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Get a Wii, if your a real hardcore gamer your using a computer for that already. Spent many a hour at a lan party last weekend playing the Wii and it is well worth it.

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If I had to buy any console right now, it would be a Wii from Nintendo...

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So, umm..does anyone like the Wii? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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What is the going price for a Wii?

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$250 for a Wii

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Tis the only reasonably priced latest generation console...

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I got a playstation 2 for my birthday once, maybe about 1.5 years after it came out. It wasn't too bad. I had played the first ps and loved it, I even bought one towards the end of it's life (maybe a year before ps2 came out). Had it for maybe a year before I started getting "disk read error" Tried several different things, nothing worked. Made me so angry (after having just bought a much anticpated game then not being able to play it) that I just gave it to my younger brother and told him he could keep it if he got it working....well, he didn't. So I won't get a PS3 (unless I become so rich that I need to throw money away). And as some ppl who sat inline in front of a store the night before launch and were going to sell it on ebay said "All the good games won't be out for a year at least anyway". Onto the Wii, looks intresting, haven't played it yet, I used to love nintendo, I had the first nintendo, SNES, and the N64. Once Gamecube came out I had been turned off of nintendo, it just seems they were trying to gear everything towards 6-12 yr olds (sorry, Mario just dont cut it for me anymore, though I wouldn't mind zelda) IF I had to buy a console it would be the Wii but for only one reason......X360 I own one already, it's great, I bought a Xbox after my PS2 stopped working and loved it so I figured I would love 360, haven't been disappointed yet. I grew up being a console gamer (parents were too poor to buy a PC untill I was about 16) Now I'm more of a PC gamer (being that strategy games are my fav. genre) but still enjoy grabbing a controller and chainsawing someone in GoW or sniping someone in Halo 2.

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Lots of people are going "Wii-60". Instead of getting a PS3, you get a wii plus the low end xbox 360 for the same price.

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Atrocities,

Definitely get the Xbox360. My kids have had it since last Christmas and it's great, especially for first person shooters. Make sure you have an HDTV to get the full effect. Also the online experience is second to none.

By the way it's about $399.

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I ordered a 360 with Gears as a bundle but the carrier lost it. In the meantime all I heard about were crashing games and that it sounds like a helicopter taking off when the DVD gets up to speed. So I counted my blessings and cancelled my order. Maybe look at it in the new year if there's a significant price drop.

OTOH my Wii should be here tomorrow or Monday. Hopefully...

You have to ask yourself what you actually want it for though. Buy whichever based on the games you want to play. Or more likely on the games your kids want to play. (And remember both the Wii channels and Xbox Live (and probably Sony's live service but they can go eff themselves. Dicks to the gaming community I say!!!) should give you a steady stream of demos to play.)