don't get a wii, it's a substandard system with dreadful games. it's really nothing more than wireless gamecube

you will not believe how angry people get when you point this out.

I know people think I pick fights but I will seriously just say something like "nah, the Wii has nothing on it" and they will sputter and fume and be like SMASH BROTHERS AND MARIO GALAXY AND YOU'RE A FAGGOT LORD and it's really surprising because I don't see 360 owners or PS3 people (DONT EXIST) ever getting so mad at the same claim.

you'd think paying less would have made them not care as much if they wasted their money but no they are furious!!!

don't buy any new console although I've had decent times on a 360 before (but only with friends) that's my two cents.

I walked into Walmart one day and found one. And sold it on ebay.

Insider info doesn't work with the Wii right now.  I work at a very large electronics retailer.  When I see Wiis on the shelf, all I need to do is go to the restroom, and when I come out, the Wiis are gone.  That fast.

Nintendo has tapped into a completely different market.  The non-gamers.  They have successfully quintupled their possible user base, and thus they are having a hard time keeping stock up.  I hear they are expanding, actually building new assembly plants devoted to constructing Wiis.

I waited in front of my wal-mart (AKA My job) and camped out with all the other suckers and picked it up on 2006.

also we hi-jacked wal-marts power (thanks to the vending machines) and play all sorts of games GH2 and madden 07 in the fucking cold.

SMASH BROTHERS AND MARIO GALAXY AND YOU'RE A FAGGOT LORD

this exactly what people say when I tell them what games I hate

why oh why did I buy a wii?

Nintendo purposefully randomizes their shipments so it's literally a SURPRISE when a store gets them.  They don't want mobs at a store buying a fuckton just to turn around and sell on Ebay.  Speaking of which, faggots on ebay actually sell the system BY PIECE meaning you pay for the wii, the wiimote, the nunchuk, and the wii sports game SEPERATELY but as part of one large package which jacks the price up by 100 bux.

Anyways, I just want to say in this topic

FUCK THE WII

I bought it in December 06 (I walked in a store, asked for one, they had one, I bought it) and I bought Twilight Princess because I thought it would be cool.  Turns out Twilight Princess was a pretty sub-par Zelda game so I didn't touch my Wii until yesterday.  I bought Zak and Wiki because I heard it was an above average puzzle action game.  I put the disc in my Wii and... DISC NOT READING.  I put Zelda in my Wii and... DISC NOT READING.  I put Ikaruga in my Wii and... DISC NOT READING.  I download Paper Mario which works fine.  I try out all the Wii channels and the internet connection and they work fine.  

HOW THE FUCK, AFTER EXACTLY 12 HOURS OF GAMEPLAY IN THE COURSE OF A YEAR, DOES A FUCKING WII BREAK???!!!!  The thing was literally sitting in the original box, in a closet, for an entire year and it's broken after only 12 fucking hours of fucking gameplay.  People cause a shitstorm over the Xbox 360 for the red rings of death but I actually managed to get 2 years of almost nonstop playing from my Box before it broke and Nintendo's machine CRUMPLES after half a fucking day of playing?  

And the warranty expired before I learned of the 90 day extension which would have let me send the system in with 20 something days to spare.  Of course the warranty expires when the console breaks...

Thank you Nintendo for making a sub-par system and encouraging the release of sub-par games.  I hope you guys are happy with your money printing machine because I am seriously never buying another Nintendo product again.  I'm probably not even going to buy another videogame system again because faggots these days make cheapass products without even addressing the failure rate.

Nintendo purposefully randomizes their shipments so it's literally a SURPRISE when a store gets them.  They don't want mobs at a store buying a fuckton just to turn around and sell on Ebay.  Speaking of which, faggots on ebay actually sell the system BY PIECE meaning you pay for the wii, the wiimote, the nunchuk, and the wii sports game SEPERATELY but as part of one large package which jacks the price up by 100 bux.

Anyways, I just want to say in this topic

FUCK THE WII

I bought it in December 06 (I walked in a store, asked for one, they had one, I bought it) and I bought Twilight Princess because I thought it would be cool.  Turns out Twilight Princess was a pretty sub-par Zelda game so I didn't touch my Wii until yesterday.  I bought Zak and Wiki because I heard it was an above average puzzle action game.  I put the disc in my Wii and... DISC NOT READING.  I put Zelda in my Wii and... DISC NOT READING.  I put Ikaruga in my Wii and... DISC NOT READING.  I download Paper Mario which works fine.  I try out all the Wii channels and the internet connection and they work fine.  

HOW THE FUCK, AFTER EXACTLY 12 HOURS OF GAMEPLAY IN THE COURSE OF A YEAR, DOES A FUCKING WII BREAK???!!!!  The thing was literally sitting in the original box, in a closet, for an entire year and it's broken after only 12 fucking hours of fucking gameplay.  People cause a shitstorm over the Xbox 360 for the red rings of death but I actually managed to get 2 years of almost nonstop playing from my Box before it broke and Nintendo's machine CRUMPLES after half a fucking day of playing?  

And the warranty expired before I learned of the 90 day extension which would have let me send the system in with 20 something days to spare.  Of course the warranty expires when the console breaks...

Thank you Nintendo for making a sub-par system and encouraging the release of sub-par games.  I hope you guys are happy with your money printing machine because I am seriously never buying another Nintendo product again.  I'm probably not even going to buy another videogame system again because faggots these days make cheapass products without even addressing the failure rate.

Mine works just fine your must be defective.

Mine works just fine your must be defective.

The same can be said about the Xbox 360 and PS3.  Why is it that Nintendo has a stupid 12 month warranty while Microsoft offers a 36 month warranty?  The Wii is still as prone to failure as the 360 but since the 360 has been out for a year longer more people have found things wrong with the system.

I bet you all the contents of my wallet that by this summer there'll be a whole lot more people like me who have had the system break down on them.

I told myself never to buy a system at launch after the PS2 NOT READING BLUE BACK DISCS SRRY fiasco but when the only Wii in the entire county had a copy one month after the launch date I couldn't resist.

XBox 360 only has a 12 month warranty for most errors, too. The 36 month warranty is just for Red Ring of Death-related failures. And the 360 is way more prone to those particular breakdowns than either of the others--current estimates put it at about 1 in 3 of the early systems will break down, and 1 in 10 of the current board. But the suggestions I've heard suggest that the ones that are going to get RRoDs are going to do so in the first six months, so I doubt the extended warranty will make much of a difference anyway.

My informal research tells me that the 360 failure rate is actually somewhere closer to 200%.  My original unit died within a month, and its replacement has started to have difficulty accessing the hard drive and freezes often enough that I have stopped playing it (the last straw was last week, when I had played Blue Dragon for an hour and the unit froze during the save screen, I pretty much gave up on videogames in general forever).  I don't doubt it will fail again soon.  In the videogame podcasts I listen to, literally every host has had a 360 die on them, and many of them have had two or three units die.  Also, every (again, literally) friend of mine that owns a 360 has had a unit die on them, and in some cases, more than one.  Just thought I would clarify that.

I'm not sure why your Wii died, Marcus.  I imagine it's just unusually defective.  I have noticed that the Wii generates a shocking amount of heat just being plugged in and in standby mode (it's really, really disturbing), but since yours wasn't plugged in, I'm really surprised.

I'm just really angry right now because No More Heroes just came out, the store called me about my preorder, and I don't feel like running down to the wal-mart (which has 10 Wii's in stock... go figure) and spending another 250 bux on one.  I can still play all of my Wii Shop games but I read somewhere that you can't transfer those so if I buy a new Wii then I have to keep both of them around to play two separate games.

But I'm sick of today's failure rates for machines and it pretty much attributes to the moving parts.  My Atari from the mid 80s still works.  My front loading NES still works granted you have to slam the cartridge down and sacrifice a virgin in its name but it still plays.  I'm praying to whatever god wants to listen that the next generation of consoles eschews discs for straight up hard drive games.  A terrabyte hardrive is stupidly cheap these days (we're talking 400-500 bux depending on where you shop around).  In a year or two it'll be entirely possible to just create diskettes or something THAT DOESNT MOVE and downloads itself to a harddrive.  Not only would it load faster than a CD but a machine without moving parts would have half the failure rate as these cheap pieces of plastic junk companies are flinging around.

angry rant over.

I have noticed that the Wii generates a shocking amount of heat just being plugged in and in standby mode (it's really, really disturbing), but since yours wasn't plugged in, I'm really surprised.

My Wii is on standby right now and I'm surprised it hasn't melted the cords that are laying 10 feet away from it.  This thing is like a furnace.  No wonder they sell add-on fans for this thing

I'm just really angry right now because No More Heroes just came out, the store called me about my preorder, and I don't feel like running down to the wal-mart (which has 10 Wii's in stock... go figure) and spending another 250 bux on one.  I can still play all of my Wii Shop games but I read somewhere that you can't transfer those so if I buy a new Wii then I have to keep both of them around to play two separate games.

But I'm sick of today's failure rates for machines and it pretty much attributes to the moving parts.  My Atari from the mid 80s still works.  My front loading NES still works granted you have to slam the cartridge down and sacrifice a virgin in its name but it still plays.  I'm praying to whatever god wants to listen that the next generation of consoles eschews discs for straight up hard drive games.  A terrabyte hardrive is stupidly cheap these days (we're talking 400-500 bux depending on where you shop around).  In a year or two it'll be entirely possible to just create diskettes or something THAT DOESNT MOVE and downloads itself to a harddrive.  Not only would it load faster than a CD but a machine without moving parts would have half the failure rate as these cheap pieces of plastic junk companies are flinging around.

angry rant over.

My Wii is on standby right now and I'm surprised it hasn't melted the cords that are laying 10 feet away from it.  This thing is like a furnace.  No wonder they sell add-on fans for this thing

My wii is just fine in stand by mode what's more troublesome is the PS3 when it's running....let me put it this way a hobo can use it as the most Expensive portable heater Hell it might be a good thing if I every get kicked out.

But I'm sick of today's failure rates for machines and it pretty much attributes to the moving parts.  My Atari from the mid 80s still works.  My front loading NES still works granted you have to slam the cartridge down and sacrifice a virgin in its name but it still plays.  I'm praying to whatever god wants to listen that the next generation of consoles eschews discs for straight up hard drive games.  A terrabyte hardrive is stupidly cheap these days (we're talking 400-500 bux depending on where you shop around).  In a year or two it'll be entirely possible to just create diskettes or something THAT DOESNT MOVE and downloads itself to a harddrive.  Not only would it load faster than a CD but a machine without moving parts would have half the failure rate as these cheap pieces of plastic junk companies are flinging around.

Solid-state drives are the (near) future.

I will buy the A.B.M. console when you release it, for sure.

My wii is just fine in stand by mode what's more troublesome is the PS3 when it's running....let me put it this way a hobo can use it as the most Expensive portable heater Hell it might be a good thing if I every get kicked out.

You should try the XBox 360.  ​  In my old apartment, which had a tiny living room, turning on the 360 would make a legitimately noticeable change in room temperature.