Random: The Nintendo Wii Simply Refuses To Die

The fact that Nintendo have inexplicably stopped doing Virtual Console gives your old Wii some value.

@Franklin Only if you managed to download the games before the online store was shut down.

There must be a lot of people whom still use a Wii like grannies and care homes etc that more than make up for the continued support. Though the dev kit at Ubisoft must be held together with tape by now.

You would have to be a fool to think the Wii could ever die. It destroyed it's competition in sales, it destroyed the modern Gen consoles in sales, and it will continue to destroy the next gen consoles in sales. The Wii will forever live on as an immortal console. And when the aliens look over this planet millions of years from now after all traces of humanity has been wiped out, the only evidence they will find of our exsistence are the Nintendo Wii's that have survived through the ages.

The Wii & Just Dance is still used in hospitals to help with muscle rebuild etc.

I still play my Wii to this day. Furthermore, right now is the best time to increase your Wii/Wii U collection of games because these system are considered to be outdated, but they are not "retro" yet, so the prices for games are really cheap!

I just got Mad World in the mail recently for less than 10 bucks and having a lot of fun with it! I'm also waiting for Bayonetta 2 Wii U on the mail, which I got on ebay for 15 bucks (compare it to the price on Switch).

Plus, consider all the homebrew/hacks/emulation stuff going on for the Wii/Wii U right now and you've got yourself a very powerful retrogaming machine! And community is really active, it's great!

I know people who have and still use a Wii. New versions of Just Dance are mostly about having the latest songs - it's hardly cutting edge visuals.

Some Pokémon Battle Revolution from time to time, other than that my Wii usually plays GameCube games.

Still boot up my Wii U to play my Wii U, Wii and VC games. The Switch has a lot of great games, but hasn't replaced them all.

UBI showing more support for a dead console than the alive and kicking Switch. Go figure.

I wish the 3DS had such privilege! ❤️

Lol we played it couple days ago at our family reunion 😂😂 wii sports! Was still lots of fun!

Still play my Wii U regularly (not Just Dance, though). The last few weeks, I’ve played alot of Super Mario Maker. Still hoping for an eShop release of The Last Story and a discount on Need for Speed: Most Wanted U (though I don’t see either happening).

@bluezbro You're completely right, I managed to find a sealed copy of Muramusa the Demon Blade for only $30, which just goes to show you that some of the hidden gems aren't that expensive. Nintendo selects also insure you can find some of it's best games for around $20.
The Wii is easily one of the most underrated consoles ever.

"but SD visuals in 2019?
Sheesh."

Hahaha, exactly!
Yet, you give 8 points to every single indie title on Switch that uses even worse (like, 8-bit) graphics...

;p

@FragRed

Yes Deidre.

I’m not in s nursing home quite yet but come that time I hope there’s a Wii

At an independent living home for older people that i visit regularly, the wii is used almost daily for Wii bowling.

If i had more space in my family room, i would set up my wii.

It is simply a great system!

Play tons of Wii, still love the motion controls, and let's face it resident evil 4 is 1000% better with the Wii's aiming! Wish GoldenEye had bots though.

The Wii is an artistic statement and testament to the raw power of gaming when you bring the focus back to the player and away from the race to the visual sizzle.

Just looking it at it makes me smile.

@Fandabidozi
I am taking mine with me, if it ever happens.

13 years ago I was the age of the students I teach today. It is so weird to talk to teenagers about video games from when I was a teenager... for them those are games that came out the same time they did. lol

It's not the first year this saga has an entry for Wii and not Wii U. That's not the surprise at all. So I guess Ubisoft has done its market research to keep feeding the Wii. Otherwise it would be just dumb.

You should put Just Dance in the title or thumbnail because for a terrifying moment there I thought the Wii was making some sort of comeback...

They even proudly display the Wii logo alongside the current consoles, which is more than what a lot of third parties do with multiplatform games on Switch.

So NL, only four people still play WiiU Really? REALLY? I was playing four player Luigi’s Mansion in NintendoLand only the other day. Another Pikmin3 rerun is overdue. Still haven’t upgraded to MK8D so the original gets the occasional spin. NFS also still gets play time. Basically the machine lives on, please don’t knock the much maligned yet awesome WiiU. Please.

"Wii U can play Wii games so it’s not like the four people who still play that system will be left out"

Needless shot; so much for a Nintendo fan site.

My daughter wasn’t born when the Wii came out, but last night we spent some time with Wii Sports Resort, Smooth Moves and Galaxy. Fun experiences are fun experiences, doesn’t matter how old the kit is.

I am glad that I sold Wii.. Horrible system and weak 3rd party. Gone, Wii, please be gone!

I bought Wario Land: Shake It yesterday actually. It’s still a console with some great games.

Transferred everything I ever got on the Wii shop channel to my Wii U, and that system plays all the disc games through HDMI aswell.

My GameCube is better for GameCube games, AND plays GB/GBC/GBA games as well.

The last thing my Wii did for a while was play Netflix. And once that ended, it's practically dead. It's still there under my TV, though. As a kind of upright standing corpse.

Yep, I still play Wii Party and Mario Party with friends at least every couple months.

I just completed Galaxy 2 on disc via my Wii U. 9 years since I bought it. Better late than never. I intend to finish off the rest of my Wii and Wii U games inbetween playing Switch stuff.

Still play that system it has some of the best exercise games on the planet.

@ConanLives Agreed, RE4 is the Wiifinitive Edition XD

Also, does playing digital Wii games on Wii U count?

I use my Wii from time to time. Looks far better with componentcables through my Framemeister than the emulation with the Wii U om My 4k tv

@Pod Oh, but you underestimate the Wii's abilities. For one, playing Wii games using a quality SCART-RGB or Component cable actually yields a better picture color- and scaling-wise than the blurry stretched out pixels that you get on the Wii U's vWii mode.

Secondly, but most importantly, Wii U does not support 240p, which is vital for retrogaming enjoyment! At first I played VC games on the Wii in 480i and everything was blurry. But then I got a nice SCART-RGB cable and turned on 240p and rainbow started shooting out of my eyes! The old games got a new life! They look so crisp and colorful! You should definately try it, if you have a TV that still supports 240p.

If there is money to be made why not?
I like how even a fansite as nintendolife makes the wiiu look ridiculous. Strangely they didn’t do that before the Switch....

How things can change...

Seems if a system sells over 100 million it sticks around awhile. Last official PS1 game came out in 2004 (10 years) and PS2 in 2014 (14 years).

@KJW90 yep. Local rehab hospital still has a Wii for tennis.

I look forward to reading about the new Just Dance for Wii every E3 lol. Props to Ubisoft for keeping this up.

I agree with the other comments. I also find this article claiming it's for old people or something quite disturbing. It is not for old people. It's for gamers. It has the awesome VC and some real Wiiware gems. And I always want to go back to some of the best games some of them mentioned here. More than anything I will always keep it hooked for my GC games so what does that tell you... prehistoric ancient ? Isn't Retro one of the biggest things for gamers ?

Next you're going to tell me that people still play their ridiculous non-HDMI 32-bit, 16-bit, or even (the horror!) 8-bit game systems. Good thing we don't live in a world where people have attention spans of longer than

honestly, i still play my wii! i grew up with it, and before the switch it’s the only console i’ve ever had a lot of games for. i had a 3ds, but i’d get like one game a year for christmas and that was it. my parents bought a lot of wii games so me and my siblings could play together. the wii is my childhood! i still play mario kart wii, wii sports (+ resort), and mario galaxy every now and then.

I grew up on VHS, GBC, and RF connected SNES sooo "SD visuals in 2019" still look amazing to me.

Is there gonna be an article like this every time a Just Dance game is announced for the Wii? Other than that, there are no new games for the system and the online store was deactivated earlier this year. As far as I'm concerned, the system has been dead.

+1 for just dance

@bluezbro
I don't, but I will have soon, so I must try that!

my wii died about 3 years ago

Long live the Wii. Having completed Twilight Princess Wii a month ago, and loved all 65 hours of it, I'm now 26 hours into Skyward Sword. I have my Wii hooked up to the TV with a component cable and it sits proudly alongside my Switch and PS3.

Well the Wiiu is backwards compatible so technically it covers both consoles.

I burst out laughing when I saw the Wii logo next to the Stadia logo.

@skycargav2000 The disc drive from my original Wii started making unnatural sounds a few years ago. It still works otherwise, so I modded the bugger. Thankfully I found a used original Wii with Gamecube controller/mem.card slots in a store for something like 50€! Plenty of used but good condition ones are out there.

@construx "SD graphics" refer to the resolution, not the graphical style. They may have "8-bit" style graphics, but they are being displayed in HD on the Switch.

I still use the wii just not as often as l use2

I need to eventually repair my Wii's disc drive. My WU every good often, gets a Wii disc popped on. I only wish that I could still purchase Art Style: Orbient legitimately.

Seems like the Wii is Nintendo's only console that is carrying both the GameCube and the Wii U into the future. For one the Wii is backwards compatible with GameCube games and accessories and its games even though are only in SD could still be play on the Wii U. It's like the middle but stronger brother of the bunch, it carries the hands of its older brother (the GameCube) due to hard times but also still holding onto the hands of its younger brother (the Wii U) because of faith all while the more popular youngest brother (the Switch) is partying and flying high.

My daughters (ages 9 and 7) still play games on the Wii and Wii U. They play on my Switch as well, but I take that to work with me every day.

They don't seem to be bothered by SD visuals. However, they always complain about how bad 8-bit (and some 16-bit) games look.

I play my wiiu still, but my original wii got a second chance at life when I got it running all the old online services on it again. Also it was great that I could play triforce games on it via the SD card something about them using the same hardware as the gamecube so my favourite game on my wii is "Mario Kart Arcade GP2"
Don't really fancy picking up the latest Just Dance but it's nice to see that it must still be doing well enough.

I think it's just cheaper to make 1 game that works on the 2 systems, and they've been doing this for years, so, people must still be buying these games for the Wii. That system had an enormous install base, and a lot of it was non-gamers, so, they're not as inclined to upgrade.

Well fun fact, I am doing my first ever own run of Super Mario Galaxy on my trusty Wii right now. Also I have nice collection memorable and lovely Wii games I could replay whenever I feel like it. Such a great console, the good old Wii. Long live the Wii! I don't play Just Dance though...

queen. she's better than her wii U younger sister !

@beazlen1 But what were the other three people still playing?

It make sense, they do it every year and it sells couple of hundred thousand each time! People still buying all kinds of games on the wii

I love the Wii. I miss the Wii. The menu tunes. The weird-yet-nostalgic remote controller. Such a unique console experience, never to be replicated.

I still play my wiiU far more than than the Switch. There’s such an awesome library of games that it can play and that’s without even including the Wii games. The Wii fit U games are ridiculously underrated

You know, not all of us are stupid enough to just throw out or store our old systems whenever we get new ones.

@Franklin Don't forget some of the lost WiiWare.

@R-L-A-George

Yeah.

I really want the first Bit Trip Runner on Switch.

I cannot stand the way so many potentially awesome Wii games force you to use motion controls without the option of a pro controller. For example Donkey Kong Country Returns and Metroid Prime Trilogy. I just can’t stand motion controls.

It's a pity it's not coming to the PS2...I mean who's still playing on that console these days.

@Franklin Yeah that and the tons of great games for it.

I primarily use mine to play gamecube games nowadays. The only wii games I still play are RE4, Mario Kart, and Super Mario Galaxy 2.

If it weren't for the Wii I wouldn't even know this website existed. It got me back into gaming with their virtual console.

@azoreseuropa You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?

@Aerona NintendoLand round my house. Crazy that the entire WiiU player population can squeeze under one roof!

Thinking that even in 2019 it can get gamed, he Wii is filled with determination.

I'm glad Just Dance 2020 is coming to the Wii cause I recently got into the series when I got Just Dance 2018 for my Wii last year along with Wii Sports(finally). I'm excited to get Just Dance 2019 and this game sometime in the near future.

Long live the Wii U, Nintendo's best hardware damaged by bad sales and bad marketing.

@Dog

In your dream.