My thought on Wii after owning it for almost a year

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I want to share my personal thought regarding wii after owning it for almost a year.

I bought Wii on the third day from its launch day (launch day was 7 dec 06, bought 9 dec 06). Basically I was hyped about wii at that time, I loved zelda and wii sport, I even convinced 2 of my friends to buy wii as well.

At that time I easily gave Wii a perfect A score. But not anymore.... Played wii play/sport with friends and zelda for single play for like 3-4 weeks, then the hype started to decline. Finished zelda, and bored with wii sport/play, and no good game released at that time... tried few new games, but all failed

On January FFXII was released in here, so I went back to PS2 and totally forgot about the Wii, played this game most of the time along with Disgaea 2 untill I purchased another console in march (purchased on its launch day)

July 2007, Mario Party was released, and I was thinking that this game maybe able to make me put more hour on the wii that has been collecting dust since January... but Mario party failed me, not my kind of game, 4 days, returned the game.. thats it. haven't touched the wii again untill now..

And about my friends that bought wii because of me, both of them neglected their wii for more than 8 months.. and back to their PC gaming, sad indeed...

So far I spent maybe only 100 hours total time playing on Wii in almost a year time (and maybe over 1000 hours on the other...) Right now I'm waiting for super mario galaxy to be released and after I finish the game, I'm going to sell my Wii (or not?)

My score on wii after owning it for almost a year is: D-

Sounds like you got your Wii about the same time as I did =)

Sounds like you started off with the right types of games but then you have been having trouble lately finding the type of stuff you care about.  In that regard I would say look at some of the release lists and see if there aren't some things that interest you.  If you honestly don't see some games out or coming up that interest you then perhaps you should sell it.  I personally think there is something for everyone but if you don't think there is enough to warrant your ownership of the console then you should go with your gut feeling.

As far as Mario Party 8, that game is hit or miss with most people.  It seems you either love it or you hate it.  It sounds like you may have been the latter.  But my point here is that you shouldn't let the fact that you didn't enjoy MP8 stop you from trying some other games that sound like they may interest you.  Personally when I purchased my Wii I looked at the list of games coming up and and I knew that Wii Sports/Zelda + the occasional third party would be able to satisfy my gaming needs until SPM, Metroid, Galaxy, and Smash came.  The third party games I have enoyed thus far actually turned out to be pretty fun (ie Elebits, RRR, Madden '07, Z&W, etc..  )

As for your friends who got Wiis I think they should have done a bit more research before leaping to a purchase.  See Twestern's formula:

total price of all games wanted for system >= Console Price 

Is a good one for making sure you don't purchase something you won't get good use out of.

 

I guess I will conclude this by saying that it sounds like your issues are with the games you have purchased thus far more than the console itself.  Library is important to making a console succesful no doubt, but in that regard there seem to be several great games you haven't tried yet.  So if what you have tried isn't your cup of tea then try some other stuff...if that doesn't do it for you then its probably just not the console for you and you can stick to your PS3/PC combo.