I hold the Wii pretty high in my head. However, I also know that the grass is often very green on the other side.
Is it actually as fun as I remember? I see that a lot of the classic games are pretty rare so that is not reassuring.
I wish I had kept mine because I would kill for some Wii Resort ping-pong or bowling.
I have 11 Table Tennis in VR and somehow the physics just don’t feel nearly as good as Wii Resort/Wii Sports. Various bowling games in VR I’ve tried are the same… IDK how the motion controls can be worse when I literally use my hands. 🤷🏻♂️
Maybe you’re just bad at bowling and the bad controls on the Wii compensated for it! 😂
I transferred all my wii games to a hard drive and use Dolphin. The annoying thing about the wii games is mapping the controls to a useable gamepad.
My most played wii games are NewER Super Mario Bros (an excellent hack), the Last Story (very good unique RPG), Monster Hunter Tri, Mario Kart, Mario Galaxy 2, Cave Story…
But the my library is really filled with GameCube games and wiiware rereleases.
Wii bowling with the actual console and romote controllers hasn’t been beaten yet.
Wii was the only console I ever bought. I prefer playing with keyboard and mouse, so consoles were never really my focus.
I had a lot of fun with it, it had some amazing games that made good use of the controllers. It was a great family console that even older people or people that don’t usually play could use.
It was also great at running old school emulators for other consoles (SNES, Genesis) after some tinkering.
It also drove home my main hate regarding consoles: they are closed systems, owned not by you but by the manufacturer. The games were and still are expensive, unlike PCs where games get cheaper over time. They can also disable the servers providing services for your console (news channel, weather channel) when they feel like you should move on and buy their next console.
So I won’t buy another console again, even if I still love my Wii, that I power on occasionally.
The novelty of it was amazing, and as fun as you remember, but I also remember my Wii collecting dust not too long after we got it.
I have quite a few consoles from most of the generations and honestly Wii is my favourite. I love playing Wii games, I love the idea of playing on this console and I love collecting for it. I think I actually have 3 or 4 Wiis but I use my WiiU for the HD (I do have a dongle for the Wii as well). There is no video game updates every time you put the disc in, there are no trophies or gamer score, no communities, social media features, ads. You boot it up and enjoy. Because it was so much different from what was on the market, developers couldn’t simply port games onto it. They had to develop with the console and its hardware in mind and that’s what made it special. I know that on paper Switch is just a better Wii as it has the best of both worlds (it has motion controls and its beefy enough to play more demanding games) but as the focus is mostly to catch up with the other consoles, I think it lost a bit of that magic.
I’m really interested in emulation as you can do upscaling which should make the older titles look and run pretty well.
The Wii has Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2.
There hasn’t been a Super Mario Galaxy anywhere else besides the Wii.
The Wii is awesome.The wii is still a staple of party nights in my friend group. It’s hardware is frankly kinda shit but the quality game design and innovative controllers are just not something any other console or computer can ever replace.
Yeah, it’s a great party console.
If you’re more interested in the Wii than GameCube functionality you could consider getting a WiiU. You’d get HDMI output with full Wii Library compatibility (there may be some odd outsiders) plus whatever WiiU games you might want to play. You can also play GC games on it by methods but it won’t read the discs or take their controllers.
Sorry I missed the question, I think it’s absolutely a classic console. I actually prefer the Wii/WiiU era games over the Switch ones. I haven’t liked a Mario Party since Wii, Mario Kart Wii was imo the best, and the Wii WarioWare is great. I’ll edit with my collection maybe
I’d not recommend a wii u for Wii games actually, it has worse visual quality than an actual wii, the scaler in the wii u is horrible and destroys picture clarity
I have both and hadn’t noticed much difference from the results of the HDMI output of the WiiU over a Wii using Component Cables through the same Elgato, but you’re probably right about a direct feed to a TV, or adding better quality devices in the chain. I’ve played OG Xbox through the setup using the Official HD Pack for a long time and have low expectations probably.
Trust me, the difference is massive, especially when comparing to a Wii using component. Like I mentioned the internal scaler in the Wii u is horrid, it makes games blurry, zooms in and lowers brightness, a Wii over component is miles better.
With an early model Wii you obviously also have full GameCube back compat, with games and almost all peripherals, yes you can run GameCube through Nintendont in vwii on wii u but then we’re getting into grey areas
I just got a Wii to play RE4, WarioWare: Smooth Moves, and a couple GameCube games. I still need to get the component cable (I’m on composite, which isn’t ideal) but I’m finding it just as fun as I remember.
The Wii was a console system for people who were unaware of or didn’t like console systems.
So if you’re in that co-hort, or an active Nintendo fan… yeah, it’s a great console.
It says a lot that the best selling titles on it largely came with extra plastic bits that are likely collecting dust now.
Full disclosure, I own a Wii, it’s hooked up and running and everything. Other than occasionally showing off the absolute insanity that is Muscle March, I really can’t think of any game on it I’d still play.
I love the Wii and I’m sad mine broke (it won’t read the discs anymore and all attempts to fix that at home failed). It is one of the very few consoles my husband could use, him having cerebral palsy. We played that together constantly! It was great.
Has a lotta great titles people still remember fondly, and it’s heaps easy to hack it to get emulators on it. Win win!
It has about 15 good games and some of them had to be trimmed down to be able to run on Wii.
There’s a reason why the Wii sold as well as it did. It was very good for its time in that the motion controls were just accurate enough to not be a total frustration. It sat at a modest price point relative to its competitors, and Nintendo has always been extremely good at maximizing on the potential of their consoles with superb game design.
So yeah, I think it was actually as fun as you remember it… but that was still almost 20 years ago. No doubt you’d enjoy it if you picked one up, but I’ll bet its age will show. It’ll depend on your tolerance for dated game and UI design to know how much you’d enjoy it in the long run. Plus, I do believe that a lot of the services like the Virtual Console have been sunset.
almost 20 years ago
don’t do this to me D:
The NES was ~40 years ago…
STHAAAAAP oh no i die soon
The 3DO was featured in the Pauly Shore movie, “In the Army Now”…
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In 1994
Its really sad to me that you can no longer buy Fluidity
I highly recommend modding your Wii, opens up a lot of options for game preservation and isn’t that hard to do.
It emulates excellent too. Is modding still requiring some soldering or can homevrew be enabled w/ software on the latest models too?
It’s all software.
It depends if you like motion controls to be honest as majority of games used it. Wii is not my cup of tea personally but I love playing The House of The Dead 2 & 3 Returns as I don’t have an CRT to play lightguns games.
The good games were great. Super Mario Galaxy 2 is probably the best Mario game full stop.
The controllers were crap for traditional games.
There was so much shovelware.
