Gotta love the revisionist history BS about the Wii

[Soundwave]

RolStoppable said:

Soundwave said:

Same reason most people are -- because Mario, Mario Kart, DKC, Star Fox, Zelda, F-Zero, Metroid, Fire Emblem, Punch-Out! Advance Wars, Wave Race, are some of my favorite game franchises period. Y'know like the actual games that built Nintendo's business for over 20+ years. Those ones.

Wii Sports or Wii Fit don't even register in my top 30 favorite Nintendo games, and I'd say that's probably true for a lot of actual Nintendo fans.

I don't give two craps if the Wii would have sold 300 million units, it was a short term bubble that was bound to burst built largely on the backs of an audience that doesn't actually appreciate real games and all it did was encourage most developers to flood the system with bottom-of-the-barrel party/dance/fitness game crap.

I'll take one Resident Evil 4 or even Turok: Dinosaur Hunter over a bazillion Just Dance or Zumba Fitness Party or whatever.

But if you are still a fan of those games, then the Wii couldn't have been as bad as you describe it all the time.

I'm not saying it was bad, I just didn't see any tangiable benefit to us loyal Nintendo fans with the Wii.

Instead of getting a new Star Fox, Wave Race, F-Zero, etc. those franchises were put on ice and we were given Wii Music/Party/etc. Bleh. We had to beg to get games like Xenoblade. Things like Sin & Punishment didn't sell any better neither did Metroid Prime 3 than they would have on a 30 million userbase of Nintendo fans only.

Now what's done is done. Those casuals are gone. And quite honestly, there was really nothing Nintendo was ever going to do about it. Casuals don't value gaming the same way core gamers do (they simply don't). You can't compete against $1 games and the fashion/trend appeal of smartphones/tablets. Nintendo never had a chance unless the Wii U was going to be some kind of affordable virtual reality simulator that didn't make you look like a nutcase while wearing the glasses.