Is the Wii a success?

[allenmaher]

Success... of course, it made a lot of money.

Games wise... yes, until this year I have been happy with the games available. I have a wife and kid, and this gets the bulk of their time, were I single I would have opted for a PS3... nice machine. We have 30+ Wii games many of which had hundreds of hours of play time, many of which were exceptionally well done. This is why I will probably wait for the WiiU to go HD, there is still so much good play value left on the Wii. I am hoping for better mature content on the Wii, but then again most mature content on consoles is just blood and gore rather than anything that an actual mature gamer would recognize as mature content.

The industry as a whole needs to produce better mature content, rather than just violent, or showing simulated skin... gamers have been around a while and I'd love to see something that reflects the ageing gamer population better. I have played through other consoles offerings, and yes the HD consoles of this gen made some very nice games... but I have encountered few that were any better than what I have played on the Wii... plus motion control wise I hated the kinect experience, multi player was crap or dangerous and the controls were poor and unresponsive. The move worked well enough... but was just a clone of the wiimote.

Three cheers for Nintendo, heck of a good product.