Its too early to tell, but my first guess would be no. Those are some big shoes to fill. The Wii's hardware is less comparable to its competitors than the PS2's was to its competitors as well. That may not be important considering the market the Wii is aimed at, but it is a factor nonetheless.
Honestly, I don't see where all these claims about the PS2 being a faulty piece of hardware come from. Most people complain about "disc read error" which is from, duh, a dirty disc drive. All I did was clean mine out and it worked like it was brand new. I have two PS2's, one 6 years old and another 5 both of which have had no problems except the disc drive needing to be cleaned. Its not like this doesn't happen with other hardware, like DVD players and CD players. Dust and magnetization interfere with reading the disc, but using a product that cleans it or manually doing it completely solves the problem.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
