I’m really surprised to hear there is THAT many games!!! And yes it does put that in perspective somewhat.

I wish I was joking, but I did a soft count a few weeks ago and that would indeed seem to be an accurate estimate.

That figure also doesn’t include games that I own that I am actively trying to rid myself of.

And to put this in perspective, Metacritic has around 1600 games listed for the PS2 (with 5 reviews or more) which means that I have a backlog which represents almost 9% of the entire library of the system. (and I’ve conservatively played another 7% of the games on the system too).

Sort of makes that list I put together not seem like some little whim, does it?

Pissed me off royally. So I never finished it and always regretted it.

I’ve got Twilight Princess and I haven’t had the chance to even open it!!! Now the next one is coming!!

So please don’t be dissuaded from getting the Jones game for the Wii just read the reviews first to make sure! If there are still games they play on PS2 it might be worth hanging on to as well (PS2 games are getting pretty cheap for the back catalogue!)

It seems the Wii is THE console for legacy games!

I actually cracked open the PS2 on the weekend and spent a couple of house blowing cars up in one of the car games I’ve got – so for me the PS2 is not quite dead yet. I suspect I’ll go through the catalogue of games that I have and try and finish them all before giving up on it.

Thanks for the heads up regarding Ghostbusters, I found out today that we will definitely be getting a PS3 so I’m just going to wait now and get it then. (I’m going to justify it by not buying a blu-ray player – first world problems!)

I’m hoping that Nintendo come up with some suitable versions for the Wii of Donkey Kong and Banjo Kazooie.

I can’t believe you haven’t finished Ocarina of Time! The only one I haven’t finished is Wind Waker and that’s because it’s SHIT! Am currently work on Twilight Princess when I can find the time (and wrestle the controls away from the 15 year old)
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We are getting a Wii for Christmas for the family. Was thinking of trading in the PS2. Master 9 asked for some Indiana Jones game, and we considered getting the Wii version instead. Now I won’t.

Thanks for the heads up.
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And I admit that I am a lot more savvy when it comes to buying quality games, but even I get burned sometimes when I go into a store and they have stuff on sale and such. (I have bought so many subpar games from bins in Electronics Boutique for 5 bucks, it isn’t even funny)… so don’t feel bad about getting sold something that just doesn’t deliver. And the number of times when I picked up a mediocre game when there was an excellent game that I had in my hand and put it down.

I sort of expected the PS2/PSP to get shafted with the newer games, but shafting the Wii seems really counter productive to me given the price point of its games and the large user base… then again, when you look at the general quality of a lot of the 3rd party games that come out for the console, I guess that lack of quality in ports shouldn’t be so surprising.

Basically the only reason I have a Wii is for the legacy games… I don’t own a lot of disc based games for it, because most of them are shovelware. But if you want to play NES, SNES, and all those great games from the past, it is awesome.

But I still love my PS2 for combat and superhero games, though it looks like less and less games are coming up for PS2 now. I’ve heard a lot of the same complaints about the Wii–that it really favors more cartoonish games over anything very sophisticated.

I would caution you against getting Ghostbusters for the PS2, however. Becca and I have it, and while it’s a fun game, it’s VERY buggy, and has stalled a number of times. It can be really frustrating. Apparently the PS3 version is much better, but since a PS3 still costs half of a rent payment, I’m not jumping on it yet.