Top Wii Bundle, Color matter of taste

Background:
The Nintendo Wii has completely shaken up the market for game consoles some year ago and expanded the audience massively (see Blue Ocean Strategy): After the revolutionary for a console control beginning of the competition Sony (Playstation) and Microsoft (XBox) was ridiculed, are has now been announced by two similar or even more extensive control systems. However, the emphasis is on announced because, as this will make the use at home, is completely written in the stars. Even if at all enough good games support this in the near future for these consoles, is still open. For the Wii all this exists, however, already now, especially the games of Nintendo itself can be almost completely recommended.

Controls: Wiimote, Nunchuk and MotionPlus
The control of the Wii is based on movement. The Wiimote and the Nunchuk are (the latter is not required for all games) in each hand held and detect motion and acceleration. So a ausholende striking motion with Wii Sports Tennis results in this same movement on the screen. This is so intuitive Nintendo managed that even newbies "there" are very fast and vibrate with joy the bat, sword or boxing gloves. The added Come contained in this bundle in 2009. Wii MotionPlus is plugged from below onto the WiiMote to enable motion detection in each direction. Impressively, this can be seen as the swordplay when contained Sports Resort: The sword actually performs 1: 1, the movements of the WiiMote in the player's hand.
Moreover, the Wiimote is used as a pointer instrument with which you move the mouse on the PC as a pointer on the screen and may click on buttons.
The controllers are connected wirelessly with the Wii, so need batteries, the corresponding batteries should therefore equal with schedule. Recommendation (especially considering the purchase of a second Wiimote and Balance Board is planning a): Sanyo eneloop battery Mignon / AA HR 3UTG 2000mAh 8er Bonus Pack

Graphics:
The big disadvantage of the Wii compared to the current generation game consoles or the latest PC games is clearly the rather weak graphics. Even at the launch in late 2006, she was no longer up to date and if the ravages of time gnawing somewhere particularly, of course in the field of graphics. The level of Xbox360 or Playstation3 is achieved under any circumstances, it is necessary to make clear carefully before purchasing: The appeal of the Wii is not based on hyper-realistic graphics. For whom this is the center, which is currently at Nintendo wrong. On the contrary, many of the best-selling games are equipped with rather simple graphics. In the enclosed sports games, players are about as a kind of cartoon characters (called. Mii) represented and not as a realistic people, as about the EA SPORTS FIFA games try.

Important - what the Wii is not so:
It is not Egoshooter- and action games console, the latest graphics of Call of Duty, GTA or Fallout 3 will not be found here, although the normal control panel joystick / pad is far superior for a FPS and almost PC-level reached so it is implemented correctly, such as in The Conduit. Who expects such a high-tech console, is not complaining about the Wii, but simply buy the PS3. For the Wii, however, is also cheaper than the competition.

Internet connection:
The online function of the Wii is really easy set up, especially if you have a wireless router, which takes only a few minutes - WLAN register and enter the password and ready. Then you can go by radio with the Wii to the Internet, download updates, various games to play online multiplayer games and download new games. About WiiWare games can oodles of old Nintendo games and even so-called new (both extra charge) are downloaded and installed on the Wii: In addition to bells and whistles such as news and weather channel in particular the Virtual Console (VC) is interesting.. Diverse Mario and Zelda classics are worth mentioning, but also the great new World of Goo (94% at Metacritic). The games will be paid about Nintendo Points, which you have to buy previously (Wii Points Card 2000). The very old NES games like the very first Mario you get sometimes even for 500 points, which corresponds to 5 euros, at N64 games you have to expect with the double and World of Goo costs about 1500. Also, Sega and C64 games are on offer. One slight criticism is in this context, the very small-sized hard disk of Wii. Old games can be downloaded virtually endless there, can you contrast with many newer at some point arrive at the boundaries. Since Nintendo had in 2009, so now quiet easy to install a larger drive three years after its launch, at no extra charge.

General:
The user interface is organized very clearly through channels. The Wii is quite compact and particularly quiet. It is compatible with previous Nintendo console Gamecube (GC), provided you have one (or more) corresponding controller has can play all the games on GC and GC memory card (not the Wii allows annoyingly the storage of GC savegames on the hard disk or an SD card). This is particularly interesting because a lot of very good GC games are still interesting and now can be conveniently purchased as second-hand goods at the flea market or on Amazon. Anyone planning this is operated eg good with this controller: Nintendo Wii / Gamecube Gamepad
Unfortunately, the Wii does not play easily DVD movies or even Blurays.

Bundled games include:
The special thing about this package is not only the black color, but also that you get more games than before, because the existing package included only the Wii and Wii Sports.
- Wii Sports (tennis, baseball, bowling, golf, boxing), especially tennis is a good game, even in Multiplayer
- Wii Sports Resort, the successor to Wii Sports. 12 new sports (table tennis, swordplay, frisbee, jet boat, air sports, basketball, archery, cycling, canoeing, wakeboarding and with new control Bowling and Golf), in my view, are particularly recommended swordplay and table tennis.
In games such as tennis or boxing, especially one actually comes after some time to sweat, an absolute novelty for a computer or console game.

Brief recommendations to get you started:
- Nintendo Wii - Remote black + Motion Plus black - another WiiMote (here the same in the matching color and with MotionPlus) is for multiplayer game a must
- Mario Kart Wii (including Wii Wheel -. Steering wheel) - a classic, with the new control system for the whole family a treat, disadvantage the white steering wheel
- Wii Fit Plus (incl. Wii Balance Board) - entry into fitness programs for the Wii. There may be better, but together with the Balance Board as a new ingenious input device and the new Plus version also Wii Fit is highly recommended
- World of Goo - less exercise than mental gymnastics plus some skill. Who something like Lemmings might is right here
- Other worthwhile games: [...]

For color:
In addition to the pure hype that love arises and ringing since the Apple color variations, it can of course be genuine reasons for a black Wii, as if she fits perfectly with the rest of the room furniture as TV or stereo. In this case, this Wii version is exactly the right. Concerns should, however, that the Wii is actually designed as a white product, accordingly all game cases are white and there are (still?) Not all accessories in black. Much, however, you can get directly from the introduction of the Wii Black, such as extra Wiimotes or Nunchuk. Nevertheless, you have to make cuts at the moment, either in terms of quality (but because there are only secondary products no Nintendo original in black, like the Wii Wheel) or the price (because additional purchases are necessary, like a black edition for a Balance Board) ,

Of course, there would still be paged to tell interesting details, such as to Miis (avatars with which one can represent themselves in many Nintendo games) or to the multiplayer features of the Wii, but this should be enough here.

Conclusion: If you have no Wii, but is convinced by this concept console, access should therefore equal. Even for parents as a Christmas present not a bad idea, since the Wii just does not "shooter on the couch" in the foreground, but movement and common game in the family. Who does not believe, just have to look at the various Youtube videos of grandmothers during Wiifit-Hulahoop. The black color is of course a matter of taste, but can be the last decisive argument when the Wii thus fits perfectly into the living room. Must mention negative one to save the very small hard drive, the inability GC games on this same plate, and of course, the no longer very contemporary graphics - as you this but I know and this is partly part of the concept of the Wii, I is not that enough for a deduction in the overall assessment. One should be aware only.