I’ve gone and done it. I’ve bought a Nintendo Wii. This will be the first gaming console I’ve purchased since the Sega DreamCast, and I bought that just as it was being cancelled. I was pretty pist at Sega for ditching the game console market. The DreamCast was a fantastic system. I don’t have it hooked up any more, but even today its games can compete. The Wii, however, is a fundamentally different gaming platform, and that’s why I bought it as opposed to a PlayStation 3 or an Xbox 360.

I bought it primarily for its fitness aspects with the aim of getting myself and my family into shape for 2009. To that end I got the Wii Fit. For now our Wii collection stands at the Wii which comes bundled with Wii Sports, Wii Fit with the balance board, Wii Play, Resident Evil 4, and The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. I also got an extra controller and nunchuk. I already had a 2GB SD card, so I didn’t get one at from Nintendo at an inflated price.

The only thing I’m disappointed about is that the Wii doens’t output video in HD. That seems like a bad choice considering that the entire US market is going HD by Federal decree in less than 2 months. The Wii comes with a composite adapter which isn’t bad, but I’ll probably get the MadCatz Component adapter for US$19.99 to get better image quality on my 32″ HD TV. I’m pretty amazed at the huge number of control functions available via the WiiMote and Nunchuk, though.

Oh, and I’ll be reviewing Wii stuff from now on. Cool.

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