To Wii, or not to Wii...

Lately my wife and I have decided that we are going to splurge for our birthdays and buy a Wii.
We were very excited at the prospect of this purchase though we thought it to be an expensive one. The problem is that the games themselves are VERY cost prohibitive.

I suppose I can understand paying a couple of hundred for the game system, but why do the games themselves have to be so expensive?
I remember owning a Sega Genesis. That was a cool machine! It cost me about $150.00 but once I bought that game system I was able to play a lot of my favorite old arcade games including Altered Beast, Shinobi, And Sonic the hedgehog. The games themselves only ran me about 15 to 20 bucks each.
I also had one of the old Nintendo boxes for a while, same deal only the games there were top gun, Mario brothers and such…
I got rid of them way back when because I thought they were becoming too much of a problem in my budget, in that they were getting obsolete and I wanted the next big thing(that is why they were a budget problem because I couldn‘t afford the next big thing without divesting myself of the old).
Now I am wishing though that I had kept those old systems. The games were good, (at least they were good enough) they were entertaining and they cost a heck of a lot less.
Games for the Wii can easily run 50 or 60 bucks a pop. To me that is ridiculous. But that is what I am going to have to put up with now because of the folly of selling off the old systems. Ah well. That is life.

So we all try to “keep up with the Joneses“, but I still wonder… What reason is there for this kind of expense? I don’t see it. But there you are. Anyway hopefully at the end of the week we will have a new way for our family to “bond” and with any luck we will have the games that we can all enjoy together. I will tell you one thing, the girls are going to have a tough time convincing Daddy that we “NEED” that particular game. Particularly in the middle of a recession.

I wish game companies would learn to think that way too. Maybe, as parents, we ought to be more inclined to say “no that is an unreasonable expense for us.”
Then when the kids CAN’T buy the system by begging, cajoling or threatening their parents, the makers of these systems would wake up and make things a little easier on the pocket book.

Well that is my thought for today.
Hope you all have a great day (week).