Part 3 of a three part series. GameRevolver.com looks at the first year of life on the Nintendo Wii and gives their opinion. Not for the faint.
"Their latest console, the Nintendo Wii, now harnesses a full DVD disc drive, allowing for larger games such as 'The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess' and Metroid Prime. However, with Nintendo's arrogance and obsession with being different, they have made one major change to differentiate themselves from the competition. This time, the change came on the controller. The Wii system sports the Wii-mote, resembling a fat, vertical version of the original NES controller from the 80's. The new control scheme incorporates and infrared sensor at the top of the controller, allowing you to point at the screen in light gun fashion and interact with games on the platform."
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
It's important in life to maintain a broad palette when it comes to culture and the arts. Hideo Kojima agrees, as he continues to use video games like Death Stranding to introduce people to music and other elements they might not otherwise discover.
Mojang has partnered with Merlin Entertainments to build the world's first Minecraft theme park in the UK.
i have to admit, i thought the wii was gonna be a failure like the gamecube but i was wrong, it opened a door to new gamers and expanded teh casual games market a hell of alot
the wii will fail. It is hot right now, but for the wrong reasons. Consumers will realize this I think and Nintendo will need to make additional offerings, such as use of the classic controller to compensate.
What constitutes a failure? IMO once a console sells over 20 million in it's lifespan it's a success. Something has to outsell SOMETHING, everyone isn't gonna sell the same ammount of consoles. I say 20 million because that's just enough amount of an install base for games to sell reasonably. And this is coming from me and my last 2 consoles sold over 100 million ^_^
No offence, but I think the Wii will seriously die out in the long run. Besides from the occassional Mario and Zelda games what else does Nintendo have?
there are alot of cheap lower and middle class people buying it for their kids. They have to have the worst software lineup of all the 3 consoles out right now, both graphically and genre types. Mario didn't sell the wi, the price tag did, but I still didn't buy one and am greatful. I do however own the other 2 next gen machines.