I’m a Wii owner, and I hate my Wii. I hope for this thread to be a Wii-bash thread where we all talk about what a toilet-circling piece of garbage the system is and how disappointed we are in it.
I think that the Wii might be the biggest missed opportunity in gaming history - there’s so much potential there, there’s such a huge install base, and…nothing. The Wii should be the platform of this era of games, and it should be populated with those iconic, generation-making games like we had back on the NES. The Wii should have the games right now that people will be talking about and reminiscing over for the next 20 years, like people my age do about the original Mario games, Contra, Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out, and so on.
Instead there’s literally nothing. There are not games to buy for the system. Sure, there are racks and racks of weird shovelware titles that basically feel like internet flash games, none of which rise above the quality level of shoddy bootlegs, but I’m not even counting those. I’ve had my Wii for 2 years this month, and I’ve bought three games for it - Super Mario Galaxy, No More Heroes, and Zelda: Twilight Princess. There has literally not been another title worth purchasing in two years now. Smash Brothers, Mario Kart, and Animal Crossing are identical to their Gamecube predecessors, so I can’t even take them seriously as new titles. Where are the fucking games?! Does Nintendo even have any new original titles on their release calendar for the next year!?
I keep my Wii because I keep telling myself that, like the DS, it’s just taking the developers (including Nintendo’s own in-house developers) a while to get their heads around the new interface stuff before they figure out how to use it to make great games. The DS got an incredibly slow start in this regard - for the first two years or so, there were few games worth buying, but now I actually think it’s the strongest system out there period. But it seems like nobody even cares to try at this point.