I need a WII

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I am not spending no £300 on it.

just get an emulator ... wii games... and the controller will work with a pc....

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So wait. You do not 'need' a Wii. I want a Wii, but I do not need one.

300 pounds for a Wii is a rip off! 300 pounds is $797 in New Zealand dollars. and you can get a Wii in a shop here in New Zealand for $500.

Because here people are buying them & sticking them on eBay, now shops want you to buy the console + some games & that... & the factory’s seem to not be able to grasp how many they should of pre-made... they fail all the time...

Here in the states people are lining up in awful winter weather at stores, waiting for the newest shipment of the wii -- if you find it at a store the cost is still $250.00 -- but I can't imagine waiting in weather of below 30 wind chills for this thing.

I hit the jackpot and bought one, almost by accident, when I was at a mall 30 miles away from where I normally shop (this mall is further into the "country", far away from the suburbs), and just happened to hit it just after it had received a shipment. Before then, I had been calling and looking, and not finding any wii's.

The very same situation has occurred when I went to buy Guitar Hero 3 for the wii -- NO store had them, no matter where I went, and to buy one we would have had to wait in horrible snows for hours for the store's shipment to arrive on Sunday. I decided Ebay would be a better choice, and it was. I had to pay about $30.00 more (including shipping), but I think it was worth it. Wii's are going for about $420 this last weekend on Ebay.

Kris

I still think the wii is a flawed system... I demoed one in Microcenter, and I still think that the POS they call a "controller" shouldn't have been invented... other than that it is a good economy system ($250 in the states, compared to $400 for a 360 and $600 for a PS3)...

May I ask why these Wii systems are so popular?

To me the graphics only look a step up from the very early (old) atari systems. They look horrible, cheap & boring to me compared to those systems. I laughed when I first saw them & said "Well they won't sell" Now everyone wants one. Why? Is it because everyone else has them so you want them too? The games themselves can't be that attractive to you, are they?

I must say this isn't meant to be insulting. I'm just giving my thoughts & curious to the fascination, as I just don't see it myself.

It not that easy to get an emulator these days. Game industries that make operation system for game system are preventing them from producing Windows software.

Wii is excellent because you have a better guidance control compares to using mini joystick on gamepad. It may wear your arm out, but at least it good excercise!

Last edited by Bopkasen on 17 Dec 2007, 11:03 am, edited 1 time in total.

Waiting til about spring...I'm hoping the prices will drop by then or their will be enough people that ran out before Christmas that got one and aren't happy with it where I can pick up a good used one.

I always wait until the next kind comes up, because then the prices drop but the system is not totally obsolete yet. I might get a Game Cube soon, for instance. There will always be more and more systems, so why not just stay one or two behind from the newest? It's cheaper and you'll still get to play all of them eventually.

You know, my cousins are getting a Wii for Christmas. I played it for only a few minutes and I had a bit of fun with it. However, I could tell that the Wii targets active families. My family isn't that active. Besides, I'm probably the only one in my family who wants one. I can wait a while. In the meantime, my family is getting an XBox 360 Pro. It fits the bill for us, considering that my youngest sibling is 14 and my brothers like violent war games. Plus, I want the Mass Effect and the Halo trilogies.

I don't want one, but I'd like to play it. My bf got her son one, so when I go to see her this summer, I will try it out. It is a bit pricey!

We got a Game Cube last year but they have virtually stopped making games for it, the displays are being taken down in favor of the Wii promotions. They also will stop making accessories and replacement parts for it. That's the problem we had with the Nintendo DS and the DS Lite. Some of the parts are not compatible and they stopped making parts for the original DS. We have one that has a defunct battery that has to be taken apart and replaced. I bought a DS Lite replacement pack because they told me they were interchangeable.

The problem is the bigger the game system, the more expensive the games. Game Cube games are still relatively expensive. DS games fluctuate but are cheaper than Game Cube, GBA games are yet cheaper-even the new ones. I haven't see any used Wii games at all and the prices are all $50/game.

I bought a Wii with 5 games in a bundle that I found at Dell.com (don't bother they are sold out) through the Wii Tracker website

The 5 games happened to be ones I wanted, so that was lucky...

Look at the history on the Wii Tracker, you can see patterns in when they become available in online stores... they usually sell out in a few minutes so you just have to be lucky.

It doesn't cover the UK as far as I can tell, so I can't help you there, but for the other Yanks on the site, this should help. It took me 1-2 weeks of watching for it before I pounced and got the Wii.

My daughter won hers in a Cosplay contest - she was Axel from Kingdom Hearts 2 (one of her Aspie fixations). We sat up all night making chakrams out of wreath forms and duct/electrical tape!

The Wii is a ball. She's a news junkie as well (we worship at the church of Keith Olbermann) and she really loves the News Channel. I made a Wii of BYJ. It really is worth the expense; I was saving up to buy a package one at ToysNJoys.com - but she won it from there anyway.