Nintendo Wii (November 2006 - October 2013)

Mr E

Production has officially stopped on the Wii.

http://kotaku.com/its-officially-over-the-wii-is-no-longer-in-production-1448945660

Despite its faults (and imbalance between good titles and shovelware) I definitely got my money's worth from it. I got a launch console, then sold it around 2009. Then I bought a new one a few years ago and caught up with what I missed.

Retr0gamer

I thought it was a pretty great machine. Definitely more of a secondary console but a fantastic secondary console. I also don't get the whole, too much shovelware, complaint. Nobody is forcing you to buy shovelware games. What good games that were on it were excellent with some of them being unmatched in their genre on the 360 and PS3. I found there were far more great games and far better games on the system than the beloved N64.

Star Lord

The motion controls were much maligned, but when you found the games that did it right, then they were excellent! Probably one of my most played home consoles ever.

CastorTroy

I never understood all the complaints people made about the machine. Great console with lots of games. People complained there were no games yet when good games came out they didn't sell. Look at Zack and Wiki. Then there were the complaints about no "mature" titles. Again, they came out and people didn't buy them - Dead Space Extraction and MadWorld for example.

Think another issue was the ease it was hacked, leading to people buying the console just to hack it and download the games.

I've still got a huge backlog of Wii games I want to try

Mr E

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I also don't get the whole, too much shovelware, complaint.

If you're browsing a heaving Wii shelf (a few years ago, rather than today), you really had to browse.
I'd say that one game out of every 20 was worth getting (albeit for a grown adult).

CastorTroy

Mr E wrote: »

If you're browsing a heaving Wii shelf (a few years ago, rather than today), you really had to browse.
I'd say that one game out of every 20 was worth getting (albeit for a grown adult).

Yeah that's when shovelware or casual games were annoying. Having to search behind Carnival Games and other party games as well as the latest dance game in order to find something you'd be interested in.

Dozen Wicked Words

Still get plenty of use out our wiis at home, I have a few games I still want to get for it. Its the best local, as opposed to online, multiplayer machine I have, and cliché or not, it's far and away the most family friendly console that me and the kids can all have a laugh playing.

Mr E

I'll be bringing my Wii home for Christmas for my niece and nephew to play. Tons of great games that are fun (and accessible) for kids and adults to play together.

richymcdermott

I got good enjoyment out of it , roughly 25 titles for the system and enjoyed a majority of them. Great Secondary console I feel gets alot of negativity that it does not deserve.

Thought the motion controls was a interesting concept but lack of ideas led to alot of waggle that was a pain to use and the novelty died very quickly.

I picked up the system around 2008/2009 for the family to use. I was very ignorant towards the system till 2010 when I finally looked through the wii catalogue to see there were a lot of some on the system , but you really need to dig down and look. Roughly own 30 games for the wii and a majority I consider worth owning.

Games Like The Last Story, Pandora Tower, Xenoblade, Fragile Dreams , no more heroes, Resident evil remake to name a few I would of hated not having played.

CastorTroy

If you're a fan of Prince of Persia, the Wii version of Forgotten Sands was excellent. It wasn't a port. It was a completely different game made for Wii controls with new powers and everything.
I played both the PS3 and Wii versions.

tomdempsey200

the wii is the only one that didn't pack-up on me...still going strong and easy to mod

xbox 360 and ps3....YLOD and some other red-light of death

Radiosonde

I guess the WiiMini is still in production? Definitely a second console, but if Wii U has as many good games by the end of its life I'll be content.

Myrddin

I think its a great console, & would agree its a perfect secondary machine. Not a fan of the Wii Mote & Nunchuck at all however, far too few games that got it right re motion controls. I think history will remember the Wii very fondly