What was your least favorite Nintendo system?
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Dacvak
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It's between that and the Wii U, though I'd argue that the Wii U had some of the best modern Nintendo games, which is why they all got ported to the Switch…
Yeah what was I thinking. It's definitely the Wii U. But I like all of Nintendo's consoles. I don't think there's a bad one in the bunch.
Come to think of it, I can't really think of any gaming console I don't like. Maybe the Ouya. I even like the 3DO, Virtual Boy, Tiger R-Zone, N-Gage, and Game.com.
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NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
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Wii followed closely by the N64
kevboard
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the Wii was pure shit from every point of view.
it launched with 1 singular interesting game....that also was on GameCube.
it had WORSE FUCKING MOTION SENSORS than the Sixaxis controller... like... what the fuck?
it was a literal overclocked GameCube and therefore insanely limited.
and it was filled to the brim with shovelware trash games, with like at most 10 notable titles in its entire lifecycle... which also was way too long. that thing should have been replaced by 2010 but somehow streched it out to 2012
it launched with 1 singular interesting game....that also was on GameCube.
it had WORSE FUCKING MOTION SENSORS than the Sixaxis controller... like... what the fuck?
it was a literal overclocked GameCube and therefore insanely limited.
and it was filled to the brim with shovelware trash games, with like at most 10 notable titles in its entire lifecycle... which also was way too long. that thing should have been replaced by 2010 but somehow streched it out to 2012
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Geometric-Crusher
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Wii all day every day. It was the harbinger of things to come aka the casual route they keep moving towards. Looking back, the GameCube was the pinnacle for Nintendo systems. Switch 2 has potential but its obvious Nintendo has gone full casual and keeps making their games easier and easier. The greed factor too is interfering with things like graphical quality. Seems like they're not trying to take advantage of hardware power at all so they can turn ever greater profit. I never owned one but looking back the Wii U was actually a great console which the Switch 1 benefitted from. So Switch 1 has to be up there.
N64 was a great system for me too. Ocarina- my favorite game of all time amd other semibal 3d games Nintendo was at the forefront of 3d console games. GameCube perfected that and had amazing visuals for the time. I loved the look of the console. Loved the controller. Lots of great games....yeah GameCube is the best console.
N64 was a great system for me too. Ocarina- my favorite game of all time amd other semibal 3d games Nintendo was at the forefront of 3d console games. GameCube perfected that and had amazing visuals for the time. I loved the look of the console. Loved the controller. Lots of great games....yeah GameCube is the best console.
Dacvak
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Man y'all Wii haters need some Jesus. How can you hate a console that gave us Galaxy 1 & 2, Sin & Punishment 2, Xenoblade Chronicles, Wii Sports, DKC Returns, Kororinpa, Fire Emblem RD, Metroid Prime 3, Skyward Sword, Punch-Out Wii, Super Paper Mario, Dokopon Kingdom, Rhythm Heaven Fever, Ghost Squad, Tatsunoko vs Capcom, House of the Dead Overkill, etc etc.
You guys were just playing the wrong games.
You guys were just playing the wrong games.
bobone
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Its obviously the Wii.
It was the turning point for Nintendo going full casual.
The system itself was underpowered garbage.
The motion controls were just awful.
It had terrible 3rd party support.
It was a slap in the face to Nintendo fans after the amazing years building up to the Gamecube.
It was the turning point for Nintendo going full casual.
The system itself was underpowered garbage.
The motion controls were just awful.
It had terrible 3rd party support.
It was a slap in the face to Nintendo fans after the amazing years building up to the Gamecube.
NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
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Dacvak
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Xenoblade Chronicles is the only good game on that system
Danny Dudekisser
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N64 for me, easily. I didn't like it at the time because of the massive droughts between games, and the fact that a lot of the genres I wanted to play at the time - primarily fighters and RPGs - were nowhere to be found. Well, except for shit like Fighter's Destiny and Quest 64, I guess (and later stuff like Tactics Ogre, but still... sorely lacking). It's also a difficult system to go back to given how choppy and blurry everything is. Not a good time.
After that one might... actually be the Switch. I didn't like Nintendo's refocus on huge open worlds and insane amounts of bloat, even in franchises like Fire Emblem. Some great games, but they lost a lot of that magic last gen.
If you asked me like... 15 years ago, I'd call the Wii bottom tier, but I've actually found way more of an appreciation for it over the years. There's the gimmicky games, and I never liked Wii Sports or any of that shit, but there were a ton of excellent games both from Nintendo and 3rd parties. And a lot of those experiences were never properly replicated elsewhere. Even simple things, like the finishers in No More Heroes or MadWorld, just don't feel right with a button press instead of a swing of the Wiimote. It's definitely not Nintendo's best moment in terms of first-party development, but it was a system that still channeled the focused gameplay and overall charm that made Gen 6 consoles so good.
After that one might... actually be the Switch. I didn't like Nintendo's refocus on huge open worlds and insane amounts of bloat, even in franchises like Fire Emblem. Some great games, but they lost a lot of that magic last gen.
If you asked me like... 15 years ago, I'd call the Wii bottom tier, but I've actually found way more of an appreciation for it over the years. There's the gimmicky games, and I never liked Wii Sports or any of that shit, but there were a ton of excellent games both from Nintendo and 3rd parties. And a lot of those experiences were never properly replicated elsewhere. Even simple things, like the finishers in No More Heroes or MadWorld, just don't feel right with a button press instead of a swing of the Wiimote. It's definitely not Nintendo's best moment in terms of first-party development, but it was a system that still channeled the focused gameplay and overall charm that made Gen 6 consoles so good.
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Jinzo Prime
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The Wii U. Not the games the system itself. That thing had the slowest motherfucking inteface ever, and the heaviest main controller i've ever used, and the batteries died so fast and wouldn't hold a charge.
Folks can wax poetically about that thing and it's games, but actually owning one sucked. The only Nintendo system that could be considered worse is the Virtual Boy, but how many people ever had one?
Folks can wax poetically about that thing and it's games, but actually owning one sucked. The only Nintendo system that could be considered worse is the Virtual Boy, but how many people ever had one?
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Midway-AGNC-
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The Wii U is definitely the most underwhelming Nintendo system ever.
But I'd argue the Wii was the more frustrating one. It represented the peak of Nintendo's major shift in direction and, although it sold extremely well, its first-party output felt underwhelming compared to the company's earlier work. Not to mention the baffling decision to stay an entire generation behind in hardware, justified by the idea that they "couldn't compete" with Microsoft and Sony at the time — a notion that, in hindsight, was clearly misguided.
But I'd argue the Wii was the more frustrating one. It represented the peak of Nintendo's major shift in direction and, although it sold extremely well, its first-party output felt underwhelming compared to the company's earlier work. Not to mention the baffling decision to stay an entire generation behind in hardware, justified by the idea that they "couldn't compete" with Microsoft and Sony at the time — a notion that, in hindsight, was clearly misguided.
Most of those games — with a few exceptions — were average at best. Nintendo fanboys massively overrate them to avoid acknowledging how uneven the Wii era really was. It's not that the system had no good games, but pretending its entire library was some golden age is pure revisionism. A handful of standout titles doesn't change the fact that the overall first-party output, compared to previous generations, was noticeably weaker and heavily padded by filler or low-budget experiments framed as "innovation."
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kevboard
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you list Skyward Sword as if it's not one of the reasons it's a disliked system lol.
DKC Returns was also mediocre as hell. in retrospect it also doesn't help that Tropical Freeze was so damn good, that it actually now makes Returns feel like an even worse game than it actually is.
and Wii Sports can not be a serious example man... like come on.
of course the Wii had good games. the issue is the density of good titles in the span of 6 years. you'd be lucky to have 1 good game in 12 months. and there were very long droughts.
on top of that some good games suffered from the fact that you had to play them with the wii remote.
a dedicated motion controller with literally lower fidelity motion sensing tech than the Dualshock 3, whose motion controls were only a side feature... like come on.
Nintendo had to update their dogshit controller halfway through the generation because developers couldn't make proper motion controls with a motion controller that relied entirely on accelerometers. so only after 3 years into the generation did they finally add a fucking gyro sensor... that's insane.
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BennyBlanco
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Wii U >>> Wii
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Switch. I loved the rest but never got into switch myself (did buy for the kids). As a Wii U owner I had half the 1st party library I was interested in already and I am enjoying my missed titles on Switch 2. Oddessy was a bit naff though workman like imo, loved Wonder recently. Bayonetta 3 was meh (sadly). I suppose I just wasnt there at the time and the hardware felt sub-par to me compared to the luxury feel of Switch 2 (with a proper pad).
So many saying Wii is mad... honestly early 360 aside I was about done with gaming and that fresh take got me to buy over 50 games for the damn thing. It was awesome and didn't stop me enjoying other machines at the time. It was the last great generation, and is still hooked up today even if just for the odd bit of ghost squad.
So many saying Wii is mad... honestly early 360 aside I was about done with gaming and that fresh take got me to buy over 50 games for the damn thing. It was awesome and didn't stop me enjoying other machines at the time. It was the last great generation, and is still hooked up today even if just for the odd bit of ghost squad.
Dacvak
No one shall be brought before our LORD David Bowie without the true and secret knowledge of the Photoshop. For in that time, so shall He appear.
Fair points. I know Skyward Sword is divisive, so I probably shouldn't have included that.
But dude, Wii Sports fuckin ruled. Probably half of the parties I went to in college had a TV with Wii Sports on it. Might be the most fun casual drunk game in the world. I've seen three TVs get demolished by flying Wiimotes in my lifetime, and multiple fistfights from that game. Just fuckin classic.
God that game ruled.
Smiggs
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They see me trolling, they hating...
Come on now, I've got issues with the Switch as well, but it has a ton of great games. GC had some great ones too, even if not as many obviously.
Midway-AGNC-
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That's actually a pretty fair criticism of the Nintendo 64, and it shows you genuinely lived through that era — aside from the "hard to go back to today" part, which is more subjective.
But yes, the N64 was extremely weak when it came to fighting games and RPGs, which were the genres exploding in popularity at the time. That gap was a major reason why the PlayStation ended up gaining far more traction. The biggest names in fighting games — Capcom, SNK, Namco, and even companies like Arc System Works — were almost entirely absent on the N64. And when they did show up, it was usually with downgraded, compromised versions or experimental titles nobody truly wanted.
RPGs were an even bigger problem. Final Fantasy VII alone shifted the entire industry toward PlayStation, and the N64 simply never recovered in that department. Square, Enix, Tri-Ace, Atlus, Konami's JRPG teams — practically all of them skipped the system. The few RPGs the N64 did receive were either mediocre, niche, or arrived far too late to matter.
So yeah — that part of your take is absolutely solid and historically accurate.
Dacvak
No one shall be brought before our LORD David Bowie without the true and secret knowledge of the Photoshop. For in that time, so shall He appear.
Okay yeah I changed my mind, the Wii was the worstTechnically the N64 had the fewest games I actually enjoyed but fuck the Wii and it's Wii-mote. Sincerely.
Hell this bullshit alone makes it my least favorite.
ThE bAbY
cinnamonandgravy
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wii 1000%
still pissed
still fucking pissed
repackaged gamecube for old farts and uber casuals
and it has the goddamn ugliest mini version of all time
what a goddamn turd sandwich
big F U from nintendo
late gen wiimotes with the integrated motion plus were good though
used them on my wiiU for metroid3 and mario party
and yeah i had to get all of these
still pissed
still fucking pissed
repackaged gamecube for old farts and uber casuals
and it has the goddamn ugliest mini version of all time
what a goddamn turd sandwich
big F U from nintendo
late gen wiimotes with the integrated motion plus were good though
used them on my wiiU for metroid3 and mario party
and yeah i had to get all of these
Midway-AGNC-
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Reading the results in this thread actually makes me relieved that a good portion of Nintendo fanboys have finally broken free from the spell and the brainwashing that Satoru Iwata instilled in their mindset. It was incredible — and honestly unsettling — how far some people would twist logic and distort reality to deny what was happening and insist that the direction Nintendo took with the Wii was somehow a necessary "survival move."
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
edit: I misread the title completely.
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Hawk The Slayer
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Wii, Wii U, and Switch were all equally as bad.
Impotaku
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The only nintendo console i have never owned is the WiiU and the hardware the reason why, the games were great but that hardware was shit there was no way i was going to buy a console where if that tablet develops a fault with the sticks or the touchscreen nintendo wouldn't do shit they wont repair it and you can't buy that part seperate aso you basically have to buy a whole new system. Add in that it used a shitty resistive plastic touch screen meant that if that gets messed up same thing. Least with a DS if the build qualty crapped out they were reasonably cheap to replace.
Must have lived in a different reality to most on here as i loved the Wii, and since when did the Wii not get 3rd party support? the system was flooded with 3rd party games. See the same lies are been peddled again. 3rd parties went all out on Wii they even converted absolutely mad stuff the battle road dragon quest arcade game. And it was totally worth the import cost that game is more fun than it has any right to be, the finishers are pure madness.
I grabbed mine on Japanese launch with a bunch of launch games but elebits was incredible, like playing katamari damacy combined with a scavanger hunt looking for knockoff pikmin to power up my gravity gun the more you found the heavier items that you could pick up to find even more elebits. Tearing open cupboards and ransacking the house looking was a shitload of fun. Then you end up outside and by the end your gun was powerfun enough to start picking up entire fucking houses & yeeting them down the street, i would kill for a remake on switch as now the joycons are way more accurate than the wii era controls.
Must have lived in a different reality to most on here as i loved the Wii, and since when did the Wii not get 3rd party support? the system was flooded with 3rd party games. See the same lies are been peddled again. 3rd parties went all out on Wii they even converted absolutely mad stuff the battle road dragon quest arcade game. And it was totally worth the import cost that game is more fun than it has any right to be, the finishers are pure madness.
I grabbed mine on Japanese launch with a bunch of launch games but elebits was incredible, like playing katamari damacy combined with a scavanger hunt looking for knockoff pikmin to power up my gravity gun the more you found the heavier items that you could pick up to find even more elebits. Tearing open cupboards and ransacking the house looking was a shitload of fun. Then you end up outside and by the end your gun was powerfun enough to start picking up entire fucking houses & yeeting them down the street, i would kill for a remake on switch as now the joycons are way more accurate than the wii era controls.
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I collect VHS tapes
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I've owned every single Nintendo console at release since the NES.
My answer is Switch 1 by far. I found it frustratingly underpowered and hardly used it outside of TOTK and BOTW.
Already have put more time on my Switch 2 than I ever did on my Switch 1.
My answer is Switch 1 by far. I found it frustratingly underpowered and hardly used it outside of TOTK and BOTW.
Already have put more time on my Switch 2 than I ever did on my Switch 1.
Midway-AGNC-
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I highly doubt that anyone voting for the NES—given the other options available—was actually around, or even alive, during its prime. The NES is one of the core reasons the modern gaming industry exists at all. Its library wasn't just large; it was remarkably consistent across genres, with titles that defined standards for platformers, action games, RPGs, puzzle games, shooters, and more. So many foundational mechanics, control philosophies, and design conventions were either introduced or cemented on the NES.
Yet the NES suffers from the exact same revisionist nonsense the N64 gets: the tired "it hasn't aged well" argument that completely ignores historical context, legacy, and the fact that aging has nothing to do with influence. People forget that games like Super Mario Bros. 3, The Legend of Zelda, Metroid, Punch-Out!!, Mega Man, Castlevania, and Dragon Quest didn't just entertain — they shaped entire genres and set expectations for decades.
Dismissing the NES because of its age or limitations is like dismissing early cinema because it's in black and white. It's not only an ahistorical attitude, but it reveals a lack of understanding about why these systems were revolutionary and how they paved the way for everything that came afterward. The NES didn't just age well or poorly — it built the foundation the entire industry stands on.
Yet the NES suffers from the exact same revisionist nonsense the N64 gets: the tired "it hasn't aged well" argument that completely ignores historical context, legacy, and the fact that aging has nothing to do with influence. People forget that games like Super Mario Bros. 3, The Legend of Zelda, Metroid, Punch-Out!!, Mega Man, Castlevania, and Dragon Quest didn't just entertain — they shaped entire genres and set expectations for decades.
Dismissing the NES because of its age or limitations is like dismissing early cinema because it's in black and white. It's not only an ahistorical attitude, but it reveals a lack of understanding about why these systems were revolutionary and how they paved the way for everything that came afterward. The NES didn't just age well or poorly — it built the foundation the entire industry stands on.
Werewolf Jones
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N64 was not a good console.
Wilhelm_85
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Wii U, but only because it didn't have a ton of great software. It would have been Wii, but there were a lot of good releases on it.
kunonabi
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It sucks as a handheld, Nintendo's first party output was lazy as shit, the dock was ugly and poorly designed, no dpad and the joycons just suck in general, paid online that's worse than what I got on the Wii U, VC tied behind a subscription, godawful eshop, bland and basic UI, etc.
System was a mostly retro machine for me. Like if I didn't make it a point to buy my retro/2D games on it I wouldn't own much on it at all.
GC was mostly just an issue of the library. Nintendo's first party stuff was ass for the most part and it was mostly good for capcom/multiplayer stuff and not much else in my mind.
Like there's no way these consoles are ever going to touch the Wii, N64, SNES and heck even the Wii U is miles ahead of them as far as I'm concerned.
Generic
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There's no way Nintendo - a videogame only company - could lose $200-300 for every console sold. Sony lost a billion of dolars with the PS3.