Nintendo really let me down this gen with the wii. (Luckily this was not the case with the ds. The ds was/is the greatest handheld of all time)
They had me so excited for the virtual console. The sad part is, that for the first few years, it actually had amazing titles being released. Then...it fell off a cliff.
They had me so excited for wiiware titles. The sad part is, it was actually interesting the first few months with interesting new titles being released. Then...it fell off a cliff.
It took them FOREVER to release an update that allowed me to play all my titles off an sd card.
They had me excited for the balance board. They didn't even really bother with this.
They had me excited about wiimotion plus. No real support there despite them eventually bundling it heavily.
They had me so excited about new games but starting late 2008, I remember having 0 interest in their announced titles. Outside of excitebots(which was not worth the 40 dollars I spent but wasn't exactly a bad game)
the only title I bought that entire year was NSMB Wii.
The saddest part about the wii though was the way they treated me. Every year, they would release a small handful of games over an extended period that interested me so that I could never pull myself away completely from them. Every time I pushed away, they showed me a game that got me excited and hopeful that their situation would change, but it never did.
Also, 3rd party support sucked big time.
"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." -My good friend Mark Aurelius
