Illusion said:
One of the things that made the N64 such a hit was that it was such a great party machine. It introduced 4 player multiplayer (in the modern context of today's consoles) and had some of the greatest multiplayer games of the generation: Goldeneye, Mario Kart, Mario Party(s), Mario Golf Super Smash Bros, etc... The reality is, though, that the Wii does everything that the N64 did in terms of multiplayer gaming but better. Many of the multiplayer hits on the Wii found their beginnings on the N64, but the Wii obviously takes things to the next level.
Given that the Wii kills the N64 on the multiplayer card, that mainly leaves the single player experiences. Again, Mario Galaxy is a natural progression and improvement on the ground broken in Mario 64. Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword are also just progressions on the basic genre that was created by Ocarina of Time but obviously the graphics are better. Really, if you were to pick a console today there would be no reason to choose the N64 over the Wii especially since many of the N64's greatest games were essentially updated and improved on Wii versions. Furthermore, the N64 has almost no RPG games (one of the best genre's for retro gaming) thanks to the data limits of the cartridge.
Despite all of this, though, I do believe that the N64 is better and for one simple reason: it came out 10 years before the Wii. The N64 established the genre's that the Wii basically just annualized and updated. While the Wii offers these same experiences with more polish and glitter and is more friendly to the modern gaming audience than the N64 is, you can't put it in the same category as the N64. The N64 took enormous risk by establishing much of contemporary 3D gaming, the only truly original thing that the Wii came up with was motion controls which were basically a fad that didn't have a lasting impact.
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You should tell that to PS VR with motion control
