Twilight Princess, the Wii version, right from the start in november 2006...

I could have played it on GC, but i think it has been my most "hyped" game... ever... without it, i'd have waited one more year to buy myself a Wii...

Btw, it hasn't been a deception, as the game is just as good as nearly all the Zelda's, "usual business", i could say...

But the sword fighting was the perfect example to understand the wiimote's limitations, right from the start... now, WM+ has fixed it, but there's still no big adventure game to take real advantage of it...

Red Steel 2 should (very easily) be way better than the rushed original, but the next Zelda with WM+ will for sure be the "ultimate Wii experience" i was hoping for back in 2006...

Gears of War.

That madworld trailer was more than enough.

and boy was it worth it.

Yup, thta was part of the great MS marketing for this game. That ad was very effective at the time.

Not really one game. I had a pretty high-end rig in 2007, but I was frustrated to see many games I thought would be awesome go to consoles. Army of Two (with awesome coop) and Star Wars: TFU was coming to every platform except PC. (Of course, Army of Two sucked, and I still haven't played SW:TFU)
On top of that, I was tired of being in the hardware race. When I wasn't upgrading, I was wondering what awesome upgrades I could make.
On top of all that, I wanted an HDTV to play on.

Finally, I decided to sell my rig and buy a PS3 and a HDTV. I ended up choosing the PS3 because it could play blu-ray movies, and I thought it would be able play movies through a Linux partition.

Ultimately, I'm very happy with my choice, but I do miss having a nice rig from time to time. I'll probably get a new one at some point.

Wii Sports, Wii Play, and the fishing in Twilight Princess, played them at a demo kiosk at the mall before the Wii launch.

Motion controls in Wii Sports, and IR navigation. Similar to touch screen controls on DS. This looked to be the next big thing in gaming. Nintendo started growing with the audience rather than just continuing to make games for children with a few exceptions.

for me there was no game, i just bought every next gen console becuase there where heaps of games that appealed to me

- The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess & Wii Sports
- Kirby Canvas Curse & Meteos
- Lumines & LocoRoco
- Valkyria Chronicles & The Last Guardian

GTA4 was the game that made me want a PS3 so bad but it dissapointed....

At the time of the Zelda release it would have been much cheaper for me to buy a GC and the game rather than the Wii console and game, but I forked 400 dollars (overpriced sellers because supply was so low) and bought the Wii and game, it was definitely a great game and the Wii controls did add some freshness to it. I liked the game, but it seemed like too much of a throwback to Ocarina of Time, I was looking for more of a departure from it.