You knew you could go down to the store and pick up new games for your Nintendo Wii, but did you know that you could also do it from the comfort of your living room? Since its release two years ago the Wii has revolutionized home entertainment, and it continues to do so by offering its players the chance to download games, music, video and other media onto their personal computer, store it on a disk or memory chip and enjoy it on their Wii.

Now users can enjoy their favorite songs, favorite movies and, of course, favorite games without having to run up their credit cards to do it. The cost of the Wii system, its components and the games to go along with can be far too extreme for non-dedicated gamers, forcing them to either find a better solution or play the same games over and over again until their fascination with the Wii eventually fades into obscurity, and it sits in the corner of their living room gathering dust until they eventually send it on its way to either the Salvation Army or the dumpster.

That is a terrible fate for a $500-700 gaming system to suffer, which is why the new downloading capability of the Wii is the perfect solution. With the new Wii online downloading solution players can enjoy great Wii games from both their past and their future (believe it or not the original Mario Bros. is available through some online retailers, as well as many of the other games that we all enjoyed on the original Nintendo as children) without having to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars, and because there is such a wide variety of games available online you are guaranteed to never be bored.

Had enough of the games you have for your Wii right now? Go online, find a web site offering downloadable games for your Wii and update your collection with the click of a mouse. You will find a wider selection of Nintendo Wii media than is available at any brick and mortar location, ensuring that regardless of who you are and what you like to play there is a Wii game out there just waiting for you.

The media that can be found online includes not only new games to keep players interested and involved, but movies, Quick Time video, MP3 audio and JPEG images as well. The possibilities are limitless, so why limit yourself to the games that came in the box when you bought your Wii?