Which is on top of your list?

Is it the console itself, the games, the motion controls, the marketing, the advertising, the peripherals, the timing, the mass apeal, the price etc.  

Please share your honest opinions.

Thanks a lot.

The games.

As it should be.

It was mostly because of the:

Nintendo games- Zelda as a launch title anyone?
Motion Controls- This was the entire hype for the wii, it was new, refreshing, people jumped all over it.
Wii Sports- This was the perfect game to show off motion controls, it was accessible and fun.
Wii Fit- How many mom haven't but a wii to try and get in shape?

Couldn't think of 10. :-/

1) Microsoft helping to kill PC gaming. Popular Microsoft PC franchises like Fable, Gears of War and Halo are nowadays only available for the XBox 360. Fans are provided no choice.

2) Pricing and reliability, it's cheaper than a Wii and especially old models break a lot. Several friends bought various revivions in the hope it would have less problems (more reliable, less noisy, less disc scratching, etc).

3) Somehow many people in the US actually like Microsoft and thus XBox, less so in other parts of the world. Mass advertising seems more effective there.

4) Microsoft buying Japanese exclusives. Many popular Japanese franchises first released on the 360, the 360 performs very weak in Japan, but it would have performed even weaker.

5) Microsoft buying exclusivity to multi-platform enginge based games.

6) Recommendation of bad coding practices which results in less optimised code as well as hinders porting to non-Microsoft platforms.

Oops, I thought it said XBox 360. It was still too early...

Nintendo games is the top reason!!

from an advertising point fo view Nintendo absoulty destroyed the competion.

1) Wii Sports.
2) The best and most family games.
3) The best and most party games.
4) The best and most casual games.
5) The best and most exercise games.
6) The best and most zombie games.
7) The best and most motion controlled games.
8) The best and most IR-pointer controlled games.
9) The best and most retro games.
10) The best and most advertising.

1.price
2.casual market games
3.innovative controls
4.easy to use
5.no HD
6.mario
7.wii sports
8.wii fit (everyone is fat)
9.high DS install base
10.history in the gaming business

Was this a mistake, or does your hate just stretch this far?

Anyhoos, it's obviously the games. Never has a console had so many ridiculously successful games.

Wii Sports.

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