Planet Bob

Oh, what an excellent Christmas it was for my Wii! I already got the Metroid Prime Trilogy and just ordered Darkside Chronicles, Mini Ninjas and Firefighter from Amazon

 

Edit: And I just won a copy of NPC Mario Power Tennis: http://nintendowiix.net/news_details.php?id=9516

In a move that dramatically improves the overall quality of my collection, I traded in a couple of suckers (see above) at gamestop, replacing them with Dead Space and Muramasa. I still had to pay 26€ but it didn't feel like a rip off, considering all the trash I got rid off

Oh dear! All the excessive christmas gaming has killed my Wiis DVD drive!

 

I'm buying a SD card for it today, so I can backup my game saves before sending it in for repairs...

Many good news here! My Wii actually didn't need repairs, it was just suffering from getting too much heat from the sat-receiver!

 

And today I traded in another 4 older games for Tasunoko vs. Capcom and on top of that I found a shop selling Little King's Story NIB for €20.-!

 

The bad news is that I totally cleared my shopping list now (I'm getting Overlord for my birthday next week). Let's hope that there's some more good games coming rather soon, else I'll need getting a PS3 a lot earlier than planned

I'll need getting a PS3 a lot earlier than planned

A PS3 is a great buy if some games in the existing catalog are on your "gotta have" list AND you want to use it as a Blu-Ray player AND you have a nice 1080p HDTV to play it on.

 

Don't get me wrong. I love my PS3. It makes a dang good Blu-Ray/DVD player, especially since I don't have a home theater style audio setup. And it's not doing too bad a job playing HD television I record using MythTV. But as a pure games console or pure Blu-Ray player I'm not sure I can unequivocally recommend it.

A PS3 is a great buy if some games in the existing catalog are on your "gotta have" list AND you want to use it as a Blu-Ray player AND you have a nice 1080p HDTV to play it on.

 

Yes, it's a very tough descission. I don't have the TV, I've not much interest in Blu-Rays and I'm not even sure I like much of the games library

 

It seems a major portion of the HD library is either first or third person kill-o-zap multiplayer shooters. Most of them seem so generic and boring, I really wonder why they get so high Metacscores. E.g. three weeks ago I was watching a friend play Borderlands for half an hour and almost fell asleep

 

Even many of the games that manage to strike my interest still seem to play just like every other game, making a difference only in the cutscenes. E.g. I'm sure I'd love the scenario and atmosphere of Dead Space, Uncharted, RE5, Bioshock or Fallout, but when watching the reviews at gametrailers it seems as if there's just two different generic shooter templates underneath every surface.

 

Don't get me wrong. I love my PS3. It makes a dang good Blu-Ray/DVD player, especially since I don't have a home theater style audio setup. And it's not doing too bad a job playing HD television I record using MythTV. But as a pure games console or pure Blu-Ray player I'm not sure I can unequivocally recommend it.

 

Thanks for the fair warning, but I'm such a games addict, I have no other choice

 

It seems I can get a dozen good 2006-2008 PS3 games very cheap as the PS3 has a pretty good platinum selection already, so these should keep me busy while waiting for the next wave of Wii games