So, who has their Wii?

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DuckRacer

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I do. :D






What I have...
  • Nintendo Wii
  • Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
  • ExciteTruck
  • Rayman Raving Rabbids
  • Extra Wii-mote
  • Second Nintendo Wii for eBay

If anyone was crazy enough to do the midnight launch, or if they went first thing this morning to get it, tell us!

BTW, that leaked list for the amount of Wiis at each Target was 100% accurate. And I was the third-to-last person to get one, out of 111 Wiis.



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A friend of mine got his at midnight, though I have yet to visit and see him (Was dead tired after yesterday). He does not have TP yet, as his sister bought it for him as a gift. I imagine he'll get it later this week.
 
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You got an extra wiimote but no nunchuck? Fool!

Man, this sucks. I went to get mii a wii at Target, and they ran out. How can 100 Wiis get snatched up so quickly? This SUCKS.
 
Guy I know got 3 extra wiimotes, but no nunchuck. Because they are OUT. Apparently those are in short supply :(
 
Omnis
You got an extra wiimote but no nunchuck? Fool!
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They were out of them, and it doesn't help I was third-to-last in line.

And besides, the extra Wiimote is for my mom for Wii Sports and ExiteTruck and such. It's not like she'll be playing Zelda or Red Steel or anything.

Man, this sucks. I went to get mii a wii at Target, and they ran out. How can 100 Wiis get snatched up so quickly? This SUCKS.
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Well, my Target was supposed to get 111 (and they did), and they were all sold out in an hour. The other Target near me only got 33.
 
I'm not convinced that those pictures are authentic. I want to see some feathers around the boxes. :P

Have fun with your Wii!
 
CONGRATS DUCK!!! have fun with that thing. i always liked Nintendo systems....

but in the meanwhile, i'll still have fun with my PS2 :D
 
Sold your Wii yet?

You know, if you were a premium memb3r, you could sell it on GTP......to me. ;)

Oh wait, you are a premium member.
 
Pako
Sold your Wii yet?

You know, if you were a premium memb3r, you could sell it on GTP......to me. ;)

Oh wait, you are a premium member.
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Nope, my mom made me list it as a 7-day auction. If you want the link to it so you can start bidding or buy it (I have a Buy It Now option for it), just PM me. :)
 
LOL, nice. $600 seems a little out of control. I went to Best buy after Church they had just sold the last one about an hour before. They took 4 hours to sell out according to the BB employee. The launch titles are definitely better equipped than say....other consoles at launch day.

Graphically, what's your impression? What would you compare it to? Game play?
 
Pako
LOL, nice. $600 seems a little out of control. I went to Best buy after Church they had just sold the last one about an hour before. They took 4 hours to sell out according to the BB employee. The launch titles are definitely better equipped than say....other consoles at launch day.

Graphically, what's your impression? What would you compare it to? Game play?
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Graphically, well, like other people said around the internet, the Wii is only slightly more powerful than the original Xbox. Zelda looks pretty good, same thing with ExciteTruck. They're definitely not "next-gen", no hi-res textures, or extremely good modeling, or other features found in 360/PS3 games. However, I'm using composite cables on an HDTV, so when the component cables come out it'll definitely be looking pretty darn good.

As for gameplay, well, all I can do is :eek:. Wii Sports is pretty amazing. Tennis is very, very fun, even without the ability to move your character (so you just swing at the ball). Baseball is pretty interestng. When you have the pitcher throwing the ball at you, and then you swing at it, it's a sweet experience, kinda like when you do that type of thing at an arcade. It's kind of hard to not hit it into foul territory, and when I hit it into fair territory, the AI either catches the ball or... it catches the ball. It's pretty tricky. Otherwise, everything else isn't really like "WOW, that's sweet". Just generic, and it seems like it was made to showcase the Wiimote's abilities.

Zelda is amazing. Maybe it's really the first time I seriously played a Zelda game, but in all serious it's just 👍 👍. Words just fail me.

ExciteTruck is severely underrated. If I played it with a normal controller, it'd be boring just twiddling a thumbstick. It's a great blast to play, tilting your controller to turn, boosting over a large hill, etc etc. It reminds me of Hydro Thunder that you see at game arcades; the graphics aren't really impressive, and you'd easily get sick of it after several hours of play, but when you do play it, you have so much fun it's not really all that humorous.

I haven't played Rayman or some of the Wii Sports titles yet (Bowling and Boxing), nor have I tried the online functionality, nor have I tried the GameCube backward compatibility. But really, here's my quick summation: it's like an upgraded GameCube with a killer controller. It doesn't seem last-gen, but it doesn't seem next-gen either. I think 4-5 years from now, the Wii will either be a massive success like the DS or it'll be a total failure.
 
Thanks Duck, sounds like a fair summary and pretty much what I expected. ;)
 
Pako
LOL, nice. $600 seems a little out of control. I went to Best buy after Church they had just sold the last one about an hour before. They took 4 hours to sell out according to the BB employee. The launch titles are definitely better equipped than say....other consoles at launch day.

Graphically, what's your impression? What would you compare it to? Game play?
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Hmm have to dissagree and I havent played any of the games. The taste factor comes into play. All the games seem less game cube like and more DS like. Not really a gameplay factor but the types of games. Really corny games that make the system seem more like a toy than a game console. But thats what I think.
 
I got mine this morning. Stayed up all night partying with friends, ended up never going to sleep, and drove out at about 6:00am to various stores until I found one that had less people waiting in line than there were available Wiis. Strangely enough, the only place that met that criterion was Best Buy, which was precisely the last place I was expecting to have a chance at. :lol: I waited in line, and ended up being the 68th out of 99 consoles.

Now I have the Wii, Wii Sports, Excite Truck, and two WiiMotes with two Nunchucks. I also rented Call of Duty 3 just to get a taste of a Wii first-person-shooter.
 
LaBounti
Hmm have to dissagree and I havent played any of the games. The taste factor comes into play. All the games seem less game cube like and more DS like. Not really a gameplay factor but the types of games. Really corny games that make the system seem more like a toy than a game console. But thats what I think.
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The part I bolded just made your opinion invalid. You haven't tried any of these game. Once you play them, you might think they're okay. You might think they suck. You might think they're the best launch games ever. But to judge an entire launch line-up by it's look is foolish.
Zrow
Wait, I must have missed something. Why are you selling your Wii?
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It's a second Wii for eBay purposes. ;)
Wolfe
I got mine this morning. Stayed up all night partying with friends, ended up never going to sleep, and drove out at about 6:00am to various stores until I found one that had less people waiting in line than there were available Wiis. Strangely enough, the only place that met that criterion was Best Buy, which was precisely the last place I was expecting to have a chance at. :lol: I waited in line, and ended up being the 68th out of 99 consoles.

Now I have the Wii, Wii Sports, Excite Truck, and two WiiMotes with two Nunchucks. I also rented Call of Duty 3 just to get a taste of a Wii first-person-shooter.
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Congrats! Whatchya think of it?
 
Duċk;2488553
The part I bolded just made your opinion invalid. You haven't tried any of these game. Once you play them, you might think they're okay. You might think they suck. You might think they're the best launch games ever. But to judge an entire launch line-up by it's look is foolish.
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He (Pako)basically did the same thing yet you did not in-validate his statement. I was browsing the Wii line up today and the same feeling i got browsing the 360 launch line up hit me. "I really dont want to buy this console for any of these games". I dont have to play the games to make a counter point to someone elses opinion, nothing worng with dissagreeing.
 
Racing games, action rpgs, classic shooter side and top down. And a few other games that cant really be catigorized. Katamari, guitar Hero

Anything else is just something i wanted to try. I'm not the type that buys or has to play every new game that comes out thats hyped up and gets 9's across the board, if it doesnt interest me (Gears of War) I wont buy but I may try it. I didnt play Halo until mid 2003 and i didnt miss anything. I gave up on zelda after the ocorina of time. I grew up but mario didnt. People Hate ridge Racer, I love it. Editors hate acton Rpgs, I love them.

PS2 about 28 gmes
PS1 about 11 games owned
PSP 12 games owned
PC P4 7900GS can play all games at 720p. 44 games owned +1000's of roms
Xbox 360 3 games owned and the system was gift other wise i wouldnt have one.
Xbox collects dust but 16 games owned

Nothing on the Wii interests me in the same manner nothing for DS interets me, its about taste. i've lived 20 years of gaming without the wiimote and thats all it has going for it and I can live without it or its graphics.
 
Who has one? Mii, I do now :D and I love it and Zelda is kicking serious @$$, I'm part way thru the forest temple and loving the crazy monkeys and their orangatan @$$3@, OMG that is funny! Wii sports is fun too, like smacking around my trainer..*oops* lolz.

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LaBounti, I think your error was judging the games without having played them. I can agree with you on the fact that the launch titles for the 360 don't make you want to run out and buy it. You have played games with that same type of system and know what you are looking for. Neither the 360 or the PS3 have put out their killer app as of yet (Halo 3 and GT: whatever, respectively).

The problem with judging the Wii without playing it is that it is completely different. You like action RPGs, but have you played them where you physically swing your sword? Have you played nearly all of your shooters where you have a light gun, but you aren't on a rail system?

This is the issue, You judged games without trying what is basically an entirely new form of gameplay. You like action RPGs; have you tried Marvel Ultimate Alliance on the Wii? I look forward to slashing Wolverines claws with my own hands or shooting Spiderman's webs with my own hand. It's a third party game, is it still a toy instead of a game?

I also look forward to trying Red Steel where I will aim like a light gun and then switch to a sword and wield it with my hand.

I also want to throw my ball in Madden and lunge forward to make a tackle.

I look forward to what sounds like a new way to play a game. I also accept that I might decide it is gimicky and just switch to these games on a PS3.

I can judge my first impression of other next-gen games because it is the same thing as before, just updated. One look at GT5 screens and videos will tell me whether I will be drooling to get it or thinking that Forza 2 might be a better option because I have played previous versions of both. I cannot tell you whether Excite Truck or GT Pro Series are fun games.
 
I've heard Red Steel ain't worth it. I don't even want to play it, because from what I've read, the Wii is capable of better and I don't want it to sour my opinion of it.


Madden, on the other hand... 👍
 

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