Sorry about the lack of posts recently, along with the lack of photos. My camera is being weird at the moment. No matter whether I put in new batteries, or fully recharged batteries straight out of he charger, all it can manage to do is open it's lens..... then a few seconds later, close and shut down. I suppose I could try using the camera on my netbook, but that would be a bit weird and awkward to use.
I have bought a wii console. In fact, I bought it slightly before my PS3, but I didn't write it up. It's second hand but in impeccable condition, as the previous owner seems to have only played with it once or twice, according to the internal log.
I have bought a whole load of games for it; Baroque, Blast Works, Dewy's Adventure, Disaster Day Of Crisis, Dragon Quest Swords, FFF Chocobo's Dungeon, Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn, Geometry Wars Galaxies, Guilty Gear /\ Core, The House Of The Dead 2 & 3 Return, Little King's Story, Madworld, The Munchables, No More Heroes, Opoona, Samba de Amigo, Samurai Warriors Katana, SNK Arcade Classics 1, Soul Calibur Legends, Super Paper Mario, Super Smash Bros Brawl, Tatsunoko vs Capcom, Wario Land: The Shake Dimension, Warioware: Smooth Moves, Wii Music, Zack & Wiki.
All of those are PAL version games, apart from Tatsunoko vs Capcom which is a Japanese game. Most of them cost around £10 or less, and I am happy with the selection I have chosen. I've played a bit of most of them, but there are still some I haven't even taken out of the wrapper yet!
I haven't bought any wiiware downloadable games because I do not trust Nintendo with purely digital ownership thanks to them revoking most of my loyalty points which I had spent years building up, complete faith in them. There is no personal ownership for wiiware games - you download them to your console without it being tied to any form of identity. So if your wii breaks, you can't transfer your games to another console without phoning Nintendo and begging, and they are very reluctant to cooperate, from what I have heard. Plus, they do not offer any demos for games, and there's not much internal memory in the console, nor much in the way of online play, so it doesn't seem very good.
I held off buying a wii for a few years because there didn't appear to be that many games for the platform which appeal to me, and the price of games was too high - for a long time they retained their prices very well. Buying a second hand console for £50 less than the standard price, and picking up games fairly cheaply, now that I have this console, I'm quite pleased with it.
The speciality of the wii seems to be games which you can pick up easily, play in short bursts, and laugh with. This is what I really appreciate the console for. There are some games which seem like normal home console games, but I would say that a great deal of games are more like amusement arcade games. For example, you can go mini-bowling with friends. You can wave a stick around and play swordfighting. You can play accurate ports of one-on-one fighting games. You can move about with music / rhythm games. Amusement arcades are becoming more and more scarce as the years pass, and they contain more and more gambling machines and fewer arcade games, so I really appreciate the fact that the wii seems to replace and regain part of what has been lost.
And, even if the games are short, they don't cost too much anymore, so I don't mind.
The wii does suffer the same overall problems with its game catalogue that the DS does - there are are a lot of gimmick control games (use this control method because it's new, not because it is the best or most useable), and there is a lot of software for the console that is not a game but self-help training software. These appeal to a broad market and bring in a lot of money, so that kind of stuff is what people have come to associate with the console, but there are some really decent games for the platform too.
