gaming Discontinuation of the Wii

[Vertigo_95 572]

When I saw this article:http://www.gamnesia.com/articles/goodbye-wii-my-old-friend, I was a bit sadden that its day has finally come. I personally love the Wii and enjoyed it ever since it's launch. It was the best thing ever when I got home from my cousins house one day to see Super Mario Galaxy on the TV. The Wii will always be one of my favorite Nintendo consoles along with Gamecube and SNES. What are your opinions on this?

[Troblems 5,617]

My heart just broke a little. Maybe a lottle. I was out of high school by the time this came out, but I WANTED ONE SO BAD! While I still think the 64 is my favorite Nintendo console, the Wii was amazing, in light of how groundbreaking the controller was. Sadness.

[Scootalove 10,689]

The Wii shall be missed, especially when it first came out it was a very memorable moment when Nintendo first announced it. It is so hard to say goodbye to a console that reminded us of the Nintendo 64, and now it is gone.

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

I'd probably feel more if mine got more use, but my Xbox360 honestly took over when I got it and I still only have a handful of Wii games even know it came into my collection first. I still feel something though, for some reason Nintendo has more of the feeling of attachment than Microsoft or Sony ever will for me. 

[SaburoDaimando 1,196]

Yeah.  Compared to my other systems, I have this to say.

 

I overdid it on buying Wii titles.  I've got more Wii games than Gamecube games.  It's not funny.  And even worse off, I got a back catalog to burn through.

 

Anyway, here's to the Wii, known for giving us motion controlled gaming, and the first Smash Bros with 3rd party characters(Snake of Metal Gear and Sonic the Hedgehog)

[Ferret Girl 2,642]

Well... in light of this, all I have to say is:

 

Good riddance. 

Thank you for a whopping two quality games. May you rest in peace, and take your motion controls with you. You will not be missed. (By me and my unpopular opinions, at least.)

 

Now, if we could only tackle the problem of the WiiU. 

[Zygen 6,066]

Well, it kinda sucks, i mean i have a Wii so its not like i will miss getting one, but i guess the fact there won't be anymore games kinda sucks ;/.

 

The Wii was pretty awesome, especially when it first came out, and i still love it. 

 

Hopefully Wii u has some good stuff come out.

[Moonlight 7,287]

It was bound to happen but I'm still rather saddened by it. While I only own around three Wii games, and I don't play them that often, the console had some pretty great games. Mine's plugged in right now and I should probably play it again sometime when I get the chance. 

[Radiance64 7,053]

Really... well that's something, you think they'd sell it for a little whiile longer but I guess if they feel they really have to discontinue it then they will. Definitely a system that could have had better tech, but still has some amazing games, even if most of the best games are not as well known, it has a fantastic library of first-party Nintendo games and niche games at least. It will still live on though, you can still play those games on Wii U after all.

[Flutter's lover <3 8,206]

I have a Wii,but never use it...if I do, it's just to play Mario. I spend 99% of my console gaming on my 360. I've never been a real fan of Nintendo....Sure I've had an N64,that I gave away....but I still have my NES, With after market Turbo controllers,a ROB the robot...and even a Game Genie...but I still never use it, mostly because it doesn't really interest me anymore, but I keep it for Nostalgia. None of the Nintendo titles really wowed me....Sure there's Super smash Bros, but you need other players for it to be "fun" I have no friends around here. 

 

I don't really have any feelings about the discontinuation of the Wii. Every console meets it's end some day.

[GhostPony750 959]

@,

Don't worry, there is someone who agree with your unpopular opinion!

 

The controller was boring, the games were mostly boring (with the exception of a few), the gameplay was meh, etc. (Even the name is awful!) I prefer the classic controller, and with the Wii U it's even worse. I still enjoy my Gameboy, and never owned a Wii...

 

But anyway, I don't play video games as much as before now, I prefer browsing forums and playing guitar. (I'm still upset that they ruined the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon serie.)

 

So, I won't miss you!

 

 

Every console meets it's end some day.

I agree. Edited October 22, 2013 by GhostPony750

[Gears of Halo Duty V 394]

I'll always remember camping out for the Wii with my good friend when it first came out. We were just in high school, but we were determined to get ourselves a Wii. We found the nearby Meijer holding a raffle just for spots in line to buy the thing. He and his mom won, and I didn't. Being a total life saver, his mom gave me her winning raffle ticket, and there we stayed, me and my friend, inside Meijer.

 

Turns out we couldn't leave the store for the 24 hours until the official release of the console, so we camped inside the store, hurling bouncing balls, playing Mario Kart DS rounds with the other campers and sleeping wherever we pleased. Gotta love those showcase futons and couches, they were pretty comfy. After the 24 hours, we left that store, with a new console and new memories to keep.

 

 

Good times.

[FractalMoon 378]

I have to say, since I got Dolphin I haven't actually used my Wii, but it will be missed. A lot of my favorite memories of playing games with friends are on the thin white brick I could fit into my PC with plenty of room to spare.

 

Every console meets it's end some day.

The PS2 and its sales to this day beg to differ

[long gone 8,929]

I've had my Wii since day two in the United States. It had a defect in its disc drive that made it deteriorate over time (to the point where it will stop reading games), but it replaced my GameCube and helped me expand my horizons on gaming beyond just Nintendo.

 

Disregard all the gimmicky, shitty shovelware released for it over the past few years. The Wii had some brilliant games. Super Mario Galaxy, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, Mario Kart Wii, Xenoblade Chronicles and some other games I can't think of off the top of my head. But ultimately, everything has to come to an end, but it shouldn't be the destination that matters, but the journey that does.

 

And for people like me, the video games that actually do matter for a platform are the journey. It's not about getting the top score on the leaderboards, or being the very best (like no-one ever was), or just simply winning every game. It's about the experience you get out of it. And the games are the experience.

[Fubz 300]

I have a Wii,but never use it...if I do, it's just to play Mario. I spend 99% of my console gaming on my 360. I've never been a real fan of Nintendo....Sure I've had an N64,that I gave away....but I still have my NES, With after market Turbo controllers,a ROB the robot...and even a Game Genie...but I still never use it, mostly because it doesn't really interest me anymore, but I keep it for Nostalgia. None of the Nintendo titles really wowed me....Sure there's Super smash Bros, but you need other players for it to be "fun" I have no friends around here.

Hot diggety, those ellipses.

 

The Wii was definitely a controversial console. Over here in the UK 1 in 3 households had one, although there were a lot of players who would just have the Wii sitting there gathering dust.

 

On the other hand though there were those who played it very regularly I still do today. The shake control was completely natural when playing a serious game and made for great deals of fun in more casual games.

 

Also dat analogue stick F: ooooh yeah. The analogue stick on the nunchuck sure was the best in its generation, and it showed when playing games such as Super Mario Galaxy or Metroid. Damn that was a saucy analogue stick.

 

Biggest hate of all - the batteries ;-; and also trying to connect the controllers.

[Koelath 445]

My heart just broke a little. Maybe a lottle. I was out of high school by the time this came out, but I WANTED ONE SO BAD! While I still think the 64 is my favorite Nintendo console, the Wii was amazing, in light of how groundbreaking the controller was. Sadness.

 

...I'm sorry, groundbreaking? It was a gimmick. A gimmick that spawned copycat gimmicks but still just a gimmick. 3D graphics were groundbreaking. Analog sticks were groundbreaking. There is a difference between innovation and gimmicks. Let's just count the ways the Wii controller was "groundbreaking":

 

- A motion control gimmick.

 

- The controller itself was a pain to use thanks to a lousy design. Yeah, thanks for this stick with buttons, Nintendo. It's always a great sign when half the games require the controller to be turned sideways. Also a great sign when its size suggests it was made for ferrets. Maybe try something comfortably grippable next time?

 

- The aforementioned analog stick, which has become a standard input far more comfortable and precise than the d-pad (unless you're playing something like Agarest War, where the d-pad suits the battle grid) is an entire separate attachment. Y'know, because that's a sensible design choice, giving us this whole other pointless thing just to add a stick and a few more buttons that should have been on the default controller already.

 

The Wii controller was balls.

 

As for the Wii's discontinuation...Eh. They've got the Wii U. The Wii's discontinuation is the most unsurprising thing in gaming since people disliking Atari's E.T. The Wuu's more interesting anyway.

[Misty Shadow 7,937]

The Wii will be missed. I never owned one, and it was obvious that this was going to happen eventually, but it's still kind of sad to see it go.

[NavelColt 22,881]

The sadness bit was felt by me when the PS2 was discontinued. I hardly have the same level of attachment to the Wii. Still. Really sad to see all of these things disappearing and getting replaced by shiny new consoles I don't have the money or interest to go out and buy. Keep feeling older.

[Koelath 445]

The sadness bit was felt by me when the PS2 was discontinued. I hardly have the same level of attachment to the Wii. Still. Really sad to see all of these things disappearing and getting replaced by shiny new consoles I don't have the money or interest to go out and buy. Keep feeling older.

 

The PS2 lasted a crazy long time though. Wasn't it just discontinued this year? That's thirteen years. I'll eat my shoes (from beyond the grave if necessary) if the world ever sees a console with so long a life ever again.

[NavelColt 22,881]

The PS2 lasted a crazy long time though. Wasn't it just discontinued this year? That's thirteen years. I'll eat my shoes (from beyond the grave if necessary) if the world ever sees a console with so long a life ever again.

 

True :3 Never easy to be 100% optimistic and happy over a childhood thing finally coming to an end, though. Like I said, makes you feel old all the same. The very fact it was around so long doesn't actually help that, too XD

[Fubz 300]

...I'm sorry, groundbreaking? It was a gimmick. A gimmick that spawned copycat gimmicks but still just a gimmick. 3D graphics were groundbreaking. Analog sticks were groundbreaking. There is a difference between innovation and gimmicks. Let's just count the ways the Wii controller was "groundbreaking":

 

- A motion control gimmick.

 

- The controller itself was a pain to use thanks to a lousy design. Yeah, thanks for this stick with buttons, Nintendo. It's always a great sign when half the games require the controller to be turned sideways. Also a great sign when its size suggests it was made for ferrets. Maybe try something comfortably grippable next time?

 

- The aforementioned analog stick, which has become a standard input far more comfortable and precise than the d-pad (unless you're playing something like Agarest War, where the d-pad suits the battle grid) is an entire separate attachment. Y'know, because that's a sensible design choice, giving us this whole other pointless thing just to add a stick and a few more buttons that should have been on the default controller already.

 

The Wii controller was balls.

 

As for the Wii's discontinuation...Eh. They've got the Wii U. The Wii's discontinuation is the most unsurprising thing in gaming since people disliking Atari's E.T. The Wuu's more interesting anyway.

I think you missed the point about the design of the Wii controller and Nunchuck. It allows for far more ways to control the game. Playing a 2D side scrolling platformer like Kirby or Wario? Turn the remote sideways and using the Dpad will give you better control for such a game as sensitivity isn't important but easy direction change is. There's no need for any more buttons so why have a nunchuck? Playing a 3D adventure game? Plug in the Nunchuck for some more buttons to use in your adventure and an analogue stick to give you more sensitive and smooth movement needed for a game in a 3D environment.

 

It did not work like you said it did, the sideways Wii remote and the dual controller style was used as an advantage rather than a disadvantage as you said.

[Gay Bird 421]

I'm fine with this.

 

The Wii was re-introduced a second time as the wii U. The only other nintendo console that was like that was the NES (which was followed by the SNES). The N64, and Game Cube were never re-created. Let's just let nintendo do their thing and come up with some crazy new idea for Microsoft to copy and Sony to perfect.

[Koelath 445]

I think you missed the point about the design of the Wii controller and Nunchuck. It allows for far more ways to control the game. Playing a 2D side scrolling platformer like Kirby or Wario? Turn the remote sideways and using the Dpad will give you better control for such a game as sensitivity isn't important but easy direction change is. There's no need for any more buttons so why have a nunchuck? Playing a 3D adventure game? Plug in the Nunchuck for some more buttons to use in your adventure and an analogue stick to give you more sensitive and smooth movement needed for a game in a 3D environment.

 

It did not work like you said it did, the sideways Wii remote and the dual controller style was used as an advantage rather than a disadvantage as you said.

 

It allows for more ways to control the game? Yeah, "turn it sideways" or "swing it around". Faaaar more ways...

 

 

Playing a 2D side scrolling platformer like Kirby or Wario? Use a controller that's designed well. Like, say, a controller made by Sony or Microsoft, or Nintendo back before they sacrificed good design for gimmicky toys. Kirby worked just fine with an SNES controller.

 

If there was no need for more buttons, why did the nunchuck come with extra buttons? "Plug in the Nunchuck for..." - No. Those buttons and that stick should have already been on the controller. That's like giving me a mouse without a scroll wheel, then telling me to plug in some attachment that has a scroll wheel.

 

The sideways Wii remote was too small for human hands and generally shit from an ergonomic viewpoint and the dual controller style was redundant and superfluous. "Oh, let's have two controllers for what we could easily accomplish with one!" - Let's not, because that's stupid.

[Megas 27,742]

Ah yes, the system that converted me into a Suda51 fan. No More Heroes 1&2 to this day still remain as some of my favorite games this generation.

 

The only thing I really disliked about the console was the fact that we never got a new Starfox or F-Zero game

Edited October 23, 2013 by Franziska Von Karma

[Hell Patrol 41]

The Wii was a reasonably good console, I enjoyed it, and for a few years after launch it had some great games. It's sad to see it go, but the thing already went 5 years ago didn't it? Razorfist from youtube put it rough as in that the console was the tickle me elmo of 2007, then dropped off the face of the earth. Which couldn't be anymore true, a hearty sendoff to the Wii.