And why I don't see how you fanboys put up with the damn thing.
Get ready for a read.
I own a 360 and a Wii, and I play the 360 much more often, and it isn't because of the games, especially now that the damn Wii I have doesn't work any more. This is my story:
One of my aunts came by because of a family thing, and brought her young ones with her. One of the kids tripped up the controller wire in front of me, and the Wii fell 3 feet, onto a carpet, with its own wires slowing it down. You would think it would work fine after this, considering that it wasn't traveling that fast when it hit the ground. Wrong. Everything works fine, but the bitch just happens not to read disks any more. I looked at it and gently swayed it to see if I heard any loose parts, but there weren't any.
Ok, thinking it's just the disk and it got scratched up from the fall or something, I took it out, cleaned it, and put it back in. Nothing. Other disks? Nothing. Ever since I first bought it before the incident, it wouldn't want to read Wii Sports, so I figured I wouldn't play it. Now that it fell, it won't read stuff.
Anyway, I call Nintendo up and explain what the Wii is doing, and they said "oh, that'll cost $75 to fix." forget you.
It is very tempting to jam a screwdriver into the disk slot and scramble everything that is in there, that way I would at least get my $75 worth, and so they would actually have something to fix.
So now, I have a Gamecube which I don't want to play, and this computer. But now I will get to why I don't like the Wii that much.
Online interactivity:
You have to enter a CODE just to find a friend, and in many games you can't even see people's names. I could care less that there is no mic support, but at least something to type something in for quick communication about something important. The most you could do for communication is open up a Ventrilo server or something and talk through the mic on your computer. Also I remember when I would play brawl there were instances where you would get 2 frames per second the whole match, making the 2 minute match 10 minutes. I'm not sure how bad lag is with the rest of the games.
Games:
I find that some of the games are good, but if you went to a game store and looked at what they had, the majority of them would be stuff. So aside from the 10 good games that exist today, you will be wasting your money on a game with no replay value and low quality. At least the game prices are lower than the other two consoles' games.
Graphics:
I honestly don't care about them that much. It delivers good enough graphics to go along with the gameplay, and I am fine with them. At least it doesn't shoot bloom into your face as much as certain games on other consoles (Halo 3).
Sound:
The sounds coming from the Wiimote are low-quality, and are annoying as hell. It can't cost too much to put a semi-decent speaker into the Wiimote, Nintendo.
Gameplay:
Games where you actually have to use the Wiimote's buttons is awkward at times, and gets very frustrating when you get to the more difficult parts of a game. The Wiimote can't read movement perfectly, and it reads well enough to do the job, but it gets annoying when you play a game and you try to do something it wants you to do, and it takes 5 times doing the same gesture before it decides to work. There are also a few games that used the Wiimote where it could have been more useful for other things in the game.
I honestly can't see how you Wii fanboys put up with this stuff. It's a good system and all, but it pisses me off most of the time, and the only time I recalled getting pissed at my 360 is when it red ringed, and when I get pissed at the games themselves.
Oh, and I got it off Ebay. It was untouched and came in the box as if it was bought from a store, and mailed to me.
