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Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 10:27 am
by Foo
Ganemi wrote:Hmmmm. An Xbox and Wii would make more sense then, considering that the Wii is backwards compatible.
In some ways you're right, I was mulling over the same choice last night. Gamecubes are going for pocket change currently though, so there's price to factor into the equation.
Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 10:28 am
by Dave
Yeah, but a GC will never play a Wii game...
Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 10:42 am
by Don Carlos
Dave wrote:Yeah, but a GC will never play a Wii game...
*ding*
Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 10:48 am
by Foo
Dave wrote:Yeah, but a GC will never play a Wii game...
Isn't that horribly obvious?
Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 11:34 am
by Dave
Yeah, but why would you buy an outdated console because it's cheap and has cheap games when you can buy a brand new console that will play everything under the sun + those cheap games your raving about.
When you buy cheap, you buy often.™
Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 11:37 am
by iluvquake4
Just get an Xbox 360 so you can graze along with the rest of us sheep here.
Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 11:40 am
by Foo
It scales both ways, because it depends on whether you're fussed about buying the latest titles or not. I'm well behind the times on console gaming, the last thing I bought was San Andreas for the PS2. The only new console stuff I'm fussed about is the multiplayer kit appearing for the 360, on which I might make a serious purchase sometime early next year.
Wii here is gonna be priced at £180 brand new.
Refurb gamecubes are currently going here on the high street for £30. Games are £10 to £15 second hand, which I'm not fussed about since I gut all my disc cases and keep the media in a big chest case.
So that's how it pans out from my perspective. Down the line when/if the Wii gets some killer titles I don't want to miss like the PS2 did with GT3/Burnout3/GTA:SA, I'll snag it for a lower sum than £180, and at worst I'll have 'lost' £50 on the gamecube hardware + extra controllers.
Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 1:11 pm
by Grudge
not released until Dec 8th here
Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 2:36 pm
by bitWISE
Just got my Wii
Entire wait was 5 hours and I was one of the last ones in line to get a console.
Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 3:37 pm
by Grudge
Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 4:43 pm
by The HavoX
Not me. I'm getting that for Christmas, along with The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (I was told to get a game for the Wii, and this was the only one I want).
Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 4:43 pm
by The HavoX
Grudge wrote:
Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 4:51 pm
by Foo
I see no-one has yet challenged my grand unified theory of being a gaming cheapskate.
Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 5:00 pm
by Richard_guy
I have my Wii
Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 6:20 pm
by +JuggerNaut+
Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 7:20 pm
by Don Carlos
Foo wrote:I see no-one has yet challenged my grand unified theory of being a gaming cheapskate.
It's because its a very sound principle!!!
I have just dicovered Burnout 3 and its by far the best game in the burnour series!!! I absolutly love it. So much so i pick that up earlier before Gears of War!!! :icon28:
Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 7:48 pm
by Captain
Foo wrote:I see no-one has yet challenged my grand unified theory of being a gaming cheapskate.
Actually you're just being smart not wasting anymore money on next-gen plastic boxes if you're happy with the games you have now.
+JuggerNaut+ wrote:
Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 7:48 pm
by Captain
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Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 7:48 pm
by booker
I will get one just to wait for someone to call and ask what i am doing.....
Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 7:48 pm
by Captain
"Playing with my Wii?"
Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 8:53 pm
by booker
Captain Mazda wrote:"Playing with my Wii?"
with heavy breathing after playing wii sports for awhile
Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 9:05 pm
by Fury
Don Carlos wrote:When Fury comes on here i am going to take the piss and call him an uber nerd!
please do. My god this thing is fun. I still need to try red steel. been on the fence about that since day one
Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 9:15 pm
by ToxicBug
Grudge wrote:
Is that Jason Biggs? That girl in front of him is very hot.
Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 9:43 pm
by tnf
Fury wrote:Don Carlos wrote:When Fury comes on here i am going to take the piss and call him an uber nerd!
please do. My god this thing is fun. I still need to try red steel. been on the fence about that since day one
heard it was not good.
Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 9:44 pm
by andyman
+JuggerNaut+ wrote:Rockefeller Plaza, NYC, waiting for a wii
[img]http://www.gizmodo.com/
is that tom morello??
