The Nintendo Wii
 

The Nintendo Wii is a lot of fun. Buy one.

I plan on gettting one. Sometime in the furture.
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I'd get one, but I gotta buy a PA, pay for amp repairs, etc.

The Wii-mote is awesome. Very easy to adapt to, and it really makes games more interesting. Zelda is fun, although I hardly started playing it. The Wii-Sport game that comes with it is also entertaining.

Sounds good. I knew the controller would either be very good or very bad. Im glad to hear that it's good though.
..And you cant wrong with that price!

I'll probably get one when they start selling them in those discount packages at Costco. Im not a gamer by any means or standard, but it does look like fun for the price it is offered at. I think Nintendo was really smart making a console aimed at non-gamers and lower-income families.

Definitely. They cut out the junk like CD playing, DVD playing to make it affordable, and it is great because we all (most of us) already have CD and DVD players.

i'm so so addicted to the ds, i'm thinking about getting this too.

Yeah, whats the one in the PS3? BlueRay or whatever? I'll be really surprised if that catches on. It will probably end up being like Beta and Laserdisc.

Do the games in the PS3 come in a CD format? Or DVD style? I got the first video game system to use that. Sega CD. That system never really caught in when it first came out. Now all the systems are using the CD/DVD format for thier games. Sega did it first.

Blu-Ray for PS3, which means a DVD with more space.

Kids at school says they're gonna be the new DVDs and DVD will be liks VHS
there's no tellin..

They will be eventually. Blu-Ray drives are too expensive now to become the standard. In a couple years when the prices go down and companies start producing more Blu-Ray movies.

The PS3 is a good deal, considering that most blu-ray drives are like $1000

But what if some other format like HD DVD becomes the new standard? Then blue-ray becomes obsolete. Thats danger in buying new technologies.

Blu-Ray is essential HD DVD.

Do you mean HD DVDs that can be played on regular DVD players?

My brother got a wii today. But my parents are kind of pissed at him because they expected him to save his money for school (keep in mind, he has not decided what career path he wants to follow). My little brother is very ecstatic to get a wii.

The new virtual boy!

But seriously, I hope that Nintendo wins the war. But unless other companies BESIDES Nintendo make good games for the Wii, it's going to fail like the Cube and (to a lesser extent) the N64. I mean, I love Zelda and Metroid and etc, but Nintendo can only release so many games.. they need some help here.. come on, Capcom.. Square?..

"But what if some other format like HD DVD becomes the new standard? Then blue-ray becomes obsolete. Thats danger in buying new technologies."

I think DVD will stay the standard. I don't know a single person who even has an HDTV.. and those who want one sure as hell don't want to pay even more for DVD's.

Personally, I still buy VHS (cheap as fuck and I usually don't care about special features and shit anyway and the picture's usually not that bad, so..), but I'll buy DVD's too. I sure as hell ain't buying blu-rays or HD-DVD's, and I think I represent the majority when I say that.

i got mine this morning. i'm wiidicted.

Well, they are selling it for the cost it took to make it... but mark my words, they are going to get you on the price of games.

Fuck consoles anyway, the DS is where it's at.

I like PSP more then DS

Thats kinda what I was getting at, to some extent. Theres no guaruntee that any new technology will catch on. There will eventually be a format that replaces the DVD, or at least becomes the standard (much like DVD did to VHS). But will it be blue-ray or HD dvd? Who knows. It may be something much further down the road as well.

What I was saying was that its dumb to invest in something very new like this, because:
a) it may not catch on well, much like betamax and laserdisc
b) if it does catch on and become the standard in a year or two, its gonna be a hell of a lot cheaper than it is now. Remember how fucking expensive DVD players were when they first came out? They were several hundred dollars. Now its easy to find a basic DVD player for less than $50.

i dont want a wii. the whole remote thing seems stupid. i am happy with my ps1 and gamecube.

I am eagerly waiting for the zelda release on gamecube since it has the same graphics, same everything besides the remote thing. the wii copy is actually just a port of it from gamecube with different controls. so i think the gamecube version will play much better.

december 13th.....

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there is one minor difference: everything on the gamecube version is mirrored from the wii version. right is left and so on. but yeah, no difference other than that.

and the DS is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY better than the psp. the psp will be dead in a year.

The PSP/PS3 interaction seems pretty cool. I haven't tried anything out yet. I'm not sure if it is available currently, but I hear you can stream things from your PS3 to your PSP. At first it will be available from within your home, but my dad mentioned something about it being available from anywhere, eventually.

I remember something that said, eventually everything is going to be broadcast in HD. I'll try to find something on that.

Edit: Everything should be going digital, not necessarily HD:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-de..._United_States

really? i love the psp but i think the ds is so much better because of the whole stylus thing, plus, the ds has MARIO!

speaking of which, if somebody can help me w/this: is there any way to change the button configuration on the DS? Some of the game boy advance games are so hard for me because the buttons are switched.

I haven't ever tried to change the configuration. Mess around in some of the options?

Valve is really interested in the Nintendo Wii. The guy from Valve (Doug Lombardi I think) was talking about possibly doing some sort of Half-Life project for it that utilized the controller.

I drove around for 2 hours all over the shit state of Michigan trying to find one... no luck, I'll keep looking.

just wait it out for about a week or so. once the second shipment comes in, you shouldn't have a problem getting one.

yeah they shipped 4 million of them so it should be easier

http://nexgenwars.com/

Sales at the moment (updated every 30 seconds)...

I don't think I'll get a Wii. I'm still trying to decide wether to get a PS3 or an Xbox 360? Which one is more powerful? But I'd rather have a new SEGA sytem. That would be so great.

I'm still waiting for Shenmue 3. There are rumors that it will be released during this generation of consoles. Whichever console it gets released on is the console I'm getting.

PS3 is more powerful than the 360. I think the 360 has better games though.

(I still haven't acutally played my dad's PS3)

fuck that crap. go buy some marbles.

I might get a xbox 360, I've been working like a dog these couple of days. I did eleven hours on a day that they pay me time and a half.

Coming to the point of the thread. I have the PSP I like it, but need more games to tell you more about it. I will get the xbox360 and maybe Wii when they have it a my job. I didn't like the ds I thought it was lame. Also nintendo needs to get better games released than those that they have released before.

i have fuck all to do with XBOX, i refuse point blank to give more money to Bill Gates than he already has.
Have PS2, PSP, Gamecube. i fuckin prefer the DSlite over the PSP, i've been playing my mates one a lot and its right good. i would swap my PSP for a DSlite
Defo gonna get me a wii. thing is in dopey Ireland, they are gonna be mega hard to get.

I waited in line with a friend starting at 4 o'clock in the morning so he could get a Wii. I usually hate game consoles except ones by Nintendo and they certainly did not disappoint this time.

you know who hates video games.

http://gamepolitics.com/2006/11/18/b...in-that-order/