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Blueingreen
Member
I cant believe we're half way through this decade.
Azelover
Titanic was called the Ship of Dreams, and it was. It really was.
Revolution in the game of President, is when you overthrow the current leader by reversing the power of the cards. I think that's exactly what Nintendo did.
It was the perfect scenario for it. Will never happen again in the same way.
The Wii was truly special and history will prove this.
MemoryHumanity
Member
I remember being so incredibly excited for this console. Everything about it was so fresh and amazing. Fuck specs, Wii was one of the best consoles ever with a crazy good library of exclusives. If you can't be arsed searching out the good games, don't just spout bullshit about the lack of them.
sometimes i wish they had put at least a dual core inside the Wii to let it run the same games at 720p.
i get that they wanted to be conservative but they were way too conservative. just being capable of HD output would have made a difference with the same graphics.
oh and throwing a Classic Controller inside the main SKU would have prevented a lot of the motion bs since devs would have had alternate classic controls options available. the Wii U kinda repeated this mistake by not having the remote + nunchuck come on every Wii U box.
i get that they wanted to be conservative but they were way too conservative. just being capable of HD output would have made a difference with the same graphics.
oh and throwing a Classic Controller inside the main SKU would have prevented a lot of the motion bs since devs would have had alternate classic controls options available. the Wii U kinda repeated this mistake by not having the remote + nunchuck come on every Wii U box.
Chittagong
Gold Member
Everything in Wii just hit the bullseye.
- Strategic genius of focusing on the then-untapped casual market (later taken over by Apple)
- Accessible, affordable, small and sleek hardware
- Focus on the right technologies such as wifi (remember 360 didn't have wifi built in)
- Brand naming, something very different to highlight the difference of the console
- New, intuitive user interface with channel metaphor
- Controller that felt intuitive, understandable and approachable
- Mii franchise leveraged across different Wii branded games, mascot for the system
- Beautiful, clean, iconic branding
- Marketing focusing on the experience, not the graphics
- Full roster of Nintendo heavy hitters ready to launch in the first year
- Focused execution and marketing of Virtual Console
They pretty much hit every single note right. It's incredible to look at each bullet and compare to Wii U - it doesn't hit any of those points.
- Strategic genius of focusing on the then-untapped casual market (later taken over by Apple)
- Accessible, affordable, small and sleek hardware
- Focus on the right technologies such as wifi (remember 360 didn't have wifi built in)
- Brand naming, something very different to highlight the difference of the console
- New, intuitive user interface with channel metaphor
- Controller that felt intuitive, understandable and approachable
- Mii franchise leveraged across different Wii branded games, mascot for the system
- Beautiful, clean, iconic branding
- Marketing focusing on the experience, not the graphics
- Full roster of Nintendo heavy hitters ready to launch in the first year
- Focused execution and marketing of Virtual Console
They pretty much hit every single note right. It's incredible to look at each bullet and compare to Wii U - it doesn't hit any of those points.
SatoAilDarko
Member
My favorite system of all time.
I'm glad it lives on in the Wii U through backwards-compatibility.
I'm glad it lives on in the Wii U through backwards-compatibility.
Not gonna lie, that sizzle reel is awful. Just a bunch of proof of concepts with no actual gameplay footage. The part with the girl flicking the Wiimote up to make Mario jump especially gets to me. Could you imagine how terrible that would have been?
SpacePirate Ridley
Member
Thats probably more because your shit tastes than the consoles fault. You buy the wii to play sonic and the black knight instead of the multiple great games the console had during its life cycle and its nothing more but your fault.
Thats like buying a ps4 for knack and saying the whole catalogue is shit and you are going to sell it.
Sonic ATBK is not THAT bad. The second part of the game is actually pretty good, but I agree it's not an example of "Wii greatest games". We should instead remember the Wii has what it will probably be the best Sonic 3D we'll ever get.
Shadow Tower ?
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thepotatoman
Unconfirmed Member
That video is mislabeled. The controller wasn't revealed until tokyo game show 2005, after E3 2005 already happened.
The biggest take away from E3-2005 was the virtual console, which alone sold me on the system as I never owned any of those consoles as a PC only gamer throughout the 90s.
I was right to be hyped about that too. It was so amazing to have 20 years worth of classics available to play for the first time. That alone will always make the Wii one of my most favorite consoles.
Know what would've been great? The Nintendo Rev.
Hey now, it had at some value past the Galaxy games too, like a Netflix box and uh.....
industrian
will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
The 2005 was great, but nothing comes close to E3 2006. Hard to believe it's a decade since then.
I know that feel bro.
I know that feel bro.
gingerbeardman
Member
2006 with the Wiimote reveal is the one worth celebrating.
Best ever reveal.
Best ever reveal.
Reggie had a lot of bite in 2005.
He feels so tame in recent years.
I mean he is really trashing on the copetitors, really playing up the sales numbers and marketshare. You sure as hell won't hear him saying those lines anymore
The smartdevices market has really humbled Nintendo.
He feels so tame in recent years.
I mean he is really trashing on the copetitors, really playing up the sales numbers and marketshare. You sure as hell won't hear him saying those lines anymore
The smartdevices market has really humbled Nintendo.
levyjl1988
Banned
The Xbox 360 Arcade didn't have an HDMI but that console with the release of the Elite was able to upscale from 720p to 1080p.
The Wii which released after was with a 480i or 480p never can do sub HD. Perhaps Nintendo should have focused on the long run to make its console attractive. None the less it was a short lived impact that generate hype and sales and eventually flatlined.
The Wii which released after was with a 480i or 480p never can do sub HD. Perhaps Nintendo should have focused on the long run to make its console attractive. None the less it was a short lived impact that generate hype and sales and eventually flatlined.
I Wanna Be The Guy
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
In terms of making the system sell from Nintendo's point of view this is all correct. But as far as tbe library of games go the Wii hardly hit the bullseye. First party stuff knocked it out of the park sure, and the virtual console was great. But it lacked almost all the major third party titles PS360 had and the hardware and fuctionality of the system was significantly worse. I couldn't imagine only having a Wii. As a secondary system it was great, but overall it was hardly the ultimate console for its time.
And in that sense I genuinely believe Wii U is no worse than the Wii. The marketing might be much worse but the games library is in no worse a position other than the vastly inferior virtual console. Typical Nintendo system. Great first party titles. For everything else you go elsewhere. And that's fine. Wii and Wii U make nice secondary systems. Wouldn't be fine if it was the only system I had.
efyu_lemonardo
May I have a cookie?
oh Wow
thanks for linking that. Is there another thread where all those people ate crow? Some are even mods today
TheMoon
Member
industrian
will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
The 360 could upscale to 1080p via component. You don't need HDMI for that.
Impaired by awful motion controls.
TheMoon
Member
Mr. Giggles
Member
Goodness, has it been 10 years already?!
I remember not being able to get these things for the longest time. Shit was literally selling like drugs.
I remember not being able to get these things for the longest time. Shit was literally selling like drugs.
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
Damn right
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
Yup
PdotMichael
Banned
Only games like Wii Sports, Big Brain Academy and WarioWare made sense to use motion controls for me. Games like Mario Galaxy, Zelda and Metroid they really detracted from the fun of play for me.
smashballTaz
Member
The Wii was a fantastic machine wish a surprisingly large amount of must-have and interesting games. Its a shame a lot of them got buried under the barrage of Wii Play third-party rip offs.
Anyone else remember this cheery little fella, the game (Opoona) was controlled with just the nunchuk:
Little King's Story was fantastic too:
Anyone else remember this cheery little fella, the game (Opoona) was controlled with just the nunchuk:
Little King's Story was fantastic too:
Revolution, that's a name I haven't heard in a while! It always sounded better than Wii to me. Nintendo's marketing totally worked on me, and I can still remember the "Wii queremos jugar" ("Wii wanna play" TV ad). I remember begging my parents to buy me the console for years, until they finally did in early 2010. What a great little machine it was, what with online play (which, albeit limited, was still a lot of fun with friends) and Virtual Console, along with many great smaller WiiWare titles (of which the Bit.Trip franchise is a personal favorite, and it also allowed me to discover Ace Attorney).
Backwards compatibility with the GameCube was also a great idea, because I never had the chance to own said console. It's a shame I only managed to get some third party GC controller, because the triggers started malfunctioning and left me unable to finish Luigi's Mansion and a bunch of other games.
Sadly I never got around to acquiring a Motion Plus, so Zelda Skyward Sword and Red Steel 2 are games that I had to skip. Maybe someday I'll get to them, who knows...
Besides, there were many games which barely used them, like Trackmania, No More Heroes (everything freezes momentarily during executions, and you don't have to be precise), Geometry Wars: Galaxies, Kirby's Epic Yarn, Ace Attorney trilogy, Bit.Trip Runner (and Core, Void and Fate; and motion controls are fantastic for Beat and Flux), Metroid Prime Trilogy (Corruption has some, but 1 and 2 only feature IR aiming as far as I remember), Super Paper Mario, Super Smash Bros Brawl and probably a lot more I'm forgetting right now.
It's fine if you don't like motion controls, but saying they ruined every Wii game is a plain lie.
Backwards compatibility with the GameCube was also a great idea, because I never had the chance to own said console. It's a shame I only managed to get some third party GC controller, because the triggers started malfunctioning and left me unable to finish Luigi's Mansion and a bunch of other games.
Sadly I never got around to acquiring a Motion Plus, so Zelda Skyward Sword and Red Steel 2 are games that I had to skip. Maybe someday I'll get to them, who knows...
Don't blame the controls if you don't know how to use them, they worked perfectly for me most of the time.
Besides, there were many games which barely used them, like Trackmania, No More Heroes (everything freezes momentarily during executions, and you don't have to be precise), Geometry Wars: Galaxies, Kirby's Epic Yarn, Ace Attorney trilogy, Bit.Trip Runner (and Core, Void and Fate; and motion controls are fantastic for Beat and Flux), Metroid Prime Trilogy (Corruption has some, but 1 and 2 only feature IR aiming as far as I remember), Super Paper Mario, Super Smash Bros Brawl and probably a lot more I'm forgetting right now.
It's fine if you don't like motion controls, but saying they ruined every Wii game is a plain lie.
Are we just making stuff up now?
SparksterMeta0
Member
The Virtual Console was easily the best feature for me getting the Wii. Yeah, everything else was great, but I was glad to have been able to play a lot of games I missed out on.
And yet, Nintendo had been, and still is, neglecting this feature on Wii U by re-releasing the games and charging for the transfer from the original Wii.
And yet, Nintendo had been, and still is, neglecting this feature on Wii U by re-releasing the games and charging for the transfer from the original Wii.
TheMoon
Member
I doubt they had the tech sitting there and just went "naah, let's not use this." If they could've, they probably would have.
To be fair, Nintendo's first party output for NES and SNES is practically done on the VC. It's a third party situation all over again.
TheMoon
Member
Not at all, they actually put a big focus on putting out lots of games that weren't ever on Wii VC. Otherwise you wouldn't be playing Earthbound, Breath of Fire 1, Mega Man 7, Demon's Crest, DK64, etc right now. The only real problem is the lack of third party platforms which would've helped a lot with filling up the schedule.
zero shift
Banned
I never really got this argument. What kind of hardcore gamer only has one gaming platform? And if it is because "lack of money" then why is this that big of a deal when you are only going to end up with around a dozen games anyway?
dancrane212
Member
I remember all the threads on gaming sites breaking down the Metroid teaser trying to determine one way or another how powerful the Revolution was. Just seeing the new ship was enough to get me very excited for that new Prime game!
And remains the best selling console of the generation along with some of the highest software sales too. Poor Nintendo.
The real tragedy is the fucked up way they handled transitioning to the next gen. Smh.
BumblebeeCody
Member
I remember watching this and having my head explode. Combined with the (hyped) video games and stuff coming out....then it came out and I felt regret after a year.
I told my mum I hated her for buying it when all my friends had an Xbox 360. In all fairness young and naive. Being 25, good times.
I told my mum I hated her for buying it when all my friends had an Xbox 360. In all fairness young and naive. Being 25, good times.
metalmonstar
Member
It is hard to believe it has been ten years. I remember being cautious when it was revealed. I also scoffed at the controller, but the Wii became one of my favorite consoles. Still have and play it to this day.
protomouse
Member
About 101 million units of hardware and about 907 million units of software to be precise. Can't make a console much more attractive these days.
Caused both competitors to scramble for a piece of the market that opened up. Can't make a console much more influential these days.
Yea....this is why I waver, go back n forth about about the Wii U. I'm not really giving it a chance with Lego City Undercover and Epic Mickey 2 being the only games I bought for it....and Lego City the kids scratched up so I never even got a chance to play it. I got the Wii U when it launched. I am close to finally getting 3D World.
Games aside...its other things...like account system, etc. Its just as an overall console, at this point in time (2015, or even the year it launched) I just dont really like it.
Yea its A Shadow's Tale. I liked that game.
catpurrcat
Member
I feel like the customers/fans were well ahead of the media on this. I remember there being LOTS of preorder hype for Wii but little for the competition. It was like there was this new cool thing they everyone knew was coming but wasn't really publicized.
That said, Wii will always be the ultimate second-date activity from 2006 to 2009. Throw a big party too, people are playing Wii with beer instead of chilling on the patio. Lol.
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