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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GoodKingJayIII" data-source="post: 3452377" data-attributes="member: 13804">So the Wii has been out for just shy of 5 months, and for those of you that own one, I'm wondering what your experiences are with the product.I bought one the day after release.  I own Twilight Princess, WiiSports, and Marvel: Ultimate Alliance.  I'm sort of debating my next purchase, but it will probably be WiiPlay or Heatseeker.  Overall, I've been very happy with the system.  WiiSports is a great introduction to the system, and I still enjoy picking picking it up for a quick round of golf or Bowling.  Twilight Princess is perhaps my favorite in the series of Zelda games, and I think the game is easily a Game of the Year contender.  Ultimate Alliance I have been a bit more disappointed with, but I think that has more to do with the control scheme than the game itself.One thing that has disappointed me about the system is the abundance of "minigame" titles.  Stuff like WarioWare, Rayman's Raving Rabids, Trauma Center, are just not what I'm looking for when I play a game.  I'm not sure how else to say it, but I want a much more complete experience.  It's still very early to judge the system on that, but I want to see a wider variety of games in the future.There have also been a lot of ports.  I don't have numbers, but it seems like every time I turn around there's another port coming out for the system.  I just read in Nintendo Power they're repacking both Band of Brothers games and setting up a control scheme for the Wii.  Medal of Honor: Vangaurd is also a port.  How about an original WWII game, built from the ground up, rather than taking an old game and slapping a new control scheme on it?  Again, this is probably a product of it being a new system.  As time goes on, I'm hoping to see more original fair for the Wii.Overall it's been a good experience.  For me, Zelda alone was worth the purchase.  But I want fewer minigames.  I want more original stuff.  And I want Nintendo to really take advantage of the 3rd-party players (something they haven't really done for their last two consoles).  I like the ideas behind the system, but I don't want it relegated to the party machine that I pull out when friends and guests are around.To sum things up, I'd like to see a fuller, more well-rounded experience from the Wii as it matures.</blockquote>

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