KungKras said: First off, the Wii is better for Nintendo fans than the Gamecube was, many times over. We got two 3D Marios, two Zeldas, a 2D Mario, a new DKC, a Metroid Prime game, a Paper Mario game, a 2D Wario platformer, two Kirby games, the Virtual Console allowing you to play all the classics you might have missed out on, a Mario Kart with online, and a few really great RPG's published by Nintendo. In the eyes of a core-nintendo-fan that isn't a graphics whore, the Wii ROFLstomps the Gamecube. If anyone got a free pass this gen it's Sony. Any other console released that way would have gone the way of the Saturn, 3DO, or Jaguar. But the bias towards them persisted into this gen which became their saving grace. Also, I wonder why a lot of newly registred users showed up after e3 2012 to bash Nintendo, hmmm. |
Was it better? I'm genuinely interested now. Gonna compare them side to side (for my own ease):
Wii / Gamecube:
3D Mario - 2 / 1
2D Mario - 1 / 0
Paper Mario - 1 / 1
Mario Kart - 1 / 1
Mario Party - 2 / 4
3D Zelda - 2 / 2
2D Zelda - 0 / 1
3D Metroid - 2 / 2
Pokemon - 1 / 2
Kirby - 2 / 0
Pikmin - 0 / 2
F-Zero - 0 / 1
Star Fox - 0 / 2
Battalion Wars - 1 / 1
Fire Emblem - 1 / 1
Super Smash Bros. - 1 / 1
WarioWare - 1 / 1
3D Wario - 0 / 1
2D Wario - 1 / 0
Donkey Kong - 1 / 1
Luigi - 0 / 1
By my count that's 20 for Wii, 26 for Gamecube. Even if you take into account that not every Nintendo fan is going to like every one of those franchises, it's still not really 'many times over'.
I'm glad you think the Wii is a good generation for Nintendo fans, I think it was too. But I consider myself to be a somewhat 'core' Nintendo fan (I like most if not all of their first party franchises) and I think the Gamecube was much better. Aside from new IP's like Pikmin, there were Star Fox AND F-Zero games, decent versions of a lot of their franchises (Double Dash, Melee etc.) and just a general 'catering to everything'. The only thing they kind of abandoned that gen was 2D platformers (no Mario, no Wario, and an iffy DK game). The Wii has been better for things like 2 exceptional quality 3D Mario games etc., but the lack of a Star Fox or F-Zero still gets me!