I never fell for it either.
I really wanted to like the Wii before it came out. I loved the concept and I still think new control methods have more scope to advance gaming than just graphical and computational brawn. The also promised to make gaming cheap again, and I liked the way Nintendo were thinking outside the norm.
Course it has to be a mix of everything, processing power for pretty graphics, immersive sound, AI, physics etc, online to bring everyone and everything together, AND increased immersivity from controls and viewing methods.
The problem was the Wii promised the controls bit but failed to live up to expectations (1-to-1 lightsaber damnit!), and pretty much failed at the rest too. It certainly wasnt cheap. Then to kill it off it became a 'must-have accessory" for non-gamers to buy other non-gamers for Christmas, for the novelty of waggling something at a TV to make something happen.
Any decent games that would then come out on the platform would get completely overshadowed by the image it has developed. I'm sure there are good games on the platform, which have been specifically developed for the platform and for gamers, with a smooth framerate and original ideas, but because of the above I have near zero interest now.
Maybe Wii2 or WiiWii might do it, actually they really need to change the name! The decision to call it a Wii was a tragic one...
The difficulty is they cant possibly develop a console that caters to such extremes of gamer demographic, and please at one end the gamer freak with twitch reflexes of a fly and at the other end the gamer mum with twitch reflexes of an elephant. If they do try to it will inevitably end it a machine that is diluted in concept for both parties.
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