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?

Meet The Spartans: Yet another crappy hit (The Box Office Report)

I never knew that "Epic Movie" was a box-office hit until now.

Well, it seems that the makers of these kinds of movies have churned out yet another lackluster spoof movie, and its theme is centered around "300". It also features other characters from other movies ("Ghost Rider", "Transformers", "Rocky Balboa", etc.) and manages to make them all coherent and err... "funny". Like its predecessor, it has also received an almost rock-bottom rating of 5% in Rotten Tomatoes, and yet it has become a huge hit with the masses in America. Well, it just goes to show that Americans do have bad taste, because if these people continue to even watch these movies, the creators will still strive to make yet another one next year... And it seems that it will indeed happen.

Actually, before it is also another (not as) crappy movie which is the follow-up of the growth hormone ingesting Sylvester Stallone. "Rocky Balboa" may have enjoyed astonishing critical and commercial success, and though this other revival of a long-gone series is quite gory and updated this time around, it's a miss for Stallone (at least with the critics) this time around.

Unrelated (Gaming News)
It seems that in every passing day, Super Smash Brothers: Brawl for the Wii gets even better and better. Now, they have even added the option for you to actually play demos of many brawlers' games like Super Mario Bros. (Mario), Metroid (Samus), as well as the games of less popular characters in the line-up. Note that they are mere demos and not free games (though it has not been confirmed whether all of them are demoes). It has been delayed to March 9, but Wii owners are keeping their fingers crossed in hopes that Nintendo won't let them down. (Well, I think doubts should be cast aside anyway, because Japanese gaming publication Famitsu gave SSBB a perfect 40/40 wherein 4 critics give 10 points each.)