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wallace123456 · Joined: 14 Aug 2006 Posts: 2236 Location: Northwest VA area

Anyone looking to buy a Nintendo Wii? Check your local Sams or Costco.

I just picked one up for $249.00. It has 1 controller and 5 sports games.

wallace

MYoung · Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Posts: 369 Location: Madison, WI

Hats off to Nintendo for actually making money off each console they sell! That said, I really wish it was HDTV capable and not just EDTV. That's one of the reasons I sold my Wii and later bought a Xbox 360. There's a lot of untapped potential with the Wii thanks to the Wii remote. I wonder what Nintendo is going to do for their next gen console.

WanMan · Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 10273

How could they not make money? There ain't much in the way of new technology in it, and its SD only.

MYoung · Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Posts: 369 Location: Madison, WI

I'd call the Wii remote pretty revolutionary, if not for the technology, for the risk Nintendo took in putting it in a mainstream system. Had they put more horsepower in the system I'd probably still own one. To be fair, it is EDTV, not SDTV, and it has a widescreen setting. Hmm, maybe I can pawn some of my 1031Qs to local Wii nerds!

I want to see a sequel to 007 Goldeneye for the Wii that makes good use of the Wii remote! I'd settle for the N64 era graphics so long as the frame rate stayed high for 4 player split-screen. Red Steel was pretty disappointing.

WanMan · Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 10273

Still, I am talking component costs. What is in the Wii that is expensive?

ronholm · Joined: 26 Jan 2007 Posts: 12111

ecrabb · Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 9:38 pm Post subject:

It's obviously a very personal/taste thing, because the Wii/culture/games/look and feel just don't interest me at all. The whole thing is just a little too pre-teen/cutesie or something. Sorry, Ron! Wink

I've tried playing it a few times, and it seems like the novelty of the Wiimote wears off pretty fast, and then I'm bored. Give me Halo 3 in 1080p with mind-blowing graphics and surround sound. Give me Forza 2 Motorsports and let me drive around Road Atlanta in a Z06. Exciting stuff. Baseball? Boxing? Tennis? Meh. I can do those things for real.

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MYoung · Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Posts: 369 Location: Madison, WI

I want the best of both worlds. I want a Wii remote like controller with the 1080p graphics. Think of the possibilities for FPS games! If the controller refreshed fast enough the positioning of the controller could be reflected on the screen, say of a gun. That's just too cool! It will be interesting to see where Nintendo goes with this in their next gen console and if $ony and M$ rip-off the idea on their current or next gen systems.

Hell, forget this console crap. Get a bunch of ECE and CS geeks to build high quality Wii remote like controllers for PCs and make custom games! That would be cool. It's probably happening on some college campus right now.