The price has dropped to two hundred bucks. We’ve enjoyed ours — Patricia has become a tennis pro in the living room.
4 thoughts on “Been Holding Off On A Wii Purchase?”
Yeah, and I’ll keep on holding off. I can’t think of one reason to own one, but then I’m not much of a gamer. (Solitaire is about my speed.) And I hate sports, exercise, and dancing, and it isn’t an all-regions dvd player (my friend and I like British and other foreign movies that probably will never be released in the US), so I can think of better things to spend 200 bucks on.
Heh. I was going to say something cute about how a Wii purchase isn’t enough of a wee purchase for me.
Still isn’t, but my wife was casting a covetous glance at a Wii accessory on a recent visit to BuyMore.
Yep, a good toy. The swordplay game (in sports resort) is about the only kind of exercise I’ll keep plugging away at.
Not a fan of the Wii. I got it way back when it first came out–a coworker’s father worked in Nintendo’s distribution center, so I got a system straight from the warehouse without having to sit around in lines. Since then, in a household with all of the major game systems, including a high-end gaming PC, it’s seen scarcely any use.
The Wii has turned out to be more of an appliance than a gaming system in the traditional sense: this is supported by the fact that its most popular titles (three of the current five top sellers) are less games and more productivity software (Wii Fit) or very light party fare (Wii Sports Resort). Nintendo learned that there was a lot more money to be made selling that kind of thing than the traditional gaming media which they had focused on (and which their competitors still do).
Yeah, and I’ll keep on holding off. I can’t think of one reason to own one, but then I’m not much of a gamer. (Solitaire is about my speed.) And I hate sports, exercise, and dancing, and it isn’t an all-regions dvd player (my friend and I like British and other foreign movies that probably will never be released in the US), so I can think of better things to spend 200 bucks on.
Heh. I was going to say something cute about how a Wii purchase isn’t enough of a wee purchase for me.
Still isn’t, but my wife was casting a covetous glance at a Wii accessory on a recent visit to BuyMore.
Yep, a good toy. The swordplay game (in sports resort) is about the only kind of exercise I’ll keep plugging away at.
Not a fan of the Wii. I got it way back when it first came out–a coworker’s father worked in Nintendo’s distribution center, so I got a system straight from the warehouse without having to sit around in lines. Since then, in a household with all of the major game systems, including a high-end gaming PC, it’s seen scarcely any use.
The Wii has turned out to be more of an appliance than a gaming system in the traditional sense: this is supported by the fact that its most popular titles (three of the current five top sellers) are less games and more productivity software (Wii Fit) or very light party fare (Wii Sports Resort). Nintendo learned that there was a lot more money to be made selling that kind of thing than the traditional gaming media which they had focused on (and which their competitors still do).