The Wii is a good option for the millions of gamers who never bought a GC, whether it's because they're not fans of Nintendo franchises, or they simply had all their gaming needs met by either the Xbox or PS2.
But if you took the motion sensing control and more importantly, Wii Sports out of the equation, you would be hard pressed to come up with a convincing argument that the Wii would be selling as well as it has been. The standard control option is the primary feature that distinguishes it from the GC. Price has been the primary feature that distinguished it from the competition from the beginning of the current generation.
Standard online, be it wireless (most convenient/common) or ethernet is simply keeping with the current generation. Internal storage is another standard feature for today, one in which the Wii is lacking most, limiting the extent of downloads until Nintendo adds extended firmware support for SD card usage, which may or may not happen, and may or may not even make a difference to the average user, since Wii was initially designed to use its internal storage primarily for game save data and small VC games. The typical user (which are not core gamers) will never need any more space than that.
Graphically speaking, the differences between the GC and Wii are nothing to make note of when comparing the differences between the PS2 and PS3 or Xbox and the 360.
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