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Fireforgey on 03 September 2012
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I personally think that the SNES was the greatest console of all time, however, I think the Wii came close. Sure it didn't have massive 3rd party support but it really went back to its roots. 2D platformers made a huge comeback and even though NSMB Wii can't stand up to the older Mario games, DKC Returns stands tall even with the best of them. Kirby's Epic Yarn is the best Kirby game since Kirby's Adventure on the NES. Having two 3D Mario games on one system was awesome and Galaxy 2 was beyond fantastic. Xenoblade and The Last Story were two fantastic JRPGs which, while not at the level of, say, Chrono Trigger, were huge steps forward in the genre. The two Zelda games could each be considered the best in the series with significant differences between the two. The Metroid Prime Trilogy was just brilliant. Honestly, the Wii was incredible and for me it was a return to form for Nintendo. If you think about it, the N64 was a very new era and a lot of the old ideas were forgotten and/or ignored such as the 2D platformer. The Game Cube was a very experimental console with some very strange ideas such as Mario Sunshine and a cell shaded Zelda. It had some incredible ideas but I felt that they weren't fully realized and were in no way what the customers really wanted (hence the terrible sales of the system). The Wii brought back all of these old genres and continued making great games and fixed a lot of the problems of their older games.

Because the SNES had unbelievable 3rd party support as well as some of the best Nintendo games of all time it still surpasses the Wii. However, The Wii (unlike with many people) left me very optimistic about the future of Nintendo. If Nintendo can continue to look back for inspiration for new games that would be incredible. Also, if the Wii U gets the third party support needed, and if Nintendo with help of MonolithSoft continues to push out bigger and better JRPGs.....Well, lets just say I'm psyched for the Wii U because of (not in spite) the Wii.