Make no mistake, the past 12 months of sales and growth for the games industry were driven in part by Nintendo, it's Wii console and its alternative controller, and the push to wider and alternative demographics.
There's no denying the format holder's part in helping drive the games markets around the world to report record revenues and booming hardware markets in various territories.
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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i think major franchises like dragon quest or final fantasy will have no problem selling on Wii. however new IPs don't seem to be doing well. take resident evil for example, it's a remake but still managed to sell well.
perhaps things will turn around like what happened on the DS. at the begining of the system's release only Nintendo games were selling. but once the installed base reached a high enough number many games saw phenomenal sales whether they were from Nintendo or other third parties.
no more heroes will sell , plenty of products will sell. look at carnival games, guitar hero....etc... maybe what hare should say is third party's face a dilemma. do they just keep bringing garbage to the wii and expect it to sell and maybe they also expect nintendo to advertise and create a buzz for their own product.. it doesnt make sense
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third parties only have their self to blame, for example, i might get zack and wiki but i haven't seen it advertised. people aren't telepathic how are they supposed to know the game even exists? the only people who would know about the game are those who buy magazines or look at games websites etc.. if a company doesn't advertise their own product it says a lot.