Inexcusably underpowered hardware, no HDMI, awful online, casual pandering, and forced waggleshit in everything. 2006-2016 was undeniably the worst ever era to be a Nintendo fan. Felt like they had given up on making serious games and just wanted to pander to soccer moms.
>no HDMI
moronic point, every single television in 2006 had analog inputs
Point is it should have been an HD-capable console, moron.
It's absolutely inexcusable that Nintendo were still selling a console that couldn't output in HD as their current-gen system as late as 2012.
It was one of those classic Iwata-era moronation moments where they convinced themselves "HD is just a fad, it won't catch on" and promptly got left behind in the dust.
>it should have been another brown n bloom HD goyslop machine
Good thing it wasn't. It's still a somewhat viable option for 240p emulation of 8 and 16 bit machines to this day.
Why do you keep bringing up brown and bloom? You realize Nintendo is currently releasing games on hardware MORE powerful than the PS3 and 360, and none of them are brown and bloom, right? Its not as if running on a HD system means you HAVE to make games like that.
If Nintendo had released a serious 7th gen console rather than the Wii, they could have still made games like Super Mario Galaxy and Metroid Prime 3, except they'd be better because they'd have far superior graphics and no waggle. And on top of that they would have also got more 3rd party support.
>Why do you keep bringing up brown and bloom?
That was the style at the time.
>except they'd be better because they'd have far superior graphics
They already look fine. Graphics are for moronic cattle.
>fine
not until now
most people in 2006 were playing on interlaced displays anyway
>should have been HD viable when HD back then was considered 720p and the piss3 and Xbox360 could barely hold that resolution at the time as well as both consoles having issues with their hdmi ports that required new iterations to fix
Thank God your opinion doesn't matter at all
>HD wasn't HD enough yet
>Therefore consoles should have been even worse definition than HD
Severe moronation
Quite literally yes. Bloating development costs is never good for the consumer you brain dead fricking moron
>Point is it should have been an HD-capable console, moron.
It wasn't intended to otherwise its price would have went up and you clearly don't understand Nintendo's obvious approach for why they make consoles as extremely shitty and overpriced (yet still cheap compared to the rest of the market) as they are. The next console will probably be as powerful as a base PS4. Sounds shitty for 2024 considering even the PS4 for its time was shit right? Well Nintendo can use that to their advantage as they realized pulling back on graphics actually can net them an even bigger payback as its a cheap investment with even bigger returns and their games look noticeable better and they can get away with it thanks to their demographic. Making the Wii HD capable would have been moronic as a business decision and ultimately brought them zero benefits and even minimal benefits to the actual playerbase and developers.
Its true, artistic direction is nintendos bread and butter. Outside of pokemon almost everything from them looks like it has 10× the polish with 1/4 the graphical capability
It's more that Sony, Microsoft, and the PC market were taking the R&D cost, while Nintendo was basically resting on its laurels hardware-wise and relying on good games to sell its consoles. That worked for the Wii, but less so for the Wii U and especially the Switch because the hardware is starting to hold the games back. The next console needs to at least be able to play Nintendo games at a consistent native 1080p and 60 FPS, and have a durable controller.
shut up meg.
the underpowered hardware saved it from the brown and bloom third person shooter slop that plagued that generation though
Every single one of those games would have been better if released on a proper 7th gen system + with no waggleshit. You cannot refute this.
GameCube was a powerhouse for its generation and it still had truckloads of creative and innovative games.
I don't love the waggle, but the ir pointer was essential for many of those games, so they couldn't have been made for a different console
i thought gamecube was the weakest
Nope. PS2 was. It was Xbox > Gamecube > PS2 > Dreamcast.
Halo 3 moggs every game on tharcpic
>a bunch of anime
anime website
not my fault the west wasn't capable of making good games for the wii
and not my fault they're incapable of making good games period now
The irony of your image is that none of these games are 1st party and only a couple are second party. Considering tendies don’t actually buy 3rd party titles they all sold like shit causing some if these companies to even dump Nintendo for over a decade like Vanillaware did.
I think those are all 3rd party games intentionally though. Everyone knows all the 1st party games so that pic focuses on the 3rd party games instead.
>Sin & Punushment 2
Based and redpilled. Arguably one of the top ten 7th gen games.
Wrong, the Wii was made to counter the current industry problems, it being weak meant cheaper games for game devs to make, wiiware was a return to simplified games where even indie games could compete against the biggest AAA
We need a modern Wii style console instead of a PS6 or Switch 2
Had a lot of the favourite games of that generation, games I still play to this day.
It was fun digging around the discount bins for Wii games. Lots of cool games that went under the radar.
I'm STILL mad at Reggie for thinking it was a good idea to restrict this from coming to America.
He did that? What the frick. I played it and I thought it was fricking awesome how it was like 6-7 action movies that I've seen before, now fused together into one of the most american games ever made, with a dash of Japanese absurdity. Anyone could play this and have a lot of fun.
"The Regginator" was fine for the most part, but he'd make some really dumbass moves. Most of them took place in the Wii era. We almost didn't get Xenoblade, Pandora's Tower, or the Last Story because of him too.
>copied and pasted from the "PS3 is overrated"
>
Regardless you still made a Wii thread, so cool I guess. What's everyone's favorite Wii game or experience they had with the Wii?
Playing lego star wars with my brother
We mostly just fricked around and killed each other
I'm a zoomer, but my parents didn't buy me a console besides the Wii for a long time, so I played a lot of Wii right from when I was 4 up until I was 12 or 13. When I was real young my favorite games were Epic Mickey, Wii Sports Resort, and Galaxy. When I got a bit older I got Twilight Princess and I was addicted to it for ages, and my friends told me about Brawl which I also used to play a ton. There were probably days in 2015-16 where I was playing either one of those for 5 hours a day, only stopping when my Mom called me up for supper or whatever. It was fun.
First time playing Wii Sports with my family who hated video games and saw them as a waste of time. I said before in another thread, but seeing them finally "getting it" meant a lot to me. The whole Wii/DS generation was good for me honestly.
As far as favorite games though I love the Trauma Center games, Sin and Punishment: Star Successor, the Galaxy games, and No More Heroes. I also liked Elebits, Warioware, Excite Truck and Excitebots, Battalion Wars II, Skyward Sword (seriously), Red Steel 2, Rhythm Heaven Fever, Let's Tap (for trying), Zack and Wiki, Madworld and a myriad of other games too. I didn't go into the Wiiware games, but I do have all 5 of the Strongbad games, Bomberman Blast, Jett Rocket, Outlast, the Bit.Trip games, LostWinds, Fluidity and a ton of others that I really liked. Virtual Console was also fantastic on the thing even though it eventually turned into drip feeds toward the end.
Almost forgot to mention Brawl. Everything about it (including the lead up to release) I loved. Except playing online...that could have been better. Mario Kart Wii was fun too, but even though I love the Wii, MKWii did click with me like Mario Kario DS and Mario Kart 64 did.
Umbrella chronicles was pretty gud. I also liked Valhalla knights. I also played wii boxing too much
>I also played wii boxing too much
To date, it's still the most genuine fun I've ever had with a boxing game. Ready 2 Rumble boxing is a close 2nd though.
R2R is coated
Amazing taste anon
>Amazing taste anon
Likewise dude. I can already tell you've got good taste too.
Have you played big rumble boxing or Arms in the year of our lord? They aren't R2R revolution but they're as close as it gets without getting your eyes wet from tears of disappointment that we can't time travel back to sovl
%3D%3D
Didn't know about Big Rumble Boxing, but I keep skipping on ARMS. I need to go ahead and get that one of these days.
Arms is mega cheap physical depending on the time of the year. I got it for like 25p it was bretty gud. Nothing that'll blow your mind or anything but I enjoyed it
If I remember, I'll look at getting it. Plus it looks like it embraces motion controls, so that's cool to me too.
It does and you can get really good at it too but it's not just punching so there's a really good satisfaction when you beat arms with shit that feels rough to deal with. That being said I like the good old glove arms but if you do get it I hope you enjoy it's worth a play just for how under the radar it is
Ever played the wii version of punch out?
My friend had it. My favorite opponent is Disco Kid just by how ridiculously flamboyant he is. His little "WEEEEEEE" when he first jumped in the right hand me laughing way too hard for longer than it needed to.
NSMBW is my favourite Wii game.
>t. was 5 years old in 2010
No.
/thread
Yep proves my point, the Wii was a fad which was eclipsed by its competitors by the end of the generation.
To have a truly accurate picture you also need to include Wii U sales. The Wii U was a direct continuation of the Wii-era philosophy (underpowered hardware, controller gimmicks, waggleshit, casual-pandering) and it was a colossal failure. Iwata bet everything on the idea he could turn soccer moms into long-term gamers, and it was a total failure. Only when they course-corrected with the Switch, targetting serious gamers once again, did Nintendo start to see a sustainable level of success.
Cool story bro
>The Wii U was a direct continuation of the Wii-era philosophy (underpowered hardware, controller gimmicks, waggleshit, casual-pandering)
Doesn’t most of this still apply to the Switch, which is a colossal success?
The Switch demonstrates the importance of clear messaging, product positioning, and making good first impressions. The Wii U was confusion out of the gate but the Switch was clearly understood and communicated.
At least that explains the PS5. Every casual understood that it was just a PS4 with better performance.
Better than the gamecube
Wii > shit >>>>>> PS3
true
>and forced waggleshit in everything.
How is this a bad thing? At least it had an unique control scheme compared to the competition with its underpowered PCs. moron KYS
Because I don't want to have to flail my arms around like a moron to play a video game. It's a dumb gimmick, it's unintuitive, and 18 years later nobody even uses it anymore. Everybody has gone back to standard controllers, even Nintendo.
I use it
>It's a dumb gimmick, it's unintuitive
Actually second best to mouse + keyboard for shooting games and allowed unique titles like trauma center
>Everybody has gone back to standard controllers
Yeah and thanks to that there is literally no reason to own a home console now, other than the rare (anti-consumer) exclusivity deals locking games you like down to one platform. Since 2012 most relevant games got ported to pc, and you can emulate almost all Wii U/switch exclusives without losing gameplay functionality because of said standardization. Modern home consoles thus have no reason to exist. At least when the Wii came out, what it offered in terms of gameplay potential (even if gimmicky) justified its purchase compared to the overpriced PS3 that had no games, and Xbox 360 that also had nothing to offer except inferior versions of PC games especially shooters
You don't have to. Sit on the couch and pout while me, Chad, Brian, Stacy, and your banging hot mom all waggle to the game of the decade: Wii Sports. We're gonna play some shooters on Brian's Xbox afterwords. You gonna join or just do your b***h boy pouting?
Sorry, Brian and I are going somewhere private to play with some shooters of our own.
Cool I'll be here with your mom and Stacy. Go get those win streaks.
have a nice day disgusting subhuman
I bet you defend the ds stylus trash
Yes, unironically
>NOOOOO GAMES ALL HAVE TO PLAY THE SAME I NEED TO SPEND $500 + $400 TO PLAY INFERIOR VERSIONS OF PC GAMES WITH A CONTROLLER GOD FORBID A CONSOLE OFFERS UNIQUE FEATURES TO DISTINGUISH ITSELF
In This message board there is a tumor a malignant growth known as the Wii Haters and I will cut them out or die trying
WII GIGACHADS RISE UP
Nintendo died when it made the wii
And yet here you are, in 2024 still seething that it won.
Hacked Wii is pure kino
>Inexcusably underpowered hardware, no HDMI, awful online, casual pandering
this all applies to 360 ps3 to doebit
unironically the best console to emulate
It was saved by its games being fun. The Wii U and the Switch were when the underpowered hardware was starting to hold back the games.
Wii/DS ass ravaged sony and xbox so hard they just flat out stopped trying to compete with Nintendo. Imagine losing so bad you let the competition have TWO pieces of hardware destroy your high spec COD box during the peak of online shooters.
>sonygays still assblasted by the wii of all things
That was a long time ago.
>implying i'm a sonygay
I'm a lifelong Nintendo fan. N64 was my first console. Stayed loyal through the whole of the GameCube era. I even remember being hyped for the Revolution when it was announced.
I never felt so betrayed by a company as I did in E3 2008 when they opened up with some stupid b***h spazzing out on stage advertising Wii Music. It felt like Nintendo were saying "We don't want our old audience anymore, we want the grandmas and soccer moms."
Wii Music is really fun though so yeah I think you're a sonygay.
Wii Music's issue was how it was presented leading up to release and the confusion about what it was. That ridiculous E3 showing of it ruined it forever. It's not really a "game" so much as a tool/sandbox thing for people to play around and experiment with their own arrangements in. It wasn't the best, but for people somewhat interested in making different, weird, cool, or otherwise interesting musical arrangements with well known songs, this was pretty cool. It was more for the creative types I feel. Also the Pitch Perfect games and the music conductor game was really nice.
That said, this game really could have benefited from DLC which Nintendo made Wii games didn't do. Having more songs would have gone a long way. Especially since Guitar Hero, Rock Band and to a lesser extent DJ Hero were still huge at the time.
You'll survive + thoughts and prayers
aw poor baby
no ammount of apologizing for the wii will change the fact that for some reason sports resort sword plays flawlessly while skyward sword feels like dogshit.
>HD? No tank you. We wirr jus maku the gamesu good. Most gaijin are still using a See Arr Tee televisionu anyways.
>We wirr jus maku the gamesu good
except this part never happened
Prease unduhstand we maku the gamu good as can be made for youu.
At the very least, NSMBW was good.
>No More Heroes
>Madworld
>Resident Evil 4 Wii version
I think the gamesu were pretty good
Evil 4 Wii version
>A GameCube game made worse by the inclusion of waggleshit
The fact you thought this was a worthy mention proves how underwhelming the Wii was.
If Nintendo made a serious console for that generation, we could have been playing Resident Evil 5 on it instead.
>BUT LE WAGGLESHIT!
And they also made the aiming better by allowing you to use the wiimote and the sensorbar, Black person. The heckin waggleshit or whatever isn't worse than spamming the same button in a QTE. have a nice day
Counterpoint - Battalion Wars 2
For that gen it definitely saw the most use. It still gets pulled out on pretty much any holiday for bowling if anything. Xbox 360 was cool for online stuff, fps, and guitar hero. My ps3 tho literally was just my dad flexing on the neighborhood. When he finally got one he just bought all the CoD games we already had again and i think the first little big planet
I was full of hidden gems
SNES
PS1
PS2
WII
>Best backward compatibility
>Best homebrew scene
It was a blast if you knew how to use it.
I remember asking for a Wii around about when I was younger and my dad either got me a replacement PS2 or a 360 because he thought they were a gimmick, I ended up loving whatever it was I got and lost all interest in the Wii.
Moved into a house last year and the previous owners left their Wii so I hooked it up and it's so fricking good. All they left was Wii sports but over like a month I ended up buying the house of the dead, ghost squad, the trauma center games that I've never played before, warioware, MORE wario games, a bunch of shit that I don't even remember right now.
I seriously dismissed the Wii as just wagglan kiddy shit, but the games are great and have a lot of charm that games on other consoles don't.
>t. a man who refuses to call himself a nintendo fan
House of the Dead Overkill is one of the most hilarious games. Wii got memed hard as the party babbyz wagglan console but all kinds of different shit came out on it.
No More Heroes is a classic
Still the best in the series too (they should have never made it a franchise in the first place).
>they should have never made it a franchise in the first place
Nah the soundtrack justified it. Kind of like Sonic's existence the music is so good its allowed to live
I'll give you that. The theme to NMH2 was enough to make me flat out buy the game. That and the hype I had for it after playing the original Wii game 5 or 6 times over.
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I haven't bought NMH3 though, and don't plan on it. If they release an OST for NMH3 though (especially for that musical chairs song), I'm buying that immediately.
Such a compelling and comfy game.