Topic: Overall thoughts on the Wii

Just wanted to know some of your guys' opinion on the Wii. Overall I do like the Wii but it wasn't my favorite of the 7th generation of consoles. I own a TON of games for it though.

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1st party was NES but 3rd party was either Dreamcast or what would be iOS.

...I tried to say something new and failed, sorry. But it was a revitalization for Nintendo and gaming, but 3rd party games were amazing titles that died tragically like the Dreamcast or were garbage for the dumbest parts of casual gaming.

It was a fascinating and compelling console that could've been on the same level as SNES or PS2 had Nintendo not fallen asleep halfway through.

Ya I would have to agree there are some GREAT 3rd party titles that just never got the recognition they deserved. Along with the amazing first party as well.

The Wii opened the gate for videogames to become rather mainstream and because of it the adjective "mindless" comes less with the entire idea with a video game, because of it.
The Wii was quite literally, everyone's console. It was some people's way to get fit, for some it was the ultimate party tool, for some it might have been a nostalgia trip, and for others it could have simply been your definitive console.
Nintendo made the Wii go as broad as possible and it is what the industry needed in order to expand. As a subculture, we overlooked it for it's broad following and line up of games however I for one will applaud Nintendo, for going bold and keeping that root towards the end end, because without we'd just have another boring console that was only slightly expanding on what the 6th generation offered.

For me, my original Wii is my escape into classic gaming gems on the virtual console service and what great games I could find for it underneath all the shovelware. On downloaded content alone if I had to make a rough guess, I have nearly $600 alone all for the sake of great classics that I'd never see without forking over a ton of cash. One such example is Dracula X for the PC Engine. That's actually a few hundred saved on getting a working TurboDuo that has been re-capped and the actual game. Bonus!

On top of that I also get the clarity of 480p on the emulated title as low resolution games look awful on my TV. My N64 is one such beast. Bad Fur Day looks okay, but it would be so much better if I could find a great condition Sony boobtube and some S-Video cables. The best way the old N64 was meant to be viewed. I do dig the N64 Virtual Console releases though. Some of the games didn't age too well.

The other wonderful thing is my system is GameCube compatible and F-Zero GX is within easy reach. I did buy the Wii U deluxe and many question why I never migrated my data to the Wii U and the above is the greatest but one other thing. Netflix. The old Wii has Netflix profile support while even the recent update of Netflix shows a more stable connection, still no account profile support.

I do love my old Wii system and prefer to keep it as is. I do miss the network support though as I used the news channel a lot more than I ever thought. There are features I wish Nintendo did carry over and a photo viewer among other features were part of the Wii U.

I had my share of fun with that little black box. I got my Wii after my PS3. So I got the Wii relatively late compared to most people. I got it just before Skyward Sword came out (because I wanted to play it). But getting it late meant I could cherry pick a bunch of great games at minimal cost. I often think the Wii had a big role in bringing gaming into the mainstream and having video games as a form of entertainment reach out to people like never before. People that didn't even game before bought a Wii and some (such as my friends) went on to buy a 360/PS3 because they enjoyed it so much and wanted more.

It had some great games. Obviously you have a stellar first party line up, but there are also a lot of diamonds in the rough on that system. There are indeed some really excellent third party releases that worked well the motion technology, but they unfortunately got overlooked and didn't sell very well. The trouble is, for every one decent game on the system, there are another fifteen crappy ones.
There were times when I was playing the Wii far more frequently than my PS3, and I found I was having more fun with the games I had on Wii.

I feel like Nintendo DID drop the ball with the system in a lot of ways, but most people know what those are, so I don't need to mention them since they're obvious.

Overall, it's just an okay system. It has some excellent games and people always forget that or they're too lazy to look into what's good. It's not my favourite system of all time, but it's okay. The Wii is now serving as my sister's Netflix box as I have since moved on to the Wii U.

Wii failed for me because i wasn't into games until 2012, so i came in late

Very well said! There are many lost gems for the Wii in a pile of bargain bin shovelware. It was often felt at the launch of the Wii once the "new game system" thrills were over. Early thrills of LoZ: TP had faded or finished with other slim pickings. Excite Truck was forgotten and for a long spell some of the best games for your new Wii were Gamecube games if you saved your collection of greats.

There was much controversy and mud slinging about the Wii early on with Wii owners wishing that they had games like Oblivion and other launch games for the 360. It is far too late to show that the Wii could handle a huge open world RPG shown in Xenoblade Chronicles with voices for most every encounter with any other character you come by but is was also by that time, Skyrim came and most Wii consoles were a "companion system" mixed with a PS3 or 360.

The other thing was that most all Wii games never really pushed the hardware to it's limits. Enter Super Mario Galaxy... A whole kick to the head seeing such an amazing game using shaders that third party games rarely touched. It was not only great to look at, but a wonderful soundtrack, and controls that simply made sense to the point where if you stopped playing for a long while, they were always easy to pick up and play. Nintendo had raised the bar considerably on what a quality game was for the Wii. No third party retail game could match that level of quality and use of motion control.

Had Nintendo refused the shovelware to be published for the system that abused the motion control concept to a degree, the term "waggle" may have never surfaced and the system would have been taken more seriously. The publishers who pushed such budget shovelware should be ashamed but they made money as well as Nintendo from each crappy game sold along with the diamonds hidden in the crowd of some truly awful games.

I loved the little machine and still do. I have no intention of ever selling it or the great retail games that were hard to find. There was often some situations where I would pre-order a third party game just to make sure I would get a copy as these hidden gems would only have two or three in stock since publishers didn't want to risk a loss from getting a great Wii game on shelves. One such example is Marumasa: Demon Blade. I forgot to get an order in and on the release day of the game, only one of four nearby Gamestop locations had one. I rushed to grab it and never see it anywhere for Wii but the PS Vita release.

The Wii has potential already as a modern classic system and the hidden gems in it's library. Years from now, I would love to see just how collectable it may be. The N64 already has many games that are very collectable due to low numbers in the best games on the system and the condition of them all.

Really like the Wii (like I have for all Nintendo consoles), but not my favourite Nintendo console (N64) and I think its success made Nintendo complacent for the launch of the Wii U (didn't launch with a AAA 1st party game, all the effort was in NintendoLand which I think they felt had more mainstream appeal than it did)

The Wii was home of the many of the best, the worst, and the most greatly overlooked games of the generation.

Wii was all over the map. VC was a HUGE deal when it came out. Anyone my age or younger basically missed out on games from before N64, so it was great to get games you missed out on. Going to the store to buy a Classic Controller and a Wii points card was awesome. I was big on GCN before that, too, so being able to play all the GCN games was like having another immediate 50 games or so(that I had) to bring along with whatever Wii had. Once HDTVs got more common, it made the console even more appealing. Wii may have not benefited from 720p, but playing games in 480p on a 720p TV was still a huge plus for Wii with all those VC, GCN, and new Wii games in mind.

I eventually got the other systems, too, but Wii was still a fun console to play, aside from friend codes. The online actually worked pretty well(for me, anyway). Games like RedSteel, No More Heroes, Bomberman Blast, Nintendo games, etc, always made sure I had something new to play. By the time Netflix became a thing, I already had a PS3 and stuff, so I never used Wii for that. I still have the Netflix discs from when Netflix was still really new. Xbox 360 had the app to begin with, so you didn't need a disc on that console.

THE WII IS LITERALLY THE BEST CONSLE IVE SEEN SO FAR!!!!!!

The games were good by the system itself sucked. Nintendo was lazy when they made it. The motion controls were suppose to be an add-on for the GameCube, but they decided, "Let's launch the GameCube with motion controls, and call it a new system, instead of actually making a new system". That's what killed Nintendo, since they didn't go HD in 2006, the Wii U can't be as powerful as the PS4, because that would have been too big of a jump for their developers.

I was always luck warm on the Wii and I love my Wii U more then I ever did the Wii already. I did however LOVE the Virtual Console!

In like a lion out like a lamb!

If I had to sum up the Wii itself, I'd definitely said that the huge risk paid off with flying colors regarding on the financial and marketing side. I mean, this was actually when everybody could play it, and the packed-in Wii Sports showcased the controller's unique features in meaningful ways. The technologies that powered the console and its unique motion controllers were low-tech, especially on how 1:1 motion controls didn't came at launch. That latter was a missed opportunity, because most of the Wii games that use motion controls also let the players just simply waggling the controller to input a command, rather than having the game replicate your exact movements. Thankfully, it didn't meant the overall quality of the 1st party games and certain 3rd party games were undermined. Games such WarioWare: Smooth Moves, Super Mario Galaxy, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, Super Smash Bros. Brawl and New Super Mario Bros. Wii were a lot of fun to play. The introduction of Virtual Console and WiiWare certainly helped me to fill the empty gaps between the releases of a major Wii game, especially the former. That is because I've never played most of the classic games because I started gaming while the time SNES's lifespan is about to end.

Overall, I had quite a lot of good times with the system, be it with or without friends.

I actually prefer the Wii over the Gamecube.
Before I got my WiiU, I used to have the newer model of the Wii, which didn't have backwards compatibility, however, I also had a Gamecube, which I've sold, since I failed to find any games I liked playing except Chibi Robo (Double Dash was fine, but I hated the controls, where you had to keep your finger on the A button to accelerate and X or Y to throw items, so I found it very uncomfortable and they didn't even let you customize the controls!)

That's correct. Mario Kart Wii didn't let you customize the controls either, but I had a hard time playing Double Dash, having to put my finger on the A button and use the tip of the same finger to press X or Y. I just found it uncomfortable for me

The Wii is special for me because it is my first game console. It really revolutionized the idea of game controls and made it much more accessible for people like me.

I don't think game veterans like you folks appreciate how unintuitive the traditional D-pad controller is to non-gamers. I would try a game at the mall, and even bought a D-pad controller for my PC just to see how it played. I continued to be turned off consoles because the primary controller was the D-pad, which I found completely unintuitive. The standard game controller is the joystick, which is what you see on arcade machines, Apple/IBM PCs, the original Atari ... everything but home game consoles. The latter introduced them because they wouldn't or couldn't build high quality joysticks tough enough to withstand regular use. So you had the cheap plastic cross thingy.

The Wii introduced something new: gross motor control. You don't just twitch your thumbs: you actually had to use more muscles than that. I think the switch between fine and gross motor skills may have thrown off gamers only used the the first. But it made many things much more intuitive. Why point with a thumb stick when you can, well, just point? Skyward Sword is the only "real" Zelda for me, since swinging a sword with a button now seems so fake. Not that I am dead against traditional controls, it's just that the Wii was the gateway drug that gave me time to get used to them even as I played with motion controls. Today, I happily use the Classic Controller Pro to play my VC games (though I still favor the analog stick over the D-pad). But the Wii made all this accessible.

If only Skyward Sword's controls were as good as they are in Battle Quest in Nintendo Land, those are some great 1-to-1 motion controls. Skyward Sword was pretty bad when it comes to controls.

If anyone wants to play a game that makes, in my opinion, the best use of motion controls on the Wii, try Zack & Wiki, it's amazing. It doesn't even use Motion Plus, but it somehow manages to register more movements than games with Motion Plus.