Well it would be annoying to make games for the highest userbase in the gaming market right now this generation. Wii wins in sales but in quality selling games it is lacking not saying it isn't a good console but the games are highly lacking i'm sorry but wii sports etc wouldn't interest me in buying the console. But its still a good console regardless it will be hard now for them to draw in consumers.

Come on now. The Wii may be losing developers over time since the tech is very outdated and limitations are more and more apparent and unappealing from a developer standpoint, but give credit where credit is due. Nintendo made a big comeback marketshare-wise, bought time while more of the world made the transition to HD, and made a crapload of money. As long as they don't wait too long to release their next console, and as Iwata says, has something to it that is more than just an HD upgrade that people will want, Nintendo will maintain dominance.

this is actually a good thing, maybe Ubisoft will stop shoving Imagine Babez down our throats.
I would much have the shelves empty and quality games like MH3 and Tatsunoko vs Capcom put on display.
It sickens me every time I open a catalog and I see games like Image Babez be advertised and not games like Tatsunoko vs Capcom or hell even the Conduit.

If it means less shovelware then I'm all for it, if it means one or two quality games get dropped, but for that about 20 shovelware games, then sometimes sacrifices have to be made

thanks to catering to casuals, the timing of this Nintendo Wii's death is now becoming more soon and more of a headshaker. If it weren't for the loads of shovelware that Nintendo allowed to grace the platform (Not to mention horrendously weak sales of M-rated games), it would have lasted longer than it was destined to. Course, it didn't help that it was a Gamecube with a Wii-mote, either.

I still love your SNES, Nintendo. But you did the hardcore gamers wrong in search of the glorious dollar chasing. Come on, Cold Stone Creamery for the Wii?

GTFO.

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.