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| From: Nintendo
Category: Video Games
Buy New: $331.99
New (93) Used (11) from $321.50
Avg. Customer Rating:  1086 reviews
Sales Rank: 3
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Operating System: nintendo_wii
Battery: 2 AA
Shipping Weight (lbs): 7.5
Dimensions (in): 15 x 10 x 4.5
MPN: WII
Model: Wii
UPC: 454968801238
EAN: 0454968800194
ASIN: B0009VXBAQ
Release Date: November 19, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Best Gaming System Ever! June 23, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This gaming system is the best ever! It is so fun and getting to actually interact is a great plus! It is well worth the money!! It's really awesome. :] The only con is that the battery in the control doesn't last long, and it's pricey. But, you can buy something to charge the battery, and you don't have to use actual batteries.
 A Review for Parents/Adults Buying a System for Kids June 22, 2008
4 out of 11 found this review helpful
I'm writing this review for people who are in the market to purchase a videogame console for others, who may not know much about videogames. I am trying to be as informative and educational as possible so that people can make a smart purchase. A disclaimer right up front, I'm writing this review to help people whom I feel might have incorrect perceptions based on mainstream media hype for the Wii console. In my apartment, I do have an Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii, and have many hours of experience will all of the systems.
What is the Wii?
-The Nintendo Wii is the successor to the Nintendo Gamecube console, and is presumably in competition with the Microsoft Xbox 360 ("X360") and Sony Playstation 3 ("PS3") consoles. However, there is considerable debate as to what degree the target market of the Wii overlaps with the target markets of the X360 and PS3. That is not to say that the X360 and PS3 are not targeting young, new, and/or female gamers, as they both are, nor that the Wii is not targeting experienced videogame players, as it is. But there is considerable evidence, especially in the Japanese market but also in America, of people who had zero prior interest in any videogames at all, purchasing Wii systems for their interest in titles like Wii Sports, Wii Play, Wii Fit, Mario Party, and possibly other simple "party-game" style titles. This is an important distinction to make because people, including children, who actually play videogames will often quickly grow tired of the aforementioned games because they lack any of the depth of play that has been associated with good videogames since before Nintendo released its first system in the 1980s. (so this has nothing to do with the graphics capabilities of the Wii, but the character of its popular game titles).
But aren't good games available on the Wii?
-Yes, absolutely. Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Mario Galaxy, and The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess are a few examples of superb videogames available exclusively on the Wii that exemplify the "depth" and "character" of videogames that I was talking about before. However, the relevant question is whether there are perhaps more and better videogames available on the X360 and PS3. To answer this question, I would have to say that yes, there definitely are. To offer objective statistics to back up this assertion, I point you to Game Rankings or another website that aggregates professional videogame reviewer scores and combines them to an overall consensus score out of 100%. Lets say that "great" games are those that have a consensus score of 85% or greater. Using this objective metric on Game Rankings, we find that the Wii has 9 "great" games while the X360 and PS3 have 34 and 20 "great" games each respectively.
But graphics aren't everything, right?
-Yes, again that's absolutely true. In the same way that I think some Nintendo Entertainment System games from the late 1980's are better than some videogames being made now, its also true that some Wii games are better than some games being made with better graphics but overall worse gameplay for the X360 and PS3. While graphics are not everything, they're certainly something. Compare better graphics with better camera technology, special effects, and bigger production budgets in movies. Spartacus, the 1960 film starring Kirk Douglas, is a great movie. But is it better than Gladiator, the 2000 film starring Russell Crowe? Despite any feelings of nostalgia, I think most people will agree that Gladiator is the better film. In the same way, videogame developers work extremely hard to leverage the better graphics capabilities of the X360 and PS3 to make games that are overall better. The latest important trend is videogame design has been the adoption of techniques from blockbuster movies to add cinematic qualities and the feel of "high producion values" to videogames. Start up a game of Call of Duty 4: Modern Combat, available for both the X360 and PS3, and you're put in the rear seat of a rickety passenger car, traveling a middle eastern city in the middle of warfare chaos. You watch as you speed past people in gunfights, buildings exploding out in the distance, civilians scurrying for cover, etc. The Wii simply lacks the hardware capability to pull off the same kind of scenario. Its graphics are incapable of allowing the player to "suspend disbelief" for a real-life scenario.
In conclusion:
-The Wii is a decent system, and has several exclusive titles, predominately made by Nintendo, that videogames players would truly enjoy getting to. However, the X360 and PS3 are better systems with more and better games, and for anyone who is known to play videogames, I would always recommend an Xbox 360 or Playstation 3.
The Wii June 20, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
We received our Wii bundle from [...] yesterday and can't get enough. We love it! I'm 51 and love it and I am not one for "video" games. My teenage girls think it's great. We are waiting for the delivery of the Wii fit. It worked right out of the box and between my 17yo and I we had it up and running in no time. Well worth what I paid for it(which was a great price for I received).
It's more like a toy than a system. However, it does have a few gems. June 20, 2008
2 out of 9 found this review helpful
I feel like this product deserves a review from the perspective as a toy and from the perspective as a video game console.
From the perspective of a toy, this system gets a four out of five. It has plenty of mindless fun good for short bursts of play. A lot of my friends and family are intrigued by the Wii and always claim to love it, but they never last very long as its like a toy that has lost its luster after a few plays. However, its can definitely provide family fun for short play periods. I subtracted a star for the Wii remote being so inaccurate to use.
From the perspective of a game system, this system gets a 2 out of five. It is absolutely terrible. There is hardly any storage for downloadable games, it is not HD, it does not have good graphics, the motion controls do not work all the time, and its doesn't have any new games. They are all rehashes (Mario, Super Smash Brothers, Mario Kart . . . all good, but nothing new). I gave it two star for just how much I have enjoyed Super Smash Brothers Brawl and Tanks on Wii Play (and a few other random fun moments . . . some people like Mario Sunshine Too).
Well, I take the average of those two scores and I get a three out of five. Personally, I am glad I didn't purchase the console, but I am glad my room mate has it for when I want to try something out.
For now, I will continue to enjoy my PS3 and 360 (which absolutely destroy the Wii in the realm of gaming, but don't hold a candle to the Wii's ability to get friends and family playing together.)
 Can't recommend the WII June 18, 2008
4 out of 19 found this review helpful
My wife played the game Nintendo forces all WII buyers to play: waiting for one to be in stock. It's been well over a year, but Nintendo wants us to believe that they can't manage to meet demand, which is rubbish, as every other manufacturer of every other product can manage it. So she called numerous stores each day for several weeks, finally finding a store that had gotten a shipment. They wouldn't hold it for her ("against WII store policy") so she raced over and bought it, along with a second controller and some games.
The console looks and feels flimsy, which we now know it is. Friends had warned us that these units break easily, so we treated it very carefully. Nevertheless, the unit died after 5 months, refusing to load a disk and deleting our saved games. It's just my wife and I being careful with it; I can only image what kids would do to it.
This was doubly terrible. I was nearly done with Lara Croft, and my wife with Zelda. We lost all that work. The thought of having to wade through the less interesting levels just to get back to where we were is not fun.
We should have listened to our friends, who said to get an XBOX or a PS3. We didn't, and now have to get the unit fixed, but neither of us wants to deal with that, or with getting back to where we were with the previous games, or even playing long games again knowing how likely it is to break.
Was it fun while it is working? Yes.
Was it fun when it breaks? No.
Would we do it again knowing what we now know? No.
Do yourself a favor and consider this purchase carefully. Now consider it again. It is an expensive unit, with expensive games and accessories. It really should last.
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