Comment by chimeracoder | Hacker News Reader

Comment by chimeracoder | Hacker News Reader

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This seems to be a theme with Nintendo, and it's rather unfortunate. When I first got the Wii, I was blown away by the console itself, but I was rather underwhelmed with most of the games available (Super Mario Galaxy was the only one at the time that both used the Wiimote extensively and was fun to play).

Nintendo has a pattern of overdelivering with the consoles, and then underdelivering with the games available for said console (at least at first).

EDIT: I should add that this is a relatively recent pattern; the N64 and the Game Boy Color are definitely stronger as platforms (with all their available games) than as consoles. Somewhere between the Game Boy Advance -> 3DS (which has terrible game availability for an awesome console) and the GameCube -> Wii, the pattern reversed itself.

The N64 has a fantastic library of games (and had very good launch titles) and a mediocre console.

There were 2 US launch titles for N64. Admittedly, they were very good games - Super Mario 64 and PilotWings64.

The European launch (5? 6 months later) had those two, plus Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire.

N64 was the opposite. Great console (hardware texture filtering was amazing compared to what the PS1 was offering), but serious lack of software.

I bought exactly zero non-first-party games for my Wii. (My collection includes LoZ:TP, Brawl, SMG 1+2, and Super Paper Mario. That's it.)

You should pick up Skyward Sword, ASAP!

That ship has sailed, unfortunately. Plus I didn't want to pay $20 for the mandatory Wii Motion+ just to use it for one game.

Yeah that's what's stopping me from playing SS as well. I have an older Wii-mote without the Wii Motion+ so I need to buy that in addition to the first party game that will never see a price drop.

You should look for older games where the dongle was included gratis, like Red Steel 2 or Tiger Woods 10. Worked for me!

Also, the ping pong game (and 100 pin bowling) in Wii Sports Resort is probably worth the money for the whole disc, which is another way to get the dongle.

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