Posted by guv on 06/30/07 18:26

On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 17:16:38 GMT, Temsonic <dim.sp@miau.diolch> wrote:

>POD {Ò¿Ó} wrote:
>> guv <guv69@msn.com> once tried to test me. I ate their liver with some fava
>> beans and a nice chianti
>>
>>> Whilst I thought it was fun, I could see there may well be longevity
>>> problems. Novelties wear off! It wouldnt shock me of the Wii ends the
>>> biggest seller of all 3 and PS3 trails in last.
>
>Depends what you mean by novelty. Endless minigames waving the thing
>around your head can get tiresome, but in many ways the Wii controller
>is so much better for several kinds of games.
>
>Firstly I find the combination of nunchuk and wii-mote far more
>ergonomic for 'standard' gameplay than any other console; then areas
>like FPS shooting at the screen, steering in driving games, hitting
>things in sports, precision stuff like Mercury Meltdown & Kororinpa etc,
>are just way more intuitive and involving and I think are honestly much
>better ways of playing these sorts of games than with traditional
>controllers.

Which may be why I suggested the Wii would probably end up outselling
the PS3 and 360!

>> My sister got one for her son, he ended up selling it, as his dead wouldn't
>> let him play it with anyone else for fear of a controller being chucked
>> through the glass plasma, which was the same reason I never got one, even
>> the adverts only show adults playing it.
>
>Sorry, all that stuff was bollocks. Anyone who's let their Wii
>controller go and got it through a TV screen is either a fucking
>imbecile or has done it on purpose to claim on the insurance. In 6
>months, not one single person playing the Wii in my house has let a
>controller go, and that's including my kids and all their friends from
>age 3 upwards!

Its hardly bollocks.

http://www.wiidamage.com/

http://www.wiihaveaproblem.com/damage.php

http://www.wiiinjury.com/?p=11


The list is endless!

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