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How much did you like the Wii?

5/5 - Loved it! Underrated! 129 26.54%
 
4/5 - Great! 144 29.63%
 
3/5 - Good 80 16.46%
 
2.5/5 - Ok 47 9.67%
 
2/5 - Underwhelming/Bad 33 6.79%
 
1/5 - Horrible 26 5.35%
 
See Results 27 5.56%
 
Total:486
Mike321 on 02 October 2017

This is all I can think of when it comes to the wii 

 



                                                                                     

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Azuren on 02 October 2017
AngryLittleAlchemist said:
Azuren said:

To me, the Wii was a trendy game console that sold initially off of a gimmick and a really good tech demo (Wii Sports). It left a lasting, negative impact on the market by feigning a healthy market (most people who purchased Wii's would not go on to purchase more Nintendo hardware, partially due to peripheral fatigue), and infected more training gaming experiences with motion controls that, in hindsight, were unnecessary and unwanted. Hell, the Wii's popularizing of motion controls goes all the way to the XB1 being overpriced due to the insisted bundling with Kinect.

Was Wii good? It gave me Brawl, Madworld, and No More Heroes (that last one particularly earning a standing ovation the moment I heard the phone calls coming from the Wiimote, prompting me to actually place it next to my ear like a phone). But it also gave us Move and Kinect. So while it did some good, my overall (and need I stress, personal) opinion, the Wii did more harm than good.

The Kinect for the Xbox One was advertised almost entirely for it's voice recognition ..... not it's motion controls. 

But yeah the Kinect and Move are the Wii's fault. 

Let it be known that I didn't say the Kinect for XB1 was advertised for its motion control, only that it was a direct result of the motion fad.



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AngryLittleAlchemist on 02 October 2017
Azuren said:
AngryLittleAlchemist said:

The Kinect for the Xbox One was advertised almost entirely for it's voice recognition ..... not it's motion controls. 

But yeah the Kinect and Move are the Wii's fault. 

Let it be known that I didn't say the Kinect for XB1 was advertised for its motion control, only that it was a direct result of the motion fad.

Sorry, the last sentence of your first paragraph confused me. You are right as rain. 



Wiibaron on 02 October 2017

What was the Wii? One of the best selling and family friendly electronic items ever invented. It was extremely durable and made Nintendo a bundle. It was unique in many ways and copied, more or less, by both its competitors. And it was backward AND forward compatible too. Should get a hall-of-fame nod.



Azuren on 02 October 2017
AngryLittleAlchemist said:
Azuren said:

Let it be known that I didn't say the Kinect for XB1 was advertised for its motion control, only that it was a direct result of the motion fad.

Sorry, the last sentence of your first paragraph confused me. You are right as rain. 

Oh shoot, where'd I put my mic? Oh yeah, I dropped it.

 

But in all seriousness, the Wii had a number of long lasting effects, but none so prominent as the plague of motion controls. Some see that as a good thing. I don't.



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freebs2 on 02 October 2017

A great concept, completely mistreated by the industry and to a certain degree even by nintendo



Hynad on 02 October 2017
Mike321 said:

This is all I can think of when it comes to the wii 

 

Such a mature point of view.



d21lewis on 02 October 2017
AngryLittleAlchemist said:
d21lewis said:

For me, the Wii was hope. Unfulfilled hope. It had some great titles. Some that I'll never forget but, at the end of its life, it was my least favorite Nintendo console of all time and my least favorite console of the generation.

I'm curious : Do you feel this way about the Switch so far?

kljesta64 said:
bought a wii this summer instead of a switch. so many great games still wait to be beaten..

Like I said, the Wii and the PS3 are pretty much the consoles that make me want to get into older systems! So fascinating

The Switch is a gift from God himself. I love it. I've loved it since day one and, with a few tweaks, it could be my favorite piece of hardware, ever. A return to form, in my opinion.



Salnax on 02 October 2017

What was the Wii? A flawed but ultimately successful console.

Although I can see why some people consider motion gaming a gimmick, that alone is not enough reason to write off the Wii as simply a gimmick. That would be like saying the DS was a gimmick because controlling a game with a microphone is a terrible idea. Motion controls may have been an integral part of the system, but were not so intrusive as to exclude games that didn't take advantage of them. Some of the best games on the Wii barely used motion controls (Super Smash Bros Brawl, Xenoblade, Monster Hunter Tri, Rayman Origins, etc).

The Wii had its flaws, which are too widely known to require mention, and was obviously the odd man out compared to the PS3 and X360. But this helped it become the home of more exclusives than other consoles. Even if we ignore Nintendo as a developer and publisher, there was a vast number of Wii exclusives, many of which had fairly distinct flavors (Boom Blox, MadWorld, No More Heroes, Trauma Team, etc). Many of them were able to fill a certain middle ground not found elsewhere at the time, since download exclusives were still fairly limited (partially by necessity) and the HD Consoles had a higher base retail price.

I think that in retrospect, the Wii is best viewed as an oddball that introduced a few trends and extended some others, but one that ultimately did not indicate the future of gaming. And that's okay.



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Leadified on 02 October 2017
killeryoshis said:

Not my text below:

Personally, I think the Nintendo is a piece of right wing garbage akin to the
IBM PC.  Slow, out of date, but heavily marketed so that mindless dweenies will
think it’s the hottest thing since Zelda had her first period.  I have yet TO
SEE A SINGLE GAME ON THE THING SUBSTANTIALLY BETTER THAN STUFF I PLAYED ON MY OLD ATARI 800 SEVEN YEARS AGO…..Yes, there are some nice games, but they do not do anything extraordinary and in fact clearly show the glaring limitations of the thing’s inferior pre-VLSI hardware.

On the subject of the Sega Genesis and the Turbografix 16.  At least these guys
are using hardware invented after the Apple II, give ’em credit!  The graphics
in these games are NICE!  I really can’t give a decent opinion as to which is
better, they’re both fantastic!

But now I get to stand on my soapbox and have some fun.  Correct me if I am
wrong, but isn’t the Atari 7800 superior hardware wise to the NES?  I heard
thing could manipulate 64 BIG sprites at once.  It was developed right when
the slump hit the videogame industry, and two fantastic and innovative games
Rescue at fractalus and Ballblazer NEVER got the recognition they deserved.
I have yet to see ANYTHING on the NES half as good as these wondrous
creations from Lucasfilm.  All I ever see are variations on the horizontal/
vertical scrolling find the magic trinket and or blow it up while a host of
randomly drawn stick figures get in your way theme.  I’d rather pay 25 cents
in an arcade and at least get decent graphics and sound.

This gets us to another topic.  Anyone who believes the Gamebody superior to
the Lynx is a complete loony.  However, I think there is a good chance the
Lynx will fail simply because the Gameboy is saturing the market.  I hope this
does not happen because I do not see anyone else creating truly innovative
software for home video games.  Even the Sega and NEC systems are only offering
souped up versions of the aforementioned theme…

The only really nifty games are being written for Amigas and ST’s with sorry
adaptions made for befuddled PC users who gladly shuck out the bucks when they
see screenshots from the ST and Amiga versions (usually the Amiga version :)),
and get the Nintendosized version of a formerly fantastic game.  One could
probably write neat stuff for the Mac II, but who wants to pay $7000 for a
video game ?  The saddest part about this tale is that the PC version by far
outshines the combined profits of Amiga and ST versions so now some programmers
are dropping the Amiga and ST and limiting their horizons simply for the bucks.

I’m writing what I hope is a truly innovative video game myself right now, I
am writing it on an Atari ST with plans for both Amiga and PC adaptations, but
the key word here IS adaptations.  The Amiga version will certainly be a little
better with the nifty sound and blitter chip, but I will need to write the PC
adaptation to make the thing truly profitable and that will be by far the
hardest part.  Anyone out there looking for games for the NEC or Genesis?  This
game would be PERFECT!  I already know the thing would crash and burn on an NES

In closing, this post rambled ALOT, but I have wanted to broadcast my views
on the NES monopoly and the general creative decline it has triggered for a
very long time…

Source https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.games.video/IKQkExqofSA

Other than a few things like the names and tech stuff, this forum post could have easily been written yesterday.