My family just purchased a 58" flat screen Sony Bravia along with a Wii.

After playing Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort along with playing No More Heroes, New Super Mario Bros. Wii, and Donkey Kong Country Returns at my little brother's house, I am wondering how in the hell did the Wii ever sell this many consoles in the first place?

There are no games for the Wii which could make me ever want to put my own money down for a Wii game.

Is there some golden grail Wii game out there which converts everyone instantly? Obviously, No More Heroes, New Super Mario Bros. Wii, and Donkey Kong Country Returns are not the ones.

As for the PS2, if I saw one for $50 today while in Wal-Mart, there are plenty of games I know and ones that I have not played from 2005 on that could keep me gaming for 200 hours.

Please stop these silly comparisons. There is a reason why Sony with the PS1 and PS2 outsold the NES, SNES, N64 and Gamecube combined. Great games for everyone from the bluest of the blue ocean with Ratchet and Clank, Crash Bandicoot, Legacy of Kain, Parasite Eve, Chrono Cross, and on.

The PS2 in my book is the king no matter what the charts say. If I remember correctly was Sony with the PS2 in 2007/2008 still bundling their Blue Ocean games to get the cheap sell to the wifey? No, Sony had dignity and I respect them for that while the Wii is out on the street corner like the 64 year old grandma selling her poontang for Sunday night bingo money at Geraldine's house where bingo is played with dollars.

My family just purchased a 58" flat screen Sony Bravia along with a Wii.

After playing Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort along with playing No More Heroes, New Super Mario Bros. Wii, and Donkey Kong Country Returns at my little brother's house, I am wondering how in the hell did the Wii ever sell this many consoles in the first place?

There are no games for the Wii which could make me ever want to put my own money down for a Wii game.

Is there some golden grail Wii game out there which converts everyone instantly? Obviously, No More Heroes, New Super Mario Bros. Wii, and Donkey Kong Country Returns are not the ones.

As for the PS2, if I saw one for $50 today while in Wal-Mart, there are plenty of games I know and ones that I have not played from 2005 on that could keep me gaming for 200 hours.

Please stop these silly comparisons. There is a reason why Sony with the PS1 and PS2 outsold the NES, SNES, N64 and Gamecube combined. Great games for everyone from the bluest of the blue ocean with Ratchet and Clank, Crash Bandicoot, Legacy of Kain, Parasite Eve, Chrono Cross, and on.

The PS2 in my book is the king no matter what the charts say. If I remember correctly was Sony with the PS2 in 2007/2008 still bundling their Blue Ocean games to get the cheap sell to the wifey? No, Sony had dignity and I respect them for that while the Wii is out on the street corner like the 64 year old grandma selling her poontang for Sunday night bingo money at Geraldine's house where bingo is played with dollars.

Agreed, at least on the part where people don't give Wii enough respect. Wii came in with a million advantages and wiped the floor with its competition. On top of that, it was criticized to no end by the gaming press and, far more importantly, third parties, and still made a mockery out of its competition for over three years. Sure, it's fallen like a rock recently, but people still seem to try to make it sound like a failure, which would be amusing had it not been such a popular belief.

I don't, however, think that a console's greatness can be necessarily judged by raw sales, even if they are the most objective way of doing so.

Well, for about 25% of owners, NSMB Wii was that golden grail game. For me it was Smash Bros 3 years ago.

Other than that, you are about right.

Sales does not make it the greatest console ever made.

The Wii is only so popular because it's target audience ISN'T the typical hardcore gamer.

While I do think it is underrated by hardcore gamers because they say "it's just a kids console", it still doesn't deserve the sales just because it's the latest trendy Christmas present.

Wow some heated discussions in here, it's funny a little positive news is posted and people shit bricks going IT COULD NEVER HAPPEN!  When it could, it probably won't since Nintendo really isn't Sony, they don't produce or push older hardware, or bridge their titles between two platforms to fill in games in software support.

That's not the reason it won't happen.

It's not their style, but seriously, if by some chance Nintendos price drops and evergreen titles alone make the Wii coast to at least 150 million lots of people here would have egg on their face,

They would indeed, but it aint gonna happen so ... yeah.

many people I remember saying the Wii couldn't even hit 100 million, that's in the bag now, 120 million "was impossible" to some,

Lots of people on the internet say lots of stupid things. I think once people realised how  big Wii was in 08, most sensible people knew it would be over 100 mill easily.

while that's completely plausible and likely, so coasting in it's twilight years for the late mass market adoptors (you know the ones that picked up a new PS2 in 2006) it could keep Wii breathing for a while.

Clearly a different situation, PS2 twilight years had no competition from last gen consoles, so it had that late adopters market all to itself, Wii will barely touch that market, it'll be 360 and PS3 that appeals to them. That and the PS2 will have support. Nintendo are barely supporting the Wii now, let alone with 3DS and Cafe coming, at least Sony had 3rd party devs releasing SW.

People often overlook the late adoptors which is where Sony showed Nintendo and Sega how it's done with the PS1, both companies were awful about pushing hardware in a meaningful way back then cause they were essentially told to sell the systems like toys (IE the NES was in the Toy department FFS) things have changed and Nintendo might have changed their stance on supporting a system late into it's life, everyone needs to keep an open mind here me thinks.

None of those are actually true.... outside exclusives.

My 2-3 year old off the shelf computer plays modern games fine... the only upgrade i've ever performed was putting in a graphics card, which i did at the time i bought it.

The only games you really ever had to upgrade your PC for at a rate that was harsher then console upgrading was stuff like "Crysis" and even then only at the highest settings.

And well... that's coming out on consoles too... and has never really been any good.