If I were to rank the Nintendo systems from highest to lowest it would be
SNES
NES
N64
GC
Wii
Since a lot of people keep saying you can't compare the Wii to GC since it hasn't had a full cycle. I will compare the first 2 years or so.
GC launched It had Rogue Squadron 2, Wave Race, Pikmin, Luigi's Mansion for a sort of mario game. It had Tony Hawk 3, when this game still mattered. Monke Ball was a neat game as well. Just after that came Smash Bros.
In the beginning of 02 you saw a dreamcast port of Sonic Adventure 2, That year was filled with cool titles like Animal Crossing, Mario Sunshine, Eternal Darkness, Star Fox Adventures, and Monkey Ball 2. Yes I said SF Adventures, it might not have been the game we all wanted, but at least they brought him out there. It wasn't really that bad, just a bit too Donkey Kong like. Metroid Prime hit the scene and rocked. They tried to bring Mega Man Battle Network over to the GC, but it did not work out. Timesplitters 2 was one of the best 3rd pary developed game for it's time. (Free Radical needs to get their act together after the Haze fiasco).
In 03 an actual new Zelda came out and they didn't just port over an N64 one but eventually did that with a special addtion pack later on in the cubes life cycle. Soul Caliber 2 came out and Link was the preferred exclusive character to Heihachi and Spawn. F-zero GX comes blasting out with keeping the fast futuristic racing with stunning visuals. Mario Golf swings into action as well as Mario Kart Double Dash. Prince of Persia was a cool 3rd party game to have on the system as well.
Some other cool games at those times were SSX and Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance.
Now lets look at the Wii
At launch we had Zelda which was a GC port, Monkey Ball and Rayman Rabbids. That was kind of it. Then you had Warioware, a Sonic game which was rather mixed. Then you had Super Paper Mario, and last gen ports like MK Armageddon, Prince of Persia the Two Towers with a different name, Resident Evil 4 and Guilty Gear XX Accent Core. Next you had Mario Strikers, Metroid Prime 3, Zack and Wiki, Mario Galaxy, and Fire Emblem. Battalion Wars 2 also hit the 07 camp too. In 08 We had No More Heroes, which is also mixed, Smash Bros Brawl, and Mario Kart Wii. We still have the PS2 ports like Bully and Okami. What do we have to look forward to for fall of 08?. Warioland, De Blob, Tales of Symphonia. Yes you can buy Star Wars the Force Unleashed and Call of Duty World at War on the Wii, but you can do so on the other systems as well. Deadly Creatures looks like it might slip into 09. We still don't have a word on Star Fox, F-zero, Pikmin, (other than that they are making it). Yes we do have Animal Crossing but it isn't that much of a step up from the DS or GC games. Castlevania seems like it could be rather crappy. Pilotwings was dropped from GC and never thought of again. Wave Race also remains absent. 85% of the games on Wii are more for casual players and such. the 15% that is geared toward the core gaming croud is either a port of a last gen game with tacked on Wii controls or the controls are just bad. The Wii will not be getting RE5, Prince of Persia or a proper Soul Caliber game. Timesplitters 4 also seems to be out of the question. All in all the Wii's primary focus is trying to get your 40 year old uncle bill and your 70 year old grandma prudence to play video games and has ignored the people who made Nintendo rich in the first place. Yeah sure we will get an occasional core title that everyone buys up and says I love Nintendo again, but let's be honest, Everyone thought Nintendo would go the extra mile and put out a lot more core titles with motion controls that really showed off why it is the new way and the more fun way to do things.
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