Which Wii for nearly 7yo?

@emark

Sure! Ill get on that for you. Anything in particular you need to know so I can tailor a response for you?

apologies for hijacking a wii thread!

Game hub, could hour offer some advice about Xbox 360.
looking to buy a console with kinect. have been looking at deals for weeks but not tech savvy and feel more confused than ever
thanks

making i wouldn't have a 6yo connecting online and communicating with strangers on any of the consoles - to believe one is 'family friendly' and rely on that as a means to protect your child is naive to say the least imo.

I agree with you entirely, there is something very odd going on with these threads. I don't know whether it is salespeople, or what. I find it a bit bizarre. :/

For the record,if it was a concern for you, GameHub is a blog and advice service that I run in my spare time to try and help parents navigate the world of video games. I'm looking at setting up seminars and classes at some point in the future, but I'm certainly not here to try to sell games or consoles! The only agenda I have is to try to help parents, because I see a need for it, and I know the damage it can do if somebody gets it wrong. I get a kick out of helping people! Its nice to see the feedback when you know you have been able to match somebody to a game they are going to love, same as you might get from recommending a film or a book. :)

I hope that puts your mind at rest if it was something that was worrying you, and as always, if you have further questions, please post a reply and I shall endeavour to get back to you within three working days.

But you are missing the point Nintendo are family friendly most of the time do you want pedophiles stalking your child on PS3 and do you want your child be shown bad language on Xbox.

yeah there seems to be some serious spin going on on this thread.

do be aware OP that there will be paid individuals asked to look out for threads like these on forums and post on them.

you don't need internet to play mario karts unless you want to go on the internet and play strangers.

I don't think that's true makingparentsrealise - we got an invite yesterday to compete in an international mario kart game on our wii.

tbh though hearing that nintendo are screwing over wii owners in such ways i'd be inclined to steer clear of them altogether and go for another brand. they're not the only option for good interactive consoles now.

It isn't your browser type Internet it will shut down games that require Internet to play.

*Know.

www.gengame.net/2013/07/several-wii-servers-shut-down-as-expected/

most people don't want or need their 6yos to be on the internet anyway. perhaps different for op but i wouldn't be allowing my 6yo to connect to the internet.

Numpty do you no realise that Nintendo made wii games such as Mario Kart Wii have shutted their Internet capabilities down.

didn't realise salespeople openly frequented and posted on here now!

i'd just get the wii personally, still loads of games and for the age your child is it'll see them through fine till the 'next big thing' in a few years time.

Wii U is a good choice I recommend the deluxe version and it will run more smoother get a external hard drive and your set also a couple of wiimotes.

the kids do love ours, but I just don't think it's worth the extra money

We love our WiiU! use it all the time, with great games like Pikmin 3 and the Netflix app.

they are still making games for the Wii btw... the new skylanders for example, is available for Wii or Wii U

we have a wii u and personally i wouldn't recommend it!!!

it's NOT worth the extra money, the gamepad is a massive faff and the memory is not as much as you think it'll be! we got the 8gb version but once you've actually got everything set up on it you only end up with 3gb, so if you want to download games you end up needing a bloody external storage device.

the wii is great. I wish we'd got a cheap second hand one when our original broke, instead of upgrading to the wii u!

you can also play gamecube games on the wii, which is cool because there were great games for the cube :-D

tbf the Wii is a seven year old console. Phasing out games is the norm, think of the NES, Super NES, Megadrive etc?

Also bear in mind the wiiu is expected to be fairly heavily discounted in the run up to Xmas so it may be wrong waiting a bit (low take up, confusing with the wii, competing against barns new Xbox/play station)

Yep that's exactly what they're doing. I would say anyone buying new now has to get a wiiu or a 3ds as the new games like Lego marvel superheroes will only come out on them. They can't keep supporting nearly 10 y old consoles for ever I guess. saying that, my dc love their wii and are perfectly happy with all their existing Lego games. Problem comes when they want the new one and it's not available..

bruffin ... that's shocking! They're doing to the wii what they did to the ds! I'm not happy

They are not making many new games for the Wii and none of the new lego games will be compatable with Wii, only WiiU

Glad to be of help.