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@graf It could be worse brother you could be nostalgic for the wii

@graf

@DEERBLOOD @graf People went bananas for this thing when it released but it has no footprint in the emulation scene and it's been basically forgotten at this point
WiiU has more relevance
The Wii's only legacy is Wii Sports
Which is crazy because the Wii was HUGE for so long

Motion controls were the worst idea ever and we collectively agree and never mention its existence.

@monsterislandcolonizer @graf I had every Nintendo console up to the wii and when it came out I just didnt see the point

@DEERBLOOD @graf Imo it was the console for people whose parents couldn't or wouldn't buy them an Xbox or PlayStation

@monsterislandcolonizer @DEERBLOOD @graf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNNFqqyt_TY

@monsterislandcolonizer @graf Its pretty much when I lost interest in Nintendo. I still had a 3ds though

@Dudebro @DEERBLOOD @graf PS3 tried this too and it didn't work there either
Switch has it to a limited degree but it's more of a gimmick and less a useful feature

@DEERBLOOD @graf 3DS rocks and the prices for one now are insane

@monsterislandcolonizer @graf Yeah I REALLY regret trading mine in to gamestop cause I still have all my games

Humans were made to use tools not air. Lack of hepatic feedback will be the killer of stuff like this. Even in Mass Effect lore they knew enough that people had hepatic feedback devices embedded in their fingertips to use the projections.

@DEERBLOOD @monsterislandcolonizer @graf Girlfriend make you sell it? Gonna get rid of the xbox for her too?

@DEERBLOOD @graf I still have mine and the yellow Pikachu N3DSXL that goes for like $600
I put some homebrew type stuff on my original and have all my 3DS games saved to it now

@ForbiddenDreamer @monsterislandcolonizer @graf I dont remember when I traded it in. Its possible I didnt but I havent dug it up yet

@monsterislandcolonizer @DEERBLOOD @graf It was a gimmick, people got it to play Wii Bowling. 99% of the rest of the library was shovelware

@graf niggas born in 2008 turn 18yo this year

@monsterislandcolonizer @graf King shit

@graf it's a 20 year old console Grafman....

@DEERBLOOD @graf Yeah I been playing Monster Hunter Stories at work

the Wii shop channel music is an enduring cultural legacy, other than that ehh. doesn’t help that this was the generation where rereleases on the next generations of consoles became the norm so 90% of its notable games are playable on the Wii U or switch and never really left circulation as it were. nostalgia requires some distance in time and when everything is always available that doesn’t really happen anymore.

@mrsaturday @DEERBLOOD @graf I knew a guy who got a Wii and then The Force Unleashed on its release day, watched him play it for an hour and he turned it off because it obviously sucked and was a completely different game from the 360/PS3 version

@merchantHelios @graf the PS4 is 13 years old, it's a retro console

@merchantHelios @graf no one tell graf how old halo: combat evolved is now

@monsterislandcolonizer @DEERBLOOD @graf the wii "has no footprint in emulation" because the emulator for gamecube (dolphin) is the same one used for wii, the original hardware arquitecture for the wii during development was 2 gamecube boards superglued together, even early devkits were internally twice of the gamecube hardware with a couple extra modules for OS, internet and bluetooth, the release console just had all the hardware integrated into a single board

@EdBoatConnoisseur @DEERBLOOD @graf That's fair but are there any Wii exclusives that didn't suck
Genuine Q, I've never heard anyone talk about it so I assume there's nothing there

@monsterislandcolonizer @DEERBLOOD @graf metroid prime 3 and super mario galaxy are some of the best exclusives the wii got to offer

Graphics have plateaued in a such a way that "retro" consoles no longer exist after the PS3. The graphical fidelity difference between the ps4/xbone and every console after is negligible at best.

@Goalkeeper @graf @merchantHelios id argue further, limitations on processing power forced devs to put in effort
now they can copy paste shit in ue5, so low effort low competency developers can release filth into this world

Truly a dark time. Fortnite and its consequences.

@Goalkeeper @eee @graf @merchantHelios honestly ps3 to ps4 wasn’t even that big of a jump outside of resolution.

Big enough that you could at least see the difference.

@Goalkeeper @eee @graf @merchantHelios that’s true, if you lined up some PS4 and PS5 games side by side I’m not sure I could even say which was which.

most of the games from both consoles use the same engine. Which is a massive part of the problem.

@graf There's college freshmen now who played the Switch 1 in 3rd grade.

@Frondeur @DEERBLOOD @graf @monsterislandcolonizer
This is what they stole from us.

@monsterislandcolonizer @DEERBLOOD @graf Wii was one of the sad attempts to de-fat gaming, and lost out to DDR

Wii had some absolute gems that will never get re-released ever again.

They look like 125, same as last time I looked

@graf There's college freshmen now who played the Switch 1 in 3rd grade.