# A poll for Wii Owners **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 27, 2008, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-wii-owners/442919 "2008-03-27T15:48:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-wii-owners/442919/21 "2008-03-27T19:36:43Z")
[QUOTE=Ice Cream Man] **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?** [/QUOTE] 1. It’s was a Mutual Gift between my little sister (age 16) and myself. We got it Christmas 2007 2. Own: SSB:Brawl, Zelda, Fire Emblem, Unlimited Oceans, Wii Sports/Wii play, Mario Galaxy. 3. None. 4. Sister: the New Game Boy before the DS. / Me: Original Game Boy, Sega Genesis, PS1, PS2. 5. My sister is not. I consider myself to be a Gamer. I was a huge fan of the PS1 & 2, and I loved my sega from when I was kid. I also regular play computer games, and in college, I loved to play SSB: Melee for the Gamecube. My sister only has really played Pokemon on her Gameboy, but now she likes that Unlimited Oceans, the Wii sports, and she’s slowly learning how to play Brawl. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Credible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-wii-owners/442919/22 "2008-03-27T20:20:40Z")
**1. How long have you owned your Wii?** Since Christmas, so about 3 months. **2. What games do you own?** Wii Play, Wii Sports, Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix, Red Steel, and Blazing Angels **3. What games have you rented/borrowed?** None, yet. **4. What consoles do you/have you owned (including hand held consoles)?** In my whole life? Atari 2600, Action Max, NES, Super NES, Sega Genesis, Game Boy, Game Gear, Sega CD (boy was that a joke), Playstation, PS2, and the Wii. The PS2 and Wii are all that I currently own. **5. Do you consider yourself to be a gamer?** Honestly, no, not really. When I was younger I definately did. Like most kids my age, I played lots of video games in the 80’s and 90’s, sometimes for hours at a time, every day. Now? Not so much. I used to feel like I was doing something good or useful when I spent all my time beating some RPG or taking the Phoenix Suns to 82 and 0, but now when I play a video game, I just feel like I am wasting my time. There is that nagging feeling that I could have done something better with my time. One of the biggest draws for me in getting a Wii was that my wife and I could play together. She wanted to get one as much as I did. This thread has reminded me of that movie The Wizard. I would love to watch that again. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Cream\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ice\_Cream\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Cream_Man)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-wii-owners/442919/23 "2008-03-27T20:40:42Z")
[QUOTE=Justin Credible] This thread has reminded me of that movie The Wizard. I would love to watch that again. [/QUOTE] And the big reveal: Super Mario Bros. 3!!! That kid with the powerglove was bad ass. [QUOTE=DoctorJ] 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. [/quote] This has been my experience too. My girlfriend will play non-traditional games like Big Brain Academy or old virtual console games that she remembers but not any of the traditionally “gamer” games. I wonder how polarized the Wii’s owners are in terms of what games appeal to them. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-wii-owners/442919/24 "2008-03-27T20:41:06Z")
1. How long have you owned your Wii? Since Christmas of first launch 2. What games do you own? Metroid 3 Super Smash Bros Zelda Mercury Madness tons of Gamecube games 3. What games have you rented/borrowed? None 4. What consoles do you/have you owned (including hand held consoles)? _deep breath_ Atari 2600, Odyssey 2, Intellevision, NES, SNES, Sega, Dreamcast, and myriad PCs such as Vic 20, AppleIII, C64, Mac, and onward to today 5. Do you consider yourself to be a gamer? See above, although the pinnacle of electronic gaming fun was achieved by the arcade [Elevator Action](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevator_Action) ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-wii-owners/442919/25 "2008-03-27T20:47:48Z")
**1. How long have you owned your Wii?** Less than a month. **2. What games do you own?** Played- Wii Sports Carnival Games Mario & Sonic at the Olympics Endless Ocean Not played yet- Super Mario Galaxy Crash of the Titans Thrillville Heatseeker (bundled with machine) Resident Evil (bundled with machine) **3. What games have you rented/borrowed?** None yet **4. What consoles do you/have you owned (including hand held consoles)?** We have PSPs for our kids that I have used to watch movies on airplanes, plus my son has a Game Cube that I never played, and I bought my husband a Nintendo way back when he was in law school but I never played it. And I think I had an Atari as a kid (early 80’s). **5. Do you consider yourself to be a gamer?** Nope. But I don’t know how I lived without my Wii all these years. I freaking love it. Deb, 40 years old, mother of two ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Cream\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ice\_Cream\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Cream_Man)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-wii-owners/442919/26 "2008-03-27T20:59:16Z")
**EJsGirl** , I notice that you played the games that are not traditionally “gamer” games first. Is there a particular reason for that? What about those games appealed to you more than, say, Mario Galaxy? Having enjoyed the games you’ve played, do you feel like you’re more likely to play traditional games that never previously appealed to you? ---
**Author:** ![Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/48db29/32.png) [@Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Key_Lime_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-wii-owners/442919/27 "2008-03-27T21:41:55Z")
**1. How long have you owned your Wii?** 3 months (since Christmas). **2. What games do you own?** -Wii Sports -Wii Play -Carnival **3. What games have you rented/borrowed/tried?** (best to worst) -Godfather: Blackhand Edition -Bully -Winter Sports -Game Party -CSI: Hard Evidence -Trauma Center: Second Opinion -Tony Hawk’s Downhill Jam -The Simpsons -Mario Galaxy **4. What consoles do you/have you owned (including hand held consoles)?** none since the Atari 2600 **5. Do you consider yourself to be a gamer?** Absolutely not. ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-wii-owners/442919/28 "2008-03-27T21:52:39Z")
1. How long have you owned your Wii? About three months. 1. What games do you own? Wii Sports, Wii Play, Super Mario Galaxy, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Super Paper Mario 1. What games have you rented/borrowed? None 1. What consoles do you/have you owned (including hand held consoles)? PS2, PSP, PS1, GameCube, N64, Super Nintendo, NES, Gameboy Advance SP, Gameboy, Sega Genesis, Atari 2600 1. Do you consider yourself to be a gamer? Yep, though I’m not a hardcore console gamer anymore (mostly due to the high start-up costs of buying consoles and the lack of games that I am interested in). ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Cream\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ice\_Cream\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Cream_Man)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-wii-owners/442919/29 "2008-03-27T22:04:00Z")
[QUOTE=Key Lime Guy] **1. How long have you owned your Wii?** **3. What games have you rented/borrowed/tried?** (best to worst) -Godfather: Blackhand Edition -Bully -Winter Sports -Game Party -CSI: Hard Evidence -Trauma Center: Second Opinion -Tony Hawk’s Downhill Jam -The Simpsons -Mario Galaxy [/QUOTE] So Godfather is good? I really like Bully and was thinking of trying Godfather? Why was it better? And did you really think that Mario Galaxy was the worst?! ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-wii-owners/442919/30 "2008-03-27T22:11:11Z")
**1. How long have you owned your Wii?** About a year, I think **2. What games do you own?** Paper Mario, Super Mario Galaxy, Tiger Woods Golf, and of course the basic sports disk, along with Wario Ware. My youngest has more, including Zelda, that I haven’t touched. **3. What games have you rented/borrowed?** None **4. What consoles do you/have you owned (including hand held consoles)?** I began with Pong, moved to Intellivision, Super Nintendo, N 64, GameCube, and now the Wii. **5. Do you consider yourself to be a gamer?** Nope. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-wii-owners/442919/31 "2008-03-27T22:37:27Z")
[QUOTE=Ice Cream Man] **EJsGirl** , I notice that you played the games that are not traditionally “gamer” games first. Is there a particular reason for that? What about those games appealed to you more than, say, Mario Galaxy? Having enjoyed the games you’ve played, do you feel like you’re more likely to play traditional games that never previously appealed to you? [/QUOTE] I started out on the same ones we started my young sons on- they are 6 & 8. And I wasn’t intimidated by bowling! 😉 But seriously, the intimidation factor is a big part of it- I don’t want to feel like a dork because I can’t master a damned video game. And of course, the “big swingy” games aren’t the kind of thing I could have done on a standard platform, so there was the “neat-o” factor. Mario Galaxy looks awesome, so I will try it. ---
**Author:** ![Fredescu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/73ab20/32.png) [@Fredescu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fredescu)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-wii-owners/442919/32 "2008-03-27T23:05:46Z")
**1. How long have you owned your Wii?** About 9 months. **2. What games do you own?** Resident Evil 4 Mercury Meltdown Revolution Super Mario Galaxy Excite Truck Endless Ocean Wii Play Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 Mario Strikers Charged SSX Blur Red Steel **3. What games have you rented/borrowed?** Mostly borrowed from a friend, rental prices are pretty expensive in my area. Heatseeker Elebits/Eledees Zelda: Twilight Princess Kororinpa Rampage Rayman Raving Rabbids Warioware Smooth Moves Super Monkey Ball Blitz Tiger Woods 07 Tony Hawks Downhill Jam Sonic and the Secret Rings Spider-Man 3 **4. What consoles do you/have you owned (including hand held consoles)?** Current Gen: Nintendo DS Nintendo Wii Xbox 360 Have been borrowing a PSP, and am close to buying my own Little Big Planet means a PS3 is an inevitability too Prior: Colecovision NES SNES N64 Gamecube Gameboy Living in share houses for years I’ve had access to PS1 and PS2, but I don’t have at the moment. I’m going to borrow a PS2 off a friend soon to play a few games that I missed. **5. Do you consider yourself to be a gamer?** Yes. I have a bad habit of buying more games than I play, and I sometimes spend more time reading about games than playing them. The Wii kind of got me back into consoles though, after a far too long dalliance with MMORPGs. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-wii-owners/442919/33 "2008-03-27T23:11:43Z")
[QUOTE=Ice Cream Man] And the big reveal: Super Mario Bros. 3!!! That kid with the powerglove was bad ass. [/QUOTE] I love the Powerglove. It’s so bad. 😃 **1. How long have you owned your Wii?** Almost a year. **2. What games do you own?** In no particular order… Wii Sports Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Rayman Raving Rabbids Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 Super Mario Strikers Super Mario Galaxy Super Paper Mario Metroid Prime 3 Super Smash Brothers Brawl Warioware Lego Star Wars (Complete Saga) Excite Truck Elebits Cooking Mama **3. What games have you rented/borrowed?** None. **4. What consoles do you own (including hand held consoles)?** In order of acquisition… NES Super NES Game Boy GameCube Game Boy Advance DS **5. Do you consider yourself to be a gamer?** No…I consider myself more of a Nintendo Fan Girl. ---
**Author:** ![Kiros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/439d5e/32.png) [@Kiros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiros)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-wii-owners/442919/34 "2008-03-27T23:16:19Z")
**1. How long have you owned your Wii?** About a month and a half now. I’ve wanted one for a while, but not badly enough to camp out for it; I had a Friday off a while back, and I knew my local Toys R Us gets their shipments on that day usually, so I called a couple times and picked one up when they got it in. **2. What games do you own?** Super Mario Galaxy Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn Super Smash Bros. Brawl (and Wii Sports of course) I think I am picking up the Williams Pinball Hall of Fame collection next time I kick out an Amazon order, as well. **3. What games have you rented/borrowed?** None… though I have played a fairly extensive sampling of the earlier library on the Wiis that my early-adopter friends picked up or at parties, including Raving Rabbids, Metroid, Mario Party, WarioWare, Twilight Princess, Madden, and probably several that I’m forgetting. **4. What consoles do you/have you owned (including hand held consoles)?** In roughly the order that I got them: Atari 2600 SNES Game Boy Genesis Sega CD 32X (to whomever above was trashing on the Sega CD… the Sega CD was awesome, THIS was the joke!) Game Boy Color Nintendo 64 Playstation Dreamcast Game Boy Advance Nintendo DS Playstation 2 I also lived in a house with a GameCube as well as had dorm-mates with XBoxes, and have played most of the relevant games on those two systems. **5. Do you consider yourself to be a gamer?** Absolutely - and on top of the above, I’m probably a bigger PC gamer than anything else, especially for the past decade or so. ---
**Author:** ![Pollux\_Oil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/858c86/32.png) [@Pollux\_Oil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pollux_Oil)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2008, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-wii-owners/442919/35 "2008-03-29T01:30:58Z")
**1. How long have you owned your Wii?** Got it in September last year, but due to self-restraint didn’t start playing it until December. I went into Best Buy randomly one day and saw they had 3 Wiis sitting there in the floor. I took one. **2. What games do you own?** -Wii Sports -Rayman Raving Rabbids -Super Paper Mario -Super Mario Galaxy -Zack and Wiki -Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn -Mario Party 8 -Super Smash Bros Brawl **3. What games have you rented/borrowed/tried?** -Elebits (didn’t like it) -Trauma Center (didn’t like it) -Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (love it, will get it) -Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (love it, will get it) -WarioWare Smooth moves (like it as a party game, would get it if more of my friends liked it) **4. What consoles do you/have you owned (including hand held consoles)?** Console: NES Super NES Nintendo 64 Wii Playstation Playstation 2 Handheld: Game Boy Game Boy Color Game Boy Advance DS **5. Do you consider yourself to be a gamer?** Yes I do! I don’t think I’m a particularly good game, but I still think I’m one. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2008, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-wii-owners/442919/36 "2008-03-29T04:58:10Z")
**1. How long have you owned your Wii?** Since April 07 **2. What games do you own?** Wii Sports Super Mario Galaxy Super Smash Bros Brawl Resident Evil 4 Wii Play Link’s Crossbow Training Excite Truck And a whole passel of Virtual Console games **3. What games have you rented/borrowed/tried?** Nitrobike Ghost Squad **4. What consoles do you/have you owned (including hand held consoles)?** Atari 2600 NES Game Boy Super NES & Genesis (never owned, but played them a lot at friend’s/relative’s) Nintendo 64 PlayStation 2 (also used it for PSone games) GameCube GBA & GBA SP Dreamcast Xbox 360 DS Wii **5. Do you consider yourself to be a gamer?** Hell yes. It actually surprises me how many have listed a half dozen or more consoles owned and then say “no.” If you’re not a gamer, then who is? ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-wii-owners/442919/37 "2008-03-30T00:42:34Z")
**1. How long have you owned your Wii?** Since 2 days before they were on sale in the US. Hookups in the business. **2. What games do you own?** Battalion Wars II Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn The Legend Of Zelda: Twilight Princess Link’s Crossbow Training Metroid Prime 3 No More Heroes Rayman: Raving Rabbids Red Steel Super Mario Galaxy Super Paper Mario Super Smash Bros Brawl Trauma Center: Second Opinion Trauma Center: New Blood Wii Sports Wii Play **3. What games have you rented/borrowed?** Mercury Meltdown Go! Go! Minon Koropinpa Mario Party 8 **4. What consoles do you/have you owned (including hand held consoles)?** NES SNES Game Boy (the brick, green color) N64 GBA SP DS DS Lite PS2 PSP Wii Xbox 360 PC **5. Do you consider yourself to be a gamer?** Yes? ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-wii-owners/442919/38 "2008-03-31T09:59:32Z")
1. How long have you owned your Wii? Two weeks. 1. What games do you own? Wii Sports, Wii Play, Super Mario Galaxy, and Zack & Wiki 1. What games have you rented/borrowed? I’ve tried Guitar Hero 3 and Dance Dance Revolution Hottest Party on my sister’s Wii. 1. What consoles do you/have you owned (including hand held consoles)? NES, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Playstation 2 1. Do you consider yourself to be a gamer? I don’t know. Probably. I play a lot of games, but they are generally not “gamer”-type games. I only bought the PS2 to play DDR, and never really got into any other games for it. I love the DS, though, and am very surprised by how much I am playing and enjoying the Wii. As far as non-gamers enjoying the Wii–my parents, both in their 60’s, want one. They haven’t had any sort of console in their house since the NES, and they certainly never played with that after a few deaths on level 1-1 of Super Mario Bros. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-wii-owners/442919/39 "2008-03-31T12:15:35Z")
**1. How long have you owned your Wii?** I got one as a gift last Christmas (2008). **2. What games do you own?** Lessee: Wii Sports, which came with it, plus: - Elebits - Rayman Raving Rabbids - Big Brain Academy - The Simpsons Game - Rampage: Total Destruction - LEGO: Star Wars - Super Mario Galaxy - Super Smash Bros. Brawl **3. What games have you rented/borrowed?** Nothin’. **4. What consoles do you/have you owned (including hand held consoles)?** I now also have a Nintendo DS Lite, after I got my kids a couple of them and felt like I could use one on my 45-minute train commute. It’s sucked 17 hours of my life away playing _Professor Layton and the Curious Village_ so far. I’ve never owned any gaming console, when I was a lad my gaming platform of choice was the C=64 and through the 90s, my PC (for Doom, Quake, Half-Life, etc. types of games – the last one I got into was Wolfenstein 3D). **5. Do you consider yourself to be a gamer?** Not really, no. ---
**Author:** ![Arch\_Trout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9f8e36/32.png) [@Arch\_Trout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arch_Trout)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-wii-owners/442919/40 "2008-03-31T12:16:51Z")
**1. How long have you owned your Wii?** Since launch. **2. What games do you own?** Zelda Mario Wii Play Wii Sports Wario Ware About a dozen Virtual Console games. **3. What games have you rented/borrowed?** None **4. What consoles do you/have you owned (including hand held consoles)?** Gameboy Gameboy Pocket Gameboy Color Gameboy Advance Gameboy Advance SP Gameboy Micro Nintendo DS Nintendo DS Lite NES SNES Nintendo 64 Gamecube Playstation Playstation 2 Sega Megadrive Xbox Xbox 360 **5. Do you consider yourself to be a gamer?** Yes. So much so that I find the Wii to be far too casual. Apart from Zelda and Mario there’s not a game I would want to play for more than 10 minutes at a time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-wii-owners/442919.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-wii-owners/442919.md?page=3)