The heading of this post has been murmured by Infendo forum members and Wii fanboys countless times, I’m sure, but today it was given some additional clout by Hirokazu Hamamura, the editor-in-chief of Japanese video game supermag Famitsu.
“Wii definitely could become the most popular console of all time. Non-gamers can see how fun it is just by looking at people playing it, and that’s very different from the PS3 or Xbox 360.”
True, and they can see that the wallets of said Wii gamers will still be relatively full as well. But seriously folks… I have to admit, my immense personal bias towards the Wii aside, I can feel ya barkin’ Hamamura-san. When I watched the 100 or so videos that popped up over the last week of the New York Wii event depicting people swinging their arms, jabbing into the air and smiling, it looked like a heck of a lot of fun. It also looked like something I had never seen before with gaming, and that’s a good thing.
And that is exactly what makes Wii potentially the best ever.We'll see though. At this point, the Wii is definitely the coolest thing Nintendo has done since the original NES, and thats saying alot.
Well, it isn't for me, unfortunately. 🙁 At least not with that launch list. I have been closely following the Wii for the last year or so (before it even was named Wii), and was very excited.However, if I have to buy that pack-in sports title I don't want (I don't enjoy sports games) and I can't even buy a Mario title at launch…I think I'm going to stick with my DS until at least next year. Virtual Console isn't enough to get me – I already have all those games anyway and think $5 or $10 is actually pretty expensive for games that anyone can download for free of the Internet (especially those tiny NES games).I think the Wii will be a nice system, and outsell the others, but they really could have hit a home run if they had a Mario title at launch. Guess they didn't learn their lesson with the GameCube launch – Nintendo means Mario to the average consumer. The list of launch games will satisfy many, but not nearly as many as it could have with Mario or Super Smash Bros.A.
I think it's going to be at least as big as the Famicom was in Japan. How that translates to the rest of the world will yet be seen, but I expect it to do better than the N64 or SNES.
"if I have to buy that pack-in sports title I don't want (I don't enjoy sports games)"I don't these are the same sport games you been playing…Remember this Wii is still the Revolution to many… a better name for core gamers…
Normally I would say a sports game is a sports game. But I hate sports and driving games but absolutely love Mario Kart.
I know this site is all about Nintendo but much more biased can it get?Next you'll be saying the Wii cures cancer and is the new savior of the world.
@Anonymous aboveWrong. The PS3 cures cancer, haven't you heard about folding@home? 😛
Ya. For example I was at a friend of mines party and someone brought virtual Ping Pong. And there were girls there that were 6, 7, 8, ages like that. And normally when they see people playing video games they would be like "stupid boys and thier video games" but this was different because it looked fun to play and they wanted to try it!