A poll for Wii Owners

The Game Room
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We’ve all heard the claim that the Wii is being bought by a lot of non-gamers and personally, I think there’s some truth to it. I’m curious to see if it’s true.

I was thinking about it and I figured that new or non gamers would not buy or play as many games as gamers and that they would pick different games so I came up with a poll. And yes, I realize that non-gamers are less likely to visit the Game Room to begin with but there’s not much I can do about that.

1. How long have you owned your Wii?
2. What games do you own?
3. What games have you rented/borrowed?
4. What consoles do you/have you owned (including hand held consoles)?
5. Do you consider yourself to be a gamer?

Feel free to ask someone’s opinion on a game they’ve played if you’re curious about it.

My answers:

1. How long have you owned your Wii?

Since it launched

2. What games do you own?

-Wii Sports
-Rayman Raving Rabbids
-The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
-Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
-Super Paper Mario
-Metroid Prime: Corruption
-Super Mario Galaxy
-Guitar Hero 3
-No More Heroes
-Super Smash Brothers Brawl

3. What games have you rented/borrowed/tried?

-Super Monkey Ball
-Excite Truck
-Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
-Trauma Center: Second Opinion
-Mario Strikers Charged
-Rayman Raving Rabbids 2
-Resident Evil 4
-Mario Party 8
-Bust-a-Move Bash
-Endless Ocean
-NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams
-Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree
-WarioWare Smooth Moves
-Wii Play
-Bully

4. What consoles do you/have you owned (including hand held consoles)?

-Nintendo
-SEGA Game Gear
-Gameboy Color
-Gamecube
-Sometimes PC games

5. Do you consider yourself to be a gamer?

I would say, “I guess so.” I think that I play enough games since getting my wii to be considered a gamer. Before owning it I didn’t really play games at all. I sold my gamecube to a friend years ago. I played PC games a lot more in high school (7 years ago). I’m actually surprised at how many Wii games I’ve played since I got it now that I look at the full list.

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1. How long have you owned your Wii?

About 8 months.

2. What games do you own?

Wii Sports
Twilight Princess
Super Paper Mario
Zack and Wiki

3. What games have you rented/borrowed?

Wario Ware
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Wii Play

4. What consoles do you/have you owned (including hand held consoles)?

Almost all of the major ones from the Atari 2600 onward. I’ve never owned a Game Gear, PS3, or PSP.

5. Do you consider yourself to be a gamer?

Absolutely. My wife actually bought the Wii for me and I only play it occasionally. I like having it for system exclusives and the Virtual Console. For cross platform titles though, give me a traditional controller and HD graphics please.

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1. How long have you owned your Wii?

Since April '07, so about 11 months now.

2. What games do you own?

Presuming you mean Wii-only games:

Wii Sports
Twilight Princess
Metroid Prime 3
Elebits
Rayman Raving Rabbids
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Super Mario Galaxy

I think there may be more, but I can’t recall them right now. There’s also a host of Gamecube games that I still play using the Wii.

3. What games have you rented/borrowed?

I don’t rent, as a general rule.

4. What consoles do you/have you owned (including hand held consoles)?

NES
Game Boy
Game Boy Color
Super NES
Sega Genesis
Game Boy Advance
Nintendo 64
Playstation (first one)
Dreamcast
Gamecube
X-Box (not 360)
Wii

I also intend to buy the 360 at some point.

5. Do you consider yourself to be a gamer?

…Yes? :wink:

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  1. How long have you owned your Wii?

Since Dec 27, 2007

  1. What games do you own?

Wii Sports, Wii Play, Super Mario Galaxy, Links Crossbow Training

  1. What games have you rented/borrowed?

Super Paper Mario, Mario Party 8, Zelda whatever its called

  1. What consoles do you/have you owned (including hand held consoles)?

Atari 2600
NES
Gameboy
Gameboy color
Sega Genesis
N64
GameCube

I have in the past had extended possession of a playstation and a Super NES, but they weren’t mine.

  1. Do you consider yourself to be a gamer?

Not anymore. I can play for stretches when I feel like it, but when I start to get frustrated (for example, I have 119 stars in SMG but that last one requires running around on spinning/disappearing floors with bad camera angles and is just annoying), I just turn it off. I’m more into the casual stuff now.

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1. How long have you owned your Wii?

Got it for Christmas 2007.

2. What games do you own?

Wii Sports
Super Mario Galaxy
Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga

Virtual Console: F-Zero, Super Street Fighter II

3. What games have you rented/borrowed/tried?

Wii Play
Mario Party 8
Resident Evil 4
Super Paper Mario
Metroid Prime 3
Super Smash Bros. Brawl

4. What consoles do you/have you owned (including hand held consoles)?

NES
SNES
Nintendo 64
GameCube
PlayStation
PlayStation 2
Dreamcast
GameBoy
GameBoy Color
GBA
DS Lite
Game Gear

5. Do you consider yourself to be a gamer?

Yes. I took kind of an extended break for a few years after graduating college. At the time I was playing a lot of Dreamcast and GameCube. Graduation, new job, engagement, marriage, and new house kind of intruded and I stopped playing games often. Then over the past year or so I picked up a DS Lite, Wii, and (finally!) PS2. Lately I’ve been mostly catching up on all the PS2 games I missed during my drought, but also playing a bit of new stuff on Wii. (In all honesty, the Wii was an unexpected gift, and while I love it, I probably would have picked up a PSP and PS3 before I got around to buying it myself.)

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  1. Since last summer.

  2. Super Smash Brothers Brawl
    Bleach: Shattered Blade
    Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution
    Rayman Raving Rabbids
    Super Paper Mario
    Metroid Prime Corruption
    Mario & Sonic Olympics
    Mario Party 8
    Bust-a-Move Bash
    Zack and Wiki
    Super Mario Galaxy

  3. Trauma Center: Second Opinion

  4. Myself:
    -NES
    -N64
    -GB
    -GBA
    -DS
    -PS1

I also have a PS2 via my husband.

  1. Lifelong geekette and proud of it :slight_smile:
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1. How long have you owned your Wii?

I think roughly a year, but I could be off on that.
2. What games do you own?

Wii Sports
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
Resident Evil 4
Prince of Persia Rival Swords
Mercury Meltdown Revolution
Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords
Metal Slug Anthology

(I’ve downloaded tons on virtual console as well–probably 90% of my Wii playing over the past six months has been virtual console games.)

3. What games have you rented/borrowed?

None, I haven’t rented a video game in about 7 years.

4. What consoles do you/have you owned (including hand held consoles)?

Here we go:

Atari 2600
Intellivision
ColecoVision
NES
Sega Genesis
SNES
Sega Saturn
PlayStation
Nintendo 64
Sega DreamCast
PlayStation 2
Xbox
Xbox 360
Nintendo Wii
Game Boy
Game Boy Color
Game Boy Advance
DS

5. Do you consider yourself to be a gamer?

Before I discovered arcades, I was a pinball machine addict at bowling alleys and other such places. From the late 70s/early 80s on I’ve been pretty serious about gaming. I spent sacks full of quarters in arcades in the early 80s, bought several of the early home video game systems. I was primarily an arcade gamer though until the NES started to release some genuinely good titles.

In the era of the Genesis/SNES, I didn’t play console video games very much as I felt the market had shifted more towards children’s games and there weren’t as many titles I was interested in. I played PC games mostly from 1992-1996 or so, with the release of the PlayStation I felt that more games for adult audiences were being pushed and I’ve played consoles heavily since that time (though I still play a lot of games on the PC as well.)

So yeah, I consider myself a gamer :p.

I tend to like a lot of genres. My favorites are " twitch-reflex" type games that are similar to the arcade games of the early 80s which relied solely on fast reflexes and decision making, turn-based strategy games, puzzle games, and first person shooters. I’ve never been a huge fan of platform games or racing games.

I mostly bought the Wii for the virtual console and because Nintendo typically releases a few system-exclusive games every generation that are “must play.”

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1. How long have you owned your Wii?

Since launch day.

2. What games do you own?

Wii Sports
Zelda: Twilight Princess
Call Of Duty 3
Excite Truck
Rampage
Rayman Raving Rabbids
WarioWare Smooth Moves
Super Paper Mario
Pokemon Battle Revolution
Super Mario Galaxy
Guitar Hero III Legends of Rock
Link’s Crossbow Training
Super Smash Bros. Brawl

3. What games have you rented/borrowed?

None

4. What consoles do you/have you owned (including hand held consoles)?

Atari 2600
NES
Sega Genesis
Playstation
Gamecube
Xbox
PS2
Wii
Xbox 360
Gameboy
Gameboy Color
Gameboy Advance
Nintendo DS

5. Do you consider yourself to be a gamer?

Not anymore. I think old age has finally caught up with me.

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1. How long have you owned your Wii?
About 14 months.

2. What games do you own?
Wii Sports
Twilight Princess
Sonic and the Secret Rings
Wario Ware: Smooth Moves
Metroid Prime 3
Super Paper Mario
Mario Strikers Charged!
Mario Party 8
Resident Evil 4
DDR: Hottest Party
Super Mario Galaxy
The Simpsons Game
No More Heroes
Super Smash Bros: Brawl!

  1. What games have you rented/borrowed?
    None other than what I’ve bought, really.

  2. What consoles do you/have you owned (including hand held consoles)?
    My last console was the Sega Master System (but see below).

  3. Do you consider yourself to be a gamer?
    Hard to say. The reason I haven’t owned a console in so long was that college, med school, and residency didn’t allow much time (or money) for gaming. (It could have, but I had other ways I wanted to spend my very limited time and money.) I did a fair bit of PC gaming during that time, but I stayed away from the consoles because I knew they would eat up more time than I had to give.

These days, when I’m happily employed, I’m still not somebody who plays every day, but when I do play I like fairly serious games.

So it depends on how you define “gamer”. Sorry.

For another data point, my wife is emphatically not a gamer, and loves the Wii.

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What games does she play?

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  1. How long have you owned your Wii?
    Roughly…1 week.
  2. What games do you own?
    WiiSports, WiiWhateverComesWiththeConsole and Zelda.
  3. What games have you rented/borrowed?
    None for the Wii yet.
  4. What consoles do you/have you owned (including hand held consoles)?
    Nintendo, Super Nintendo, N64, Game Boy, Game Gear, Game Cube, Playstation 2 and Xbox (both vicariously) Xbox 360.
  5. Do you consider yourself to be a gamer?
    Yeah. I do.
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Mostly Wii Sports, Mario Party 8, Wario Ware, and DDR. She’s dabbled in a few others, but generally has zero interest in traditionally structured games.

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  1. How long have you owned your Wii?
    About a year

  2. What games do you own?
    Wii Sports (of course)
    Madden '08
    Endless Ocean
    Arctic Tale
    Zeda: Twilight Princess
    Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
    The Simpsons
    Shrek 3
    Table Tennis
    Mario Galaxy
    Call of Duty 3
    Guitar Hero 3
    Some Word Building Game my wife bought

  3. What games have you rented/borrowed?
    None

  4. What consoles do you/have you owned (including hand held consoles)?
    I bought a used PS2 about two years ago, bfore that I think the last system I had was a Colecovision

  5. Do you consider yourself to be a gamer?
    No

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  1. How long have you owned your Wii?
    About a month
  2. What games do you own?
    Wii Sports, Nights:Journey of Dreams, Pokemon Battle Revolution (Which sucks) and Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games.
  3. What games have you rented/borrowed?
    None. Not just Wii though, I’ve never rented a game that I can recall.
  4. What consoles do you/have you owned (including hand held consoles)?
    SNES, PS1, PS2.
  5. Do you consider yourself to be a gamer?
    Yes.
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  1. How long have you owned your Wii?

Since Feb. 4 2007

  1. What games do you own?

Wii Sports
WarioWare: Smooth Moves
Tiger Woods 2007
Super Paper Mario
Super Mario Galaxy
Zack and Wiki: The Quest for Barbaro’s Treasure
WiiPlay

My sons also use my system and they have bought:
Happy Feet
Zelda:Twilight Princess
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
3. What games have you rented/borrowed?
Elebits
Super Monkey Ball:Banana Blitz
The kid’s have also rented a few games
4. What consoles do you/have you owned (including hand held consoles)?
Atari 2600
NES
GameBoy
Nintendo DS
(The boy’s have a PS2 and a Gamecube that I played some)
5. Do you consider yourself to be a gamer?

I guess I would say I am a gamer, but not a hardcore gamer.

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  1. We got ours near the end of July '07, so less than a year.

  2. Other than Wii Sports, we have Wario Smooth Moves, Wii Play, Super Paper Mario, Super Mario Galaxy, Mario & Sonic at the Olympics…actually, I think that’s it. ETA: OH! And I downloaded Elevator Action from the Nintendo Store because that game has a special place in my heart. :slight_smile:

  3. None so far.

  4. As a couple, we’ve had a Sega Genesis, a PS1 and PS2, and we currently own a PS3 along with the Wii. No handhelds. I’ve also owned an Atari 2600 and the original NES back in the day.

  5. Not really. I tend to play sports games and the rare platformer. I’m not at all into FPSs or anything else. Maybe a good driving game once in a while.

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1. How long have you owned your Wii?

Since launch.

2. What games do you own?

Wii Sports
Wii Play
Zelda
Guitar Hero 3
Mario Galaxy
Metroid
RE4
Zack & Wiki
Excite Truck
Smash Bros
Super Paper Mario
Big Brain Academy
Link’s Crossbow Training

3. What games have you rented/borrowed?

Mario Strikers
Mario & Sonic Olympics
Raving Rabbids

4. What consoles do you/have you owned (including hand held consoles)?

NES
SNES
Genesis
PS
PS2
N64
GC

Game Boy
Game Gear
GBA
DS

5. Do you consider yourself to be a gamer?

Yes

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Is it worth noting that most respondents already have a very strong history with Nintendo?

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So far, we’re gamers or former gamers. Before the Playstation came out, Nintendo was the undisputed king.

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And they’ve always been the king of handhelds. The N64 and even the Gamecube might have done poorly, but from the original brick of a Game Boy on to the DS Lite, their handhelds have always been worth buying.

EDIT: Unless you count the Virtual Boy as a portable console. That was a real :smack: moment for Nintendo, for sure.