Don’t want a Wii

My brother has a Nintendo Wii, I don’t to play it much because he lives 150 miles and a flight over water away from me - but as I was visiting my parents in England this week I got a chance to have a go on the Wii.

I loved it but that doesn’t mean I want one. It was great fun and a pretty good workout but I didn’t win anything. I started playing the various Wii Sport games against my brother and he beat me hands down - he was always the more sporty one - geek+sport isn’t usually a great combination.

Then I played against my mum - now my mum is very competitive but she also has agressive MS and struggles to walk - she beat me at everything - Tennis, Bowling, Boxing - the lot.

Now this in itself isn’t a reason to NOT get a Wii - I did fairly well at Wario Ware and Wii Play - the reason I don’t want a Wii is because it will go the same way as the Playstation 2 and Nintendo DS - they’ll get heavy use for a week and then will end up in a box not to be used again for a year until I next get a flurry of excitement for it.

For me all games consoles have always gone the same way - I buy them, play them heavily for a couple of weeks and then get bored and eventually unplug them from the TV and put them with the games in a box.

You see I’m not too good at games - well unless they’re strategy games - those I’m good at but they’re best on a PC and I’m on my PC all the time anyway - it’s my home entertainment centre - so why bother with a games console that really only handles games I’m not very good at playing.

And anyway - when you have a young family you have to prioritise your geek buys or your wife comes at you with her ‘angry face’. Right now the battle I’m fighting is for a WiFi Radio.

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