# 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:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-wii-owners/442919/41 "2008-03-31T13:29:28Z")
**1. How long have you owned your Wii?** About four months. We got it about two or three weeks before Christmas. **2. What games do you own?** Wii Sports Super Mario Galaxy Rayman’s Raving Rabbids Mercury Meltdown Revolution Guitar Hero III (just bought it this weekend) **3. What games have you rented/borrowed?** None **4. What consoles do you/have you owned (including hand held consoles)?** X-Box Playstation Sega Genesis NES Atari 2600 Magnavox Odyssey (yes, we’re going WAY back!) (I’m counting the last two even though technically my parents bought them) Also counting the PC, and the Handspring PDA that I played “Bejeweled” on so damned much that I wore a grid into the screen. **5. Do you consider yourself to be a gamer?** Probably more than your average 45-year-old, but on a scale of 1 to 10 I’d say maybe a 3 or 4. Having said that, my wife is actually the one who insisted on getting a Wii. (I think her exact words were, “If we get a big screen TV, we can get a Wii!” We got the Wii but I’m still waiting on the big screen TV. :)) I was planning on upgrading my X-Box to a 360 sometime this year but I haven’t even thought about it since we got the Wii. In fact, I think I’ve only played the X-Box a handful of times since then. We got Super Mario Galaxy and the Rayman game partly because we thought the grandkids (7, 8 and 9) would enjoy them, but all they ever want to play is Wii Sports. That will probably change now that we have Guitar Hero. ---
**Author:** ![mmouse9799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mmouse9799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mmouse9799)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-wii-owners/442919/42 "2008-03-31T14:15:05Z")
1. How long have you owned your Wii? Since Christmas-time 2. What games do you own? Wii Sports Endless Ocean My boyfriend has Super Mario Galaxy and a baseball game. 3. What games have you rented/borrowed? none 4. What consoles do you/have you owned (including hand held consoles)? Original Nintendo PC games 5. Do you consider yourself to be a gamer? Not really, though if a game is really good, I will find myself addicted to it. (Diablo II in college) ---
**Author:** ![Yumblie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/76d3ee/32.png) [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-wii-owners/442919/43 "2008-03-31T21:34:37Z")
1. How long have you owned your Wii? Since April '07. 1. What games do you own? Wii Sports (obviously) Zelda Twilight Princess Super Paper Mario Mario Galaxy Metroid Prime 3 Smash Bros Brawl 1. What games have you rented/borrowed? none 1. What consoles do you/have you owned (including hand held consoles)? NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, pretty much every iteration of Gameboy 1. Do you consider yourself to be a gamer? I guess so, though I only buy a few games per year. ---
**Author:** ![Tamryne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3e96dc/32.png) [@Tamryne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamryne)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-wii-owners/442919/44 "2008-03-31T23:20:32Z")
**1. How long have you owned your Wii?** Bought it in September/October 2007 **2. What games do you own?** Wii Sports Wii Play Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Super Mario Galaxy Battalion Wars II Sonic and the Secret Rings Need for Speed Pro-Street **3. What games have you rented/borrowed?** None **4. What consoles do you/have you owned (including hand held consoles)?** Game Boy Game Boy Color **5. Do you consider yourself to be a gamer?** I usually only play online games, the only reason I have the GB was for the many long family road trips as a kid. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Il_Palazzo)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-wii-owners/442919/45 "2008-04-01T21:13:44Z")
**1. How long have you owned your Wii?** Since January 2007. **2. What games do you own?** -Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2 -Ghost Squad -The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess -Marvel: Ultimate Alliance -Metroid Prime 3: Corruption -Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution -Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition -Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles -Super Paper Mario -Super Smash Bros. Brawl -Wario Ware: Smooth Moves -WiiPlay -WiiSports Plus various Virtual Console games **3. What games have you rented/borrowed?** -Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games -Pokemon Battle Revolution **4. What consoles do you/have you owned (including hand held consoles)?** -Atari 7800 -Gameboy (Original, Color, Advance, Advance SP) -Gamecube -PC (used occasionally for gaming) -Wii **5. Do you consider yourself to be a gamer?** Definitely. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Il_Palazzo)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-wii-owners/442919/46 "2008-04-01T21:24:02Z")
[QUOTE=Lord Il Palazzo] My previous post. [/QuOTE] I left off my Nintendo DS for question 4. ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-wii-owners/442919/47 "2008-04-11T12:10:20Z")
**1. How long have you owned your Wii?** Since April 2007 **2. What games do you own?** Cooking Mama Cook Off Super Smash Bros Brawl Petz Dogz 2 Bratz the Movie Bee Movie Game Disney Enchanted Journey Pokemon Battle Revolution Super Paper Mario Rayman Raving Rabbids Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 Prince of Persia: Rival Swords Zack and Wiki Open Season Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles Super Mario Galaxy Metroid Prime 2: Corruption Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Nicktoons: Attack of the Toybots Dragon Blade Shrek the Third Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree Elebits Marvel Ultimate Alliance Happy Feet Wii Play Dance Dance Revolution: Hottest Party Trauma Center: Second Opinion Ice Age 2: The Meltdown Boogie Brunswick Pro Bowling Mario Party 8 The Godfather: Blackhand Edition Mario Strikers Charged Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition Manhunt 2 The Simpsons Game High School Musical: Sing It Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Double Agent Barnyard Disney Pixar Cars Ninjabread Man Billy the Wizard Far Cry Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz Spiderman 3 Madden 07 Tamagotchi: Party On Excite Truck Rampage: Total Destruction Star Wars: The Complete Saga and Wii Sports **3. What games have you rented/borrowed?** None for the Wii. I buy 'em all (usually used) \*\* 4. What consoles do you/have you owned (including hand held consoles)?\*\* Wii Xbox 360 Game Boy Advance PS2 PSOne NES Game Boy Atari 2600 5-in-1 Pong Game **5. Do you consider yourself to be a gamer?** Not until I compiled this list. I guess so. ---
**Author:** ![Eben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a8b319/32.png) [@Eben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eben)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-wii-owners/442919/48 "2008-04-11T18:11:05Z")
**1. How long have you owned your Wii?** Since launch. **2. What games do you own?** Currently: Elebits Zelda Super Paper Mario Mario Party 8 Wii Play Boogie Excite Truck A ridiculous amount of the virtual console titles Red Steel **3. What games have you rented/borrowed?** I don’t find it worth the usual rental rates for most games… **4. What consoles do you/have you owned (including hand held consoles)?** Tandy 1000 TI 99/4A Amiga 500 Nintendo Entertainment System Super Nintendo Nintendo 64 Gamecube w/ Gameboy Player Atari Lynx Playstation PSOne with screen PS2 (old version) PS2 (new version) PSP Phat PSP Lite Gameboy Gameboy pocket Gameboy color Gameboy Advance Gameboy Micro DS Phat DS Lite Xbox Xbox 360 (launch model) Xbox 360 Elite Mulitple PCs used mainly for gaming over the years, usualy self-built Original Macintosh Intellivision 5. Do you consider yourself to be a gamer? Yep. And now that I’ve listed them out, I realize I’m a compulsive gaming nerd who must own every system! Well, the NES to PS1 era I didn’t buy many systems. I got the N64 and Gamecube after the Wii launch… Analysis: I play Excitebike more than anything else on the Wii. And I ‘play’ Everyone Votes more than Excitebike. Given that I have so many other consoles, I look to the Wii for non-traditional gaming, but I’m not sure that it’s worth it to me, even though I do love it. -Eben ---
**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:** [April 11, 2008, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-wii-owners/442919/49 "2008-04-11T18:20:11Z")
[QUOTE=Eben] Well, the NES to PS1 era I didn’t buy many systems. I got the N64 and Gamecube after the Wii launch… [/QUOTE] Why would you buy a gamecube when you own a wii? Why not just buy gamecube controllers? ---
**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:** [April 11, 2008, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-wii-owners/442919/50 "2008-04-11T18:36:39Z")
[QUOTE=Ice Cream Man] Why would you buy a gamecube when you own a wii? Why not just buy gamecube controllers? [/QUOTE] For the Game Boy Player? I know that’s the only reason I still have my GameCube. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-wii-owners/442919/51 "2008-04-11T19:35:05Z")
1. How long have you owned your Wii? Just after last Christmas. 2. What games do you own? Guitar Hero III, SSBros Brawl, Excite Truck, Sports, Rabbids 1, Pokemon Stadium, Transformers, Spider-Man (I was hoping for awesome. It’s still fun to swing around Manhattan, at least) Play, a golf game I forget the name of. 3. What games have you rented/borrowed? I don’t rent games. 4. What consoles do you/have you owned (including hand held consoles)? Pong. Atari 2600. NES. GBAC. PS2, GBASP. DS Lite. 5. Do you consider yourself to be a gamer? You could say that… though I’m a PC gamer by preference. And if we included my game machines, you’d see the wreckage of (mumble) years of electronics in my closet… ---
**Author:** ![Eben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a8b319/32.png) [@Eben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eben)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-wii-owners/442919/52 "2008-04-11T23:52:10Z")
[QUOTE=Justin\_Bailey] For the Game Boy Player? I know that’s the only reason I still have my GameCube. [/QUOTE] Exactly. Plus the GameCube got a LOT cheaper after the Wii came out. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-wii-owners/442919/53 "2008-04-12T00:37:25Z")
[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. Launch day. 2. Sports, Play, Zelda, Trauma Center, Marvel Super Heroes, Monkey Ball, RE4, Metroid, SMBG, Link’s Crossbow Training, SSBM, Harvey Birdman, and a few more that I can’t think of off the top of my head. 3. None. 4. Er… all of them. Well except XBox 360 and a PS3. Okay, there might be one or two other very low key ones that I don’t own but if a console has sold more than a million units I have one and I have quite a few that didn’t. 5. Obviously not. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-wii-owners/442919/54 "2008-04-12T14:12:32Z")
[QUOTE=Ice Cream Man] 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?** [/QUOTE] I’m not sure if this will help or not, I have a Wii in the house, but am not much of a console gamer. The kids play the Wii more than anyone else. 1. About a year 2. Sports, Play, Mario Galaxy. 3. I’m sure other stuff (Brainiac4 actually uses the console and rents games for the kids and himself, he may tell you). 4. In the house we have a Playstation 2, XBox360, 4 PCs. We’ve owned a Playstation 1. 5. Not really, I can get through songs on Medium on guitar hero. And I play a lot of City of Heroes. So more than your average 41 year old mother of two. But Brainiac4 will wax philosophically that we are all gamers - that I play minesweeper, solitaire and catch with my kids and that makes me a gamer - although my aversion to Halo3 may keep me from being a “Gamer.” ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-wii-owners/442919/55 "2008-04-12T14:31:52Z")
Oh, here is the thing about the Wii. Brainiac4’s 68 year old mother was over a weekend or so ago, and she was “bowling” with the kids. Not that she is going to go out and buy a Wii, but you won’t find her button smashing “War of the Monsters” with her grandson. On the other hand, she is a “gamer” - she plays computer games like Bejeweled, Myst and Solitaire. What the Wii has done is its captured some of the “Bejeweled” market from the PC to consoles. Now, you can say that people who don’t play FPSs and have aren’t gamers - they themselves probably wouldn’t identify as such, but its sort of a snobbish elitism. Plus, its timing is great. Many moms aren’t thrilled with kids sitting on the couch smashing buttons. They are more interested in a dance pad, a guitar controller, or a Wii nunchuck - at least the kid is moving. The rest of my family is currently playing RockBand on the 360 - the drums were bought last night and my eight year old daughter is the drummer. Our nine year old genetically preprogrammed boy is on guitar and Brainiac4 is being bored out of his skull by bass. I’m being recruited to try vocals. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-wii-owners/442919.md?page=2)