The Wii: Underpowered Yet Underrated – Scott The Woz

I absolutely loved the photo channel, I know all of the slideshow songs by heart.

Am I the only one who never knew the wii was 100% backwards compatible with the gamecube?

9:58 3 years later and still nope. doesn’t look like that’s gonna happen

My man threw a wiimote at a tv and it broke instead of the tv

well scott… you were right about skyward swordz we're even getting it o switch lmao

This console defeated both the Xbox360 and the pS3, let that sink in.

Wii was something I grew to appreciate over the years.
It was always very games first centred where as the PS3 and 360 ended up getting their fair share of movie games.

Scott: Underpowered Yet Underrated.

Wii: HAHAHA, 101 million units!

If you thought Mario all stars was lazy and overpriced, oh boy do I have a collection for you

“skyward sword will be considered the best zelda game in a few years” didnt age well lmao

"Underpowered" for what, exactly?

Man i really took for granted how good those days were. Memories flooding back of the good stuff that happened in that era.

Hey, scott u played the wii in wide screen or the normal?

"But watch in 5 years people will consider it the best Zelda game." So close to a perfect prediction.

her: do you have protection?

me: of course Puts The Wii Remote Jacket

The GameCube was underrated also. I will never for get the gameboy pocket commercials to 4th Gen to 7 th gen. 8 gen was missing that

But there's always…

Scott sees it as a disappointment,
I and so many others see it as one of the greatest games of all time.

I loved metroid other m, the first game that i bought with my own money 😀

Mii maker músic

Well no wonder mario tennis and mario golf never showed up on the wii, they were busy developing those to be on the switch

Word of Advice: Don't come to the Wii if you want competitive games. All there is Mario Kart Wii and that is now run by fans.

Who said the wii was bad who wasn't a PC/Xbox/Playstation fanboy?

9:46 didn't age well

Can u do a vid on emulators

The Wii honestly has 90% shovelware and has 10% Amazing Mario games! Mario Galaxy cough cough

Melee is better

The crt tv was like PATHETIC

I use my Wii for GameCube games

I grew up on the wii

I love the Wii and not only tolerate the Remote and Nunchuck, I love them so much. Not to mention that Wii Remote held sideways was even better than an Nes controller. I loved the controller setup so much that I play with the Joycons in each hand in the wrist straps to mimic Wii

Ah. The Wii. The definition of how to misuse motion controls. Aside from like 2 games.

“Skyward sword might not be the most beloved Zelda game but watch in 5 years, people will consider it the best Zelda game”. It’s only been 3 but looks like that statement is partly true. It just got remastered for the switch and people are going nuts for it. This aged well.

I had my headphones way too loud for that intro, my lord

I bought a wii thinking that I was going to play Wii sports resort and ended up finding its a jem and you can play game cube game's on It my heaven

Bought Wii in 2020… it's impossible to find games for it in the country where Nintendo isn't (and never was) officially presented and Shop Channel is dead. Smart me!

What you said about Brawl is why it's so damned frustrating for me. It had all of these truly exciting new characters and stages yet its so bad in its core gameplay that I didn't want to play it. It was like "oh shit here's Sonic and here's Snake this is awesome!" and then I play the game and want to go back to Melee. Fortunately Smash Wii U and Smash ultimate fixed those problems, but at the time the game was just infuriating. It teased me but never fulfilled.

The biggest disappointed for me when it comes to the Wii is the promise/potential of motion controls vs. what they actually became. Part of this I blame Nintendo for and part of it I blame developers for. What is called "Wii motion plus" SHOULD have been the pack in Wii Mote from the beginning. If developers had access to that type of motion control from the beginning than we may have seen some truly immersive and innovate uses of motion controls. But even without motion plus, developers (including Nintendo) where unimaginative and lazy. All of the waggling crap was completely unnecessary and not at all immersive (except for in Mario Galaxy where it felt natural for some reason). But my biggest issue with developers was how terrible they were at implementing IR aiming for 1st person shooters. The moment I heard about the Wii I thought "this is going to be the best console ever for 1st person shooters". Yes somehow, during the height of first person shooter popularity, the one console that was lacking in FPS's was the Wii. This made and makes no sense whatsoever to me. The fact that gamers would rather play FPS's with old ass, clunky dual analogue controls simply because those systems are more graphically impressive (and in HD) blows me away. Or maybe it's because people are afraid of change. I hate dual analogue controllers for shooting. IR and gyro aiming just feel so right when playing a shooter.

The Wii was originally codenamed "Revolution" and it had the chance to truly revolutionize gaming, but it mostly failed in that regard. Nintendo didn't make the motion controls what they should have been from the beginning, they didn't lead the way enough as far as innovation in their software, the rest of the developers were even more lazy and unimaginative, and "core" gamers resisted change and would rather play their beloved 1st person shooters with outdated dual analogue controls simply because that's what they were used to. I still believe motion controls will be a huge part of the future of gaming (along with VR and portability), so I think the Wii was in many ways too ahead of its time.