I've already preordered the Wii. November 19th, baby! :D
I chose Nintendo because I like fun, lighthearted games. I have gotten hours of enjoyment out of my DS (not to mention my NES I had as a kid, and the SNES I bought last year).
Nintendo has been consistently awesome with their gaming systems and I know that the Wii will be the best yet. :)
I find the Playstation games to be mostly first-person shooters or RPGS, which aren't up my alley, though I know a lot of people who absolutely love them and are therefore hardcore Sony fans. It's understandable!
I'm thinking about buying the PS3. But I only play nba live and sometimes NHL and I already have those two games on my computer system so I don't know if blowing 600 dollars on it is worth it or not.
ur gonna hav a hard time getting a ps3; ppl are camping out to preorder the damn thing, just so they can ebay it around xmas time to make money
i think i can get a wii from work.. dunno if i wanna spend the money tho.. i wont play it enough and my cell phone just sorta broke might need to replace :(
The price of the PS3 is simply a travesty. I don't care if it has a Blu-ray drive, a Bluetooth controller, and built-in WiFi; will it have good games???
Wii is all right . . . if you're a girl or in elementary school.
As for the 360, I think it has a pretty good selection of games. Most likely, the price will drop close to or after the Holidays, so if you're going to buy one, you'll probably save some money if you buy one in early 2007.
Finally, if you're strapped for cash and have a decent computer, you could always upgrade your computer's graphics card (good ones go for around$200) and download games.
I picked up my Wii today, and it's FRIGGING AWESOME.
It's rad that it has wireless internet. And the controllers are very easy to use and make a lot of sense. We were working up a sweat playing Wii Sports baseball... ahah... Seriously a fun game!
Wii console sold out in Canada: Nintendo Last Updated: Monday, November 20, 2006 | 6:56 PM ET CBC News
Canadian retailers sold out of Nintendo's new Wii video game console on launch day, although a few units may be found in places that don't have Sunday shopping, the company says.
"It's another vindication of Nintendo's strategy," Farjad Iravani, a marketing manager with Nintendo of Canada, told CBC News Online from his Vancouver office on Monday.
"There might be some scattered stores that have a couple of units here and there, but in terms of the national picture, we have sold through the Canadian allocation," Iravani said.
He said more shipments are expected every week, starting this week, so the company can meet its worldwide goal of selling four million units by the end of the holiday season.
The $279.95 Wii makes use of current — instead of cutting edge — graphics technology for its graphics, diverging from competitors Sony and Microsoft, whose consoles focus heavily on providing gamers with high-definition graphics capabilities.
Instead, the Wii's gameplay centres on its unique motion-sensitive controller, which resembles a television remote control connected by a cable to a module similar to a computer mouse. People swing the remote like a baseball bat or sword to see their physical actions duplicated in the game, and similarly, they can use the mouse or "nunchuk" to steer their character around onscreen. Continue Article
Holiday sales expected to hit four-million-unit mark
Meanwhile, the high-fidelity graphics of Nintendo's rivals come at a price — $549.99 or $659.99 for Sony's PlayStation 3 models with differing capabilities, which sold out on launch day Nov. 17; and $399.99 or $499.99 for Microsoft's Xbox 360 models.
The Wii comes with Wii Sports, a collection of five sports games, and is backward compatible with a library of some 530 games for the previous Nintendo GameCube console. Owners can also connect to the online Wii Shop Channel, which lets them download classic games such as Donkey Kong, Super Mario 64, and Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog.
Nintendo expects to sell four million units worldwide through the holiday season, and had previously said it expected to ship one million Wiis to North America for launch — more than double the 400,000 units Sony had said it would ship for its North American launch.
There isn't online gaming YET. But it definitely has the capability with the wireless internet.
They're also planning to do something that involves the DS, which I think will be awesome!
And my ARMS hurt from using the controllers! I guess I didn't realize how madly I was flailing... :wink:
Yeah the Wii looks pretty sweet, I saw people playing it in Metrotown yesterday and it looks fun, I like how it's so small, and white.
But I'm definately gonna be gettin a 360. Those things are amazing, I rented one when it first came out and i had the most fun, and the games are so realistic, like the physics in Perfect Dark and the graphics in Project Gotham are amazing, I had the most fun I've ever had in that game and since I love cars its a bonus haha. For me the 360 definately has the best games and fun, and you can actually get it for a reasonable price, I'm definately gonna get one well after christmas and when I have money that I didnt use for the ski season lol :confused:
As much as I want the PS3 in my room hooked up to my 42" Samsung DLP (:smile:) I doubt anyone's gonna get their hands on one until AFTER christmass. Therefore the XBOX 360 is the next best thing, but I'd rather wait for the PS3 (maybe itll drop in price by then too you never know)
The Wii is officially awesome with a group of people. I had some friends over last night and got some funny videos of them "bowling". I was sure someone was going to throw the remote through my TV! There's a reason those badboys have straps on them. ;)
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I chose Nintendo because I like fun, lighthearted games. I have gotten hours of enjoyment out of my DS (not to mention my NES I had as a kid, and the SNES I bought last year).
Nintendo has been consistently awesome with their gaming systems and I know that the Wii will be the best yet. :)
I find the Playstation games to be mostly first-person shooters or RPGS, which aren't up my alley, though I know a lot of people who absolutely love them and are therefore hardcore Sony fans. It's understandable!
i think i can get a wii from work.. dunno if i wanna spend the money tho.. i wont play it enough and my cell phone just sorta broke might need to replace :(
Wii is all right . . . if you're a girl or in elementary school.
As for the 360, I think it has a pretty good selection of games. Most likely, the price will drop close to or after the Holidays, so if you're going to buy one, you'll probably save some money if you buy one in early 2007.
Finally, if you're strapped for cash and have a decent computer, you could always upgrade your computer's graphics card (good ones go for around$200) and download games.
It's rad that it has wireless internet. And the controllers are very easy to use and make a lot of sense. We were working up a sweat playing Wii Sports baseball... ahah... Seriously a fun game!
And the new Zelda game frigging rocks...!
Dont play games, study for finals instead!
tell me Malakaiii, does it support online gaming or not? just wanna know so that I can shoot at you a bit when I do get my console :D
They're also planning to do something that involves the DS, which I think will be awesome!
And my ARMS hurt from using the controllers! I guess I didn't realize how madly I was flailing... :wink:
But I'm definately gonna be gettin a 360. Those things are amazing, I rented one when it first came out and i had the most fun, and the games are so realistic, like the physics in Perfect Dark and the graphics in Project Gotham are amazing, I had the most fun I've ever had in that game and since I love cars its a bonus haha. For me the 360 definately has the best games and fun, and you can actually get it for a reasonable price, I'm definately gonna get one well after christmas and when I have money that I didnt use for the ski season lol :confused:
and cambie bb i heard is gettin 75-100
good luck
Nintendo should know better than to release this right before finals! AHHHH!!!
The Wii is officially awesome with a group of people. I had some friends over last night and got some funny videos of them "bowling". I was sure someone was going to throw the remote through my TV! There's a reason those badboys have straps on them. ;)