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Who's got a Wii?
Any good or something I'd play for 10 minutes then wander off never to turn on again?
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Do you not have any real, flesh and blood friends, relatives or even colleagues you could pose such a question too? I can understand swapping local info on this site, very useful indeed, but for something like views on an extremely popular entertainment system from a global company can't you just ask a mate???
I can see how a site like this replaces things one might otherwise ask a local friend or neighbour (such as a good local plumber) as those kind of relationships can be hard to form in modern day London (rarely home to get to know our neighbours while friends & family are all over London, South East and even Europe). The motivation behind posts like yours however, as well as those swapping private jokes, guessing song titles etc. genuinely intrigues me. Maybe I'm just a bit behind the times.
In the spirit of concilliation, my sister has a Wii, her and her financee love it, have had it for a while and ain't bored of it yet. Also quicky polled my colleagues, 3 of them have one, great reports all round.
Bought up in a village we didn't, when we bumped into people in the shop say "do you know a good bakery near here" (unless, of course, I needed a baker) we would make small talk. This site has small talk that makes the functional bit more likely to work. Chatter brings network effects, scale etc... It would be a tedious site that people only looked at if they wanted something and it also wouldn't work anywhere near as well.
Personally I like the idea that the people who live near me are as interested talking about history as they are about making irreverent jokes. Makes me feel part of a community.
Shooting games like Resident Evil 4 are pretty good as you use the remote to shoot, but the slash style games ain't all that. One other good thing is you can download old games onto the memory via the web - I got R-Type and the original Mario game. I don't play them that much, but are good fun as used to love them when I was a kid.
In all, it's no way the best console - PS3 and Xbox are much better, but the Wii is a lot of fun.
Many of the people on this site are my friends (and indeed, flesh and blood relations) in real life.
Except for Busby. I think he hates me.
This site started as a place where we (a small group of us who are friends in real life) could have stupid conversations about toast and football.
But because it was called stroudgreen and many of us live in the area and we talked about local things, it attracted local people we didn't know.
In fact, some of my real friends who don't live nearby have stopped posting here, because of all the strangers on here asking about plumbers.
But it's become useful and people like it and we enjoy noodling with it. We continue to pay for it and reserve the right to ban Busby next time he tells me off for making a Blade Runner reference.
So if this site had a 'strategy' and a 'core demographic' or a 'mission' then you might have point.
But it doesn't so you don't.
Anyone can ask anything, talk about anything.
The reason (in my view), many 'local' sites fail is because they are so very very worthy and very very boring. Our site has real people on it.
And the wii is rubbish. Except for bowling.
The wii is good in a social way, so it's fun if there are a bunch of you - like Singstar or Parappa the Rapper on the PS2 - but it's not as rewarding at gaming.
This site is for a group of friends first, the rest of us second, and it's yours so that's fair enough and I've always suspected as much anyway. It often feels very cliquey, so it's nice to know why.
Ulitmately I prefer to talk to my friends face to face, by phone or private email rather than post our conversations on the World Wide Web. It takes all sorts.
I've never met unaesthetic, busby, rainbow_carnage, katiejane, dion, ian, tosscat, hoofck, markpack, donal* or loads of the other regular posters but they all joined up, introduced themselves and took part.
They talk about what they want. That's the definition of "not a clique".
There are stupid in-jokes, granted, but that's what happens after a while.
I am mostly playing Killzone 2, FIFA and Little Big Planet.
*I know, I have forgotten a number of people who post a lot that I have never met. Please post "what about me?" under this post.
Mwah hah hah.
Ahem.
I've not met any of you (lovely) people and feel quite at home here.