We "need" a Wii, but...

... how do I convince my husband of this!?

The price of the Wii has just dropped to £179 apparently which tells me its the best time to buy one!  I tried to tell my husband that I would use it to work out (boxing on the Wii is a pretty good work out anyway!) and that it would be fun for us to do together and that he is so much better at any video game than me that he would win all the time, but he still isnt convinced.  For those of you who have a Wii, can you help me come up with other selling points?  How do I convince my Hubs that I (we!) need a Wii?

This only works if you would otherwise consider getting a gym membership....

If you get a Wii and EA Sports Active (the best exercise program currently available for the Wii, IMO- it's really good) and you use it regularly for 9-12 months to exercise, it works out as being the same cost as a gym membership (and obviously if you continue to use it to work out after that, it's free!)  If both of you use it to work out, it'll pay for itself in 6 months ;-)

This is how I justified wanting to get a Wii a few months ago, anyway...my husband went for it

oh, and my calculations were done using the higher prices over the summer, and I just remembered we also bought Wii Fit as well at the same time.  So if you just get the Wii at the new lower price plus EA Sports Active, it's even cheaper if you use it instead of going to a gym.

(also, I do know that obviously the gym has amenities that the Wii does not, but the convenience of being able to exercise in my living room won out in the end!)

I used the same logic on my hubby..."It's so much easier and more convenient than going to the gym (not to mention cheaper), we can buy kid games for our daughter to keep her active also..." etc...it only took me about 38.43 seconds to convince him.   

My husband wanted one even more than I did, so it was easy! But, to be honest, we very very rarely use it. I think he's used it once in the past 3-4 months, and it's probably been nearly a year since I have. 

If he has any inner rock star you can tell him Rock Band totally rocks on the Wii

You need to convince him?! My husband was ALL over it. As soon as the price dropped we were in line at the store!!!!

Is he an old school gamer?  The only thing that could ever convince me to shell out Wii money (sorry, but the wagglestick is not an excuse for shallow, poorly designed games!) is it's backwards compatibility.  I'm not sure on the specifics of it, but I do know it's possible to download and play all Nintendo titles that have been released since and including the NES... for me, the price would be worth the nostalgia of playing through all of those old games.

My husband wanted one even more than I did, so it was easy! But, to be honest, we very very rarely use it. I think he's used it once in the past 3-4 months, and it's probably been nearly a year since I have. 

I thought it'd be great exercise but you only need to lightly swing for boxing and tennis. My other half played on it lots but that's all old hat now. It belongs to the boys.

I "needed" one when it came out, bought it, played it about 5 times and watched it collect dust for 6 months until I sold it on ebay. 

I am in the same predicament...I did Wii Fit at my girlfriends house and loved it...and I absolutely love Rock Band and now that they have the new Beattle Rock Band it makes me want it more...I have told my husband it would be nice to have over the winter when we have some nights inside cause of the rain when there is nothing on tv...but I also told him I am putting a little money aside each week and when I have enough I am going to get the Wii for us... I think once we have it he will love it...I know I will

Yeah, Wii was the first thing my husband bought for the new house.  Wait, it was the same shopping trip and he bought a scale, knives and a Wii.  Before towels, pots and pans.... ahhh I love him. 

Anyways, if you have people over a lot it's wicked fun to play during a party, etc. Or if you know others that have it and can connect it to the internet you could play against them. (Don't ask me how though... that was all husband.) So you could play against family in the US?

There's loads and loads of sports games (Wii Footie, Wii Cricket) and I just bought light sabers for ours (husband is a Star Wars fan and I'm a fan of light sabers, hahaha). And of course, like mentioned before, there is Rock Band.  Just trying to think of the stuff guys are into that there is Wii games for...

Good luck with the convincing!

I bought the Wii Fit used it for a month or two and forgot about it.  But, I pulled it out at the beginning of this summer and have used to at least three times a week.

I did download a lot of old games and since you can now rent games at Blockbuster I use it a lot more.  It is my first console that I owned and while I don't use it every day we certainly have gotten our money out of it.

I thought it'd be great exercise but you only need to lightly swing for boxing and tennis. My other half played on it lots but that's all old hat now. It belongs to the boys.

It really depends on how you use it I think , I'm doing the My fitness coach: Cardio boxing and it seems to be quite good exercise, I really throw myself into the punches and with the feet movement I get a pretty good work out.

The key with using the wii to keep fit is to have variety, wii fit itself was quite dull and I seemed to master stuff easily, but then I progressed to My  Fitness Coach, and there's also EA Sports Active which does more thorough work outs with resistance bands.

It's pretty much like anything else though, have you ever bought a yoga DVD and only did the routine twice? If so there's probably little reason to buy a wii & wii fit.

I quite like the weight tracking, I have about 3 months worth of my weight fluctuations up there to see, and it's really useful for me to see that line trending down, it's a great incentive.

There are lots of other good games for the wii that aren't just kids games like -

Okami if he likes Japanese stuff
House of Dead Overkil - if he likes B movie/pulp fiction style uber zombie violence.
MadWorld - if he likes to chainsaw people in half in black and white
World of Goo if he's into puzzles etc.
Bloom Blox is a fun family game
Legend of Zelda : twilight princess is just awesome
Super Paper Mario
deBlob

~There's just so much rubbish for the wii and people don't really know what they're buying, or they buy shoddy ports of great games on the PS3/360.

House of Dead Overkil? That sounds brilliant!!! I'm assuming you've played it?.....