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| From: Nintendo
Category: Video Games
List Price: £179.99
Buy New: £169.99
You Save: £10.00 (6%)
New (21) Used (7) from £169.99
Rating:  471 reviews
Sales Rank: 2
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Rating: Universal, suitable for all
Media: Video Game
Age: 3 - 18 years
Operating System: Nintendo Wii
Shipping Weight (lbs): 7.1
Dimensions (in): 15.1 x 9.9 x 4.4
MPN: WII
Model: Wii
UPC: 045496342043
EAN: 0045496342043
ASIN: B0007UATDG
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
 Best console ever made November 21, 2008
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
Like the title of my review says, this is, by far, one of the best consoles ever made. So far, we only have Wii Sports and we are addicted to it. I think it helps bring families closer togther. It's really surreal too. We still can't get over how it actually copies our movements. My favourite games for it so far are bowling and boxing, the latter being because it will definitely help me to lose weight! I can't wait to buy more and more things for the Wii. I think however much money we spend on this console will be well worth it.
If it was allowed, I'd have given this product a 10/10.
GREAT FOR THE CASUAL GAMER November 18, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
I absolutley love The Wii, for a casual gamer like myself, the Wii is perfect. I won't bother typing a long review as there are some on here which explain the console's details better, what I will say is that there is a growing catalogue of great games, plus you can play most Gamecube games on here as well.
All in all, a fantastic console :)
 Baaaaaad November 13, 2008
3 out of 9 found this review helpful
I have owned a 360 for about a year and after getting this console free from a raffle i can saw one thing:
This is bad.
Had fun on the first night i had it. The day after i turned it on for 15 minutes... but after realising all i could do was hit a slow moving tennis ball against an AI opponent, i soon turned it off and went for COD4 on the xbox 360.
Decided to go for "Wii Play" mainly to get the extra controller. Fun to start with, thought things weren't so bad for the Wii. Played each mini-game twice or so ...... back to COD4.....
Truly the most boring console for me.
ON THE OTHER HAND my cousin who's 11 years old came to visit us for the weekend. She absolutely LOVED it.
Overall:
Only ever use on occasions with more than 4 people- it's quite amusing with 4 people playing tennis. If you own one of those 11 year old girls who loves TV then this is a good console.
Otherwise BAD! severely...
NOTE: Havn't bought any "proper" games but frankly i didnt want to waste the money.
Grest fun with friends. Not so good for a solo gamer. November 12, 2008
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
The Wii is a fantastic system and is great fun.........with a group of people.
When family and friends come round it comes into it's own and we spend most of the night playing tennis, bowling and Golf etc.
So on this basis it gets 5 stars as it is so much fun.
From a console point of view it is not the best system for a gamer. The types of games released on PS3 and XBOX 360 are far greater in choice and in graphics.
The Wii is 5 stars for a group/party system and from that approach is worth every penny.
As a gaming system alone it would be around 3 maybe 4 stars.
Hope that helps people make their minds up.
 The Wii - Great For a while, then what? ... November 12, 2008
16 out of 20 found this review helpful
I was a proud owner of a Nintendo Wii for about 4 or 5 months. In the early portion of that period I found the console to deliver an exciting unique approach to gaming that I'd never experienced before. Games such as the free Wii Sports were (although I thought quite basic to begin with) extremely rewarding to play. The premise of actually swinging a tennis racket or throwing a bowling ball was a lot of fun. Then came games like Mario Kart, an excellent classic game that now became as much fun as the arcade racer where you could turn a physical wheel. Add onto that the more conventional games like Resident Evil that offered a FPS style game with the Wii-mote as your gun.
It all sounds so exciting. Sadly as time passed the initial excitement of these few games began to wear off. Browsing new games became dull as there only ever appeared to be a few I thought were worth buying. A few then turned to 1 or two, then to 1, then sadly to, "not this year, maybe next". I still can't find many games for the Wii that make me think "this console was definitely worth the money".
I'm old school when it comes to consoles (Spectrum ZX, Sega Master System, Megadrive, Playstation), so I'm used to top titles aimed at those who like long lasting quality games and plenty of them. What I found was the market I was entering was for people who really don't play games that often, or those that are content to wait on what Mario will do next (he does seem to hold a monopoly on the best games for the Wii). Games that I was excited about were stripped down with the words "Family Play" or similar plastered on the box. All the depth and excitement was gone from even the games I was after (I speak of Madden and Fifa). The promise of the Wii was started to annoy (along with it's many horrid celebrity endorsed adverts). Now it may be argued that I should have stayed away from the Wii, but with all the hype surrounding it I figured something great must emerge.
My Wii has now been sold.
To all those that are thinking about buying a Wii this review is a friendly word of warning. If your at all unsure that this console will satisfy your gaming needs take a browse through the game titles and make sure your happy with what Nintendo are offering. If like me you come from a more old school gaming background then you will quickly find (as I did) that the Wii was simply not built for you.
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