Of course the fact that you can aim your Wiimote at your TV. Other than that, not really.. but this one feature really outdoes all other. Well, maybe not all, but most.

this is such an old question, and I am tired of answering it (there are tons of points out there, just search)
for people who love to bash it, they will keep bashing it anyway

It is not "better," just different, and I got it because of that difference.

It offered me a new way to interact with games. It offers games that only Nintenod makes. I got it for the potential it represents and I hope that potential isn't missed by developers because of it being so much weaker that the PS360.

the key now is for developers not to stuck with the "pressing buttons" game playing mindset - there are other ways to play games.

Lol happend to me. I regreted getting Wii for like 8 months. It just sat there and I didn't use it. But then I learned to like my Wii so it wouldnt feel like such a waste of money.

its different. ps3 and 360 are basiclly the same games as last gen w better graphics. how many fps do i need to play.

the wii, well i am a nintendo fan boy, ive always liked them, and the wii was different from the others, 360s suprised me on how good it was, but it was all to much fps, but the wii felt like home with all my fav characters

I was always a Sega Fanboy but then sega died and I kinda floated ever since. Wii is the only console to have really excited me since the Saturn!

EDIT: just realised that means its the first console in over 10 years to have excited me!

I got the wii after getting bored w/ the playstation systems and girls prefer to play it instead of ps3 or xbox.

got it for a suprise xmas gift...but i love it now..

these dont really suit title.

i just liked getting more involved in games...like eyetoy was great beacuse you were in it same as wii

I feel that the Wii targets 3 untouched groups of the gaming world. One group is our younger society. I had to buy my 6 year old brother an Xbox 360 for Christmas because I couldn't find a Wii for cheaper than $500 dollars. He has two games, Viva Pinata and Star Wars Legos. That's it. Everything else on the 360 is rated M. The Wii has tons of games designed for younger people.

Another group is our casual gaming society. The people that like games that are easier to hop right into. The Wii has many simple mini-games that offer tons of fun.

For all the rest of us more hardcore Nintendo fans we have all of our classics. Something all other consoles do not offer. We have Mario, Donkey Kong, Link, Samus, Kirby, Mario Kart, Super Smash Bros, and all other types of platformers that I'm not mentioning. Sony did have Resident Evil but now it's on every other console and Halo is pretty much done. Thankfully all the platformers are incredible. Know that Nintendo has never been just about getting more money. They have always provided the finest games of the finest quality.

Because the Wii allows me to "shake the can".

*LOL*

no offence but your really misusing the word "platformer" there. a platfomer i s genre where the main objective in a level is to get past obsticals like in mario games.

the reason i got the is mainly because of the first party products that where there. motion control is a bonus. also my favourite genre is the platformers. and nintendo systems always get the most of those.

Damn. Well I appreciate being informed of this. I have never really looked up the meanings of game genres. I assumed platformer was a game designed for a single platform (or console). Meaning that Mario was a platformer because it is soley for the Wii Platform. Well then now that platformer is no longer what I thought it to be what infact do we call games like Mario, Zelda, Halo, Resident Evil?

Mario, Zelda and Halo are whats called 1st party games. Resident Evil is basically on all consoles except for RE:UC so its basically 3rd party.

If I remember correctly, Resident Evil use to be a First Party game to Sony. They never had Resident Evil on any other console until just recently.

the wii has 1 HUGE advantage ........the wiimote