Should You Buy A Nintendo Wii?

By Jim on August 29th, 2008

Well it finally happened…I bought a Nintendo Wii. I’d been thinking about getting one for a while but sort of gave up because I could never find one around at any of the stores I frequently visit. True, I could have probably ordered one online somewhere but I wasn’t that hot to trot about getting one in the first place.

Ironically, I had actually decided to retire from console gaming altogether after my last Nintendo system (the GameCube). So why did I end-up getting a Wii? And why didn’t I get one of the other consoles?

Here are the ten reasons why I bought a Nintendo Wii:

10. PS3 Is Too Expensive and Blu-ray Still Sucks
I briefly considered getting a PS3 but ultimately decided not to. Why? Well, aside from Blu-ray, why bother? There doesn’t seem to be any groundbreaking games out for the PS3 that floated my boat and the system is still too expensive. And who wants to pay more just to get a Blu-ray device when everybody knows that downloadable online content is where things are headed?

Sorry but there was just no way I could consider a PS3. Sony needs to drop the price and add some real gaming innovation before I could even think about getting one. Blu-ray is already outdated and headed the way of the do-do bird.

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