Poll – bigger reason to buy a Wii?
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 at 3:54pm by DavidWe discussed the recent news about Wii Sports being the highest selling video game of all time on this week’s podcast. The following question came up, so we ask:
Which was a bigger reason for you to buy a Wii?
January 6th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
Wii Sports is what convinced my wife that video games could be accessible and fun for anyone, but I wanted a Wii system for more than just that game.
January 6th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
I bought the wii for the Wii, but most of the people I know that have the Wii only have Wii Sports and have thought about getting Wii Fit or Wii Play. Oddly, none of them seem to care about the price for Wii Fit. Though, unlike me, most of my friends are casual gamers. What is also weird is that I have never heard them talk about Wii Music.
January 6th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
Well, of course I bought the Wii for the system itself, as most of the people who visit this blog most likely did!
But I believe most of the people who have bought a Wii do not have a line of separation in their mind between WiiSports and the system itself.
January 6th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
For me it was Twilight Princess, Melee, and Galaxy.
January 6th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
I bought it expecting great baseball, basketball and football games in the future. The last Madden was pretty decent, but still waiting for a great baseball and basketball game that can only be played on the Wii.
January 6th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
I almost need an option for both, because I can’t decide/remember what really put me over the edge with the system. I liked seeing wii sports, I liked the motion controls, which really haven’t done as much as the pointer itself has but I also knew there would be all of my favorite games on it.
January 6th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
the reader of this site is a nonrandom, self-selected sample which i would expect to skew towards greater and broader wii software use than the average blue ocean consumer.
January 6th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
I little late of a question don’t cha think?
P.S: I bought it for Twilight
January 6th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
Bought the Wii for Wii Sports and the eventual games that I will be needing for the console.
January 7th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
Truthfully I bought the Wii for Wii sports and I’m a hardcore gamer. The difference is I’ve been playing since the 2600 so I grew up with arcades and the Wii sports was the first arcade game I’ve seen in pure form in a while. This is all I want is skill based games that I actually want to play. The only thing I think they missed was letting the hardcore put in a code to change the rules and allow more time to play some games. People love this stuff.
Example: the laser hockey game was great yet the match would be over in minutes. I really wanted to let the game go to a hundred. Games like that take lots of practice and as long as my brother has a chance to win we would have kept playing it thus he could get good at it. The game show cased the controller way more than any of the other launch games but they never gave you the change to truly let you cater the game to your self.
Laser hockey is pong evolved and very hard to control yet the most exciting. It also came with the system. With out this game people wouldn’t be hoping for better games, yet it needed a little more freedom.
I understand they wanted to be accessible to the new gamers but if only they let the hardcore use a leader board or at least tweak the rules so we can play longer or even change the lay out of the board. The real gamers are very easy to please.
Mario kart on the Wii did this , leader board, choices based on skill level and Wii music illustrated why you need to give the hardcore games these options. Had they let us use our own midi’s this could have become the you tube of music because even professional use midi’s to this day. Hey it did not need a full sequencer yet the ability to play your own music or midi’s you can find extends the value to every one.
I hope they think about this stuff and release the Wii resort with these same games with the features or options to play how you want and just have fun which is the point.
The funny thing is all of the hardcore played this game yet we got bored because some times it did not take skill to play.