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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fba827" data-source="post: 4631960" data-attributes="member: 807">Just so you know my perspective, a bit about my console gaming habits: I have had a Ps3 and a Wii (at one point I had an XBox but never got the Xbox360); I would define myself as a semi-casual gamer when it comes to console games (I might obsess over a game every few months but then i put the thing down and hardly touch the system for weeks or months until i find another game to obsess over for a while).  And I also play some games with family.The Wii with family:I play my wii with family (little kids as well as my older brother who has never touched video games before).  It's great for that -- a good equilizer in skill because the controls are simple _for the family style games_(Mario Kart Wii is a great example of a family style game that has huge replay value and everyone in the house enjoys playing it -- even my mother _wanted_ to try after seeing us play and was actually enjoying it).  And to compare, my mother who can't work anything on her cell phone or the computer, my brother who can work technology but has never touched video games before, myself, and little kids who way too much energy.. we're all able to play and enjoy ourselves with it.The Wii played alone: I am under impressed by it when I play this alone.  The current game library feels lacking for the types of things that I like.  And the current games that I do like are actually _too complicated_ in control scheme for me to play (i.e. I LOVE Metroid Prime Corruption 3 and can't say enough good things about the "feel" of the game, but about 40% through the game you need to do this complicated set of moves at a miniboss battle to make him vulnerable to your attack and I just can't do it fast enough/coordinated enough despite months of practicing so I'm frustrated and haven't touched the game since).  So I mostly am just playing Virtual Console games on download (Super Mario Brothers, Legend of Zelda, Shining Force, etc) -- which are fun games but you have to swallow the fact that you're playing games with 80s graphics on a console you just paid a couple hundred dollars for.With family, sure, it is great.  Alone the motion controlls just get old fast.  The graphics on the Wii (for any of their current games) look about as good as they did on gameCube so if you're really in to graphics and are already are used to PS3 or XBox 360 then you're going to be disapointed.</blockquote>

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