A Request for Opinions

[Burt]

Get a Wii. Really...do get one. I honestly can't explain how much fun it is. People I know who never even go near consoles are spending ages playing mine. The free Wii Sport games are amazing. Not much depth, but the Tennis, with 4 people can go on for hours! The bowling is pretty good too. WarioWare is a pretty fantastic game. Zelda is, I hear, amazing as expected, although I haven't had enough time to get more than 30 minutes in to it.
Few big games coming out too.
Really though, it is worth it. I did worry that maybe the whole sensor...wireless...wiimote thing, might not work as well as expected. And no, while it isn't exacty like the real thing, when you hit a backhand on Wii Tennis, and the controller rumbles and it's little speaker makes a sound of a tennis ball smacking off a racket....it makes you smile!

[Nate the Great]

According to Wikipedia:

"A killer application (commonly shortened to killer app) is a computer program that is so useful or desirable that it proves the value of some underlying technology, such as a gaming console, operating system, or piece of computer hardware."

TP is available on Gamecube, so it is NOT a killer app for Revolution. Period.

[Burt]

Whats TP?

[Burt]

Oh right. Zelda. I figured it out now. Lets be kind with the sarcasm.

[Burt]

Getting a Gamecube would make little sense.... As the wii can play gamecube games...
Ok.. say £80 for a Gamecube with 5 games.
£210 for a Wii with 'TP' and wii sports. Yes it's more, and may mean more saving...but you then open up the option of getting games for two different systems. To be honest, cube games have pretty much dried up... there's very few new ones due out.

[ijdgaf]

Very few.

TP is a killer app for the system based on the controls alone. It's quite a bit more fun than playing Zelda the old fashioned way. Plus, it came out on Wii first.

It'd be like saying Halo isn't a killer app for X-Box because it also came out on PC later. That's madness -- Halo is the star of the system, and much better on the console anyway.

For other upcomming killer apps, try Super Paper Mario (due in a little more than a week), Super Smash Brothers Brawl, Super Mario Galaxy, and Metroid Prime 3 Corruption.

Also, most hardcore gamers would scoff at this comment, but Wii Sports really is a killer app as well. Based soley on the way its simplicity has turned non-gamers everywhere into Wiiphiles.

[Nate the Great]

Who needs new Gamecube games? I want OLD Gamecube games. Master Quest, Melee, Pokemon Colloseum, Megaman Anniversary Collection, and so on.

[PointyHairedJedi]

Originally Posted by ijdgaf

Very few.
...but Wii Sports really is a killer app as well. Based soley on the way its simplicity has turned non-gamers everywhere into Wiiphiles.

Right there is why I'll never ever own one. Wii Sports? Did they even stop to think about that for a second?

Why I'll probably never own a PS3 is down to mainly backwards compatibility (or the extremely patchy nature thereof), though the fact that we're paying more for it in the UK that most places and Sony's inexplicable decision to change the spec of the consoles sold in the European market are pretty big factors too.