January US Console sales

[ReNo]

The times I've played on the Wii have been great fun and I'm fully intent on picking one up for good times with mates, but I see pretty much zero potential for it to become my "favourite" of the new systems. Zacker's point is one that I find very hard to overlook, and Furyo, that list (nor the "Eye on 2007: Wii" article at Eurogamer) does nothing puts those fears to rest. There are simply so few games I have any interest in whatsoever on the Wii. The control system might be genius, but it is lacking games with depth terribly.

Will be interesting to see how badly that hits it though - the DS is selling brilliantly on the back of mostly novelty titles, after all. On the other hand, it also has plenty of deeper titles for those that want them.

[JamesL]

Aside from Mario and Metroid, which are both rumoured as Xmas '07 /Q1 '08 there's really not a great deal of excitement in that list. But then I don't want to pay £425 for a PS3 just to play MGS4/DMC4 either. Think I'll stick with the 360 & PC.

[Furyo]

You guys are just forgetting Wii's target. That console IS made for casual gamers. Families or mates all joining together for a quick moment of fun yadda yadda yadda. So it really is no surprise that the console doesn't have as many fans on Mapcore as in "real life" as we all are hardcore geeks to start off with (in Nintendo's definition of the term, which is " anyone that's willing to go online to learn more about a game, is no longer a casual gamer")

[Ginger Lord]

My housemate literally stole my Wii and played Zelda non-stop for a few weeks. So I'm not getting back into it where I left off (Water Temple) and I can imagine a few people would be doing the same.

That said, Wii Sports is still damn fun for when you want to just play something.

[General Vivi]

I only really play the wii if i have friends to play it with . Other than that it gets kinda boring. : /

[Meotwister]

I only really play the wii if i have friends to play it with . Other than that it gets kinda boring. : /

so you've never played it? BURN!

but yeah I agree. Though games like Zelda, Mario, and Metroid should counter that because they're exclusively single player... but I don't have one still so I don't know.

[blackdahlia]

I have a Wii, it was pretty boring for a while with wii sports and zelda being the only must have games. but i started to download the virtual console games...now thats where its at.

[Fletch]

Between Zelda, Wii Sports, Raving Rabbids, Warioware, Wii Play, and virtual console games, I'm getting plenty of use out of the system.