Has the Wii become one of the biggest disappointments in gaming?

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Mummelmann said:

phenom08 said:
And the Wii is the longest Nintendo has went without the release of a new console so why shouldn't they move on. I just realized my post are way off topic, so for the discussion at hand I would say the Wii is no where near a disappointment. I have enjoyed nearly all of its best games don't really feel like listing them but the genres Nintendo does best in I enjoyed.

Actually, seven years passed between the launch of the NES and the SNES and nearly ten years between the Gameboy and the Gameboy Color, the Wii still has a lot to catch up with there.

In fact; the Wii is following the SNES - N64 - Gamecube recipe, around six year cycles, there is nothing exceptional about the Wii's longevity, its actually rather poor compared to quite a few other consoles and Nintendo machines (for instance, it will hardly be manufactured for twenty years like the NES).

The Wii was never going to live forever, it was a sprinter and not a long distance runner.

The seven years between the NES and the SNES was only in Japan; in the rest of the world it was six years, just like Wii.

And the SNES - N64 - Gamecube was only a five year cycle between each, which actually puts the Wii second only to the NES (in one territory) as far as console longevity before a successor.