What Made the Wii So Special?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 พ.ค. 2024
- In this video, we're going to take a look at what made the Wii so special and why it was such a success. We'll explore the games that were released for the Wii like Wii Sports and Super Mario Galaxy, the features that set it apart from other gaming systems, and why it was such a popular console, even for people who had never played a video game in their life. This is my Wii retrospective
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Genuinely miss the Wii era, wish I could go back for a bit
I went from N64 to the Wii and DS in 2008. My 10 year old self thought I had reached peak high-tech gaming (I didn't understand the Xbox or ps3 side of things). Alongside the N64, those consoles shaped my late childhood beautifully
Xbox and Ps3 were mainly for those that couldn't afford a proper Gaming pc which the point of these 2 consoles were for budget reasons where just like pc you can handle a lot of games. The problem with Nintendo is that you have to buy their consoles in order to play their games only and only in their consoles.
@@EnhancedTrashBin back in the day, only their consoles could run the games. That becomes less true as time goes on, from a technical perspective that is
My favorite wii memory is opening Super Mario Galaxy for the first time… watching Bowser become an actual threat with the epic cinematography was spectacular.
I love Galaxy so much.
The Wii was my first ever console and my brothers and I still play it to this day.
I loved the Wii way too much growing up. I always remembered my little brother, one of my friends who lived across the street, and I would play Wii Sports a lot. Then there was my brother, my father, and I trying to beat Smash Bros' story mode.
I'm gonna miss those good old times. Times I wish I could relive again and again.
For me, my favorite experience with the Wii was definitely playing Subspace Emissary in Super Smash Bros. Brawl for the first time. It was just so magical, seeing all of my favorite Non-Nintendo/ Nintendo characters all in one game interacting with each other.
My favorite and basically only memory of the Wii was playing Mario Kart Wii on it at my cousins house. Wish I had more time to experience it back then.
My favourite feature of the Wii is how easy it is to mod the system. You can get homebrew running on your Wii in just minutes nowadays and there are so many really cool stuff you can do with a hacked console.
I remember getting it for the first time, i couldn’t get enough of it! I used to play it with my cousins too and we were so loud due to the fun. Wii Sports Resort is my favorite Wii title, along with Mario Galaxy 2
Playing wii sport resort with my big sis and my grandma for the whole afternoon during summer holidays is one of my best childhood memories. And play Mario galaxy 2 with my sis(I was the 2p unfortunately but later I mastered the game and got all 242 stars.) is also one of the best gaming experience I have ever had. Now my Wii is dead and I could only play skyward sword and mario galaxy on switch, but it doesn’t feel the same. Wii is the best of my childhood.
Super Mario Galaxy 2 was my most favorite Wii game, its underrated in my opinion. Overall, the Wii console really changed the console industry with motion control.
The Wii really was, and still is, special. It's the one and only gaming system that was brought into my family's house while I was growing up. Well, that and the View Master Interactive Vision.
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One of my favorite consoles of all-time. So many great memories. Zelda: Twilight Princess at launch, Super Paper Mario not long after. All the retro and WiiWare games. For me the list of awesome experiences is long. Mario Kart Wii, Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2, No More Heroes 1-2, MadWorld, Metroid Prime 3, The Last Story, a surprisingly good remake of GoldenEye, DKC, Xenoblade, Sin & Punishment Star Successor, Monster Hunter Tri, Klonoa, Punch-Out!!, Wii Sports and Sports Resort, Wario Land Shake It, the best version of Resident Evil 4 due to motion controls and a couple very fun RE Chronicles games.
In terms of just ranking Nintendo systems, I'd have it third behind only SNES and Switch and a lot of what I love about Switch can be traced back to ideas and concepts from the Wii/DS era. It was a tremendous time to be a Nintendo fan.
Okay, that MK game-play with Peach triggered me hard xP Like, I love Koopa Cape and it was painful seeing someone going through the tunnel section so clumsily
Man! This console was my fucking childhood! 😭😭😭🏎️🦍🍌🎾🎳🥊⚾️⛳️
I wish the Virtual Console came back, that was one of my favorite features on the Wii
The wii was just full of love in every aspect... Then the Wii U felt like the Wii's depressed brother and the switch is the grown up version, all about clean, simplistic and profit oriented...
I used to play ONE MAP in wii sports (idk which version) every morning because i was trying to get better scores. I think i did this for like 1,5 months or something and it was SO fun! I also remember the mii maker and mario kart wii.
6:01 agreed, spent quite a lot on the mii channel making those (especially since some games use miis, not just that but your own created miis can also appear as cameos in some games, like Mario kart wii)
That thing had a….. magic touch
I got my Wii when I was 12 I've had other consoles PS4 Xbox 360 the works but my Wii was the best out of all of them and I still have it to this day and im 23 now I don't miss out on a chance to new games and stuff for it my friends come over to my place to crack Super Marios bros Wii smash bros even guitar hero all I can say is that the Wii has stood the test of time even if it's hard to find stuff for it was something that was a part of my childhood and I'm glad I got one still to this day thank u Nintendo and this was a great video I great walk through memory lane
I was born in 2009. When i was 3 my father gave me a nintendo wii with wii party and wii sports for christmass. And that was reason wii i have so much love for videogames nowadays. After wii party and wii sports i got mario party 8 and 9, wii sports resort, mario galaxy 1 and 2 (mario galaxy 1 is my favourite game of all time) and so much more. I still have my nintendo wii and sometimes i play something just to feel nostalgia (i finished mario galaxy 1 and super paper mario recently).
If you can 100% Mario Galaxy 2, that would be a flex.
@@Droobie03 i did it once after like 100 attempts, i'm replaying the game with that same goal
9:55 donkey Kong country tropical returns lol
Found your channel looking for a video of MK Double Dash nostalgia I had and halfway to the video I suscribe, next came to this video because I LOVE the Wii. I was still living in Puerto Rico at the time and went to its midnight launch with my 3 year old daughter ( I still have a picture I took of her next to a link standee at my local Game Stop. Some times I would just spend over an hour in the weather channel just looking at different parts of the world or watching Nintendo week or sending messages to my friends (even when we could just text or use Facebook 😂) but it was different and it was fun to us. To me it was an amazing time the Wii era.
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The Wii is one of my favourite games consoles ever and even though I was 27 when I got mine it holds some of the fondest gaming memories I have
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this is so incredibly real
The Wii became one of my fav consoles ever!!! Even to this very day. Love love the revolutionary wii! Ppl think it’s all crap games but there is a lot of great games and even hidden gems. I play the Wii more than a lot of consoles I own . That says everything
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I think I was around- (Jesus Christ I started REALLY young)
1 or 2 years old when I first started playing the Wii, yea I was an early bird but I didn’t really know what it was.
Roughly 4 years of age and I just treated it like your average console (not until when I watched this video that I realized motion controls were really new when it was released) and I was also growing up with a DS at the time too!
Around 7 years later and I became obsessed, I didn’t have one at the place I lived at (It resides with my nan) but I was pretty much watching videos of Mario Party’s 8&9, Mario Kart Wii, Wii Party and basically every good game on the console! About 3-4 years before I owned a Wii U which reintroduced the motion control thingy but with 2 different screens (Gamepad and TV/Monitor) and I enjoyed that as well even if it flopped because of how similar it felt to the console before, just with a different way to how it was tackled!
Fast forward to today and I’m revising these games, I become nostalgic looking at them! I went over some MKW videos and learned how beautifully broken it truly is (hence why it’s so loved) and I even have Mario Galaxy on my switch (It was released for the 35th anniversary for Nintendo) and even though I never played it before that I could see why it would be nostalgic!
An experiment from 2006 that changed gaming forever…
In my childhood I didn't have The Wii which I wish I had but still DSI and WiiU. WiiU is kinda similar to Wii it just had some better graphics and more games but the sad thing was that it didn't have Wii sports. I remember when I was little watching these Mario party or Mario 2d or 3d games also the Wii sports and wished I had but I didn't and I'm still sad till this day I haven't gotten the experience of these games. Although DSI was a great memory with Sonic, Transformers and some other games but I really wanted Those Mario games
this was so good i’m obsessed
I remember the wii being my first console. The funny retrospective respect of the matter is that, ironically, it is also my favorite to this day.
Loved the video!
I never had a wii but really wanted one. Instead I got a ps3 for my birthday. But I remember a friend of mine did have a wii and mario Galaxy and I beat it in a single setting in the weekend. Unhealthy? Sure. Regrets? Zero.
I remember being weirded out by the look of classic controllers like the PS4’s and the XBOX’s because i grew up on the wii and i was so used to how it worked.
I was never allowed to do online stuff as a kid but playing Wii Sports Resort and other games with my brother and sister are some of my fondest memories. These videos aren’t sad in any way but they always make me choke up a little bit. I’m a sucker for nostalgia ig. I miss that time, everything was so simple.
I have many memories from 2009 to 2015. The main reason why I don’t play Wii games lately is due to my grandfather who passed away shortly before Marty Mcfly traveled to 2015.
Kind of sad the Wii has more online features then the switch. I miss the wii news, waether and other things that the switch just does not have. In alot of ways nintendo took some steps back with the switch. Lets hope whatever they do next will make it to where i dont have to switch to another system if I want to watch netflix or check my email. Pun intended.
I love the nostalgia that anything Wii gives me. But being from Europe, my friends and me never had the online experience that most retrospectives discuss. Probably was a workaround, but too difficult for our 8 year old brains to understand
No I totally get it. I’m from America and I don’t think our Wii ever had internet, however I did have some fun siblings who were always down to play some games together whenever. Man, some great times. Love looking back on Wii and DS memories. Not to be all “boomer” but I just feel like technology has absorbed a bunch of us. I wish we could go back to a time when things were simpler.
@@clurgee4923 Same, I'm from America and I didn't know the Wii could connect to the internet at the time but I mostly played with my friends.
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The Wii was definitely a special console with great games.
Madworld and Zack and Wiki are just 2 that I can think of that I haven't seen on any other console.
The only let down was the lack of HD.
As someone who’s owned both a Wii and Xbox 360, Kinect Sports destroys Wii Sports with it having more content and some sports controlling better. Despite this, Wii Sports will always have a special place in my heart cause it was my first video game.
my sister had a wii so when i was about 3 or 4 i would watch her play wii sports or something and pretend i was one the winning mii
Mario kart wii local multiplayer was an absolute success, the wii is that one console that just really felt like one of the greatest game consoles from the 2000s other than the DS (wich also had an amazing library of games), but the wii really was superior to the GameCube
My fondest memories of the Wii was playing twilight princess for about 2 hours every Saturday when my family all went to my sister's soccer games (I couldn't play it any other time cuz my brother was too young and it was too violent for him)
Wonderful video!!!!
I grew up with wii its good
This is either another video similar to what I watched not too long ago or this is the same video but not in my history.
13:27 mario reek's luigi
Dope vid but god damn having BOTW and Twilight Princess at #1 and #2 Zelda is a hot take 😂
Unpopular opinion: BOTW is overrated. TP is underrated
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Why did you say Donkey Kong Country Tropical Returns
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did he really say twilight princess is better than ocarina of time lmao
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1:32 Elon Musk?
Ah yes a time when Nintendo actually made good decisions like seriously why do I have pay for a $50 subscription just to play n64 games on switch. This is why I prefer the wii over the switch.
You don’t have to pay 50 for the Switch Online. It’s optional unless you want to buy it. Also I prefer the Wii aswell.
still makes me mad that nintendo went from this interface to the nintendo switch one, thats gotta be one of the biggest downgrades ever.
they somehow made the miis look worse, like what the hell?
Miis are in Switch sports, plus the new guys in the game did not replace Miis.
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