The Rise and Sad Fall Of The Wii
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- If you’re over the age of 10, you have most certainly played a Wii. It was the hot new gaming system of the early 2000s that every kid had to have. It was a system for the whole family, with games like Wii Sports. Its popularity did not wane for many years thus cementing itself as an icon of our culture, but now 17 years after its release, we will be looking over a sad downfall of the once beloved console.
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I don’t really consider it to have a sad downfall as its modding community is insane and very nice. This community revived Nintendo WFC with Wimmfi, WiiConnect24 is now RiiConnect24, and the modding teams have gone as far as to make Japanese channels usable to where we can go as far as to order food on a Wii console. As of right now, I’m part of a team that plans to revive the Wii Shop as a usable channel again. As I’m just a beta tester, I really wouldn’t consider it dead.
IT NEVER FELL. IT'S HIGHER THAN WEED
I’m still using my wii today. I love the library of games. The best to game with friends. Modding it brought it life. Currently playing paper mario 64✌🏾
Oh my GOD the amount of underrated youtubers that are in some way related to the wii are astounding!
I had a Wii one time. My Wii remote string broke off while I was playing Just Dance, and it toppled the Wii and it just broke.
The modding community keeps it alive ✊
When homebrew attacks
This video is surprisingly well made. Keep up the good work
There was no "fall" of the Wii at all. ALL of us who wanted a Wii bought one. End of story. That it didn't keep selling after wii all bought one is not sad, it's just how reality works. I get that reality is weird concept for gamerboys, but there's no story here. The Wii easily won the 7th Generation and will always be the most successful dedicated console Nintendo will every release in the 21st Century. Only gameboys worry about how it stopped selling after everyone had one. I mean it's not like the X360 or PS3 ever caught up even though they kept selling.
Also keep in mind the Wii U was meant to be it’s successor which failed bringing the switch into play which is still popular, also there was no Wii 2 or 3 unlike ps and Xbox
Wii also means five in japanese, and it was nintendo's fifth home console!
love this video, your channel reminds me of choopo :)
I still play my Wii and Wii U, the best consoles ever!
2:57
*sad nes and snes noises*
This shows the power of the mainstream. You can make a crap ton of money but loose it all when you become irrelevant.
As shown with the wii u.
Went from the wii selling 100+ million to the wii u selling less than 20 million
4:30 - “Sir, this is a PlayStation 4.”
Sorry I immediately stopped watching when you said early 2000s. The Wii came out in 2006. It came out in the late 2000s.
The WII is not early 2000's, it cam out in 2006, (7 out of 10 years into the 2000's) so it's late 2000's. I guess a lot of people want to make themselves feel older than they are so they can be like "Back in my day..." and validate feeling nostalgic? Probably.
Even I wanted a Wii
I dont think its dead
Shovelware did NOT plague the Wii. Again, NO ONE forces you to buy shitty games, of which there were hundreds for both the PS3 and X360 and more than 1500 for the PS2. Focusing on the bad games, instead of the great games is what fanboys do to try to dis a console. The simple fact of the matter is that with Gamecube compatibility, the Wii Shop, and the Virtual Console, no Nintendo console in HISTORY ever had a better software library, which also included Metacritis *Game of the Decade* for the 2010s Super Mario Galaxy 2. Sorry. You. Are. Wrong.
It has been revived with homebrew!
The ill-fated Playstation Move and Kinect didn't make a dent in the Wii because the VAST majority of PS3 and Xbox games could NOT utilize them! And you had to buy hardware that was nearly as expensive as just buying a Wii! And the "lack of quality" games comment is idiotic. The system, like the PS2, was so incredibly successful that tons of crappy games were made for it. So what? NO one forced you to buy those obscure games! But the Wii library was full of great games, including the Metacritic Game of the Decade Super Mario Galaxy 2. The Wii library was FAR better than the N64, the GC, and the Wii U. And the virtual console meant it could play many of the earlier games, and the Wii could play 100% of Gamecube games. What a dumb comment!
Oh, and the Wii defeated the X360 and PS3 and won the 7th Generation - not only outselling them both, but Nintendo made a profit on EVERY Wii it ever sold whereas it was YEARS before MSFT or Sony made a profit on a single pS3 or X360 they sold. MSFT and Sony spent billions on their dead-end motion controls too, whereas the only company that did it successfully and profitably was Nintendo. Since the Switch is a handheld, the Wii remains the best, most popular, and best selling Nintendo console of all-time. Maybe you should do a rise and sad fail of the X360 or PS3 instead?🤣
And NO, the Wii was NOT the first console from Nintendo to be the market leader. The original NES dominated it's era, nor was ANYTHING close.
Again, do your homework before telling the rest of us factually incorrect information.
Simply the sheer number of your comments, let alone the seeming hostility, spread over at least two weeks… may indicate an unhealthy fixation and a particular location along the Dunning-Kruger curve.
I had an Intellivision long before I had a NES. Not sure if you'd classify both of the 8-bit modular ROM-based software systems (i.e. able to play multiple games, separately purchasable) as part of the same generation, though. I would. (And yeah, I know, you scoped to Nintendo systems. History has a longer view.)
Weirdly, barring two specific games the NES wasn't anything particularly special to me. I have more memories of the Intellivision. (Even if my family doesn't!) 😩
There is literally no point in being this aggressive, you could have just factually corrected him. The rest of the video seems to be pretty factually correct. Judging by the content of your channel, you should know the sheer amount of research needed to make these videos.
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4:05: OMG. You really don't know what software is versus hardware, do you? Dude. It's was the less sophisticated HARDWARE that made the X360 and PS3 look better.
And also awful to develop for, but that's not unique to PS3 and X360. Which, as an interesting aside, Microsoft stole for their generation.
Xbox → It's a PC. Literally.
Xbox 360 → It's a PS3 Cell processor, but with all the special (SPUs) removed because it was too difficult to understand, while trivial to copy the basic bits from over the cubicle wall.
Quite literally.
(That makes the 360 a multi-core PowerPC. Like a Macintosh G3. Oh, the irony.)
(It still just ran Windows 2000, though. A copy on every disc.)
(And let's not even get into repeated "basic b*" security failures.)
The difficulty of development with such unique architectures is also something Nintendo is familiar with. And Sony. The Wii is a GameCube with some steroids applied. While the simplicity of the Wii debut games remained fun and didn't bely the underlying complexity, the "simplicity" of the launch titles on PS3 were embarrassing. Motion controlled dragon riders? How'd that work out? Uninspired, same-brown first-person shooters? Yawn, even if it took place in nicely depicted London ruins.
LBP was some nice (new) creativity on the Sony side, at least.
I'll take the pair of Wii Sports and New SMB over most of the PS3 lineup, now that I think of it.
There. I think I wrote a documentary for you.
- Software Engineer, actually aware of the complexities of hardware + software interop, including such subjects as low-level kernel, device driver, memory management, co-operative and preemptive multi-tasking, application binary interfaces, … and with what seems to be a better view of this particular issue. Oh, crap, I may have written a Gameboy game. 🤨
Had nearly suppressed that memory. (Despite my love of 6800 and Z80-alikes.)
"Motion controller sensor gimmick." That's like calling the fact that the Vita is portable a gimmick, or that the Switch can be docked a gimmick. It was NOT a gimmick, gamerboy. It is specifically what sold 100 million Wiis. If the Wii had shipped with Pro Controller and no motion controls, it would have sold about 2 million consoles and put Nintendo out of the console business as quickly as you can say Sega Dreamcast! All the Wii was was a slightly faster Gamecube! Without the Wiimote, there's literally no reason for the Wii to exist, gamerboy!
LOL! The Wii's software was NOT much less sophisticated. And even if it had been, that CLEARLY was NOT the reason it was so much cheaper! My god. How can you make a video telling the rest of us about a subject you know nothing about? LOL!
The Wii was cheaper because it's HARDWARE was FAR less costly to produce and its GPU/CPU were far less capable and cheaper to source. Even at $249, the Wii sold at a PROFIT for Nintendo on day one. It took YEARS before Sony or MSFT made a profit on a sold PS3 or X360.
Nah, that it's a GameCube helped cut the cost. Nintendo literally opted out of a console generation, technology-wise. And it worked.
"Loss-leaders" are a wilful decision and economic tactic for market penetration. Jeez. I'm *actually* a software engineer-but I'm also a seemingly competent market and business analyst by comparison, over here. You may be taking mention that "shovelware exists" too seriously, as well. That argument about choice doesn't invalidate the overwhelming avalanche of titles released. (Ref: Malcolm Gladwell presentations. He has a number of talks that might help educate you on consumer choice anti-patterns.)
This is just incorrect thou? The software on the XB360 and PS3 are miles ahead of it like the Wii didn't even have an operating system ...
You are being unnecessarily snobbish. It is much more likely that it was a little slip-up and he did in fact mean to say hardware. Most people watching this video will likely have understood that given the surrounding context where he said that.