As anyone in the games industry can confirm, most family members and close friends came around these past few weeks asking the same question: "Can you help me get a Wii?" As the Wii closes its third holiday season, I would venture to guess that sales records again will be broken when last week's holiday results are reported. Look at November alone: Nintendo sold over two million units including 800,000 during the Thanksgiving weekend despite the down economy. It appears that the Wii is and will be the console king. However, software sales hint at a slightly different story.
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.
I didn't know that.....
...is so stupid. We deserve the wii <<sarcasm>>
"What if Nintendo can replicate the online success of Microsoft and Sony?"
A couple of problems with that...
1. Nintendo somehow decided that this "friend code" BS you see on the DS and Wii was the way to go. Now if they change to a more unified system, they will break their older online games (like Mario Cart, Super Smash Brothers Melee, Mario Strikers, etc.)
2. It's freaking Nintendo... The GameCube had an ethernet adapter available for it, it just NEVER got used (other than LAN play for Mario Cart Double Dash).
Sadly enough, the Wii's crippled online doesn't seem to bother Wii owners. I guess your average casual gamer has no interest in playing online.
This article is more or less opinion but makes valid points. I'm a bit bothered by the ambiguity of the conclusions it draws from relatively few facts. It failed to mention mario kart... the game for wii with the most extensive online base has been a top seller since it's release. Hopefully this sends a message to nintendo that it's users want the comprehensive online experience and they need to expand on that.
nice point there also very true