Just saw a video refering to their childhood nostalgia and it was a Wii. Going to Kii myself
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@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
WiiU has more relevance
The Wii's only legacy is Wii Sports
Which is crazy because the Wii was HUGE for so long
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Motion controls were the worst idea ever and we collectively agree and never mention its existence.
@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
Switch has it to a limited degree but it's more of a gimmick and less a useful feature
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.
@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 @graf Its pretty much when I lost interest in Nintendo. I still had a 3ds though
@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
@DEERBLOOD @monsterislandcolonizer @graf Girlfriend make you sell it? Gonna get rid of the xbox for her too?
@ForbiddenDreamer @monsterislandcolonizer @graf I dont remember when I traded it in. Its possible I didnt but I havent dug it up yet
@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
I put some homebrew type stuff on my original and have all my 3DS games saved to it now
@monsterislandcolonizer @graf King shit
@DEERBLOOD @graf Yeah I been playing Monster Hunter Stories at work
They look like 125, same as last time I looked
@monsterislandcolonizer @DEERBLOOD @graf It was a gimmick, people got it to play Wii Bowling. 99% of the rest of the library was shovelware
@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
@monsterislandcolonizer @DEERBLOOD @graf Wii was one of the sad attempts to de-fat gaming, and lost out to DDR
Goal𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝓮𝓻 
Wii had some absolute gems that will never get re-released ever again.
@DEERBLOOD @monsterislandcolonizer @graf I had a couple of buddies who had Wiis. They were simple fun and good for when friends are visiting. It didn't replace real gaming, but it was good for goofing around, like Wii Bowling from the kitchen when you can't see the TV and throwing consecutive strikes.
I sometimes think about getting one because my boys would have fun with the driving games and whatnot, but for that price I could probably get a steering wheel and pedals for my PC and just throw them at BeamNG or something else I already have.
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.
@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
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