A lot of people seem to dislike the console, and sure it was a place where developers took giant dumps of **** like "super party fun" and "minigame party land 6" but It was the console that brought back some old favorites. Donkey kong country and Kirby. It had a great line-up of platformer games as well. Platformer being one of my favorite genre's. I found the Mario games one of my all time favorite Mario games too. It also brought lots of railshooters along with it, which works perfectly with motion control. Truly delivering an arcade experience for me. I feel like the console has had a lot of gems too, but some of those gems got superseded, for instance no more heroes and overkill going onto the PS3. Sadly the 3rd party support wasn't that great, but for those that love party games I suppose it's all good. 1st party for the most part had an amazing line-up.
I do admire that Nintendo decided to try a different route rather than try to compete in terms of hardware only. I'm not sure if that would of turned out so well, had they done that.
I don't think having HD would of made too much difference at the time, it may of forced developers to improve the textures in some games. Having the wii on 480p you could tell with some games they just didn't try hard enough.
A DvD player would of been nice too, but I understand Nintendo really wanted the wii to be cheap. Fortunately the wii is rather easy to "jailbreak" making this feature a reality after-all, as well as many more great features, but I will ignore that, since I'm looking at the wii on how it was intended to be played with by nintendo.
I think another negative for the wii is just how many games enforced waggle. Waggle wasn't convenient and what it accomplished was just so much easier with a push of a button.
Too many games enforcing this, reprieved what could of been a more enjoyable experience. Curse you donkey kong country and your slamming!
A positive that did come with motion control out of the box, was developers could create rail-shooters without having to worry if the player had a lightgun. We got plenty of those and like I've said before love dem rail-shooters so this was good for me. Perhaps I'm in the small margin with this. I'll also admit I like wii sports and similar games like it.
We can all agree Nintendos online support was an utter joke, those awful awful friend codes can go rot in hell for all I care. It's once again a shame not many games were around that featured online support, but then again there weren't many games around all together that would of really enriched in such a feature. Regardless New super mario bros would of been great with online play. Oh and let's not forget that whole failure that was wii speak. D:
To conclude I don't think the wii was really aimed at the "hardcore" crowd. It certainly wasn't ever taken too seriously. Nintendo did well at selling it and planting it in every household. (Let's just hope nothing sinister is laying dormant in those machines) It also just felt too old to succeed compared to the PS3 and XboX. Lack of games, graphics, online. Sure the Wii sold well, but it won't ever be looked at so greatly through the eyes of it's buyers.. Finishing off with a light note, I liked the wii, it brought us some great games, and I'll just ignore all the ****** ones... although ignoring a pile the size of a mountain may be hard, it doesn't stop me from enjoying the good ones. So I'll carry on playing my mario galaxy, no more heroes 2, and smile like the sun in teletubbies.
Oh and also I hate the term "my wii is collecting dust" All my consoles collect dust, no matter how much I play them! What's everyone's problem with dust. :'(
I do admire that Nintendo decided to try a different route rather than try to compete in terms of hardware only. I'm not sure if that would of turned out so well, had they done that.
I don't think having HD would of made too much difference at the time, it may of forced developers to improve the textures in some games. Having the wii on 480p you could tell with some games they just didn't try hard enough.
A DvD player would of been nice too, but I understand Nintendo really wanted the wii to be cheap. Fortunately the wii is rather easy to "jailbreak" making this feature a reality after-all, as well as many more great features, but I will ignore that, since I'm looking at the wii on how it was intended to be played with by nintendo.
I think another negative for the wii is just how many games enforced waggle. Waggle wasn't convenient and what it accomplished was just so much easier with a push of a button.
A positive that did come with motion control out of the box, was developers could create rail-shooters without having to worry if the player had a lightgun. We got plenty of those and like I've said before love dem rail-shooters so this was good for me. Perhaps I'm in the small margin with this. I'll also admit I like wii sports and similar games like it.
We can all agree Nintendos online support was an utter joke, those awful awful friend codes can go rot in hell for all I care. It's once again a shame not many games were around that featured online support, but then again there weren't many games around all together that would of really enriched in such a feature. Regardless New super mario bros would of been great with online play. Oh and let's not forget that whole failure that was wii speak. D:
To conclude I don't think the wii was really aimed at the "hardcore" crowd. It certainly wasn't ever taken too seriously. Nintendo did well at selling it and planting it in every household. (Let's just hope nothing sinister is laying dormant in those machines) It also just felt too old to succeed compared to the PS3 and XboX. Lack of games, graphics, online. Sure the Wii sold well, but it won't ever be looked at so greatly through the eyes of it's buyers.. Finishing off with a light note, I liked the wii, it brought us some great games, and I'll just ignore all the ****** ones... although ignoring a pile the size of a mountain may be hard, it doesn't stop me from enjoying the good ones. So I'll carry on playing my mario galaxy, no more heroes 2, and smile like the sun in teletubbies.
Oh and also I hate the term "my wii is collecting dust" All my consoles collect dust, no matter how much I play them! What's everyone's problem with dust. :'(