Why Wii?

I just don't get it. The local stores have all run dry of Nintento Wii consoles now. Why are people buying these things? They're warmed-over Gamecubes with a cute controller. They're nowhere near as powerful as the Xbollox360 or PS3, and they suffer the usual Nintendo kid-game syndrome where everything is SuperHappyFunFunKiddieMarioSunshine. On top of that, the controllers suffer from the usual motion-sensing problems of magnetic and infra-red fields. Why are people paying $250 and putting up with substandard Nintendo crap?
Don't get me wrong - I used to be a total Nintendo bigot. I owned all their consoles because each one was the best one at the time. But they lost me with the Gamecube. There they had the perfect high-performance machine, and barely any 'real' games for it. The crowning moment of their doom was Zelda. All the previews showed bloody brilliant hyper-real, photo-textured, real-time illuminated super-gritty Zelda in full on action and battle sequences, against photorealistic backgrounds. Amazing. But when it came out, it was a toon-rendered kid-friendly super happy sunshine piece of shit.
Sorry Nintendo.

Comments

Unknown said…
Well, there are always games like "Trauma Center: Second Opinion" for the Wii where you cut people open and (semi) perform surgery on them? That didn't seem too "happy sunshine" to me...

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