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"For some, online gaming is one of the biggest features on the back of a video game box. Interestingly though, Nintendo hasn't really pushed online as much as say Microsoft or Sony has, but why? The truth will make core online gamers mad, but the reality is their business strategy isn't about the existing online gamer, it's about creating new online gamers."
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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I think the Wii's online is fine, it has a long way to go, but it is trying to get new gamers that just started playing games to come online. It will take time.
To be fair i feel XBL does a far better job of getting people to play online than the Wii does. Communication is the one thing which gets people to play online and XBL does it better than any
The Wii online isn't the worst as I get to play games online but it is only a limited amount of games. Not that it really matters to some to get online at all. Nintendo does play it safe which is why they are taking so long to expand on the online sector. Yet with all that said people will still hate on it as we all know it is no where close to PS/PS3/360 which the article already states :)
I used to really enjoy my online gaming... now I rarely play games online. I was just sick of the amount of douchebag's you'd come across. Nowadays I'm all about the single player experience and thats about it. And the occasional co-op with a friend. Where did it all go wrong for me? :(
It's fine but i hate friend codes .