Nintendo Wii Preview
It’s already been an entire year since the launch of the Nintendo Wii system. But still the popularity of the product has managed to maintain a buzz all around it. The incredible thing about the Wii is not only the hype it still enjoys but also the undeniable success it’s achieved so far. Although, the Xbox 360 was released a year before the Wii, yet the Nintendo product has officially passed its sales this year.
Though the console started with huge sales but there’s still a debate as to whether it’s fully lived up to its expectations. So, throughout this article the positive and negative aspects of the Nintendo Wii shall be assessed to scoop out an opinion for the product.
The positive aspects that made the Nintendo Wii renowned were its revolutionary peripherals, an incredible compact size, fit enough to hold in a pocket and a beautiful architectural structure. By the time the Nintendo Wii was launched there was already a fan group eagerly waiting to grab a Wii system.
In spite of all the hype and fanfare, the Nintendo Wii subsequently disappointed a lot of its users mostly by the lack of good, stable third party support. Even though Nintendo released console after console yet it lacked a proper channel of developers ready to create games for it.
It did provide some astounding games like Mario, Zelda, and Metriod but still it lacked variety and a wide genre of games. This made the console seem pretty useless making experience of gaming with Nintendo Wii not that exciting and fan-fare after a while.
Nintendo Wii did provide its users with host of add on functionalities like getting access to news, internet and even the voting channel but the real let down was the non existence of DVD compatibility. It was a huge let down for the Wii as its user could do many things but not watch movies.
But again, the Nintendo Wii came up with lots of innovative features in the form of backward compatibility, SD card support, downloadable feature, and WiiWare. Were these really new? Well backward compatibility had been there since console sequels began, SD card to save games was just like any other memory card or hard drive and downloadable content is not really something revolutionary.
The other major setback for the Nintendo Wii was its inability to provide a low, decent graphics, much to the disappointment of hard core gamers. Moreover absence of built-in wireless adapter and limited built-in storage function retarded its much created hype.
The Nintendo Wii falls short of meeting the expectations of hardcore gamers probably better suited for families and friends. Final verdict, it’s good but not great.
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