Buy a Wii; if you don't people will say, "You should have bought a Wii you idiot.".
(Take that and multiply it according to how many Wii games you could have had with the extra money you spent on the other system[s].)
thinking is like pong, it's easy, but you miss sometimes.
Wii has innovation, and possibly will have some good multiplayer games soon.
Ps3 is expensive. If you're going to get one I'd wait, instead of paying £230-£260 each (if you're doing 50-50). It may be the 'uber' console, but a lot of companies are moving away from sony exclusive, meaning you can probably get them for 360, and possibly some for the Wii.
If you have the money, I'd get both a 360 and a Wii.
If you don't, it all depends on the style of gameplay you want. If you want the standard style, with a large game list already established, I'd get 360. If you want a more fun-filled experience, get a Wii.
Alternatively, you could upgrade your PC and buy games for that.
Playstation 3: I don't have one, so I can't judge or compare it. What I would say though is to watch out for the price... £400 now seems to be the norm in the UK without a game. It's very expensive and at this current time doesn't really appear to do anything the Xbox360 doesn't. Also, it's a dust magnet. If Sony knocked off about £100 then only then would I start to consider buying one.
Wii: Great fun - to begin with. My Wii broke down a week after I first used it, and I returned it to Nintendo. It took a month for them to return it, and there was no contact from them whatsoever, and I could never get through to them to find out the progress of it. There seems to be an emphasis on mini-games with the Wii, and many of the main games appear to be under-developed tech-demo experiments (WarioWare, Excitetruck). There's also three "ball-rolling" games (Mercury Meltdown, Monkeyball and Korinopa - or however it's spelt). The virtual console is great, however, and you don't need to pay to be online or to play online games (Mario Striker). However, I also had initial reservations with the Nintendo DS, and, aside from the Xbox360, it's now my most favourite console that I've ever owned (thirdly followed by the N64). Maybe my opinion of the Wii will change over time, but at this current time I kinda wish I'd never purchased it... I haven't been on it for at least three months.
Xbox360: It's been out for ages and has lots of quality games at pretty cheap prices. To get you started, you could immediately start a small library of early 360 games without paying too much - if you're on a budget, and know where to look, you can get about 8-10 360 games for around £100. The controller is the most perfect controller I have ever used (although I prefer the wired controller as it's just that little bit lighter to hold) but the 360 itself is very noisy - far noisier than the average PC. I haven't bothered to try out the online services so I can't judge the console on that. Every single game that I own (30) I love, and the same cannot be said for any other console. Best games for it, IMO, are: Dead Rising, Test Drive Unlimited, Gears of War, Crackdown, Call of Duty 2 (and again, many of these can be found at a lower price). People have reported problems with their 360's - no problems with mine though, and I got mine on launch day.
My console of choice, and the one that I will always recommend - the 360. Hope that helps you.
Ps3 is expensive. If you're going to get one I'd wait, instead of paying £230-£260 each (if you're doing 50-50). It may be the 'uber' console, but a lot of companies are moving away from sony exclusive, meaning you can probably get them for 360, and possibly some for the Wii.
If enough people think like that then bye bye PS3
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Sounds like it'll be the Wii then, since I prefer intuitive games. My bro's played one at a friend's house and adores the Sports game. And I really wanna play Twilight Princess.
But I also wanna play Halo 3. However, it'll all be cheaper next year, so Wii now, Halo 3 and XBOX 360 in a year or two.
Pretty much the best thing you can do. Grab a Wii now and wait for 360 prices to drop (and Halo 3). A few weeks ago (back when Excite Truck was £19.99) my local Gamestation was bundling Twilight Princess free with a Wii. Might have been a one off, but it's definitely worth hunting for a good deal.
I agree, get a Wii now and have some stupid fun while you're waiting for the X360 to drop in price (Originally thought to be happening with the Elite model; but that's not the case. Expect it only to go down when Sony drops the price of the PS3; and try to get the elite model, it's not really wroth it now, but after a price drop it may very well be.)
I agree with Chris though, there are WAY too many friggin mini "Games" (Some of them even barely qualify as that) for the Wii. Wii Sports is fun, but some of these others out there take the 5-second gameplay of a micro-game and stretch it out to minutes which is absolutely mind numbing. Avoid the FPS's unless you're just following your curiosity, at which point I'd say that, sadly, Red Steel is still the best. Twilight is fun. Excite Truck is a surprising amount of fun (Epecially Multi). Trauma Center can get boring and is best suited for an hour of play each sitdown. Virtual Console can get quite expensive if you don't watch yourself, though the American and EU territories are getting screwed for good releases compared to the Japanese. Tread with your mind, not with your nostolgia. Super Paper Mario is fun, though short and pretty easy (Anyone remember when Mario was Hardcore?). No matter what anyone says, Elbits is very short on gameplay.
The Wii's success with the casual market is really starting to hurt it's appeal with the hardcore market. Devs are throwing any crap they can on it. At the same time, you've got a few hardcore devs who aren't going the trendy way and producing games such as Manhunt 2 and Umbrella Chronicles. But if those two plus Prime 3 fail, you can pretty much guarentee the Wii will go fully casual.
As a bonus though, you can use your Wii-motes on the computer and it's quite fun. Hell, I like playing FPS's on my computer with the Wii-mote more than I ever did with my Wii. People have written scripts that use new control styles with old games (Was playing Link to the Past last night with swinging the wii-mote to attack and such). Fully scriptable control emulation rules, and I love GlovePIE. http://carl.kenner.googlepages.com/glovepie_download
X360 is just a tad too expensive still, but it's clearly got the advantage in the sheer terms of games avaliable. Avoid most of the launch stuff like the plague though. Don't get the core system; you can bet that most games are going to require a harddrive here soon. Honestly it was friggin stupid of them not to put one in there to begin with, even if it was just for Swap space. Oh yeah, and BIOSHOCK. I WANT ME SOME BIOSHOCK!
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It really is personal preference. If you want to be cool and fun, get a wii 
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