The Rise and Fall of the Nintendo Wii
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- Опубликовано: 20 окт 2024
- Nintendo is one of Japan's most famous companies. Founded over a hundred years ago, the company has helped create some of our most treasured childhood gaming memories. I remember playing Super Mario 64, trying to collect those 120 stars. Getting up early in the morning to play Diddy Kong Racing. Rushing home to play Goldeneye 007.
Good memories. But I am not going to talk about the Nintendo 64 today. Instead I am going to talk about a later Nintendo product: the weirdly named Wii.
Introduced in 2006, the Nintendo Wii began as a bold move. Zigging where everyone else was zagging. And at first it worked brilliantly. By 2013, it had sold over 100 million units. But the market changed and the innovative strategy ran out of gas. Unlike the N64 or the PS2, the console is largely forgotten - collecting dust in living rooms everywhere.
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Ikr if he's talking about ds and stuff why not wii or wii first
Wishing you a speedy recovery from falling off the wii balance board.
As a gamer at the time, the Novelty wore off when the Xbox 360 with it's amazing line of titles was far more attractive to a teenager going on young adult. The Wii just felt like a kids and Grandma's platform, and the other consoles where begging me to blow the heads off the Convient.
Lack of 3rd party titles killed it. SWITCH has improved on that. Nintendo made sure Developers found it easy to port games for Switch.
I’m happy this is just “Rise and Fall of Wii” and not “Rise and Fall of Nintendo”
Nintendo actually rising this this year, big thanks to pandemic
U copied someone else i.t also 私は日本人の一部で、それを話します
I love the Wii! "House of the Dead Overkill," "Deep Space Extraction," "Mario Kart Wii," "Excitebots," Endless Ocean," "Pinball Hall of Fame Williams Collection," "Bully," "Mad World," are just a few of my favorites. I got my first Wii in June of last year 2021. And I've played it every day since. So, it's definitely not forgotten or collecting dust in my house.
Saying the Wii is ''forgotten'' is kind of an overstatement. Tons of hardcore Nintendo fans enjoyed it and have fond memories of it.
I strongly agree with you but I wonder why they called it wii in the first play?
probably they ride a rollercoaster when they think about game consol name or something
I still play it everyday
i bought a new wii, and feel sad
Believe it or not, the N64 and Wii are my favorite Nintendo home consoles. Especially with the Wii having some genuinely strong first and second party titles like Metroid Prime 3, Super Mario Galaxy 1+2, Super Mario Strikers Charged, Twilight Princess, and Kirby's Return to Dreamland. Along with the occasional third party gem like Red Steel 2 and Sega All Stars Racing.
11:37 The Wii U wasn't helped by its awful branding. The name is way too similar to the name "Wii". Consumers thought it was a tablet/gamepad addon for the Wii but in reality all the games weren't compatible with the original console
Yeah overall a poor outing.
I doubt the gaming community are that easily confused. Otherwise the next Xbox shouldn't even do well at all. Heck, the Xbox branding between this and last generation is even more confusing.
@@questworldmatrix The mothers actually buying the console for their kids would still be fooled though and considering the target demographic for the Wii (non-gamers) this would still be true.
Wii U's concept lives on in the Nintendo Switch though I remember, which I heard is more successful
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I had a Wii bought in 2006. When the Wii U launched i thought i was an addon to the Wii. In 2011 i was more in to pc but still, i have always been interested in games and tech so if someone like me was confused many more was surely confused with what the Wii U was.
As for the game cube, from what I know the target audience was not that young, just the people that ended up buying it were.
The game cube could be connected online via an addon that could be connected, just very few games actually used it.
The original ps2 model also required a module for online play.
I remember standing in line overnight with a friend at a best buy to get the wii on opening day. We loved it! I got a WiiMote of my own to bring over to other people's houses to enable 2-player fun. It was many years before I owned a Wii of my own, long after it became obsolete. Around 2018 I started seeing Wii Fit balance boards piled up in every thrift store I went to. Those older folks that bought into the sports & fitness games were passing away and their belongings ended up stockpiled. Shop keepers didn't even know what they were. I started collecting them and eventually started selling my own new product compatible with the controller to try to save them from landfills. People seemed happy to keep their wiimotes, but the poor balance boards are heavy and hard to find applications for. If that sounds interesting, I've made a plethora of videos about it! :) Really enjoyed the history walk-through here. Cheers!
this video sounds too negative, id say the wii was a huge success but due to simply not enough power it got left behind really quick and devs have not been interested to make games for an under powered device
I think a big factor was that it was relatively easy to port games between the 360 and ps3 as they had very similar controllers and quite similar performance. The Wii with it's strange controller and comparatively weak hardware created a lot of headaches for cross platform development. Eventually many studios just didn't bother porting to the Wii at all.
I remember around 2011 everyone I knew who owned a Wii also owned either a 360 or a ps3, but only a few weirdos owned both a 360 and ps3.
@@fnorgen Yep, the Wii was interesting, but it's lack of killer games and online Doomed it, it became a Grandma kiddie system. Switch is heading in the same direction for the same reason, Nintendo is a bull-headed company that will only do things it's way. BTW, own all three, but the main for me is the Switch, and that is because of Skyrim, an old 360 game (?) and older computer game ports, i.e., Duke Nukem, Doom, Quake. Nintendo is again failing as it isn't able to play the big boy games, nor will Nintendo get it's act together for older games, like Metroid Prime, instead giving us a crappy side side-scroller.
I remember when Wii U came out & its graphics look dated compared to the competition
Gaming is a topic I least expected from this channel, hope to see more.
10:35 Okami is actually a Playstation 2 port by the way
A beautiful game indeed!
Average Joe and Jane thought the Wii U was a Wii Pro. Average Joe and Jane think the Switch is the successor to the Wii.
It’s a pretty quality piece of hardware and still looks good in 2022
I'm still using my Wii to play Mario kart
I remember when the Wii was impossible to buy. People were nuts over it. And then people somehow didn't like the Wii U BUT still bought the same games when they were ported over to the Switch.
The Nintendo wii will never fall from our hearts and that’s where the real value is from
Just wanted to point out that Okami was actually a PS2 game originally. The wii was basically the same hardware as the gamecube, but with the motion control interface. That's why most of the games look like those from the generation prior to its own. The console is capable of delivering a 480p image, but looks best on a CRT. The PS3 and xbox 360 look best on a modern display since they are usually rendering a 720p image.
Also, third party developers often couldn't easily port their PS3 and Xbox 360 games to the Wii due to its hardware limitations, limiting the game catalog (the same problem the Switch is having now). They also couldn't easily add meaningful motion controls to existing games.
Wow. For both personal and professional reasons, I regret not having come across this channel earlier. If there were a way to come across winning lottery numbers earlier, that would be even more valuable, but if you are constrained to causality this is really good. I too have a lot of nostalgia for this platform, but the history is very interesting too. This was very well presented.
At 3:14 729MHz of the Wii cannot be compared like that to the 3.2GHz of the Xbox360. The Wii is superscalar (can execute multiple instructions concurrently) while the X360 is not. In fact, the XboxOne CPU is clocked even lower, but is superscalar as well (and AMD64 instead of PowerPC)
I bought my first wii last year, and modded it. I've been playing it on my 27" CRT and having a lot of fun. I missed out on wii games, and it has been a great way to revisit my favorite gamecube games. Btw, the gamecube definitely could play online. It used an optional network adapter, but it only saw support from limited games. I've been playing Phantasy Star Online I & II on a fan run server with my wii in gamecube mode. The PS2 and xbox both did much better with online gaming, but nintendo did technically have it.
Nintendo's online service was, and still is, an abomination. Love my Switch, but the online is so bad that I almost never play online. Playing online with my 360 was one of my greatest playing experiences! Why nintendo REFUSES to fix their online really shows Nintendo's bull-headed way of doing things, it's their way or the highway!
i miss the wii, i wanna buy it again, i had it while it was dead and we moved so we had to get rid of it.
The Original Fat PS2 couldn't connect the the internet either without the use of a network accessory, the gamecube also had a network accessory as well. The Xbox was the only launch console with broadband internet out of the box.
Wasn’t the Dreamcast the first major console to connect to the Internet out of the box?
If Nintendo isn't careful they run the risk of putting the Switch in a similar situation. Software and hardware sales will dry up if developers are no longer putting out new compelling software due to it being severely underpowered.
Nintendo has perfected the art of squeezing profit from their platforms and games, and this happening now with the Nintendo switch and games like botw.
The GameCube actually could go online as there is this 1 game I can't remember what it's called something stars online by SEGA. Although you had to buy a separate adapter and stuff to get it working.
I loved the Wii but the motion plus was not really used enough. Only red steel 2 was a good sword game.
Do a video of the rise and fall of the Playstation brand in Japan and Asia and the rise and fall of the Playstation's portable division. Now those are interesting to analyze.
? I dont think Playstation ever fell...
@@fabianmok2206 Then you haven't been paying attention. Going from PS2 to PS5, Playstation has seen a massive decline in Japan and Playstation's handheld division is completely dead.
@@fabianmok2206 PS4 at the end of its life fell off harder than the Wii. PS4 is dead everywhere in sales right now. Also Sony has never sold a Playstation system that went as high as the PS2.
Interestingly that nintendo is usually the only company that sells consoles at a profit gain, the wii was no exception to that, sony may ship tons of consoles but there is no gain, just a loss in profit. Microsoft did have a great advantage for releasing at a great price and being able to come out before the wii and ps3 but the gain in consoles sold was a downfall since they could not handle checking the problems the 360 had which is the red ring of death. That alone cost microsoft an upwards of billions in loss, though microsoft can deal with those losses it still doesnt look good when you cant profit.
The wii did have the virtual console which made an extremely huge profit as well.
Not saying that wii was the greatest thing ever but i feel nintendo does deserve some credit for maximizing its profits than losing as say oppose to the other companies.
The ending reminds me of the superior bendable steel developed in Japan to build quake-resistant infrastructure.
I have to say that this video doesn’t seem as curated as the ones regarding the fall of a company. There are some errors that make it obvious that the author doesn’t know the video game market very well.
- Red Steel was one of the to-go games during the Wii’s launch. In retrospective, the controls are buggy, but nothing like that existed at the moment.
- Wii didn’t sell 150 million like is mentioned at 12:02.
- The X/S xboxes don’t only refer to the newer 9th generation of consoles. It should have been said “Xbox Series” at 8:50.
- The only third party game that is brought as an example that didn’t come to the Wii is a title that launched one year after it was officially dead.
- Many comparisons are drawn between the Wii and “its competition” as if the 360 and the PS3 had equal power, price and specs.
- I personally think the video lacks a section talking about profits, which were astronomical for Nintendo during that time.
I understand that it is not simple to make a video about a topic that one doesn’t dominate. I’ll still watch many videos from this channel, since they are very well researched, but there are uncountable channels that do a better job at explaining video game history.
It fell because they don’t sell it anymore
It's cool being in the N64 kid club!
"Unlike the N64 or the PS2 the console [Wii] is today largely forgotten"
Don't pull statements out of thin air if you cannot prove them.
As you have dear memories of playing Super Mario 64, younger generations when will hit your age will have the same dear memories of playing Super Mario Galaxy on Wii.
If a console have memorable games, it won't be forgotten because what a console "sells" is the experience of having fun and you know what?
Nintendo are masters in making fun and timeless games for every of their consoles, Wii makes no exception.
7:04 Actually I remember the PS Move wasn't very successful, & while Kinect was, I read that it put off hardcore gamers too
"The Wii didn't have a lasting effect on popular gaming culture".....sure which is why all consoles since then have some aspect of motion controls.
Is that a dawn brigade?
I still have a wii thank God
Do a video for Chinese smart tv brand TCL
Oh the memories! 🤭
Did the original wii come with Wii sports?
Interesting that the Wii had a shortage because everyone was buying it and Nintendo couldn't keep up, but the 9th gen consoles are having a shortage because you basically can't buy them anywhere because hardly any could be made in this first year!
Imagine VR tech plus Wii tech?!
Son and I still use it for fun and exercise!
5:09 is that foster city
I still have one today
I still can't believe there's this much denialism about the failings of the Wii in the comments. Just because you enjoyed it, that's not a counterargument to the lack of third party support and overdependence on novelty. That Nintendo ended up going in a completely new direction with the Switch proves that the Wii's concept just had no staying power.
I call the Wii U a new HD Model of the Wii
But thankfully the switch saved them!
i still feel about the wii U that they just didnt understand what it was about....
RIP Wii
thx
it's funny, ''they found the game buggy'' - at that moment i saw Ubisoft on the cover lol...
No mention of the terrible shovelware on the Wii? I played a Wii DataEast arcade collection disc of emulated games. Hit detection was way off, seemingly no quality review at all was done for this release.
the wii never even sold 110 units but 150?!! what!!!!
The Wii never really fell
The original Wii was amazing and is just nostalgic but they ruined it by realising and marketing the terrible Wii U wich basically killed the Wii family
Technically the Switch is part of the Wii family. Although I wish the wand works as well as my LG TV remote.
@@questworldmatrix Switch has nothing to do with Wii.
@@kingofdust9725the switch has motion controls and uses miis it definitely still has influence from the wii
5:45 November 2006.
maybe the Switch is doing better
why come they comment month past when video now 47 seconds ????
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i played one a bit.
Look at all the Nintendo fanboys in the comment section. The Wii was a bitch ass console in the long run that could not last. It had no ambitious third party support. The Wii hurt Nintendo so badly that the Switch is just taking half hearted ports of third party games the Wii should have had in the first place.
This script sounds so AI generated...
Nintendo should had bought CAPCOM or SEGA.
Yeah
Japanese people...
hi
I don’t care 1:03
The wii or all kind of motion sticks etc games were boring 😅
Pixelated Bill Gates 😂
With the Switch nothing has changed really
No DVD or Dolby,weaker but quality software than competitors.
But unique gaming experiences only with
Nintendo and games 👍
That’s why it’s selling well 2022
His voice is soooo annoying, so blend in mono tone