I bought a Wii
Not just a waste of money, but a waste of plastic that could've been better used to make something useful like a toilet roll holder or something.
( Dave McF wrote some words on, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 13:01, 14 replies)

i agree
apart from the bowling game
(NuffMuff fucks shrubbery, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 13:02, closed)

This isn't true!
Have you never played, "Guess what the neighbour's playing?", when you spot one standing in the middle of their lounge flapping their hands around and giggling like a happy mong?
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 13:27, closed)

Hurrah! I'm not alone!
My sister's kids have one, and I really don't get it. They get me to play and it just seems to be repeating the same action over and over again, generally very fast. If I want to do that then I'll simply have a wank.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 13:35, closed)

My main issue with it
apart from it only having about two games I want to play, is (to paraphrase Zero Punctuation's explanation) that I play video games to relax, but find it difficult to relax while I'm waving my arms around like a pillock.
( Dave McF wrote some words on, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 13:44, closed)

No
You can't do this with your sister's kids watching.
(Chickenwire social lubricator extraordinaire, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 17:55, closed)

Unless you come from Norfolk...
( snee held his breath since, Fri 1 Oct 2010, 8:24, closed)

In which case, your sister's kids may well be your own kids as well...
(Pisco, Fri 1 Oct 2010, 9:35, closed)

My kids too ...
Got one for their Christmas last year ( after listening to them whining on for months). They played with it for about 3 or 4 days and it's never seen the light of day since.
( Ramsay Tupper, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 13:55, closed)

Mine wasn't a waste
Bought it a month after they were released, sold it a year later for exactly what I'd paid for it.
( evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 14:05, closed)

That's the good thing about a Wii
Unlike other consoles they hold their value pretty well, so you can sell them when you're bored and get back pretty much what you paid.

And they're not red-light-of-death (lots of my friends' Xbox 360s) or yellow-light-of-death (my brother's PS3) timebombs.
( eXOBeX, Sun 3 Oct 2010, 13:57, closed)

Not sure about that
I paid £170 or so for it just over a year ago and was told last week that the current trade-in value is about £50... cash value even less.

On a related note: the most use I've ever had out of the Wii was when the 360 was in for repair. Sounds like it's on the verge of death again so maybe I won't get rid of the little white box just yet.
( Dave McF wrote some words on, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 2:04, closed)

Got one for the missus for Christmas
after about a month of Mariokart I don't think it's been touched since, except to use the iPlayer
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 15:22, closed)

^this
Mine's not been out of the box for well over 18mths.
(Kip, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 18:01, closed)

Ahh, crap
Daughter no.2 wants one for Christmas... I'm not flush and it seems like an awful lot of money to throw away on a five-minute wonder.

Any of you lot care to recommend a more worthwhile console? I have no clue about these things.
(WillI'mNot logs in twice a year, every year, Sun 3 Oct 2010, 23:45, closed)