One of the toughest decisions for gamers is which console to buy: each offers games and features you don’t get on the other. If you have a thousand bucks or so to spend, we say buy them all. Otherwise, here are the top five reasons why the Wii might be the console for you.
Using PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii in 2022
For years, the Wii's biggest selling point was its gesture-based controls, which allowed you to play a sword game by swinging the remote like a sword, or throw a football by simulating an overhand throwing motion. This wonderfully intuitive system was so well-received that Microsoft and Sony launched competitors, the Kinect and PlayStation Move, which added gesture gaming to their systems for a price.
The technology for these two new gesture-based systems is good, especially in the case of the Kinect, but what they both lack is the Wii's vast library of gesture-based games. There are a great many games for the Wii, including such impressive offerings as:
And there are more. It took years to make this many games for the Wii, and it will be years before the Kinect and Move even come close to what the Wii has to offer.
