In our on-going effort to prepare the house for selling I decided to rid myself of all my gaming consoles except for my Wii. I traded it all in and got a decent chunk of change for everything, enough to buy a new game or two.
With the extra money burning a hole in my pocket I decided to pick up Wii Play. I was a little more than disappointed with it. Wii Play plays more like a game demo than an actual full fledged game. It’s a collection of 9 simple to play games – ping pong, skeet shooting, cow riding, and pool just to name a few. None of the games have any depth to them at all. Single player ping pong requires the player to “volley” the ball back to the computer. That’s it, there is no game. Just volley the ball back as much as possible. While skeet shooting has more of a competition feel than ping pong, it still falls very short of fun. In skeet shooting you are quickly hustled through 5 rounds of shooting. First you shoot at balloons, followed by targets, then clay pigeons, cans, and lastly aliens. It’s funny for a few minutes but quickly loses it’s appeal when you realize that regardless of how lousy you are at shooting, you will always and only go through these 5 rounds.
This brings me to my actual point about the Wii. Nintendo and their developers need to start cashing in on this thing. Demand is still soaring high but there’s a glut of games out there. Of the 15-20 games available very few are worth spending $50. I hope they get their act together otherwise the Wii will end up just like every other console I’ve had.
