before any of you think i am slagging the Nintendo Wii i'm not, i cant because i havnt played it and i like the motion controlers. but it does seem like there putting more effort into making custom controlers. If the XBox 360 had all different controlers etc just like the wireless steering wheel + pedals then i wouldnt buy them because i would rather spend more money on my XBox 360 games.

... dont you agree?

for the original NES. These accessories made games worth getting because of the accessories. Now, on that same note some accessories have died because of lack of games developed for them. If games come out for all this stuff that work well with them, Nintendo will hit it big, since the majority of console revenue is from accessories and replacement components, not the consoles themselves (which usually lose money). This is also the reason you see cheap controllers that break, bad wires, ect. because having to replace them or battery packs really pads a companies bottom line. Nintendo is going straight for the dough this round. Squandering spending, using old technology (come on not even 720p in this puppy), and going for innovation in the money maker (controllers)! Dirty, but shear genius.

Anything for a buck. Some people go for this type of thing. If someone is making money at it, who cares?

I mean, if Wii golf, or Tiger Woods is your favorite game, for some people that means they want the strategy guide, and a fake golf end, and anything else they can get their hands on.

None of these accessories are actually made by Nintendo. They're all made by 3rd parties hoping to make some money from the Wii phenom.

And just for the record, Nintendo does not make cheap controllers (or accessories) in hopes to profit by selling replacements. They are always top-quality, and I have yet to replace a single Official Nintendo product (including consoles) after millions of hours of play over the past 20 years.

I do agree however that this 3rd party rubbish is cheap in quality. If you want something to last, then stick with Nintendo-made products. If you want some cheap gimmick, buy some of this junk.

are entirely ridiculous. Just more crap for kids to throw on the "broken toys" pile in the corner of the room. I'll agree that original Ninty products are well made (which these most certainly are not), but they should focus on a more powerful machine than all of these collectibles and trinkets. At least an upgraded version for the connoisseurs, no? Too harsh? ^_~

Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.

Great console, still use it

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.

This game along with Rogue Squadron got me into to Star Wars. The release of special edition VHS Star Wars collection was perfectly times on top of all that. 😆

Because it is.

Please re-release this.

But it wasn't. Although I do agree that some of the tie-in media, like the novels and comics, were pretty good.

Still, games like Dark Forces, Jedi Knight, Rogue Squadron, and the space sims were peak 90s Star Wars. Shadows fell flat because of the abysmal controls and unimaginative levels. And if you wanted to really experience the seedy side of the universe, Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 was peak, and it wasn't even close.

Regardless, and much to my dismay, we got the better version thanks to Ubislop in Outlaws, which is what Shadows should've been, albeit at a smaller scale.