Wii Console

Enter, the Nintendo Wii. Even though this little sucker isn’t the most impressive, graphics-wise, it sure does make up for it with style and innovation. The most amazing thing about the Wii is how it makes the user physically interact with the games. Sensitive motion sensors within the controllers allow your movements to control the action taking place on the screen. For example, let’s say you are playing Wii Tennis. You would swing the control as you would a tennis racket to hit the ball back towards your opponent. Same would go with baseball, sword fights, and you guessed it, first person shooters.

“Even though this little sucker isn’t the most impressive, graphics-wise, it sure does make up for it with style and innovation.”

The Wii boasts an impressive library of games consisting of more than 300 titles, though still not as many as its competitors. Games like Trauma Center, in which you are a surgeon and have to save lives at the operating table. You use your Wii-mote to cut with a scalpel or even bandage your patient up post-op. Titles like Call of Duty, Zelda, Metroid are already out for the Wii. If anything, at least your friends can’t say that playing video games makes you lazy.

A huge drawback to the system is that graphically, it falls way behind the others. The graphics truly don’t impress me much. It only seems a little more advanced than it’s predecessor, the Gamecube, but this is not where the system stands out. At least, nowhere near the difference Sony and Microsoft have made between their systems and their previous generation but for a reason. Nintendo has always tried to keep the violence in there games to look unrealistic, unlike Sony and Microsoft who strive to make the game look and feel as accurate to real life as possible.

In place of photo-realistic violence, Nintendo has created a system the whole family would love. Believe it or not, Nintendo has been topping the sales charts due to it’s innovative approach of motion sensor technology and the extremely innovative games that make use of it. A system that, in my eyes, must be experienced at least once. Oh and I almost forgot, the Wii is only $250 making it the least expensive of the three by about $150.

“The Wii boasts an impressive library of games consisting of more than 300 titles, though still not as many as its competitors.”

Another less appealing fact is that the storage capacity of the system is only 512mb, not even close to the Xbox 360 or PS3. As well as no support for DVD, HD-DVD or even blue-ray for that matter. The discs used by the Wii are about 12cm in diameter with the inability to store as much information as its competitors HD-DVD and Blue Ray discs. No matter, these flaws still fail to outshine the popularity of the Wii.