Straight from the horse's mouth - Nintendo UK comment on the recent Wii launch in America.
Nintendo UK's Dawn Paine, Marketing Director, said the following:
"The success of the Wii launch in the US this weekend was phenomenal and is
very encouraging. Hundreds of people queued up to purchase a Wii and fans
weren't disappointed by the atmosphere at New York¹s Times Square Toys ³R²
Us and Universal Citywalk¹s Gamestop.
With just over 3 weeks until launch, we are very excited about Wii arriving
in the UK and look forward to a really successful launch. Whether you're a
non gamer or an avid gamer, Wii looks set to be top of all the Christmas
lists this year, following in the footsteps of Nintendo DS as a
groundbreaking market leader."
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.
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It's a step forward for Stop Killing Games.
Has enyone heard of when the component cables will be coming?
Yea putting 5 year old technology in something is a real challenge.