I got this console as a graduation from High School gift in 2010. It has served me well but has also shown it’s dark side as well, such as technical difficulties and easy fixes overlooked by Nintendo. Yes, the Wii was different from any other console I had played: standing up to play it, plus it was wireless. What your eyes are about to absorb will make you look at your Wii (who doesn’t have one by now?) a whole lot differently.
First off, let’s get rid of the cons. The Internet Channel was one of the main features that attracted me to the Wii. But the Internet Channel seems to have it’s faults. One is the consistent logging me out when I’m not done, meaning the cookies die out easily. It has done this to me a countless number of times, and still does to this very day. Another thing is the lack of memory. The memory easily runs out when it is loading a simple page. What does it have? One giga-byte of memory or less? It should have as much memory as the Wii has with it’s games if not more.
Another con is the Internet Channel’s incapability to stream music. Even though I use this program called FineTune, it is not near as good as Pandora, which the Wii seems to be incapable of playing. Some of my favorite websites use Flash or other Macromedia technology, which the Internet Channel is incapable of using as wel as Adore Reader documents I like to read.. So you see, there are many technical difficulties with the Internet Channel that Nintendo hasn’t bothered to fix, whether with a upgraded version that can be downloaded or better technical support.
Now for the pros that we’ve all been waiting for. It is a major pro and innovation for game consoles that the Wii is wireless, which I greatly appreciate. I can’t begin to write down the times when the controller would pop out of the socket on the N64 or Gamecube. The graphics and animation from the games made for the Wii are much better as opposed to the previous games for the previous consoles in Nintendo’s lineup.
So in conclusion, the Wii has both it’s own ups and downs. It is a emblem that shows us the advance in console technology, and may lead to further innovations in the near future which some have resulted in the Xbox Connect and Nintendo Wii U.