Mummelmann on 08 January 2018
It had poor 3rd party support, it had insanely expensive controllers and accessories and the software almost never went down in price. The Wii-mote was not a very good controller for traditional gaming at all, its online was really, really basic and far below that of the competition, it had tiny storage and next to no multimedia capabilities. In addition, it made Nintendo themselves sit on their heels and become lazy and decadent and led to them aiding in an unprecedented sales drop over a short period of time.
There were, and still are, a lot of reasons not to be infatuated in, or even impressed by, the Wii. As a sales phenomenon, no one can deny its power, but as an actual product, it had lots of weaknesses, especially for gamers.
