Each holiday season, a couple of hard-to-find toys send parents hunting from store to store. And, each season, they're soon forgotten.
For instance: Has your Elmo gotten any tickles lately?
But this year, it looks as if the gift everybody is looking for is the same as last year: the Nintendo Wii.
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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It's a step forward for Stop Killing Games.
of course you expect the hottest thing on earth to be hard to find
when I couldn't buy my 360. I just felt this sudden strong urge to buy one. Don't know how I withstood that, because I have little self-control.
PS3 and 360 deserve to the most wanted not Wii. But hey, in a market that true works of art and gaming masterpieces like Okami, Shadow of Colossus and Psychonauts fail commercially while likes of Wii Play, Madden and such sell millions, it's obvious that Wii is outselling PS3 and 360.