Gamers sit up and take notice! Do you, as a gamer, want your mom or grandpa to be an audience for game developers? Do you even want to see geriatrics flailing their flabby arms around or doing mock yoga in front of the television? The answer better be no, unless of course you are looking forward to this possible hellish future of console gaming. The runaway success of the Wii is endangering gaming by trying to impart upon it the one thing that has made it ours for so long, mainstream success with non-gaming audiences. Thanks to Nintendo's powerhouse console, which has consistently topped the sales chart since release, the Wii is in danger of making gaming mainstream and accessible to any and all asshats that would sit down with a controller and believe themselves to be "with it."
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.
This article makes me sad. I hate the way gaming is going right now…
"They're letting anyone into our little club now! This is B.S.!!!"
Well guess what? The only reason you, or I or anyone else is in this "Club" is because anyone has been "allowed" in. I hate some of the crap on the Wii and that year stretch of only a few good Wii games as much as anyone. But if only us existent gamers buy games and dictate how things will go, the industry will become stagnant, overly expensive, and niche beyond what anything besides death and revamp resurrection could cure. We've still got our Killzone's, Halo's, Mario, Zelda, Final Fantasy's, and God of War's. No need to hate or despair because mom, dad, or the grandparents are playing too. That's ridiculous.