Top 10 Reasons to (and not to) buy Wii Fit

BUY IT!
5) The perfect gift
Somehow Nintendo has always managed to market its products (such as this) to its intended 'blue ocean' successfully thus always getting a boost in its profit. Wii Fit, especially with all the pre-orders filling up (and some even cancelling them) and the May 19-21 release date controversy, is of no exception. So if the comments and testimonies of fellow gamers can attest, their mothers and fathers are the people who are rooting for this new, somewhat revolutionary product.

4) Humiliate your enemies
If you're looking for the right time to come along so that you can humiliate your enemies, you can just invite them for a weigh-in and there's a chance that they'll either be traumatized (if they're 10) or just plain humiliated. Of course, it's expensively juvenile, but hey, revenge is ice-cold and sweet- perfect for summer.

3) Save some money!
It's a cheap (and not so) viable alternative to gym. Picture it: You pay 90$ for the software for one time as opposed to paying a PS3 monthly every 300 visits with a trainer?

2) Get your ass in gear
Like Dance Dance Revolution before it, Wii Fit aims to make exercising fun. And though it doesn't entirely succeed in that endeavor, it doesn't really fail either (and that's due to the non-automatic fitness programme thing).

1) The Balance Board!!!
And though Nintendo really developed the accessory for the game, the accessory itself has a lot of potential for a lot of games. Currently, the games being made with the Board in mind are the recently released We Ski from Namco which emulates real skiing with the Wiimote and Nunchuk as your sticks and the board as your board; and EA's pending Skate It.

Forget it!
5) If you're just gonna cheat...
Find ways to cheat the very, very precise Balance Board accessory will not be worth the 90 bucks. Although there are definitely ways, those ways aren't really applicable to any of the exercises, therefore, making you waste time finding them.

4) 90 bucks?!
Yeah, 90 American dollars. It's no Rock Band (or freaking Guitar Hero World Tour!) but it's still pretty expensive. Then again, the prices of just a normal game at our country is already equal to that, so it should come as a bargain if you were to find it at just 90 dollars.


3) Doubtful results
It should come as no surprise that the viability of the Wii Fit as a serious work-out and gaming machines is very doubtful. Who knows? Maybe it'll work, maybe it won't. Regardless, you'll have to wait 6 months to find one anyway.

2) If you're waiting for the great titles, or you just want the accessory...
Then wait until 1) there are really great games designed for the Balance Board or; 2) when Nintendo sells the balance board separately.

1) If you've got a gym membership...
...forget it! You are simply better off doing your crunches and working your biceps in a real gym than being tempted by the nearby refrigerator (and possibly that bag of chips lying near your sofa) while cheating the balance board (yes, it's still possible!).

10 Reasons Why You Should or Should Not Trade In Your Wii

Trade It!
5) Money!
In the U.S. (and some parts of Europe), the Wii is very much on-demand and despite 2 years of it being at the top, store shelves have difficulty still of fulfilling demand. This is where eBay or craigslist comes in. If you make an account, you can put up your Wii for auction and maybe, just maybe, you can even get back the money you paid for your Wii plus a huge profit. Now, you can get something actually beneficial in life.

4) Hard Drive
If you're a download junkie and you have a lot of Wii Points at hand, chances are you've downloaded your favorite retro games from the Virtual Console. But with the release of WiiWare and its exciting new games, your precious internal memory will not be enough for even the lowest end of the spectrum of that software bunch. So, PUH-LEAAAASE give us at least a 4GB cheap Wii flash drive or even better: compatibility for the conventional USB flash drive! You've gone so far as to provide USB Keyboard compatibility to your Internet browser, now give us USB flash drive capability!

3) Friend Codes
Friend codes, since the Nintendo DS, have been bitches to the online experience. Yes, I know, at least Nintendo has put online functionality in its consoles but why this system? Why do you have to type these 16 digit codes to add a friend. It could've just been an internal system affair or something if you know what I mean!

2) Motion-sensing....
Initially, the feature of motion-sensing in the Wii drove everyone nuts when it was introduced. Now, it's a bit... stale. It could've opened a lot of possibilities for revolutionary gaming, thus the initial code name Revolution, but nooooo... we just get all this crappy shovelware and useless stuff that cashes in on the fad. Third-parties may have to rethink their ways if they want to really take advantage of motion-sensing, because you're to blame for its eventual demise!

Heck, some AAA titles like Smash Bros. Brawl screw the motion-sensing!

1) Third-party crap
Since the Gamecube times, third-parties have been evading Nintendo and putting more AAA titles on the competition. Now that the Wii is at the top, third-party developers have only been cashing in on the motion-sensing fad by putting crap on it. Yes, we have the excellent No More Heroes and Zack and Wiki but other than those two, only the first party games (and some ports like Resident Evil 4 and Okami if you haven't already played it) are the only ones worth playing! I don't really understand! I mean, the Wii is easily the easiest console to program for because of its lower specifications, its motion-sensing capabilities open up a s**tload of potential and it's practically printing money! How else can developers screw up and run away with mediocre titles?

Don't Trade It!
5) Super Smash Bros. Brawl
If your Wii gets Brawl working, chances are, you'll be hooked for years, and add another 2 or so years after that when you have the chance to play multiplayer and online. Yes, it's that awesome.

4) WiiWare
Nintendo just pushed the on button on the WiiWare section of its Wii Shop Channel. Although there are only six English launch games to choose from, the selection will grow into the hundreds, and there is a lot of potential in this service. From downloadable content for Guitar Hero to unique gaming concepts designed by the indie developer, WiiWare is one of the reasons why I'd still rather stick to the Wii. (Too bad, though, that we can only play WiiWare games if we have Twilight Princess, if the homebrew community knows what I mean.)

3) Retro Game Downloads
Despite their age, retro games are still fun to play, and this is just what the Virtual Console in the Wii Shop Channel is for. If retro gaming is your thing, or if you want your parents playing so you can buy time to do whatever else it is that you want secretly, get retro and download them with Wii Points (or in the Philippines, download a torrent and get Twilight Princess)!

2) First-party games (and some great third-party originals)
Nintendo games are mostly good, and if you put together Super Mario Galaxy, Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Mario Kart Wii, they're probably good enough to last you about a year or two, mostly due to their challenge and surprising accessibility. Whoever said Ninty's games were all childish are stupid probably because they can't appreciate games without the blood (although I like GTA). Just look at No More Heroes. Yeah, it isn't a Ninty game, but it's only for the Nintendo Wii. Can the blood spilling out of one of the persons you kill in this game, match the blood that spills out of a person in Grand Theft Auto? Based from my experience with San Andreas, not even close.

1) Untapped potential
There is still a lot of untapped potential in the Wii. What was supposed to unlock a lot of possibilities has been turned into BS. And third-parties should change their attitudes when it comes to the Wii. Yeah, the FPS potential has been turned into crappy light rail shooter haven, and point-and-click adventures (excluding Zack and Wiki) has become port-heavy and dated (like the b.o.r.i.n.g. Agatha Christie: And Then There Was None).

If Nintendo succeeds in urging third-parties into cleaning up their act, maybe we'll find some genuinely great stuff in the motion-sensing world of the Wii. Or maybe, Nintendo should make the first move?

High School Musical 2 Hate Post!

HSM2: 10 Reasons NOT to watch (no specific order)
1. Just the thought of High School Musical one... and the blueprint it set for this surprisingly lucrative TV movie franchise, will make you wanna barf. The sequel's probably just for the commercial viability anyway.
2. More showtunes! OMG! I'm gonna be named Sir Pukesalot after this.
3. It imparts gay values. Just watching Lucas Grabeel acting gay for the camera is just too much for me to take. I mean, A****w's already gay enough as it is! (Ask everyone in section 5 as well as the transferees from I-5.)
4. More recent Disney Channel Original Movies are corny and sucky unlike past ones.
5. Kenny Ortega directs it again! It's gonna have the same style as the first one!
6. The core story is rather repetitive. It's a talent contest, not a love story.
7. Isn't anyone already sick of the many, many editions of the first HSM? Sing-along edition, Dance edition, and more recently the Concert edition! Heck, the sequel may have the same fate!
8. Isn't the puking already making you sick? LOLOL
9. The target audience, teenagers, won't be affected anyway. Maybe only a select few but not all.
10. It friggin' stars Zac Efron. His face is sickening already!

Ahh finally, all the hate is out of my system... well, not ALL of them. I'll still try to bear the 98 minute showing time so I can review it... and make sure that my reasons for NOT watching High School Musical 2 is given justice. Ugh...