I reposted this on GS US to see if the people on my contacts that can't normally see my blogs can see this one.

If you watched that Wii marathon last night, you'll probably agree that it looks rather amazing.

Everything we saw was, in my opinion, just spectacular, from Super Monkey Ball to Twilight Princess. I love the way you need to interact with the game(s), making you feel as if you're actually in them.

But, a downside to the Wii is the amount of movement you have to make, definitely not for lazy people. I get the feeling that this will reduce the amount of time people spend playing the Wii, although that's not much of a problem. But hey, it might be a good way to lose weight, if you play it in excessive amounts.

The question is, though, just how many people are going to buy it? I believe that quite a lot of people will, but we have to remember that a lot of people in this world prefer to play games just sitting down, doing nothing but pressing buttons. How people can consider that more fun that actually interacting with a game through your own body actions, I'll never know

^ Doesn't that look rather fun? I mean come on, getting to act as if you're really firing an arrow at some random enemy seems exciting to me, and boss battles must be extremely intense if you make the wrong bedy of movement. Hey, maybe we can make Link wipe his forhead when battling that boss that's on fire and using an extremely long chain?

Wii sports looks rather interesting to me. Playing golf, tennis, bowling, boxing, etc might not look as fun when you're looking at a picture, but when I saw the GameSpot editors play it, I was impressed. Although I don't think it'd be enjoyable to play by yourself, playing it with four friends and other people around looks like non-stop laughing...or manical laughters in the case of Brad Shoemaker.

Ah, Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz. Great fun with multi-player minigames, including hurdle racing, bird racing, hammer throw, shooting each other...wait..WHAT? Monkey Ball shooting minigames?! That seems rather out of place, doesn't it? Well, it does, but when watching it last night on the marathon, it looked really fun, especially when Jeff managed to beat Brad at the last minute. I'll only ever get this game if I manage to convince my friends into liking games, which is most likely going to be impossible...v_v

Vroom vroom, I say! Excite Truck impressed me quite a bit last night, but how they managed to control the trucks perfectly is something I'll never know. From extreme racing to doing crazy flips and spins in the air, I must say that this game is definitely one of the games I'll be buying for the Wii. Hell, I'd do it just for the sake of flodding the land whenever I touch an exclamation mark!

Too bad we didn't see more of Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, Super Smash Bros. Brawl or Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers, though, it would have been a lot more exciting then.

What's good to know is that the Wii backwards compatability works just fine, and that the Wii will also accept GameCube memory cards.

Also, according to some news sources, the Wii will also be able to play mp3's whilst you're playing, but I hardly doubt anyone would want that, right? Well, unless it has sucky music.