I’m about an hour away from beating Super Mario Galaxy, and as soon as this Chargers game ends I’m going to finish it up. Excellent Mario game, absolutely no complaints.
After I’m done beating it, I’m going to trade my Wii into Gamestop for an Xbox 360. Yep, I’m doing it. Even though it’s impossible to find a new Wii to buy here and 360s are a dime a dozen. Why?
- Before Super Mario Galaxy, I hadn’t even played my Wii since I beat Zelda in January.
- Looking to the future, there are no Wii games coming out that I am remotely interested in.
- Rock Band. Enough said.
- All my friends have 360’s, and the social experience of the 360 is a lot more entertaining.
- Downloads, game demos, previews, mini arcade games.
- Achievements!
- Xbox live, standings, etc.
- Other than Rock Band, I can think of at least 5 other games that I’d love to play.
- Perhaps having a 360 will encourage me to buy a nice HDTV to display it on.
The only unfortunate thing is that I *just* bought Guitar Hero III for Wii a few weeks ago. I’m pretty sure that Gamestop won’t take a returned Wiitar, so I’ll probably just get credit for the game itself. I’d much rather have GH for the 360 anyway, because of the achievements and the downloadable song packs. I have never purchased a single Virtual Console game (if I wanted to play those games, I’d probably just use an emulator online) and the social aspect of the Wii is awful. XBL, here I come!
Tami Baribeau is the Associate Producer for Metaplace, Inc, currently working on Island Life. She is also the Lead Editor of feminist gaming blog The Border House, and the National Facebook Games Examiner for Examiner.com. She can be reached on Twitter or by email.
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Congratulations, you have just learned a very valuable lesson about Nintendo game platforms.
My girl and I were having a discussion earlier today while watching t.v. ads about various video games. I’ve seen PS3 games I want to play (Assassin’s Creed being high on that list), Wii games that look interesting (mario, among others), and 360 games that I would love to try (Mass Effect, Halo). I can’t figure out which system I would rather go with. The Wii seems more fun-oriented and the kids would like it. The 360 seems like it would be interesting, and more gamer oriented, with some solid titles. And Sony already has my loyalty, as I’ve owned both of the other playstations, along with spending a lot of time with EQ. I’m so torn that I almost want to buy them all, but having time to play multiple consoles along with an MMO just doesn’t seem possible. I guess I’ll have to see what you have to say abou the 360 once you get it, as you make the Wii sound like a waste of money.
My XBL tag is hallower1980. Most of my 360 games are single-player, but maybe we can play Halo co-op or an arcade game sometime.
The Wii really is an amazing platform, but I think they might be losing some momentum finally. Like you I don’t see anything else coming out any time soon that I want (although the Wii Zapper looks fun). I see myself transitioning to a 360 pretty soon.
I use my son’s Xbox Live account — he named his after his EQ2 character, Scurvsnicker. Check us out on Rock Band, Guitar Hero 2 and Lost Planet (his game…)
Traditionally, since the N64, Nitnendo’s 3rd Party support has been shaky at best, due to stubborness in SKUs and insistance on backasswards media formats. This 1st year has had its share of great games, but not enough really, just like the 360’s 1st year, and similarly this PS3’s 1st year.
No doubt the 360 is the more core gaming oriented console, but I think you could see a huge increase of those type of games on the Wii over the next year. Development on nearly all fronts has shifted to the Wii. Even Carmack of iD is now on board with Nintendo’s new market approach. This 1st year has been great for sales, but to continue doing gangbusters they’ll need the games from not only the 1st Party side, but 3rd Parties as well… and that means more than shitty party games for us core gamers.
I’m certainly not giving up on my Wii yet, especially with Smash Bros. less than 3 months away. Next Xmas season, when all consoles are on their 2nd or better year, will be the truly deciding holiday. I wonder if the Wii will ever be a core gaming system, but I highly doubt it’s reign of sales is going to be over anytime soon. It may be distancing us, but it’s bringing tons of new people in at the same time at an alarming rate.
It’ll be interesting to watch at the very least.
Oh, and I want a 360, too. Someone remind my wife for me.
You couldnt have made a better decision, now go get Mass Effect
Oh an Cuppy dont forget my decision back in July, I havent looked back at all
http://wifeagro.blogspot.com/2007/07/pc-vs-console-gaming-argument.html
Bah:( I wished you lived closer. I would totally trade you our 360… it has barely been used! I want a Wii so bad:(
You know I felt the same way, my significant other and I picked up a 360 right before Halo 3 came out to complement our Wii and it has worked out very well. The Wii is primarily used for all of the Nintendo titles and little else, the 360 on the other hand gets a lot of use with games like Bioshock, Beautiful Katamari and others. I have to say I am jealous of your RockBanding and GuitarHeroing I havn’t been able to find a copy for weeks in my area.
Thank god. I’m happy to see you finally come to your senses, and I look forward to reviews of your Xbox experiences.
I’ve been contemplating doing the same thing. I still haven’t beaten Zelda, about 35 hrs into it and haven’t touched Paper Mario. Just not into the Wiimote as much as I thought I would be and with the PS3 and Xbox down in price, I should be able to get either for basically free.
I don’t have any of the newer consoles because I’m kind of feeling ‘meh’ about them. I would like an xbox360, but with all the hardware issues that aren’t resolved yet … hell no. My brother-in-law already had three die on him.
http://sweetflag.wordpress.com/2007/12/26/spore-sides-with-the-wii/
Wii may get Spore over XBOX/PS3…