Why no love for the Nintendo Wii

[Zeren]

My reason for never wanting one is that I only wanted one game on it. Since I don't think that Smash Brothers was worth the purchase of a console I never bought it. I regret buying my PS3 and Xbox as well because I never use them aside from using netflix on the PS3.

 

[Epona]

My reason for never wanting one is that I only wanted one game on it. Since I don't think that Smash Brothers was worth the purchase of a console I never bought it. I regret buying my PS3 and Xbox as well because I never use them aside from using netflix on the PS3.

I regret buying the 360. It's turned into an adbox and it's clear Microsoft is more interested in services than games. My PS3 is mostly used for Netflix too but with PS+, PS1 and PS2 classics, sometimes I still play games on it. It does have the best Netflix player.

My Wii's, both of them, have trouble staying connected to the internet. My PS3's, PC's, 360 and handhelds have no problem staying connected.

 

[Manji187]

Simple, it had very few games that I actually wanted to play.

 

[remnant_phoenix]

The Wii is like a band that has a couple handfuls of really good songs, but most of the songs put out are filler made to capitalize on the overall success of the band rather than deliver a quality experience. And then there are songs that should have been great, but came out bizarrely bad.

In this case, the handfuls of good songs would be Super Mario Galaxy, Donkey Kong Country Returns, Super Smash Bros Brawl, Metriod Prime 3, etc. You know, the good games that are usually first-party Nintendo.

The filler would be the mountains of low-quality shovelware that the system is steeped in.

The bizarrely bad songs would be stuff like Metroid: Other M. Seriously, what happened there?

Don't get me wrong, I love my Wii. It does have some really good games and I love that it is a backwards-compatibility powerhouse. It can play Gamecube games and it can download the best games from systems of Nintendo's past. In that regard, the Wii is great.

But as a machine that consistently provides high-quality current gen experiences? The Wii is an utter failure compared to the PS3 and 360. Because it's underpowered compared to those two, it's missed out the big third-party games, and the few-and-far-between great first-party offerings from Nintendo aren't quite enough to keep it highly relevant from a current-generation gaming perspective.