From some random blog: “For those of you out there who still don’t have a Wii, unless you must play Wii Sports, bide your time. At the rate we’re going, we’ll be well beyond the six-months after release before another good title hits shelves, and by that time, the Wii will likely be available everywhere.”
Agree to disagree. But then again, most everybody in this room already does. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going back to try four under par on Wii Golf. I’m so softcore.
At least you have a Wii. :(Tomorrow morning I'm gonna camp out at the local Target and see if I can score a Wii. I got a good feeling about it. 🙂
In a sense, I agree with that statement. The Wii will be on the shelves of every store, but not because of lack of games. It's because everyone already has one!
I don't understand this guy. If you don't like the games for the Wii you don't like the games. So get a 360 or a PS3. But then he slams the 360! What the hell does he want? I for one don't settle for one system. I have or plan on getting all next gen systems, except PS3 till its $150 or so. I didn't get a Wii to play games like Gears of War, HL2, F.E.A.R. or Oblivion. I like my cutting edge FPSs on a top of the line PC. I like 3rd person action games on a console like GOW or Splinter Cell and I can get them on the 360. I did get a Wii for all Nintendo first party stuff and others like Chibi Robo, Elebits and even stuff like Dewy( it looks kind of cool). I just don't know what the guy expected.
Knowing what I know now, I would buy a Wii for Excite Truck alone. It is by far the funnest racing game I have ever played.
^Responding to above poster's comments… I'm getting a Wii for the Virtual Console mostly. If a neato Wii game comes out I might nab it, but I want to relive some of my gaming childhood via the VC. I mean… Super Mario World.. Donkey Kong Country, Kid Icarus!! Holy bajebus I loved those games!!!
Sonic and ssx are almost here!
The Wii has something for everyone, regardless of who you are. VC games for nostagic people, new games for gamers, easy games for new gamers for non gamers, games for kids, games for adults, exercise machine for fat people and people wanting to get fit. Its just got everyone for everyone and despite new games constantly people are still buying it in droves. WHY? because they are smarter then everyone else.
What are you talking about?Wario Ware: Smooth Moves was just released not to long ago, Wii play was just released( i know it isn't the greatest game but its still worth paying the extra $10 for a wiimote), Sonic is out in a week, and mario party is on it's way out very shortly.As well if you don't have the system look at the games that are waiting for you, so why is that going to stop sales?I'm from Canada, and all i know is my buddy failed to camp out with me and our other buddy on release date, and he has tried at least once a week trying to get a wii and it is impossible, the only reason the system will start stocking on shelves is becuase everyone that wants it already has it.I predict that by the end of march is when it will slowly be starting to become easier to get.
jmorrallee, I hope you're right for the march thing. I have a wii, but all my friends want one, and aren't lucky to find any. The DS light in some countries is still hard to find (ie. Japan, France…). So, I really hope that it'll be fine for my friends. I live in DC now (USA).
The Wii is totally overrated. I have 6 games that I think I've played once and then never again. I'd definitely tell anyone to wait until more games came out. They're all mini-games right now. The wii-mote isn't perfect by a long shot.
For whatever reason, I think people mistake a 'good game' with a 'big name game.' Just because Mario Galaxies and Metroid 3 isn't coming out until fall/winter, that doesn't mean there won't be anything good between now and then.Not only are there going to be some good games released in the next couple months (Super Paper Mario and Mario Party 8) but there are plenty of good games already released that I bet many Wii-owners haven't picked up yet, like Elebits and ExciteTruck. And add to that the VC, which adds new games each week. Obviously they can't all be winners, but if last week's relases with Kid Icarus and Kirby are any indication of the quality of VC games, then I think we'll see plenty more good NES and SNES games released in the next few months.AND there are plenty of great Gamecube games to help fill the void, and are they on the cheap! Not too long ago this site posted the top 40 Gamecube games, so if you haven't picked them up then I suggest you try and track down a copy of each.
In my opinion, what makes a game system a must-have-right-away purchase is not the system itself, or the number of good games that are out for it, but if there are any good online games out for it.As good as the games for Wii are, it won't make a difference in your game experience to play, say, Zelda Twilight Princess in March or back in November when it came out.But a game with a prominent online presence like, say, Halo 2, does make a difference whether you started playing it when it came out, or six month, or a year, or two years later. So, while I don't agree with the reasons stated by that blogger, I do have to say that people shouldn't feel too much out of the loop in gaming by not having purchased a Wii right away. If you don't get one until six months after it came out, you are still not gonna miss anything. All the good games that came out for it are still going to be available on the shelves, and since they are not online games, it won't make any difference when you started playing them.Now, back to playing Excite Truck. I have almost unlocked Super Excite mode!
I personally find it hard to be compelled to buy a Wii right now (not that I could anyway so it balances out). I will eventually get one (I just can't say no to Solid Snake being in SSBB; it's a chance you might not see again – like Mike Tyson in Punch Out and now I doubt you'll see it in VC as it was) but if I was to really thin the titles out and look for simply the best of the best right now, I'd probably only see Zelda there (Metal Slug, Panga, and Rayman are nice "filler" titles I'm interested in). Frankly, I blame the lack of must have games due to lack of third-party support. I mean c'mon, Elebits vs. MGS4 from Konami? FFCB and DQS (the pedigree of those titles don't point to "big deal" games) vs. FFXIII and FFXIII vs from S-E (okay I'm not sure what FFXIII Vs is so let's hold off on that)? Capcom can barely give us a clue while the PS3 gets DMC4 and RE5 and 360 already has Dead Rising and Lost Planet (the latter of which they've sunk $40 Million for). Namco and Sega has even given or will be giving the other systems VF5, Tekken 6, Ridge Racer, etc. Can the Wii get anything besides the Cube's usual suspects like another Monkey Ball and Sonic game? I mean if it's not a Dreamcast port it's a PS2 port. I mean if we're going to get PS2 ports can't we just have the good stuff. How about FFX or MGS3? How about more Tales games? The PS2 got a never ending supply of those. Hey LucasArts, where's out Star Wars games? Yeah, yeah, it won't be the lightsaber game we wanted, what's your point? That Force Unleashed game looks good, why can't we have that? The PS2 will."People buy Nintendo systems for Nintendo games only." I highly doubt that. Sounds like a quickie excuse again. Let me see, what were the other ones? "Kiddy?" "Online-Centric?" If it's not one thing it's another. Even if it is even remotely true, then gee, I wonder why that is. Ever notice that most of the top games on other systems never ever seem to be for a Nintendo system too? Maybe I'm wrong but it sure feels that way.
yeah I've gotta say there's a serious lack of really killer games out for the wii. Zeldas great sure but its really just a gamecube game when you get down to it, I'm still waiting for the definitave wii experience to hit me. Maybe it's because here in oz we don't have excite truck or elebits, only decent game besides zelda and wii sports is wario ware and thats only really good for multiplayer (great for multiplayer actually, despite the single controller dig)but as a single player experience, it's really kinda lacking right now, but it's only a matter of time before something comes out that really knocks my socks off really. Pikmin 3 on wii perhaps?
Sorry, but your argument is not valid as soon as you compare Elebits (already released) to MGS4 on the PS3, when MGS4 doesn't have a release date and there's a great chance for it coming out on the X360.I'm very happy with my Wii,COD 3, Red Steel, Super Monkey Ball, Zelda, Wii Sports, Elebits and Rayman. I'll get Warioware as soon as I finish Zelda and COD3, and I'm looking forward to at least 4 VC games already released.Now, the PS3, THAT is a system without any games worth the $600 they're asking for…
Way to stay on point.I believe the reasonable man above you mentioned titles that — regardless of exclusivity to 360 or PS3 or neither/both — won't ever be Wii games, and listed what those same companies will give Nintendo as consolation.Don't be so defensive, and stay focused next time.