On a weekend, the worst case scenario is that there is nothing for you to do. All of your friends are busy, you are finished with all of the games that you own, there’s not even any members of your family at home to play a game with, and you want to do something other than resting, or sleeping, or just being bored. The new Nintendo Wii is the solution. Playing the Wii involves moderate exercise along with motion sensor technology. The basic game Wii Sports comes with your Wii and you can play other games including games you may have played on a Nintendo Gamecube, Nintendo’s previous system. Obviously the Wii is very useful.
What does a Wii have that other systems don’t? A PlayStation 3 costs $550 and doesn’t provide any exercise at all. The XBOX360 does not provide any exercise either. Wii Sports includes many sports such as baseball, allowing you to swing or pitch the baseball. If you like tennis, you can run around, serve and whack the tennis ball. On the other hand, if you are a boxer, you can use the Wii remote and Nunchuk as punching gloves to fight an opponent. And if you think you know a lot about golf, try Wii golf which includes several different kinds of clubs, large golf courses and the fun of golfing, and more.
In other systems, when you play sports games you just sit on a couch using a controller. I admit what Wii offers isn’t REAL exercise, but it is better than sitting down and exercising nothing but your fingers. I also admit the Wii costs $250, but that’s half the price of a PlayStation3, not to mention it includes the $100 Gamecube inside it. The Wii is sort of a double system in this way. Being a similar system the Gamecube also has a DDR (DanceDanceRevolution, a game that IS real exercise) game, which unfortunately, is not provided by the Wii, but since the Wii has a Gamecube inside it, you can still use DDR. In that way it can save you money if you have never gotten a Gamecube before, or you can continue using your Gamecube with no major inconvenience. This saves money so that if you want to play a particular Gamecube game, and you have a Wii, you don’t need to purchase a Gamecube.
Why should you get a Wii? As I mentioned earlier, the Wii includes a lot of benefits, but for some, that is not enough. If you are tired, Wii has games you can play while sitting down. Its new game, “WarioWare: Smooth Moves,” has new ways of holding the Wii remote, such forms as the elephant, waiter, chauffer, handlebar, remote control, sketch artist, finger food, dumbbell, boxer, and many more positions with explanations and a joke, pun, or funny remark mixed in with the explanation. There is also the upcoming sequel to the popular series “Super Smash Bros.” This is a popular game for those who don’t even care for Nintendo systems. And besides, since the cheapest PS3 costs $499, and the upgraded version is $599, the Wii is clearly more affordable. These are all reasons of why you should get a Wii.
Such a system must be in high demand so you may ask how fast are they produced? Financial firm UBS has stated that Wii production will exceed the predicted quota of 6 million [systems] by year’s end. Nintendo is either very efficient or very popular, enabling a buildup of 11 million Wiis by the end of the calendar year as compared to only 500,000 PS3s on launch. Sony must be struggling since they only predicted four million and dropped down to 2.4 million. I personally think that Nintendo’s Wii will succeed beyond many prognosticators’ beliefs, especially those of who are confident in Sony’s progress.
Clearly the Wii has everything that a gaming system can be expected to have. I admit it DOES COST $250 and it DOES NOT have nearly the graphics of newer systems. But those systems don’t have nearly the features of the Wii, which gives not only exercise but access to unique games. Game play, exercise, and successful, efficient production make the Wii a worthwhile purchase.
~ Chris Wiseman