| | | |  - Plays two disc formats in a single, self-loading media bay
- Features a processing chip from IBM and a graphics chip from ATI
- Backwards compatible with all Nintendo GameCube games and most peripherals
- Built-in Wi-Fi access for easy connection to Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection gaming service
- Wii Sports game included
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Average Rating : 
Rating :  - Can't recommend the WII
My wife played the game Nintendo forces all WII buyers to play: waiting for one to be in stock. It's been well over a year, but Nintendo wants us to believe that they can't manage to meet demand, which is rubbish, as every other manufacturer of every other product can manage it. So she called numerous stores each day for several weeks, finally finding a store that had gotten a shipment. They wouldn't hold it for her ("against WII store policy") so she raced over and bought it, along with a second controller and some games.
The console looks and feels flimsy, which we now know it is. Friends had warned us that these units break easily, so we treated it very carefully. Nevertheless, the unit died after 5 months, refusing to load a disk and deleting our saved games. It's just my wife and I being careful with it; I can only image what kids would do to it.
This was doubly terrible. I was nearly done with Lara Croft, and my wife with Zelda. We lost all that work. The thought of having to wade through the less interesting levels just to get back to where we were is not fun.
We should have listened to our friends, who said to get an XBOX or a PS3. We didn't, and now have to get the unit fixed, but neither of us wants to deal with that, or with getting back to where we were with the previous games, or even playing long games again knowing how likely it is to break.
Was it fun while it is working? Yes.
Was it fun when it breaks? No.
Would we do it again knowing what we now know? No.
Do yourself a favor and consider this purchase carefully. Now consider it again. It is an expensive unit, with expensive games and accessories. It really should last.
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