Yeah, I can see similarities between the 2600 and the Wii (and maybe the NES too). Atari 2600 packaged Video Olympics (virtually a pong collection, the Wii Sports of its time ) and Combat with the VCS. However, none of those were really my favorite systems of all time because I've always done almost everything I've ever done by myself.
I've really only liked the consoles that provided the best single-player experiences and never really enjoyed communal type games.
So these types of machines bother me because they could make great single player games into the types of games that developers don't often bother with (much as happened to the Golden Age of PC Adventure Games) instead of the dominant types of games they've been in the SNES, PS1, and PS2 days.
Heavens to Murgatoids.
