouldn't have. would Shadow of the Colossus have been possible on those consoles? no. the increase in technological power brings more to the table than just graphical improvements. a combination of things, and not just one sole component, is what causes a revolution. let's take GTA3 for example. the combination of more powerful technology allowed for a larger, 3D city that felt "alive," nice graphics (especially considering the size of the city, which, at the time we thought was ginormous), the jump from CD to DVD made it possible for all that information to be stored on a disc, and minor adjustments to the controller (tighter analog sticks, analog buttons, etc), made the game what it was.



Nintendo is forsaking the other components (processing power, graphical power, disc capacity), for one: the controller.



the Wii is not a crappy system, not by a long shot, but i am dissappointed that they would deny us a Zelda game that looked as amazing as Gears of War or Viva Pinata, all in glorious HD (for those that have the setup), because they value profit over technological advancements. this wouldn't be a problem if they were truly trying to market their console to the younger and casual markets, but with the release of Nintendo staples like Mario, Zelda, and Metroid on the Wii, they are clearly banking on their loyal, hardcore Nintendo fanbase to carry them through again, just like with the DS and Gamecube. looking at the gameplay for Mario Galaxy, Smash Bros. Zelda, and Metroid, it is clearly not aimed for the casual gamer and is meant to target the hardcore.



anyway, Graphics and Gameplay don't have to be mutually exclusive, and often serve to complement each other (check out F.E.A.R. on the PC, Shadow of the Colossus, Metal Gear Solid 3, Ninja Gaiden on the X Box, Oblivion, and so on). this hoity toity, i'm a "true" gamer because i like ***** graphics attitude has got to stop. liking purty graphics isn't a bad thing. i've been playing games since 1985. i've had enough of crappy visuals in my games.

I bought an xbox 360 today ( smile ) with ghost recon advanced warfighter, acrade volume 1 and gears of war in the premium pack, and I payed it only 399$US lol. pretty cool! :D, now I'll buy enchanted arms and ninety nine nights and blue dragon in january!



and I'll buy the ps3 in a while, around end 2k7, you have to let one year so the bugs are fixed... even if my xbox 360 makes a lot of noise ( at least compared to my ps2 ). I tought the new ( after marche 2k6 ) models were cool with that... anyway! the ps3 will have the great titles around 2k7 end, or early 2k8, so I'll buy mine there!

I had the pleasure of playing the wii today and i can say that it was a pretty enjoyable experience, but only WITH friends. Playing wii sports alone is so boring and rediculous. I mean, me and my buddies had a great time whooping each other at bowling and tennis. However, after about 25-30 minutes you realise: "hmm...why can't I just go out and play all these sports for real?!" That was my general reaction.



I have to say that zelda is really amazing. I added control of the wiimote makes it a fun game. Fishing and sword swinging makes the game come to life. However, I still wish that Nintendo tried to bring better graphics to zelda. The textures are not the best. Link looks amazing (so do the other characters) but everything else looked last gen (like it could be done on the gamecube, which it could because its a gamecube game...). One of the missions in the first town has you trying to find some grass that link whistles with to call the hawk down. Now...there should be grass everywhere, but it's all flat...



We tried to go on the wii forcast channel with my friend's nintendo wifi adaptor. When we got on, we immediatly had to install an update. Unfortunatelly, my friend has dialup, so we had to spend about 2 hours waiting for the update. I left at that time.





In conclusion, the wii is a very fun system. after a while though, the controller gets a little gimicky, and I really didn't feel like playing any wii sports anymore because everytime you win your mii gains some points. The competitiveness of the game really puts it down. Zelda is amazing and i can't wait to get through it. That said, I am currently 4-5th in line pre-order for my PLAYSTATION 3, and i'm probably going to get a wii in about a year (maybe half a year :) ).

N64 was barely even capable of doing 3D graphics. The N64 was NOT better then the PS1.

If you were to compare the Wii and the PS3, the Wiimote doesn't give the Wii that much advantage as you think.



The PS3's new eyetoy is capable of reconizing the full body motions of a person, and maybe more. This isn't like the PS2's eyetoy which only reconized movement. (Meaning you could wave anything in front of it, and it couldn't tell the difference). The PS3 has been clearly shown to be capable of reconizing 2D drawings, and people (and different body parts). This has all been shown to occur with split second lag or less. This means you won't be limited to only the actions of the Wiimote. The only downside, is whatever you do, has to be infront of the camera.



Another thing to note, is that since the PS3 has Linux, if the proper software is released, you can use this eyetoy for motion capture, and 3D model creation. Motion capture has basically been out of reach to the normal person since it used to require many cameras, a blue/green screen, and a suit with little white balls.



The Wiimote on the other hand, is not as powerful as you think. In a sense, it is a lightgun with acceleration sensors. This means that if the Wiimote is not pointed at the screen, it relies purely on the acceleration sensors, if you move the Wiimote too fast, the meters and calculations of where the Wiimote is located (relative to the TV) will become inaccurate. (Information on workings of the Wiimote taken from the Fusion article).



I know many are going to say that the that the price of the Eyetoy is going to be too much, but anything under $80 would still be reasonable. Another Wiimote is $60 (which you'll be getting, unless you play by yourself).

year right zarifus, another wiimote is $60, but you have to buy the numchuck seperately which means its another 30.

Red Steel isn%u2019t Gears of War, and Excite truck isn%u2019t motorstorm. --- THAT right there sums its up nicely.



I know graphics aren't everything but when you first see a game, graphics count for a whole lot on your first impressions, no matter what anyone says.



That aside, ninty fans will clamor over the new controller, but I say, how many games will it take before the idea gets old? How many racing games, how many FPS games will have lasting value if you've already mastered the unique control schemes and have grown bored with lobbing grenades with you nun chuck or taking a turn around a corner with your wiimote? At that point what's there to fall back on???



Almost nothing, because the system lacks any kind of power to go beyond gameplay we already know. It won't be using a beefy processor for advanced physics, it won't be using a tweaked out GPU to render jaw dropping "reality", it won't compare. It'll be stuck in the last gen, making games that are admittedly fun for a wii bit of time (ha, nice pun no?), exactly like our consoles of yesteryear, our snes's and our genesis's which we long to bring out ever so often to give the games a go.

I'm sure you remember that Nintendo is all about the games man! You know those awesome, CRAZY!! new ideas that can be finally unleashed with a new way to play! Right!!! Awesome man, i can't wait for these awesome great games. waiting...waiting...waiting...hmmmm, Nintendo just released acouple this year but i dunno...not seeing anymore?



just because the damn controller can do alot of things, doesn't mean it's going to work like intended. Get over the fact Nintendo makes new controllers, get the idea that half of those games that make awesome use of them AREN'T on a nintendo console. I am not playing a *****ing tennis game for 250 bucks. Oh wait! I can play fun party games online! Oh wait! I can't play fun party games online! YAY! pOWER of the wii unleashed! (first year anyways)



Dave, dude, are you the guy that is buying Mario Party 19, just so Nintendo can make another one? How about buying a 360 to play some mulitiplayer. Or for people like me, get a playstation any for the single player experience. Get a Nintendo for that Zelda or Mario.



Really, people can piss on the playstation however they want, devs or fanboys, but in the end playstation will always have those new, tried and true formulas that you want to go back too. Wii will have these ideas that are either A) poorly executed or B) Rightly done. and even in the event that it happens, can it really catch any attention? We all agree that Okami rocks but it still had piss poor sales.

The lack of processing power in the Wii won't only affect graphics. It affects almost EVERYTHING. Do you want to play a FPS game against 5 stupid enemies that just stand there and spray bullets, or do you want to play a game with 20 enemies that act intelligently?



(and don't go yelling at me for using 5 and 20, its just an example)