Ok, so I bought into the Wii when it launched, I stood outside Gamestation alone in Manchester at Midnight at launch talking about how awesome the controls looked with complete strangers (I was more excited for Twilight Princess than Wii Sports like half the queue to be honest). My experience of Wii has been mixed, coming from being loyal to Nintendo during their "troubles" i.e. Gamecube and Nintendo 64 being trashed by the competition (I still believe Pokemon saved Nintendo from going the way of Sega) the Wii continues to surprise me. Its easy to complain about what it doesn't do, or that most games look worse than Gamecube titles but my being able to smell a bad game at 100 ft has saved me from the tons of bad/ broken Wii titles. So back to the point of this post.
The last Wii game that grabbed me was Super Mario Galaxy because it was FUN! Yesterday I went back to the system and even tho its clearly far from superior to the competition (xbox 360 with its 3 core blah blah and the Playstation 3 and the cell, P.S. I own them both so I feel i can make a non fanboy analysis of Wii). Super Mario Galaxy just works and its still the one game I can't imagine using any other control interface, its almost a perfect example of how to make a Wii game that is a Gamecube game with waggle or worse.
My friends think I hate Wii, sure I moan occasionally about what I doesn't do, forgetting what it gets right. Thinking about the system over the past week Its clear I think it has a place under my television because it offers something the other systems just can't. Sure some games like Dead Rising have no place on a Wii but some like Galaxy deserve to be in any gamers collection next to "hardcore" games like Fallout 3 and Killzone 2.
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