If not for that, Nintendo would have gone third-party nearly two decades ago
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Yamauchi said "if nintendo ds succeeds, we rise to heaven. If it fails, we sink to hell"
dae remember how people thought the ds was a ridiculous concept that would flop as hard as the gamecube and nintendo's "third pillar" would instantly crumble
tbf i miss dual-screens, hope the switch 2 adds back wii u functionality so we can have that again
You know, I still kind of don't like the DS. I don't like having two screens, or touch controls. Nothing about it particularly improves games for me.
That unironically looks awesome
I was super psyched by Miyamoto playing that Wii Music game on stage, then when that finally came out I read it wasn't very good. Reading all that shit about Wii Sports being played absolutely everywhere was almost surreal though. Even adults I knew who were never into games were playing Wii Sports until late at night after their kids had gone to bed.
My mom still does Wii Fit U every day, only other game she plays is ACNH and otherwise hasn't touched gaming since the Intellivision days
Last month my mom asked me to help her set up Wii Fit again. The only other game she cared for at all is Ms. Pac Man on the Genesis.
NSMBW was the peak of the Mario series.
The Wii in general was. SMG is still a game that blows me away, I can hardly believe a game that looks that beautiful runs on hardware that is essentially an overclocked GameCube. SMG2 wasn't as good as the first, but probably just because they marketed as the sequel rather than just naming it "Super Mario Galaxy More" like they should've. Odyssey had almost no soul compared to the experience that was SMG1, and I don't think current Nintendo could make a game like it again.
SMG was the last time Bowser was allowed to be a genuine threat, and probably the best portrayal of space I've seen in a game. Mario is so incredibly miniscule with those grandiose space backdrops, but it's all so beautiful.
I do understand people who dont really care for Galaxy after they came from 64 and Sunshine though. 64 is my favorite one of all the 3D Mario games with Sunshine being my least favorite, but for people wanting more of the feeling you got from those two games, Galaxy's more linear approach can easily turn people off.
That said Galaxy 2 is my second favorite 3D Mario game. Galaxy 1 is 3rd.
NSMB2 is my favorite NSMB game but I won't deny that NSMBWii was a revolution when it came out
based NSMB2 enjoyer
I sincerely hope you dont actually think this. I really do
We're in the middle of a discord raid
The Wii and DS just showed me that I "fit in" more with what everyone kept calling "casuals" than I did with hardcore. I still have this thing hooked up. I wasn't a huge fan of the 3DS though, and the Wii U probably would have been better if Nintendo didnt kill it before it launched.
Same here, those were the systems that showed me I wasn't a "gamer", I was just a guy who liked video games
As it turns out, gamers are fricking losers and once I made an effort to hang out more with "normalgays" rather than other gamers, I was found myself around better people
>the systems that showed me I wasn't a "gamer", I was just a guy who liked video games
Exactly me. I care enough to jailbreak my Wii and have access to all the games I loved growing up as well as Wii games but I'm not a "gamer". My Switch is admittedly used primarily for the NSO classic games (piss poor selection compared to Wii when the Wii Shop Channel was still going though), "oh that looks neat, I'll pay $20 or less for that" AA games that nobody really cares about, and Nintendo games like TotK and honestly Ring Fit.
Gamer culture at the time was really fricking dumb, with how genuinely insecure and threatened people would get over anything that didn't have a "cool" image.
I knew hardcore Nintendo fanboys for whom the Wii was the final straw. Why? I don't know. It was a pretty good console, and better than the GC or N64 in a lot of regards.
Literally just the idea of the thing damaged their pride in some way, because it had a stupid name, and it was being marketed to grandma. Nevermind that there's an actual selection of games that you would have killed for when you were playing Holy Magic Century on the N64 a few years ago.
I remember a guy I went to uni with heckling me over Wii being a kid console, and I really didn't get it because that shit had Madworld.
Wii was fricking kino, so much good shit that you still can't play on anything else (unless you have a Wii U, since BC)
It's literally that ancient Wii meme of "Ugh, why can't this come out on a real console!".
You just want to play Wii games, but you don't want to admit it.
see also: wii u and switch
>man why won't that game come out on ps4
>just buy a wii u
>EEEW then my middle school friends will say i have cooties
Nintendo has good games, but not very powerful hardware since the GameCube flopped. This wasn't much of a problem until the Switch, which is beginning to affect the more ambitious games.
It was much more of an issue on the Wii, due to the Wii being locked at 480p.
I don't really give a frick about how underpowered the Switch is. Pikmin 4 looks good enough to me.
Wii had Madworld and No More Heroes a little later, but the PS360 had GTA, Red Dead Redemption, COD4, God of War, and a myriad of other mature rated games alongside the well known sports games everyone liked in Madden, FIFA and NBA2k. They were also the consoles you could play online without needing something like Friend Codes or a Wii Speak device (made WAY later on Wii's life for the Animal Crossing game and almost no games using it) in order to talk to people. It didn't even have Achievements outside of the baked in attempt it made for Wii Sports Resort. Wii wasn't the one you wanted to get if you wanted to have game nights with your friends in college and definitely wasn't the console for people who consider themselves "real" or "core" gamers.
So it's incredible how the Wii ended up being the console I played most, liked the most, and still like to play from time to time even now, while the "next gen" consoles of the time I don't care much for at all. Fast forwarding to today, I don't even care for the PS5 or Series X at all. I just upgrade the PC when I feel like I need to and stick with the Switch and Wii for everything else (or my DS Lite for the handhelds)
Probably not. The GC and GBA still made enough of a profit. Nintendo make most of their money flogging hardware, and the software sells the hardware. The "Nintendo are going to go third party" people have never really had a leg to stand on. They just want Nintendo to go third party.
Ahh, the average pony, hating on Nintendo but jumping like a ravenous, starving dog at the chance of playing one of their games.
Remember when your kind thought you could steal Fire Emblem if Sony bought Atlus?
kek
>Remember when your kind thought you could steal Fire Emblem if Sony bought Atlus?
wait did snoys really think Atlus were the ones behind FE? lmao
wii golf was the best game original game on that system
>tfw never got to experience this cuz i never really had any close friends growing up
>wii on top of xbone s
wholesome
I won't forget how much fun playing tennis and bowling were with the family. I was the king if tennis and boxing, my dad was great at golf, brother was great at bowling, and mom and sister were pretty decent at tennis. Nobody liked baseball much, but my brother was still really good at it.
>if not for nintendo remaining first-party, they would have gone third-party
okay?
Nah, the Gamecube was more profitable than the Xbox OG
Nah, they could've held out for one more gen. They didn't go full moron like Sega.
Not with the DS almost tying the PS2 in sales it wouldn't