lol, that is eerily acurate.

I agree with the OP. I've always been of the opinion that the wii is the NES reborn. NSMBWii is proof of that. I would definitely not be sad if the next system is called Super Wii :)

Quit owning me I just did it as a comparsion. Fine I'll make it better the Game and watch even looks like the DS

Not really, since that was largely a competative thing instead of something new.

There are only two things wrong with this statement.

First of all, Metacritic does not track scores for anything pre-PSone (and neither does GameRankings). So the comparison that you are telling people do to do cannot be done.

Second, Nintendo had no real competition. Seriously, if you were going to develop for Nintendo, you had to sign a contract that basically prevented you from developing from anyone else. And the FC/NES was released two years in Japan and one in North America and Europe before the SM3/SMS.  Thus, by being first and dominating the market (82% market share), developers did console games for the FC/NES because if they wanted to move product, they had to play by the now-illegal rules Nintendo put before them at this time.

To be honest, if you want to complain about the quality of games on the Wii, talk to Activision, EA, Ubisoft, THQ, Capcom, Hudson, Namco-Bandai, Sega, etc. Because in many cases, the third parties have elected to not bring games to the Wii or have brought substandard games or bad mini-game collections.

Mike from Morgantown

For those who think that 3rd party support is low
http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=5017
As you see The wii had the biggest increase of qaulity games. With a epic 2010. I can see that 3rd party support will get much better

Reviews are meaningless. Always have been always will be. Metacritic: the steaming pile made from all the shit reviews out there.

Fact is tons of people _love_ their Wii, just like there were tons of people who loved their NES. The fact also is I loved my NES, my Wii collects dust. The HD consoles are much better competition for the Wii than the competition was for the NES.

History is definitely repeating itself. The Wii is the spiritual sequel to the NES. No console has reminded me more of the NES than Wii.

My older brother always likes to remind me that it was he who convinced my parents to buy me a NES because he hated me playing his C64. NES was for kids, a baby machine. He didn't like my NES very much with its simple, gimmicky controls. His attitude towards consoles/Nintendo changed dramatically when the SNES released.

The NES, like the Wii has returned arcade gaming to our homes and to the top of the sales charts where they belong. Look at the library of Wii v HD and it is very reminiscent of NES v Computer games. Consoles were supposed to be the arcades as home. If the arcades were still alive today they'd be full of Wii games not the competitions.

First off, NES third party situation wasn't as rosey as people like to make it out to be in hindsight. There's something of a revisionist history going on with the NES. Western third parties like EA refused to put games on it and its outdated tech. In fact the majority of NES third party support came towards the end of its life.

As for the OP, I agree with it. Wii was created as a new age NES..a disruptor. All the criticisms the Wii gets now the NES got then..just look it up, its there. Words like Fad were being used against the NES, it had a strange input device unlike other gaming machines (which became standard for the next 20 yrs) NES was built with family interaction at its core..I mean it was called Famicom short for family computer.

History is indeed repeating itself, but not in exactly the same way. The funny thing is, the games that will be remembered as defining this Generation of consoles is not GTAIV or Uncharted or Halo 3 It will be Wii Sports or MK or NSMB. The other games will be forgotten by all but the most die hard fans. Much like the computer gamers of the NES era were.

NES --> SNES...

Wii --> SWii?!?!?