Well, look at the chart of the best-selling games (on console as this is what VGC tracks really):

http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/

Wii only takes five out of the TOP 10 slots.

I remember when my mom brought home a Wii (still a mystery how she was able to snag one that first holiday season in '06) for herself and asked me to help her set up and play. Right away I realized the system was trash and not meant for gamers but for moms, aunts, grandmothers, and small children. Garbage, garbage, garbage system. But boy did that thing cause a crazy hysteria, everyone wanted one and was talking about it.

Because console wars and peer pressure.

What made it, "garbage, garbage, garbage" though?

Thank you all for the responses so far. I left and now I feel like if I respond to some of the earlier posts in the thread but I have read every response thus far and I will be more active going forward. The best part about this thread so far is noticing that people are checking each other. Normally in my experience, if I do not check people, then their statements never get checked. This thread has been awesome.

Even if I disagree with your reply, I will still enjoy the read.

Right, and 3 of those are Wii Sports related (at least I assume Wii Play is in the same vein as Wii Sports as I never played it).

That's the sort of evidence that further lends me to think that the Wii itself as a system was mainly a Wii Sports machine for lots of people who bought it.

The whole thing felt cheap, the controllers, the connectors, accessories. At that point it was odd seeing something so low quality from Nintendo. Not to mention the wiimote, made it more of a toy than a gaming system.

Also after gaming on my shiny new 360 for a few months prior to my first experience with the Wii, the graphics were an absolute joke. 

Props to Nintendo for creating a phenom though, but it just wasnt my cup of tea. 

That being said, I've absolutely loved every other piece of gaming hardware Nintendo has put out, even the Wii U.

Whatever, Wii Sports sold the system, that's right. Still the people bought Mario Kart and Smash. Twilight Princess is either best selling or second best selling Zelda-game (I don't really know if OOT wins). Mario Kart Wii is the best selling Mario Kart. New Super Mario Bros. Wii is the third selling Mario game (Mario Bros on NES and New Super Mario Bros on DS were the only ones that did better). Brawl is the best selling Smash Bros. So yes, Wii Sports was selling the Wii, but that still means a lot of games besides Wii Sports were purchased after that.

Even the legendary PS2 that has sold 50% more consoles has it's first entry on 17. So clearly Wii sold games.

Well, why not look at the top selling Wii titles and see if that does anything to alter your admittedly bias opinion.

I see. I do not agree with much of what you said but it is your opinion so I can accept that.

I also had a 360 before Wii (as I got my 360 a little after launch and it did RRoD on me) but I guess I could accept the downgrade in graphics if the game was No More Heroes or something. I did enjoy DS even though PSP blew it away, too. Maybe you did not like DS though because 360 murders it graphically, too.