iTWire writes "Some are concerned that the popularity of the Wii has diluted the once deep and rich gaming landscape, but instead they should embrace the legitimacy to the hobby that the Wii has brought to the industry."
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.
Dash Rendar, Prince Xizor, the Battle of Hoth, and one of the boldest Star Wars multimedia projects ever made. Here’s why Shadows of the Empire still matters.
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. 😆
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.
As a kid me and my cousins loved this game . I have great memories with this one and the Star Wars pod racer game .
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it was 250$ and thats the only reason it sold....
i always saw nintendo not saving the industry but helping it
i dunno it really just depends on how you see it really
They're introducing gaming to people who would otherwise not know about it so in a way they're helping the industry; however definitely not saving.
The 80's. Back then, that was a save that brought video games back from the brink of extinction. Arguably, that save in the 80's evolved to where we are today. I will say though, as innovative as Nintendo is with their modern power glove (wii), they sure seem to be stuck in the early 2000's as far as software goes.
If there was no Wii, there would just be the HD consoles which all devs cannot afford to produce games on. It is an expensive process to make HD era games., on the flip side the Wii/DS allows devs to be as creative as possible.
Also, gaming is more popular with women and older gamers now because of Nintendo and is helping the game industry grow at an enormous rate.
Neither MS or Sony really caters to the core/casual crowd and that attention is needed.
Im just glad, that Nintendo is still in the game because they truly are the best 1st party dev, and gaming would be nothing without them.