While hardcore gamers want to see everything the Wii can offer right now (you know, like actual online gameplay...) NoA VP Perrin Kaplan told us during DICE that Nintendo is selectively rolling features out to make it palatable to the mass market consumer. Also, could a Wii hardware revision be in the works? Massive interview awaits...
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.
BIZ: Is it Nintendo's goal to become #1 in the gaming space again, or does that even matter since the company is hugely profitable and obviously as a business that's what matters most?
PK: We've never had a time that we haven't been profitable. It depends on how you define #1...
BIZ: Well in terms of market share and selling more systems than Sony or Microsoft over the next 5 years...
PK: I will tell you our priorities are to continue to do what we've been doing for all of these years, ever since we've been in business, and that's to remain profitable. The other companies have yet to accomplish that really... so we've remained #1 in terms of that since the get go. As far as market share and units, coming out of the holiday we've sold the most hardware and the most software, so I think we're #1 there. But sure, we'd love to have it all and I think we can have it all. What's most important, however, is to be a healthy, profitable company... Microsoft is probably the only company that could have survived in this business this long having lost as much money as they did. They're trying to do some creative and innovative things and we give them credit for that.