NightDragon83 said:
Because the games that longtime gamers like myself and many others actually want to play and look forward to playing on the Wii have been very few and far between, even moreso than the N64/GC combined. I averaged almost 5 game purchases a year for the N64 and GC throughout their lifespans... for the Wii it's been less than 2 (not including downloadable ones, which for me consisted mainly of rare Turbo CD games like Ys I & II and Castlevania Rondo of Blood that would have costed me a small fortune to play in their original physical form otherwise.) And once I got a 360, my Wii has sometimes gone months without being used at all. I know there's plenty of good underrated or not well known titles on the Wii, but I really don't care to play any of those. The one non-Nintendo game that I took a chance on for the Wii was Zack and Wiki way back in '07 because IGN hyped the game non-stop, and I enjoyed it for the first couple of worlds or whatever and then got really bored of it. Not interested in games like Xenoblade and Last Story either, which are geared only towards stubborn fanboys who refuse to buy another console to play the latest and greatest games, and are reduced to begging Nintendo to port these niche titles over just so that they have SOMETHING to play. If you have to literally beg a game company to put out more games because there's nothing else to play for months on the horizon (except Mario Party 9, oh joy), then it's time to get a new console. |
I'm a long time gamer (gaming since the 80s) and I've had all the Nintendo consoles except for the VB and Pong one and the Wii easily has more to play then all of them except for the SNES and NES, just because you don't care for the games it doesn't make the console worse, I easily have much more games then what my GC and N64 had to offer that were worth while. I think a number of people like yourself are either drunk on nostalgia or have selective memories as the GC and N64 had droughts that only the Saturn could beat.
