So, who has their Wii?

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Went to target at 2am, chilled in the car until 4:30 and was 32nd in line out of 81 Wiis. Got mine with:

Zelda
Trauma Center: Second Opinion (oodles of fun!)
Super Monkey Ball
Extra Wiimote
Extra Nunchuk
2000 Wii Points

This thing rocks!! :bowdown: I went to my friends house and we had a Wii party, and we've noticed that you can't be too far from the TV, or the pointer isn't very accurate. I'm fine in my room with it since I'm pretty close.
 
I missed a PS3 purchase by 15 minutes, but I have my Wii. Hooked it up at lunch, configured the WiFi, and started downloading the updates and had to go back to work.

Zelda and Call of Duty were the only two titles that looked appealing today. Got some extra controllers but they were all out of chucks. *shruggs*

So what's up with the GameCube controller ports? I currently have it hooked up using the composite (stock rca) connection and the fuzziness looks horrible. Hoping they have a Component cable for some better visuals.
 
Zrow, I dont hate Zelda, I just dont care for it.

Foolkiller, no i dont care to swing my arms around unless im out at an arcade or something. But I am not juding the games, not once did i say the games suck. They just "appeal" to me. I look at the genre, the type of game it is. I enjoyed Soul Reaver more than any Zelda game. A dark grown up game and one of the coolest long running stories and some of the best voice acting in gaming history IMO.
 
LaBounti
He (Pako)basically did the same thing yet you did not in-validate his statement.
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I didn't know if he played the Wii games or not so I didn't put on my GTP Snitch hat on (that hat is a running GTPremium joke, so you probably won't get it) in his case.

Event
This thing rocks!! I went to my friends house and we had a Wii party, and we've noticed that you can't be too far from the TV, or the pointer isn't very accurate. I'm fine in my room with it since I'm pretty close.
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Really? Sometimes I have to sit back from my TV since the pointer wasn't reading correctly. But then again, I was originally sitting about 3 feet in front of it.
 
I believe they say you should be about 4 ft or more from it. I know hte pointer can work through walls, as I rememer someone's cursor flying across the screen in WiiSports when they were out of the room.
 
Duċk;2488553
Congrats! Whatchya think of it?
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Wii Sports is really fun, and can be quite a workout if you aren't a toolbox (warning, there's an AUP-violating word there). Excite Truck is great, too. I even rented Call of Duty 3, and even though it's a pretty bad port (the graphics are the worst I've seen on the Wii so far, excusing Wii Sports' simplicity), the point-and-go gameplay is still more fun than any console first-person-shooter I've ever played. I can't wait to see what a good FPS is like on the Wii. ;)

FoolKiller
I cannot tell you whether Excite Truck or GT Pro Series are fun games.
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I can help with part of that:

https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showpost.php?p=2489494&postcount=2
 
Omnis
Bam.

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Bah. Here's the real deal for ya --

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Zrow
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.
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WHich is why I have Gamefly. I have a feeling I will be upgrading my account after a get a Wii.

Event
This thing rocks!! :bowdown: I went to my friends house and we had a Wii party, and we've noticed that you can't be too far from the TV, or the pointer isn't very accurate. I'm fine in my room with it since I'm pretty close.
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I'm supposed to go to one of these Friday. The guy has a projector and a 100" screen but we can't use it because the sensor bar cord is too short. :ouch: Oh well, we have other TVs to use.

LaBounti
Foolkiller, no i dont care to swing my arms around unless im out at an arcade or something.
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You sound like I did up until a few months ago. I honestly believe that it is something you should try before making a judgement just because it is new and different. Besides, I love the arcade, they are just too expensive anymore.
 
I agree with Duck...

And I have to say thats kinda pigheaded of you LaBounti. Like judging a book for its cover.
 
Well, after a couple of days...putting Wii through the ringer, I can honestly say that given the graphical decencies, I find the Wii to be very entertaining with plenty of entertainment value. Graphically is as I expected it to be. A different connector other than an RCA style composite will yield much better results I feel. S-video minimum, but I'm hoping to see some Component output adapters for 480p playback which should clean things up nicely for the Wii. Everyone is having a blast playing it. I even duked it out with my 2 year daughter today. She pounded be to the ground! ;)

Well, back to Zelda.
 
LaBounti
I made my opinions from day one. I'd play it but its not something i want to own.
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And I thought that the fuzzy brown fruit with a green center known as a kiwi looked sigusting, and then I ate one.

You are free to do what you want but I suggest you try it out. Perhaps it would be more appealing if you had a family that you wanted to get into video games with you. That's my thing is that my dad wants to play Madden with me but can't handle all the buttons either because he mixes them up or his huge thumbs hit two at once. He can swing a controller (well, once we determine how his rotator cuff handles it).

Another example would be Pako getting his butt kicked at boxing by his two-year-old. A young child can understand a punching motion much better than button combinations. It levels the playing field for those who would otherwise be a button masher (which means they will quit choosing Eddy Gordo in Tekken).

Pako
I even duked it out with my 2 year daughter today. She pounded be to the ground! ;)
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HA HA!

Well, back to Zelda.
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Run away! Run away!

We'll see who's laughing after I get mine and my wife kicks my butt.
 
Hey, I said i would try it, just not buy it. And I never judged anything, where are you guys getting this from?. Its the genre and type of games I'm not interetsed in. You cant force someone to want to play something they know they dont want to. Its not just the Wii or its games.
 
LaBounti
Hey, I said i would try it, just not buy it. And I never judged anything, where are you guys getting this from?. Its the genre and type of games I'm not interetsed in. You cant force someone to want to play something they know they dont want to. Its not just the Wii or its games.
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Well I tried presenting you with games in the genre you presented and your response was that you don't want to swing your arms around. FRrom that I made the mistake of assuming where you were coming from since I used that exact same statement a couple of months ago.

I may have been mistaken. I apologize. We all know what happens when you assume.
 
Wii Sports was a hit among my extended family at our Thanksgiving get-together. :) So far, Nintendo's mission has been a success on my end.
 
I agree. I even got my mom to bowl some strikes!!! It was cool for sure.
 
I was not planning to get a Wii at first, but looking at it now, I will give Nintendo a chance to get back into my gaming mind, since the Wii seems good for different events in the calendar.
 
I've heard this phrase so many times..."aw man, I gotta get one of these!" I even heard it once from someone who was doing nothing more than creating their Mii, and hadn't even played a game yet. :lol:

Wii Sports was a huge hit with all of my friends last night. We played in my rich asian friend's basement, where there's a big-screen TV and lots of room to swing the tennis racket/baseball bat/boxing gloves/etc. like crazy.

I can't wait for more "real" games to come out, considering how good a simplistic and shallow game like Wii Sports turned out.
 
For those of you who already own a Wii, and can't wait to browse the internet, check this out:

http://www.feelthissite.com/sitedude/wii/forums/viewtopic.php?p=579#579
I even made a video of it -- http://media.putfile.com/GTP-Wii

The whole process revolves around the Wii Shop channel. Because it uses the internet, some networking wiz kids found a way to reroute the Wii to the "real" internet.

To put it into simple terms, by using a couple of networking programs I had to download, the Wii is tricked into thinking my PC is the Wii Shop channel. When the Wii connects to my computer, my computer then redirects the Wii to a server some guy set up, which is programmed to set up those "Back," "Forward," "Reload," and "Google" buttons as you guys can see.

From there, I'm free to do almost anything, but a lot of flash/javascript/etc stuff doesn't work yet, because the Wii Shop channel browser software is really basic -- as you can see in my video, I can't log in to GTP for some reason. Probably has to do with the proxy server I set up, or the server that guy is running.

Also, as you can see, the text box doesn't always come up right away, particularly on any password text boxes I've tried. Furthermore, on the forums where I have gotten the whole thing to work, I'm limited to a small bit of text while posting, because the javascript for the textbox was never meant to input that much text.

Oh well. This'll do for now.
 
Wii was released today in Germany and I got one... I could get over 400 $ on ebay though, so I really think about selling it. You know, I don't really need it right now anyway, but... I mean 200$ is a nice sum of money for 30 min waiting in front of a shop, 5 min in front of the computer for ebay and 10 min of bringing it to the post office...
 
Got my Wii yesterday with Twilight Princess. Wolfe, GT Pro Series isn't out here yet either it seems, so I have to wait to get my copy. :( I've nearly beat the first temple in Zelda now, such a fun game.
 
My brother got his Wii yesterday and we picked it up for him. There was hardly anyone at the store actually, but it was apparently much busier earlier...

The console is actually pretty good. The controls are very accurate when you callibrate them properly, which was surprising. The movement in the game, especially Wii Sports, it very good. I was having a go on Baseball and I hit the ball several times on my first try. Everyone else struggled. :lol: With Red Steel, though, they seemed quite fiddly, even after a lot of adjusting the sensitivity, so that game is getting returned to the store ASAP.

The graphics are average - as I was expecting. But it doesn't matter, as with the Wii it's the gameplay that counts, not the graphics. The Zedla's seems extremely good, but it isn't my type of game.
 
the wii was released in Australia yesterday, might have to wait til i can get it down here unless i go to Adelaide, which i'm not:(
 
In longterm the Wii kind of sucks IMO... Ok we have the first class Nintendo Inhouse games, a hand full at least, and a great Wiimote/Nunchuck. Awesome for multiplayer, but honestly, in 2008 I'll play 3rd(4th) generation Xbox360 games and 2nd(3rd) generation PS3 games on 1080P with Dolby 5,1... what else do wii have ? Bad textures, low performance of the day before yesterday and low res without effects... Wohooo...not...

EDIT : Note that I am not a graphics fanatic, I still play SNES/SFC and I enjoy it, but I would have preferred to pay500 or 600 bucks for high end performance instead of 250 for this average machine.
I know that fun is not directly related to hardware performance, but it helps a lot to increase the intensity of the atmosphere etc.... and as much as I like Mario and such, I think it was a totally wrong decision of Nintendo. For me at least, maybe not for Nintendo and their business...

You know I just don't want to play Egoshooters or Racing games on this machine, why should I if I can get High Def and 10 times more moving objects and whatnot on 360 and PS3 ? Sure multiplayer parties and Nintendo games liek MArio - I'll be there and I'll have a lot of fun. But I can't see myself buying a multiplatform game for Wii....
 

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