Saturday, June 30, 2007

Wii - Nintendo game console

Wii has finally managed to make me get my butt out of a chair while playing games. I simple love playing bowling and tennis from the Wii Sports disk that came along with the console. Have yet to try playing Zelda and Redsteel about which I have been hearing rave reviews about how the games have been developed to take advantage of Wii's innovative controller. Finally I have found a game console controller that I have no trouble using. Having grown up on PC games played using a keyboard, using a console controller like the SIXAXIS that comes with PS3 was a problem.

I just wish Nintendo had put more thought into the Mii channel, right now it just seems like other than using it to create an avatar and assign it to your remote there is little else that they do, I yet to see any Mii in the parade. It would also have been nice to be able to play audio Cd's or movie DVDs on the Wii.

I have never managed to get onto the Wii Shop channel. It just seems to hang every time, I click on the Shop channel.

I like the way the Forecast channel works. Dragging the globe around to check weather forecasts in different parts of the world is awesome.

The News channel is interesting in the sense you get to see the location on a world map about the place you are reading about.

Photo channel was not interesting at all because of the low resolution that the Wii supports (especially after you get used to watching your high-resolution photos using the PS3 hooked up to a 50" Panasonic Plasma Monitor).

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