I've heard this similar conversation in Gamestop numerous times. It's a mother with her child talking to the gamestore employee. "Will this play the games we already have?"

Parents and families are big on reverse compatibility. In fact I don't know why anyone wouldn't be. Then again anything above $300 dollars is out of the range of most holiday presents anyway so that makes the Wii a shoe in by default for many regardless.

Yeah, i guess it's the internet and message boards working.  Just "mom" message boards.  Maybe that's where Sony and the others should be paying people to post!

I'm somehwhat shocked their care that much though.  I mean my parents never cared when I got my SNES that it wouldn't play NES games.  I guess it's thanks to the PS2. 

Of course... I never took down systems and just got a second TV anyway hooking 2 systems up per TV.  So..

So the children of Australia should be spoiled and always get the most expensive gadget availble no matter what? I sure hope that post wasn't serious

Where are all these mindless SOny fanboys coming these days? They are poppin outta the woodwork, why I have no idea....... 

But the Wii doesn't play any of the old PS2 games they have...? Couldn't they have bought an 80 gig? I'm confused... Did they have a Gamecube because if they didn't what's the point in getting a system based on B/C?

Just wait until Christmas when the kid finds out he got the wii and not the PS3 he wanted, he might kill his parents. He might come after shams too for saying to get the wii, i'd watch out shams

Australia doesn't get 80 gigs i don't think.  They're like Europe arn't they?  40 gigs only and whatever 60 gigs are left over.

Shams your banned!!!

na.. you didnt say anything wrong. You used your video game knowledge when it was best suited. Maybe if LBP was out you would have put in a suggestion for the PS3 because LBP is awesome. lol

I call BS on this one shams. Everyone knows that only mature 21+ people want PS.




j/k, is good that you use your knowledges to keep 'normal' people informed... if anyone tried that over this side of the Pacific, they would get a "mind your own business"... :P

Hell I remember my brother saving up to buy a SNES with his paper route because my parents wouldn't get us one for X-mas because it didn't play NES games. No BS, and we had 2 NES'es, it was all about the hookups on the TV and not wanting us to fight over the SNES like we did the NES (which is why we got 2). I actually have both of them now funny enough..and his SNES =P

Seriously though, this is just another tale in the "BC does matter!" saga. It doesn't matter to everyone obviously but it does matter to a lot of people.

Thanks for the anecdote, and thanks for informing customers.

It will be really interesting this Christmas to see how much BC affects sales.