What do you feel is the Wii most successful genres?

There are a lot of games out on the the wii right now, and many of them are in different genres. In terms of sales, critical success, quality (this depends on your own opinion, obviously) which genre do you think is the best, and what is the best game in the genre that you think did best.

You don't have to use all of the criteria (you can choose based on critical success and your opinion and exclude sales for example, you can do any one (or two) or these combinations) but whatever game and genre you choose, please give reasons why you feel that way.

Party games is the correct answer

There's nothing to feel, party games play the best out of all other genres on the Wii and the perform the best as well

Platformers.Fightingfan

^It's a two-fold answer, and that's the first fold. The Wii has been nothing short of a goldmine to one of gaming's long running and most approachable genres. The system has had retro revivial of the majority of the genre's major players, and it has managed to make both 2D and 3D platfomers reach new levels. The commercial success of these games haven't been shabby, either.

The second fold really doesn't revolve around a singular genre at all, though (which kinda makes me wonder why I'm adding this, but I think it's worth noticing). The Wii has played a major part in simplicity in gaming become relevant and appealing again, and that's what has helped the likes of the platformer genre on the system. It may seem strange to credit games like Wii Sports and Wii Play in a topic like this, but without those games, I don't think many developers would have been comfortable in trying to make games more accessible and catered towards less experienced gamers. As a result, I don't think games like New Super Mario Bros. Wii and Kirby's Epic Yarn, just to name a couple, would have had the same impact on the Wii had it followed the more conventional path of increased complexity and challenge that comes with each new gen.

So yeah... there's my response. :)

Platformers.Fightingfan

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whats with your jailbait avatar? are you a pervert? or is that you 0.0?

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whats with your jailbait avatar? are you a pervert? or is that you 0.0?

wow...she can pass for 14 years old!

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whats with your jailbait avatar? are you a pervert? or is that you 0.0?

What? I... I don't even... Omgzz How can you tell?! Is it because of the tiny tiny image or is it how the picture doesn't even properly show even her upper body or even her whole face? Or is it because her boobs that won't show very clearly from that angle aren't completely covering the screen a la E-cup? Oh now I get it, it's the braids of course, only little girls can have braids!

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Also to stay on topic: I'mma go with the Adventurers!

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whats with your jailbait avatar? are you a pervert? or is that you 0.0?

What? I... I don't even... Omgzz How can you tell?! Is it because of the tiny tiny image or is it how the picture doesn't even properly show even her upper body or even her whole face? Or is it because her boobs that won't show very clearly from that angle aren't completely covering the screen a la E-cup? Oh now I get it, it's the braids of course, only little girls can have braids!

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look at her face...its a little girl face ...like she hasnt matured yet. her breasts are pretty big but many 14 year old have big breasts.

and yes the braids add to the little girl effect.

Party games, hands down.

As a hardcore platforming junkie the Wii has been one of my favorite console of all time so obviously I am going to go with platformers. With the advent of the Wiimote I would also like to add that the FPS genre has become much more accessible to people like me who cannot move and aim at the same time with dual analog but have a much easier go of it with the Wiimote and nunchuck combination.

I would say 2D platformers. They lessen the handicap of weak hardware by providing a fixed camera angle so the devs can work on detailed visuals, and the controllers work well for the genre. Not to mention the 2d platformer IP's :)

If the only criteria for being a party game is an emphasis on multiplayer, then just about every single modern shooter and literally every MMO ever created are party games.meetroid8

[QUOTE="meetroid8"]If the only criteria for being a party game is an emphasis on multiplayer, then just about every single modern shooter and literally every MMO ever created are party games.nintendofreak_2

So shooters with local co op ( ie most shooters) are party games then?meetroid8

I picked other. I really like golf games and the Wii was great for those. I bought all the Tiger Woods from '07 to '12 and they got better every year. Super Swing Golf and its follow up were lots of fun. Of course the Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort were a lot of fun as well. The only one I didn't play was We Love Golf.

A plethora of best-selling platformers indicate it as the most successful genre. Second to that, the 'party' games (they might have different genres, but they're usually at their peak of fun when played casually with friends): Mario Party, Warioware, Mario Kart, SSBB, etc. Personally, I prefer Nintendo's first-party action-adventure games, which are crafted with excellency: kudos to Zelda and Metroid specifically.

Definitely platformers. Even the Mario platformers themselves make this the most successful genre.

Platformers.