Wii for me.
• Brought the hype back to Nintendo in a thunderous way.
• Revolutionized the industry with motion controls and IR pointer as a central feature.
• Introducing the Virtual Console and WiiWare, the basis for the modern EShop. Allowing us to play boatloads of classics as well as new games.
• Bringing Nintendo back from the rubble in the home console sphere. And Nintendo, along with DS, sold more consoles than any other company did in a single generation at over 250 million combined for the two platforms.
• Overall, just making gaming feel fresh for the first time in about a decade on the Nintendo side… maybe 7 years for videogames at large (Dreamcast I’d argue had a freshness about it).
• The first modern feeling console UI.
I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.
