If You're a Core Gamer That Hasn't Purchased a Wii yet

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Metallicube said:

I dunno, maybe it's because I'm a little biased, but to me I can't fathom how a financially smart gamer could want to own multiple consoles and NOT have a Wii as one of them, which is far different from the other two, and cheaper. Yet people seem to have no problem buying both HD consoles, with near identical libraries, and similar features.

Wii's library is vastly different, so I would think it'd be most financially sound to own one HD console AND the Wii, since you cover the most bases with this combo, while saving the most money. Either that, OR obviously owning all 3 consoles if you can afford it.. But someone opting for the PS360 combo while passing on the Wii has always been baffling to me, since they are so similar and cost the most money, while you're missing out on the most exclusives.

PS3 and 360 have a ton of great games, don't get me wrong, but the vast majority of them are cross platform. I can count the number of each of these console's exclusives worth buying a console for with my one hand.

People could just not like the games, I've had the Wii for a while, I also have a healthy income coming in weekly and I buy game's pretty often. When I go to a store and I look at the game's on offer, I can't bring myself to buy any of them because I believe from what I've seen that they are very low quality games. The only game's I see that are worth owning on the Wii are the first party game's and they are much more expensive than the software on every other platform (Brawl and Galaxy are still $80 each). 

I gave the Wii a fair go, I borrowed and rented a lot of the big game's and I didn't like any of them enough to buy (except for No More Heroes). The control's aren't for everyone, I tried to play Brawl and Mario Galaxy on the Wiimote and it was just disgusting. Red Steel was a broken game, Ghost Squad was just a short low quality rail shooter and Raving Rabbids was decent. 

It's also hard finding the good game's on the Wii when my gaming purchases are limited to Barbie Party, Masterchef and My Word Coach. I'm not saying their the only game's that the Wii have, but it's what's shoved at me every time I got to a store and I'm not spending more on a game just so I can get one from Ebay.

I blame a lot of the problem's I have with the Wii on Nintendo, but I'm also happy that they're successful once again and I hope that in the future they at least try and slow down the amount of shovelware piling up on their system, incorporate some better hardware, try and pull some better Third Party Software in and not limit my gaming method's to a pretty (IMO) rubbish controller.