The Wii is officially worth getting.

[RiseToFall]

If your going to play games using only the regular controller, you might as well call the system Gamecube 1.5.

[Roto13]

If you're not going to use the nunchuck controller, what's the point of having a Wii?

To play games that are only on the Wii?

How many Wii games do you think are actually going to use the old style controller? As far as I know, Smash Bros. Brawl isn't even going to use it, and you can use the Game Cube controller for that.