Will Wii Rock You

posted by Jaitu at 21:39

I fixed the Banner (hours ago). It seems the Blogger preview is a lot more forgiving of randomly inserted characters than the browser is.

Anyway, Kahoona7 should be coming over tomorrow night to show off his Wii. The Nintendo Wii is a console I'm very interested in and will definately be the next one I purchase (when stocks allow). I respect the decision by Nintendo to bow out of the console arms race and take a new direction. I've never been a fan of any particular camp, I still have an original Playstation, a Dreamcast, a pair of XBoxes and a brace of Nintendo DSes. It's fair to say that I have never been a particularly early adopter though. The Playstation was bought second hand a couple of years after launch, I made the decision to buy a Dreamcast after reading that Sega was discontinuing production. My first Xbox followed the console's first price drop and the second was a year after that. The DSes, in fact, were puchased nearest their launch when I picked them up in Melbourne two years ago. Of all these machines the XBox is the format that sees the most use although if I had to pick I would probably say that the Dreamcast and the DSes are my favourites. This is probably as a result of my own perception of them as underdogs. Arguably so is the XBox but with Microsoft behind it it seems hard to think of it that way. The Dreamcast was a generally underrated machine in my opinion.
The DSes have taken a while to hit their stride but anything that can turn maths into a bestseller has to be something special.

Why was I writing this? I don't remember and don't know where I was going with it anyway.

So the Wii next.
It's small enough that I don't need to lose a device from shelves to make space for it. I don't need to upgrade my TV to HD for it. I don't need to find a way to squeeze another digital signal into my amp. It offers new play experiences. Okay so it doesn't have the latest graphic capabilities and it doesn't do surround sound and it doesn't have the computational capacity to model the Earth's weather systems in realtime. Does it need those things to deliver entertaining and involving gameplay? I don't think so.

I'll let you know what I think of the Wii though. I'll also try and convince Kahoona7 to give a more in depth review as a real owner of the thing. Dean too. He got one on launch day (along with every other console ever released it would seem). So we'll try and coax something out of him - assuming he hasn't already exhausted all the Wii puns over at his other job.