On November 19, 2006, Nintendo released the Wii, the GameCube successor. It would end up being one of the Most sold Video game consoles of all time and would to press the other console manufacturers to equip their current machines with motion controls. And while the whole motion control thing didn’t work out, the Nintendo Wii Built a solid library of games, and chances are your grandparents still have one in their huge entertainment center.
My personal story with the Wii is one of excitement and then disappointment. I bought a Wii after looking for one shortly after it started. I bought it because my grandparents got one and when I went over there and played Wii sports I was sold. I wanted this. I asked my parents and they agreed to get my brother and me and Wii, probably thanks to the $ 250 price tag. And because they enjoyed playing Wii sports even.
After getting it, I played a lot Wii sports with my parents and my brother, and some friends. Then I played something Mario Galaxy and Boom Blox and then I was kind of frustrated. My other consoles looked great on my HDTV, the Wii didn’t. My other consoles got a lot of big third party vendors Games, the Wii wasn’t. And finally, I just got tired of the motion controls. At some point, about two years after I got the Wii, it was mostly behind my TV, plugged in but never played. A sad ending for a console that once brought joy to me and so many others.
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However, while my own personal experience using the Wii isn’t that great, the console itself has a huge fan base and a large games library. Sure, a lot of Wii games were crap, just scoops released on the Wii for the benefit of families looking for the next Wii Sports-like experience. But it is also had something like Sky sword, Metroid Prime 3, Super Mario Galaxy 1 + 2, and more.
Something here for the curious Kotaku Listed as his 12 best Wii games circa 2012:
- House of the Dead: Overkill
- The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
- Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars
- Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
- Punch out !!!
- Sin & Punishment: Star Follower
- Super Mario Galaxy 2
- Super Smash Bros Brawl
- Trauma team
- Wii Sports Resort
- World of goo
- Zack & Wiki: Search for Barbaros’ Treasure
Not a bad list and I bet you can Come up with at least a couple of games that we missed.
15 years later, looking back at the Wii, it is realized that while it was a huge hit for Nintendo and helped fill it the company’s bank account, it’s never been as cute and popular as the Wii or as important as it is the N64. But it wasn’t the Wii U either, and it certainly is some.
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