Was the Wii really that revolutionary?

Was the Wii really that revolutionary?

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but it did catch on you can hold switch joycons one in each hand

and oculus rift/VR controllers, dobson won

Popularized gyro and motion controls(for a while)

Only for normies

Isnt the point of a fad that it does catch on, just does so temporarily

So is Dobson gone for good? I heard he deleted his privated instagram which was basically his last account left.

Was peak dobson the faux anime era, the faux newspaper comic era or the webcomic era.

I don't get it
The wheel was a bad idea and we're starting to go back to square tires here in the US
The earth isn't round
Motion control was a fad that was ditched quickly

The switch could sell twice as much as the Wii but it will never be a social phenomenon

It sold very well and influenced Nintendo's later console deigns as well as things like Kinect or Sony's Move, but ultimately motion control fell out of favor for the less clunky and more consistent controller. It did not end up being a technology that helped found civilization or a scientific fact as Dobson is presenting it here, but perhaps if VR does become mainstream, it motion control will get some more popularity. Though by that point, the link between it and the Wii will be very thin.

Yes. Xbox and PS are dying

It was the first really mass marketable motion control gaming peripheral. It worked well, and didn't cost a fortune. It really did raise the bar.

inb4 waggleshit
inb4 nint0ddler

As someone who was 3 when the Wii came out, what was it like? Almost all my friends own Switches but that's because we're all in Smash Bros leagues.

Basically Nintendo was always delivering consistently quality products up to that point, so they released marketing that looked like this and everyone fell for it and the motion controls ended up being a giant fucking gimmick

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Thats not to say the Wii didnt have good games but Nintendo broke a lot of hardcore gamers trusts who moved onto PC/Xbox/PS

It was cool, but the selection felt limited and well, gimmicky.

why would a "hardcore gamer" own a nintendo system

>Dobson
I refuse to read this.

How much of wii tech transferred over into VR controllers?

You have to be 18 to post here.

the wii invented bluray

>was 3 when the Wii came out,
no wonder this board has gone to shit

I'm 19...

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Historically Nintendo games were harder than Playstation and Xbox ones

Harder than Elden Ring? I doubt it.

hardcore gamers loved goldeneye and ocarina

I'm 30, I was 14 when the wii came out. That guy is 19. We're getting old.

Pretty frustrating honestly. There's so many good Wii games nobody knows about because Nintendo never advertised them and just kept bragging about Wii sales. Nintendo also didn't localize a lot of Japanese games which is why Operation Rainfall exists. Crazy to think we almost didn't get Xenoblade Chronicles in the west and now it's this super popular series included in Smash Bros.

Old people thought it was the most amazing thing and thought you would become a Herculean beast by playing Wii Sports tennis
Virtual Console seemed like an amazing thing with boundless potential, access to the libraries of NES, SNES, N64, *and* Sega *and* NEC *and* Neo-Geo *and* arcade *and* home computer games? In fact, I'm pretty sure the Wii's VC is the most robust such marketplace ever created?
Motion control seemed like the future, companies hadn't started churning out waggle trash for a while
The thing was loaded with tech that seemed amazing - it could connect to your DS to bring your Pokemon to Battle Revolution, you could send messages or even emails from the bulletin board, you could get news and weather and engage with a ton of fun shit like the voting channel

The Wii seemed like it really would be a 'Revolution' for video games. In actuality, it didn't live up at all to what it could have been.

neither of those are hard

Oh dude I would almost bet money most people who played Elden Ring would get their asses whooped by Ninja Gaiden, Castlevania and the other old NES games

Actually just even the bats in Castlevania would filter most of them

That’s not even considering Ghosts and Goblins

I beat all of them with save states. Not very challenging for a gamer of my caliber.

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Weak bait but I know the retard you are replying to will fall for it.

Did motion controls catch on? I know Joy-cons can do stuff but I hardly ever use them or gyro aiming

>save states
>I beat them

probably

everything on this website is bait, without replying to bait its just words and numbers

Gamecube but with motion controls.

Nice try, boom boom. We all know you had a Nintendo Power subscription and always played Contra with the Konami code. Now drink your prune juice.

>Hardcore gamers not sticking with Nintendo after Sega showed there's a market for them
>Hardcore gamers not sticking with Nintendo after the N64 era
>Hardcore gamers not sticking with Nintendo after rockstar games weren't on GameCube
>Hardcore gamers not sticking with Nintendo after the Wii because of marketing to casuals
Pick one because you nintrannies keep changing the story

It was…weird. It often felt like the real battle was between Xbox and PlayStation while the Wii catered itself to old folks.

I still have never been able to beat Dracula at the end of the first Castlevania. That game is actually difficult

gyro aiming is the only form of motion control that survived to the modern day. it actually INCREASES the precision of your aim. seriously, play Splatoon with this and when you get used to it there is no going back. the small, microscopic movements you can make is a serious upgrade from the analog stick
the wagglin bullshit some Wii games tried to force did little more than reduce precision and responsiveness for functions that would better suit a button press, like Mario Galaxy making you shake the remote to do a spin

>ocarina
>game that casualized the series and gave it its mainstream appeal
>'hardcore"

Nintendo not competing in the 7th generation of consoles was cope made by Xbox and Sony fan boys as a way to down play Nintendo's landslide victory

>nintendo power subscription
no I wasnt spoiled

ALL OF THE DAY BRO

Even with a guide telling them exactly where everything is (understandable with some of the cryptic bullshit), they would really struggle with pic related.

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Wii controls are literally just m+kb you can use while standing up

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what game is that

Was it Dobson who cost his brother a high-paying job due to his internet antics and was promptly forced to leave the internet by his parents, or was that another webcomic autist?

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No, that was Dobson.

The N64 sold less than the snes, the GC sold less than the N64. The Wii was explicitly targetted at casual gamers and sold a gorillion units. The hardcore gaming crowd did abandon nintendo. The narrative never changed.

kind of

it certainly paved the way for the joyjons and VR controllers, i remember people were making HMD's with repurposed wii hardware a decade ago

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There were still 24 million hardcore gamers left (or however much the gamecube sold) and nintendo treated them like they were 2.4 whole people for an entire decade.

remember when he actually went to /ic/ and then made a dark knight rises comic with his new art

and they got games like metroid prime 3, red steel, xenoblade chronicles, TvC, MuraMasa Demon Blade, No More Heroes, Sin & Punishment, House of the Dead Overkill

it's not like they entirely abandoned them, but notably a lot of these games were complete flops

Yeah no one I know uses the joycons or motion controls anymore, not even the girls I know. The switch sold on its good library, not its shitty hardware and gimmicks, like it should be.

>Hardcore gamers
lol do those even exist anymore?

right here

I miss the Wii era of Nintendo fanboys. They were fucking insane and hilarious. Now they're a less entertaining kind of pathetic.