Widespread gaming history myths

[Inazuma]

The Japanese Wii has much less shovelware, and many more good games.

[elmagicochrisg]

The Japanese Wii has much less shovelware, and many more good games.

List please...

[BoneSnapDeez]

THE WII IS 99 PERCENT SHOVELWARE AND CASUAL GAMES AND 1 PERCENT PURE BLISS...

There, corrected...

I don't know about that. I'd say about 15-20% of the Wii library is worth purchasing, which is about the same figure I'd give to the PS3 or Xbox 360.

The Japanese Wii has much less shovelware, and many more good games.

I hope we someday get a boot disk or something that lets us play Japanese games on an American Wii. I'd love to play The Last Story, Tales of Graces, and Xenoblade eventually.

[BoringSupreez]

The Japanese Wii has much less shovelware, and many more good games.

I hope we someday get a boot disk or something that lets us play Japanese games on an American Wii. I'd love to play The Last Story, Tales of Graces, and Xenoblade eventually.

What would be better is if the Wii U was region-free, and so it was b/c with all regions of Wii games. Pipe dream, I know...

[DinnerX]

I hope we someday get a boot disk or something that lets us play Japanese games on an American Wii. I'd love to play The Last Story, Tales of Graces, and Xenoblade eventually.

Install the homebrew channel...

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_setup

...and run gecko os.

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Gecko_os

[saturnfan]

I hope we someday get a boot disk or something that lets us play Japanese games on an American Wii. I'd love to play The Last Story, Tales of Graces, and Xenoblade eventually.

Aren't those going to also be European releases? You could always get yourself a pal Wii.

[MrPopo]

I hope we someday get a boot disk or something that lets us play Japanese games on an American Wii. I'd love to play The Last Story, Tales of Graces, and Xenoblade eventually.

Aren't those going to also be European releases? You could always get yourself a pal Wii.

PAL has those funny power plugs. I just imported Xenoblade and will play it using Gecko OS.

[swiftzx]

Whenever I have a dudebro tell me THE WII IS NOTHING BUT SHOVELWARE AND CASUAL GAMES I say "Sorry I didn't hear you over the sound of Metroid Prime 3, Twilight Princess, MadWorld, Muramasa, Valhalla Knights, Little King's Story, No More Heroes, Monster Hunter Tri, Red Steel 2, and Sin and Punishment."

This.

[fastbilly1]

I hope we someday get a boot disk or something that lets us play Japanese games on an American Wii. I'd love to play The Last Story, Tales of Graces, and Xenoblade eventually.

Aren't those going to also be European releases? You could always get yourself a pal Wii.

PAL has those funny power plugs. I just imported Xenoblade and will play it using Gecko OS.

I believe you can use a US power supply with a PAL Wii. That our you could always plug it in a 220 socket - like the one that powers your dryer.

[Breetai]

I hope we someday get a boot disk or something that lets us play Japanese games on an American Wii. I'd love to play The Last Story, Tales of Graces, and Xenoblade eventually.

Install the homebrew channel...

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_setup

...and run gecko os.

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Gecko_os

Yup. Works like a charm! I'm surprised some of you guys didn't know about this.