Yeah but the last real nintendo console in terms of a library of games worth owning first and third party was the snes. Ever since then they have had a weak library of games if you take Mario, Zelda and Metroid out of the equation. The wii only has about 3 games worth owning imho and they are easily beaten and then the system is as good as a paperweight, The console is a gimmick even miyamato knows it is and still does not care.
They only wanted to do something different than their competition, but there is nothing revoltionary about the wii, not graphics not gameplay zero, nothing zilch. The only thing original is that wiimote you swing around like an imbecile. Wii Sports gets boring rather quickly, Mario, Zelda and Metroid are easily beaten. And the life of the gamecube console was a joke it had like no games i played either except for windwaker.
When you look at the library of games Microsoft Xbox 360 has and the devloping Library of PS3 titles nintendo is what a system for non hardcore old school gamers who were nintendos bread and butter back in the nes and snes era. They want the soccer moms, non gamers and casual types with the wii. All the games are non adult and kiddie in nature, mostly and lack any story movie cutscenes pre rendered HD cgi or voice acting. The only thing they got right was the gameplay. But damn i've played the same style of mario. zelda and metroid since i was a kid. Would it kill nintendo to do something really revolutionary or original?
I no a lot of people who own a wii and only play the backcatalog of titles on the virtual console. I already own those games and systems so to me instead of new games having like half their library as a backcatalog of previous systems= a Giant and major fail.
Nintendo sold out forget the gamers and went for the higest possible sales they could get by marketing to the people outside gaming.
We loaned our wii to my Nephew and even he finds the system kiddie and boring after playing mario galaxy and zelda twilight princess to death. He goes over his friends house to play cool killing games Like Halo 3 which he should not be playing, but still games nintendo never could make being stuck in the same mindset of the eighties and only updating the graphics and consoles every few years. While Sony and later microsoft remain on the cutting edge of gaming into the future, and the future is HD. Even though i don't yet own an HDTV i realize this. Nintendo put out a 20th century piece of hardware in the 2lst century and to me that is a major failure despite their sales figures.
The only piece of the console that was forward thinking was the wiimote, the console is almost the same as the gamecube. I would like to play Twilight Princess some day in HD but nintendo decided to have one foot in the present and the other stuck in the past. The system but not being available in an HD version is already halfway obsolete just like HD-DVD.
Blu Ray will take off in the next few years, within ten if it is not eclipsed by an even newer format it will take over the dvd market unless it fails like Laserdisc and is only a niche market.
If that is the case then sony are a bunch of fools and nintendo are somehow genious for putting out substandard cheap hardware.
The DS has a better catalog of games at least to me being an avid Rpg fan and gamer another reason why the wii is such a failure. Perhaps final fantasy crystal bearers will fix that if it does ever get finished,lol. Or if they put out a real dragonquest game on the wii.
The last good nintendo console was the snes. I said sayanara to nintendo fanboyism when Square dropped ninetndo like a hot potato and went with the forward thinking sony playstation console. Final Fantasy VII is a game nintendo wishes they could have had as a third party title, Well they got quest 64,lol.