What is the Wii's greatest weakness?

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#1 mstc_Q
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This isn't a topic about whether the Wii is good or bad.

Every console has its weaknesses. What is the Wii's greatest weakness? Why?

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#2 osan0
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game library. more accurately 3rd party support. im not syaing the wii has no games (ive bought more wii games than PS3 and 360 games in 08...including a few 3rd party games like deblob and okami).....but it needs work. more 3rd party devs need to step up their game on the platform. were goping into year 3 of the wii now so im expecting alot better from ninty and 3rd parties this year. we know it can deliver excellence (a GOTY in a very tough year along with many quality titles accumalated since launch) so its now a case of making it consistently deliver excellence. theres nothign fundimentally wrong with the system thats holding devs back..they just need too put more effort in.
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#3 Gaming_Guru_Guy
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All the above plus a bunch of other stuff.
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#4 hakanakumono
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Innacurate motion controls. Maybe if it had better ones game developers would have used it's motion control as a tool rather than a gimmick.
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#5 Rahnyc4
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[QUOTE="osan0"]game library. more accurately 3rd party support. im not syaing the wii has no games (ive bought more wii games than PS3 and 360 games in 08...including a few 3rd party games like deblob and okami).....but it needs work. more 3rd party devs need to step up their game on the platform. were goping into year 3 of the wii now so im expecting alot better from ninty and 3rd parties this year. we know it can deliver excellence (a GOTY in a very tough year along with many quality titles accumalated since launch) so its now a case of making it consistently deliver excellence. theres nothign fundimentally wrong with the system thats holding devs back..they just need too put more effort in.

the work and improvment is coming.
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#6 Rahnyc4
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Innacurate motion controls. Maybe if it had better ones game developers would have used it's motion control as a tool rather than a gimmick. hakanakumono
innumerate motion controls come down to the developers, rather than the tech. yeah the wii control isnt 100% accurate, but theres a lot of games that are accurate, with time spent by developers. with that being said, the wiimotion plus will improve it even more, for the lazier developers who dont wanna dedicate a lot of time.
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#7 Rahnyc4
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oh yeah. i say harddrive. the wiiware service is getting better and better, but the lack of space on the wii is actually preventing it from truly shinning.
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#8 Parasomniac
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Its game library and graphics. I would assume that if it had better graphics up to the level of PS3 and 360 it would get more multiplat games such as Fallout 3.
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[QUOTE="hakanakumono"]Innacurate motion controls. Maybe if it had better ones game developers would have used it's motion control as a tool rather than a gimmick. Rahnyc4
innumerate motion controls come down to the developers, rather than the tech. yeah the wii control isnt 100% accurate, but theres a lot of games that are accurate, with time spent by developers. with that being said, the wiimotion plus will improve it even more, for the lazier developers who dont wanna dedicate a lot of time.

Well, actually, I've heard its not so much accuracy as much as developers don't know what to do with the data the wii controls provide them with. It's difficult to know what the wiimote is doing, hence ... waggle. This is what I heard from the developer who owns this website:

www.dreamdawn.com/sh/

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#10 -Jiggles-
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Itself.
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#11 SpinoRaptor24
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Those weaknesses don't seem to really affect the Wii at all.
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#12 freek666
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A constant flow of good Third Party games, not just one every couple of months

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#13 TheGrat1
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I went with 480p garaphics representing its overall weak hardware. It could have a better games library if it was more powerful. The gamecube was getting top tier graphical games last gen like RE4. Why isnt wii getting RE5? Maybe because devs dont want to have to downgrade their games just so wii can run the title screen.
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its name that turned it in to a joke for teenagers that are so open to [ended now to avoid hurting others feelings]
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#15 chocolate1325
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Games libarary and no downloadable content for multiplayer games.
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Its named after a body fluid.
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#17 D3dr0_0
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I could care less about the Wii's graphics aslong as it dosn't burn my eyes but, its weakness comes from its games other than 1st party games like Mario.
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#18 nintendo-4life
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graphics. Just think about it... just for a bit and it will hit you. graphics hurt the Wii most.
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#19 HarlockJC
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I could care less about the graphics....The no hard drive is the biggest factor IMO
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#20 nintendo-4life
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I could care less about the graphics....The no hard drive is the biggest factor IMOHarlockJC
you don't, but 3rd parties do. That's the main reason why it's losing all the 3rd party support to it's competitors except when PS2 is on the list :|
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#21 PoppaGamer
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For me, library, library, and library. There just isn't enough to satisfy me as an adult, male gamer. Yes, there are some shining moments placed here and there over the past two years but that is it. And to top it off, it doesn't give me the HD images to keep HD-head like me happy.
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[QUOTE="PoppaGamer"]For me, library, library, and library. There just isn't enough to satisfy me as an adult, male gamer. Yes, there are some shining moments placed here and there over the past two years but that is it. And to top it off, it doesn't give me the HD images to keep HD-head like me happy.

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#23 Nintendo_Ownes7
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oh yeah. i say harddrive. the wiiware service is getting better and better, but the lack of space on the wii is actually preventing it from truly shinning. Rahnyc4
I agree I have no problem with everything else but the Harddrive because if it had a bigger harddrive you could get as many games as you want from Wii Shop Channel without deleting channels.
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#24 blahzor
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Developers haven't taken it seriously.*

It doesnt' need better graphics. THe DS is by far the weakest system this generation, yet it ranks among the best. It's library of good games is almost entirely exclusive. THat should be the case with the wii. It shouldn't be recieving much in the way of multiplats(or at least multiplats that try to be the same as the other consoles games.. it can be different like Shaun White), but rather new concepts from bright, creative developers.

*of course with better graphics.. developers might have taken it a little more seriously. But, i'm sure one coudl argue that with better graphics comes a higher selling price, and a more intimidating machine for the masses. And it could be the gamecube all over again.

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#25 Ragnarok1051
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Pretty much everything you said, but the game library is really bad.
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#26 SOedipus
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All of the above but I believe the poll speaks for itself.
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#27 Nicky_Don
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90% of the Wii's games are shovel ware (crap) I own all three current gen consoles and the Wii has not been played for about 6 months as the lack of real solid games on it is shameful. It does get used for Wii fit, but that's hardly a game. Nintendo do not deserve 1st place with this thing, so they made a original controlller and think that's all they have to do, after that they got lazy and give the core fans 2 games a year, and most of those are lazy sequels, Mario Kart Wii and Animal Crossing come to mind. I used to be one of Nintendo's biggest fans, now they are almost dead to me, lets see if they can release anything in 2009 that is worth buying.
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[QUOTE="PoppaGamer"]For me, library, library, and library. There just isn't enough to satisfy me as an adult, male gamer. Yes, there are some shining moments placed here and there over the past two years but that is it. And to top it off, it doesn't give me the HD images to keep HD-head like me happy.nintendo-4life
MALE gamer? YOU'RE A SEXIST :o :P

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Game library, its not going to stop selling for this reason because the traditional gamer (the ones still playing PC's and xboxes and playstations) only get 1 or 2 games a year that might interest them, other than that its the same mini game madness fun at first but gets boring very quickly. I cannot take the Wii seriously until it gets a game that makes me spend the same amount of time I've invested in the elder scrolls IV oblivion.
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#30 Head_of_games
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Game library for the simple reason that the majority of the Wiis third-party developers are morons. And why the heck did you put that last option in? I consider lack of multimedia functions a good thing because you can just buy a gaming device and not have to pay for another dvd player, music player, etc.
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#31 St_muscat
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Game library because the Wii can't just live off Nintendo exclusives like it did with 07 because by the times 08 rolls around they have nothing left. So in order to have to a system which not only has good games, but also pumps them out on a consistent basis they need good 3rd party support, which they don't have. They need more than just a good/great/ sometimes fantasic (Zach and Wiki and No More Heroes) 3rd game every month or so they need like 3 or 4 at least. At least 09 looks good for both 1st and 3rd party on Wii but as it stands 3rd party is what is letting it down.
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Online Play. Thats it.
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#33 DealRogers
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It needs at least 10 great games that do not have Mario on them. And not good games, great ones.
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#34 acsguitar
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Graphics can at least salvage a crappy game
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Their gaming library is the worst right now in my opinion, not much to just from like their other two competitors library. Another thing that I like to note is their motion controller hasn't work out like it should with first person shooters and on most cases ruin the experience for most of the game that I have played.
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i don't care about the lack of multimedia functions, and i think the game library's decent. I haven't downloaded any games so the hard drive doesn't bother me either. When used properly the wii controls are decent too. The thing that has bothered me most is the thing that i thought would bother me least. It's not so much the graphics, as i still love the ps2, and i still think some games look pretty awesome, but it's the fact that it looks absolutely balls on my 42" hd tv. I would be fine with it if i still had a crt, but now i have no choice it's either 42" or the 14" i use for playing my ps2 in bed. It's not a deal breaker i play it, but it's balls looking. It would of been nice to have some hd support. every dvd player coming out has upscaling, but nintendo obviously deemed it unneccessary.
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#37 mstc_Q
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I personally think the Wii's greatest weakness is the lack of a Hardrive. Hopefully the solution for that wont be too expensive.
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#38 kemar7856
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game libary and graphics they just release cheap 3rd party games that suck
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#39 swazidoughman
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Crappy Devs making crappy games on weak hardware.
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#40 iam2green
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library and graphics. i voted for graphics, they look like a mixture of gamecube and next gen graphics.
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#41 Gh0st_Of_0nyx
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Friend code's and the embarrassing amount of shovelware that's apart of its library. And the fact that devs like EA dont take it serious enough to cater to a more hardcore crowd.
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#42 TAKE_IT_BACK
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Probably the online system.
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People saying the game library probably don't own a Wii. There are more than enough high quality games to keep any gamer busy. Saying that the Wii's game library is weak is like calling the PS2s game library weak based off the slew of shovelware. Lack of a HDD though, it just kills me. I have like over a gig of downloaded content and guess what, ONLY 512 meg of SPACE
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#44 BuryMe
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Its lack of good support, and the fact that it's missing a hard drive.
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#45 _Pinbot_
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All of the above plus the worst on-line system I have ever seen.
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#46 nintendofreak_2
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It's library is lacking. Consoles don't need anything else listed to be good (although hardware certainly does help), especially the last one which has basically nothing to do with gaming.
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#47 Sonick54
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all of the above mentioned in the poll :?
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#48 nintendofreak_2
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Graphics can at least salvage a crappy gameacsguitar
Just like Lair.
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#49 Blackbond
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  • Multiplats
  • Online
  • Limited Hardware
  • Lack of large storage device standard
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#50 Sonick54
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People saying the game library probably don't own a Wii. There are more than enough high quality games to keep any gamer busy. Saying that the Wii's game library is weak is like calling the PS2s game library weak based off the slew of shovelware. Lack of a HDD though, it just kills me. I have like over a gig of downloaded content and guess what, ONLY 512 meg of SPACERABicle
If we go by gamespot and gamerankings, wii has factually (review wise) the weakest lineup of the 3 :|

unlike the ps2, wii doesn't have the unbandance of AA and AAA games to outweigh the shovelware.

I own a wii and even i know this year was pretty slim pickings in terms of quality games