We recently came to own a Wii. Which lead me to check out the library of Wii games. And by check out I mean hit up my GameFly account to see if I needed to queue anything. How many would you guess? Zero? Yep!
I just did another glance at the “popular” Wii games listed and it is mostly Nintendo games, and a couple movie tie ins. One third of them had Mario in them. Anyway back to the point. What are the good Wii games? Obviously the answer is the Nintendo franchise first party games. Woo Zelda and Mario.
Why buy or rent a Wii game if you own any other modern console as well? It is not like the Wii version is going to be better. I don’t see how adding controller waggling is going to improve something. I know the Wii has sold like crack-laced pancakes but every time the game play reports come out the most played games are always Wii Sports. The game that came with the system. I know we have played more Wii Sports Resort then the 2 Mario games we have so far. Why? Super Mario Galaxy 2 is a pretty good game and all, and I will probably be playing more of it but Sports Resort keeps going back in. And we don’t even play many of the games! Table tennis and the three point challenge, maybe bowling when those get old.
Now that I’ve said that I do like first party Nintendo games, it just doesn’t have much else going for it. especially if I can get a better version of a game on another console. Heck I have the GameCube version of Twilight Princess because it was graphically better then the Wii (also we didn’t have a Wii at the time) still haven’t beat it (I should get to that someday).
I will probably buy the new Zelda when it comes out, and I will probably get sick of the Wiimote gesturing for it. And I will probably not finish it. But that is 1 game purchase. My GameCube had a similar fate. I can count the games I bought for it with 1 hand. Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, Super SmashBros Melee , Ikaruga and Twilight Princess. I have the Zelda collection for it as well but that doesn’t count. Compare that to the shelf full of PS2 games I own, or the CD book full of PS1 games. Same story with all other Nintendo products after the SNES. A few DS games, a few GBA games, Hell I have more Sega Saturn games then DS games.
The PS3 is where this trend breaks though. I think this is mainly due to the cost of the games, and the amount of time i can play a game, oh and GameFly.
Also Netflix on the Wii is pretty awesome. Now I can stream bad TV shows to my TV! Having to use the disk is kind of annoying but it gets the job done. I have the PS3 disk but it also is needed every time, and I could just use my PC at that point.
This turned into a little more anti-Wii then I intended but decided to let it post anyway.
It’s all about exclusives these days, if each console didn’t have their own set it’d just be a toss up. I wager a Wii and a PS3 will satisfy anything I want to play for the foreseeable future. Simply nothing on the 360 that I care for or that isn’t on PS3.
I said the same thing to someone the other day at work, the NES and SNES had a handful of /good/ titles, mostly Nintendo, RARE, and a few random third-party ones. The rest was shovelware and movie/TV tie-ins. Think Back to the Future for the NES. God.