Despite the overwhelming success of the Wii on a market level, there is a sad reality here which is just beginning to hit the critical fan. A quick glance at the top metacritic scores for the Wii's fledgling library begins to tell the tale. Read through some of the poor reviews from hardcore gamer sites like Gamespot or IGN, and you'll find control schemes to be the most faulted item.
Nintendo has announced the SNES and Super Famicom games gracing the Nintendo Switch Online library this month, and there are some gems to enjoy.
Strange headline, as I thought the star of the show was Super RType. I almost bought RType Dimensions EX this last month and was just thinking, man I wish we had the SNES one somewhere on Switch. That's where I got my start w the series and I was beyond excited to see it drop this week!
Following the Wii U and 3DS servers being taken offline, Call of Duty Black Ops 2 and Ghosts are officially dead.
Call of Duty players are jumping into Black Ops 2 for the final time before its Wii U servers go offline for good.
So basically this guy loved tilting and hated IR and accelerometer?
Well, for one thing that IR twitchiness doesn't seem to affect most people as much as it does him. Personally i find the infrared to be MY favorite part of the Wii-mote- the closest thing on a console to a mouse. Still, it's his own experience, and I can't blame him for that. But maybe he should try playing around with sensitivity in options...
As for the accelerometer- yeah, I went through the same thing when playing Wii Sports (putting in Golf is a nightmare...) but in WarioWare I found that the accelerometer worked perfectly.
So, yeah... I think that Nintendo has shown that it's possible to do motion quite well with the hardware, but the pressure is on developers to create the first Wii game that really GETS the motion sensing.
Its to bad software for the thing is a joke. Of all things they DO need to fix that twitchy crap that happens.
The downfall of the wii is going to be third parties improper execution of the wiimote You can already tell by some games now coming out for the wii that the very feature that Nintendo is betting it all on, the motion sensing nunchuk controller, the lack of diverse gameplay with this controller will in fact slow sales of third party titles as only first party titles IMO will use the wiimote at or near its full potential. And when more and more third party games start to use the snes controller style of gameplay instead of spending time finding more ways to use the nunchuk features, paying $50 to play what is essentially a gamecube title, even the same way you would've played a gamecube title controller wise, then this will hamper third party sales, and thus dry up third party support of the wii. And then it will be all on Nintendo's first party's shoulders to produce games that will keep people interested in buying a wii. But even though the wii enjoyed a diverse array of launch titles, the game releases have already slowed, and with games as basic as the ones that are released on the wii, development times are greatly reduced, so really you would expect to see alot of games, but the even bigger problem is now that zelda has released, and metroid and mario soon to follow, what do you have left to look for once these heavy hitters have all come and gone. Anybody that has owned a nintendo system knows that mario, zelda, and metroid games have years between sequels, and if third party support goes, then you have the same problem the gamecube as well as the N64 had. And if this scenario plays out, after this year, the wii will be dead in the water. Nintendo 8-bit (my all time favorite system) was the only system by Nintendo to release several ACTUAL Mario games on the same console as well as many spinoffs, as well as multiple zeldas and metroids. So if the Wii can't produce multiple sequels in its console life, then with no third party support or rather improper execution of gameplay functionality with the wiimote thus failing sales leading to less third party support, then I don't see the wii making it past this NOVELTY phase.
When finally a good 3rd party game like Manhunt2 is coming for Wii, they ban it. I cant imagine how fun and coll Manhunt on Wii would have been. So much for my dreams...
And this is where having a killer first party is key, but a console shall not live by first party alone, but also by every reputable third party supporter. I truly wish I seen a brighter future for the Wii, but mark these words and even save them. Next year the Wii will fail. I guarantee it. Now, it will still be for sale, and you are thinking that I'm crazy for predicting the sharp decline so soon, but with Zelda gone, metroid and mario soon to be here and a little later gone, what can you honestly tell me that there is to look forward to NEXT holiday season. Mario won't be there. He' going on vacation as far as an actual mario platform game. Metroid will have come and gone. So, all you will have are multiplatform games, well some with wii specific differences, but without marios, samuses, and zeldas.........or manhunts, for those who like that, if the big game they promote next holiday season is wii sports 2 and final fantasy crystal chronicles.......then the rise of the wii, just like the tide of the ocean, will eventually diminish