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[uzumakishade]

what are your top 10 reasons for buying the wii? here are mine (in no particular order)

10. Virtual Console - all your favorite classics on 1 system? who wouldn't want it
9. Controller - really gets you into the game
8. Exercise - sounds stupid but makes my mom happy as she says i always play too many games at least this way i can do both
7. Free Online - everyone likes things for free, and Nintendo knows this
6. WiiConnect24 - love the idea of downloadable content and ds demos downloaded straight to your system
5. Wii - DS Connectivity - cool idea how the ds can be a controller for games like Pokemon and you can transfer items/characters from a ds version to a wii version of the game
4. The Price - $280 (CDN) is not bad at all and very affordable by many gamers compared to the $600 price tag of ps3 (not that bad a price for what is packaged with it)
3.Sleek Design - i love the design of the wii and know it will last because it was made by Nintendo
2.Game Line-up - i have just 3 titles to mention Zelda, Super Smash Brawl, and Super Mario Galaxy 'nuff said
1. Extra features for the controller- even theyre little things like built in speaker and rumble, it makes you feel that much more "in" the game

[felix]

wiimote!

[DeVS]

1: Nintendo made it
2: Wii Mote!!!
3: Virtual Console
4: Zelda

[sneef]

1. innovative controls
2. Nintendo heritage
3. zelda twilight princess with those innovative controls
4. awesome design
5. blue light (wish it would just stay on... how deceptive those ads were. hehe)
6. backwards compatibility (hopefully one day it will read all my ritek dvd-r backups too)
7. future linkage with DS

[DeVS]

Wait no one bought it for it's graphics,lmfao!

[sneef]

well, my #2 was "nintendo heritage", and part of that would be colourful, attractive graphics..  (to me), but I wouldn't say I bought it for it's graphics processing power.. hehe.

[onekelly]

Unfortunately, between the xbox 360 and the Wii, I will go with the 360. I would like to buy the wii for my daughter but that is just a whole bunch more money than I want to spend on something that she does too much anyways.

[mescalin]

1. Price
2. Promise (internet and such, mooted features that make it what everybody really uses a PC for for 200 quid in your living room).
3. Backwards compatibility (I've never owned a Nintendo home console, and I admire a lot of gamecube games).
4. The legacy of the DS (the general standard has been the highest of any console I've bought, I'm hoping developers will get a kick up the arse in much the same way).
5. Hopefully playing games with everybody I enjoy spending time with.
6. Really good launch titles!
7. It's plenty small (I'm going to be a student fairly soon, no space).
8. The Mii's (Gamercards are often impenetrable and is a very exclusive system).
9. General xbox apathy (my current console)
10. No ps2 price drop (plenty of cheap games there, katamari, Ico and Okami would have done me for a long while).

Graphics certainly aren't a concern - the xbox was the technological height of the last-gen, I doubt this offers more than that.  Having said that though, it's a good piece of technology, excellent engineering and use of old tech like gyroscopes, accelerometers, bluetooth and I.R.