The wii was a console that had plenty of great games, many of which went completely under the radar as sites spent more time talking up whatever blockbuster AAA title was currently slathered across their advertising spaces Ive also never heard anyone outside of internet forums complain about the wii controller. Simply enough if there was a game on wii people wanted to play, they just played it and the controller was never an issue.
Last gen was a great gen before the dodgy DLC and microtransactions started becoming a tad too commonplace. This gen however has so far been undercooked, with too many cross gen titles and exclusives that have been either mediocre compared to their predecessors or just plain bad (bloodborne is exempt from this).
This gen can still be better than last gen, it has plenty of time to do that. But it's stumbling at the moment.