This weekend, Dena and I were wrapping up some Christmas shopping, which included a visit to the Futureshop over on Gateway Park Drive. As we were preparing to leave and Dena was headed to the checkout, I ventured over to the game area in the hopes that they’d have a Wii demo station. They didn’t, and neither did any of the EB or BestBuy stores. But I took a look at the launch titles that were available for the Wii while we were at Futureshop. The ones that piqued my interest were The Twilight Princess, Red Steel and Madden 2007. As I was looking at the screenshots and reading the story lines on the back of the boxes, a gentleman approached me and asked me what I knew about the Wii. I regurgitated all of the specs that I had seen, and paraphrased some reviews that I read in my RSS feed reader. He asked about how the remotes work and when the nunchuck is used. In the end, I think I sold him on the Wii…for no sales commission 😉
I don’t have a Wii. All disposable income is currently going toward house-related things. Plus a nice new TV with a small footprint would be preferred. I’m into space-saving designs and large entertainment cabinets are a complete waste of space, IMO. Low-profile TVs with small stands that only need to accommodate a cable box and a media center PC (with a NAS device stashed away elsewhere in the house) would be the ideal scenario for a Wii to join.
And if you want to try out a Wii, go bug Barry; he has one 🙂
