Nintendo Wii
 

LOL Heck yes! I want a Wii really bad... I'm more excited about this console than any other in a long time... It's really nice to see some true innovation out there and not the same ole crap with the only changes being better graphics.

Right, the other guys are stuck (for years and years) on, what, another 20% better graphics or whatever...who cares?! Meanwhile, Nintendo has completely re-focused on playability. As if to mock the other consoles, Nintendo has exaggerated the cartoon-like quality of the characters. Granted, the graphics are likely to develop further, once we get past the stage of these "training" games, but honestly, it doesn't matter whether the game characters are super-ultra-realistic or not, if the game is actually fun to play. :::hint-hint::: other guys?

The Wii actually interfaces you, the person, with the game, in a new way. Love it. (But, damn! My arm is really sore!)

The interactivity with the game is what I am most excited about! I mean your controller can be a sword, golf club, tennis racket, gun, fishing rod, etc... and at least with this too, gamers aren't just vegin' in front of the tv, they are actually up and doing something.

If your arm gets any worse, I'd be glad to take the Wii off your hands for a while :D

Nah, that's alright. I've always wanted to learn to play tennis left-handed. (Might transfer something to my drumming, huh?)

The potatoes ... uh, I mean.... we potatoes will have to move again. :blush:

Just use the wrist strap and hold on tightly to the controller so as to NOT lob the controller into the telly and break it.

(The telly, that is.)

A dude I know hurled the Wii Remote the TV, because the wrist-strap actually broke off. (Of course, he should have been hanging on better.)

Yeah. That's one of the top ten things that need to be fixed on the Wii according to 1up.

Yeah, though I suppose it could be an advantage for those of us with 13-year-old TVs. ("Gosh darn honey, I guess we have to buy a new TV.") (For the record, I'm hoping to get another year or so out of it and let the rices on the newfangled stuff come down a little more.)

Fuck "new" shit - if I didn't need it yesterday, why do I need it today? Does the "old" one do the same thing? Then keep the "old" one, and your $$$

We couldn't agree more. PC games this year.

Well a new one would be more than 26", and there would be that high def thing!

I saw a Wii in action last night. I had to drag the kids with me to my orchestra's dress rehearsal. They were hanging out in the lounge/snack bar the college operates in the same building as the auditorium, and a couple students hooked up a Wii to the TV. When I got done playing all the Christmas medleys, the kids were playing the baseball game, one pitching, one batting. Of course now they want one . . .

Wii The People
 

I saw the demo/promo thing at a Target yesterday and have to admit that it made me depressed. Not the design of the games, just that people are now "doing" all these sports in their livingrooms rather than actually going out, let's say, bowling. Virtual this and virtual that. When they perfect the virtual sex thing, nobody will go outside and actually "do" shit.

I've never owned any video game; but I was really good at that Track & Field game in the arcades...:rolleyes:

I'm just enjoying the fact that our newsreaders are reading stories about people queueing up for a Wii, not bheing able to get a Wii, and how only the lucky ones will get a Wii for Christmas. But then I'm childish like that...

Pangloss do you really think this will turn away from real sport in favour of this? Surely it will just encourage the people playing games at home to do it in a more active fashion? The appeal of real live sport is very different IMO.

Wii-style games appeal to me far more than any previous consoles. I'll give it a year and see how much this year's Christmas presents are going for on eBay :)