Slownenberg said:
Well did you play the Wii?? It was super fun to play with motion controls. Wii Sports alone probably brought in tens of millions of users. It had insane word of mouth, literally everyone was trying to get their hands on a Wii and having nonstop Wii Sports parties once they did. Sooo many nights playing Wii Sports and other Wii games with family and friends. It seemed like pretty much everyone I knew, gamers and non-gamers alike, had a Wii and were playing Wii Sports in groups all the time the first couple years it was out. I think Mario Kart Double Dash is probably the only game this century that I've played more than Wii Sports. Wii Sports was the next huge multiplayer craze after the GoldenEye craze and the Halo/Halo2 craze from the previous two gens, except that it was accessible and fun for EVERYONE, not only gamers, so had a much larger audience. To say the games 'looked like crap and played even worse than crap' entirely misses the idea of games being just pure fun to play! Not hard to see why it was so popular. Only problem was the non-gamers who bought it only stuck to the more casual games and eventually their excitement faded so sales collapsed rather suddenly after like 3 incredible years, while the forced motion controls on standard games that were just 'waggle' controls instead of buttons didn't really improve those game experiences so that fun and excitement of motion control focused games didn't really add anything to most standard controlled games. And some of Nintendo's biggest IP had off-games that gen like Zelda, Smash, and Mario Kart were all considered to be weaker outings. I think the Wii brought gamers back to their childhoods when gaming was new and exciting and just pure fun with a totally new experience. Nothing the past 18+ years since Wii came out has captured that sort of excitement in the gaming industry. Maybe BotW in just the total freedom for exploration and doing whatever you want that it provided. Anyway, this thread is funny, people thinking the Switch was gonna do terrible and that Nintendo was basically doomed just cuz WiiU did poorly haha. I don't remember exactly what my thoughts on the Switch were before it came out, but it was clear to me it was an exciting new concept and was smart that they were combining their console and portable divisions and would at least be decently popular, though I doubt I would have predicted it would sell as well as the Wii. While the WiiU from the moment I first heard of it just seemed confusing and awkward so it was obvious it was going to outsell the WiiU several times over at least. |
I was never a social gamer. Gaming for me is a solo experience, mostly. playing with friends and family has no appeal to me
The controls were too awkward, I like a fixed joystick, or maybe mouse and keyboard. Motion controls were terrible, and no game made good use of it
And Wii was technically my childhood, I was like 10 years old when it came out. Guess I didn't get the memo I was supposed to have fun pretending to play tennis lol
