What was your least favorite Nintendo system?

What was your least favorite?

  • NES

    Votes: 12 6.3%
  • SNES

    Votes: 1 0.5%
  • N64

    Votes: 28 14.8%
  • GC

    Votes: 13 6.9%
  • Wii

    Votes: 59 31.2%
  • Wii U

    Votes: 65 34.4%
  • Switch

    Votes: 11 5.8%

  • Total voters
    189
In hindsight it's Wii. At the time though Wii U was such a fuck up in every way it's hard to bypass it. I bought it after it was discontinued and had quite a good time with Nintendo's games. It has a decent lineup of platformers. But the Gamepad is a mess and the UI is slow as shit.
 
I voted GC, to me GC has the worst entry in most Nintendo series: Mario Sunshine, Double Dash, Twilight Princess.

GC is imo the lowest point for Nintendo but that's a hot take I guess.
 
I'd say the Game Cube, I never cared for its games, which I can't really say about the Wii U as I played a lot of them on Switch.
 
Switch was close with its 20fps Zeldas but PAL N64 takes the cake with its 16.6fps Zelda (even though it's the best game ever) and the worst rubberbanding Mario Kart ever.
 
Virtual Boy.

Every other main line console of theirs I've owned so far (waiting to own switch 2)

Despite the Wii hate. I liked it.
 
Gamecube.

It had the worst Mario Kart, 3D Mario and Zelda games.

Also looked like it was made by Fisher Price.
 
GameCube - Don't remember playing it much.

Wii - 480p pretty much made it DOA. Controls were garbage. Still had some fun moments.

3DS - Was cool at first but the 3D was always kind of trash. I'd always mess around with its intensity before either disabling it or keeping it on the lowest setting.

Its hardware and displays were terrible and felt really outdated compared to Vita.

The New 3DS (non XL) finally started to feel somewhat decent, but it was still underpowered and overstayed its welcome. Street Pass was fun though.
 
My first Nintendo game console was the N64. Loved it. Bought GBA, Nintendo DS, DS Lite, GameCube, 3DS, 3DS XL, WiiU, Switch, Switch 2. Did not buy the Wii. Every time I wondered if I should buy one I thought: But I already have a GameCube. Why should I buy a system just a bit more powerful with a new controller. If it had been something like a Wii HD , I would have bought that.
 
The GC, and it's not close.

The one time they had possibly some relevant tech advantages over Sony's console, and they squandered it all with the laziest, most rushed, most unpolished games for their main IPs. Launching with Luigi's Mansion, a game that's over in a couple of sittings and that spends most of it in repetition. Mario Sunshine is the worst 3D Mario by a landslide. The Wind Waker needed a lot more time in the oven, and even then, its basic concept of sailing through an ocean divided in perfect squares containing 99% of nothing was terrible.
GBA connectivity? Way overrated, and at a price that makes the Joycons sound cheap.
Their most gimped, less versatile controller ever. Imagine having to buy a third-party controller to get a decently-sized Dpad of all things.
Overrated third party support. The games that really counted never released on the GC, and most of the best third parties also released on PS2 anyway.

Imagine thinking that the GC's first- party library is better than the Wii's when the Wii had Galaxy 1 and 2, Xenoblade, the best Wario platformer, the best version of Twilight Princess, and many more, along with ports of GC first-party games that significantly improve on the originals (Metroid Prime with the Wiimote is leagues better than the original, it's a fact).

I hate how Nintendo had so much potential with the GC, and just didn't know what to do with it.
The one time they were seriously competitive in tech, and they squandered the chance with terrible executive decisions and an obvious lack of direction.
 
The Wii was the lowest point. Abysmal gimmick.
N64 then, couldn't stand the awful visuals and controller.
 
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