As many have said, it’s all about the games. How well the WiiMote functions in a game is largely dependent on the actual game as well. Nintendo pretty much showed the peak of what they can do with the Wii Sports games, and there are a few other games that use the motion controls well, but they tend to be the minority. That said, as a traditional controller it’s not the worst thing in the world, and you can still use a Pro controller, the classic controller attachment or a GameCube controller for more traditional controls. The Wii library can be underrated due to the prevalence of shovelware, but there are great games like the Mario Galaxy games, Mario Kart Wii, the last good Mario Party before Superstars, the original versions of Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword, the aforementioned Wii Sports games, the second Mario Strikers, the best of the New Super Mario Bros games, Metroid Prime 3, Fire Emblem Path of Radiance/Radiant Dawn (if you can afford them), DKC Returns, Kirby’s Return to Dreamland, Kirby’s Epic Yarn (another game that used the motion controls well) and many more. (As an aside, I think the Wii U will also be known as a console with an under-rated library down the road.) Sadly, due to its perception and underpowered hardware for its generation, there’s not much actually good third-party software for it, but Nintendo themselves supported the Wii more than adequately.

It depends if you like motion controls to be honest as majority of games used it. Wii is not my cup of tea personally but I love playing The House of The Dead 2 & 3 Returns as I don’t have an CRT to play lightguns games.

The good games were great. Super Mario Galaxy 2 is probably the best Mario game full stop.

The controllers were crap for traditional games.

There was so much shovelware.

Has a lotta great titles people still remember fondly, and it’s heaps easy to hack it to get emulators on it. Win win!

I have quite a few consoles from most of the generations and honestly Wii is my favourite. I love playing Wii games, I love the idea of playing on this console and I love collecting for it. I think I actually have 3 or 4 Wiis but I use my WiiU for the HD (I do have a dongle for the Wii as well). There is no video game updates every time you put the disc in, there are no trophies or gamer score, no communities, social media features, ads. You boot it up and enjoy. Because it was so much different from what was on the market, developers couldn’t simply port games onto it. They had to develop with the console and its hardware in mind and that’s what made it special. I know that on paper Switch is just a better Wii as it has the best of both worlds (it has motion controls and its beefy enough to play more demanding games) but as the focus is mostly to catch up with the other consoles, I think it lost a bit of that magic.

I love the Wii and I’m sad mine broke (it won’t read the discs anymore and all attempts to fix that at home failed). It is one of the very few consoles my husband could use, him having cerebral palsy. We played that together constantly! It was great.

Wii was the only console I ever bought. I prefer playing with keyboard and mouse, so consoles were never really my focus.

I had a lot of fun with it, it had some amazing games that made good use of the controllers. It was a great family console that even older people or people that don’t usually play could use.

It was also great at running old school emulators for other consoles (SNES, Genesis) after some tinkering.

It also drove home my main hate regarding consoles: they are closed systems, owned not by you but by the manufacturer. The games were and still are expensive, unlike PCs where games get cheaper over time. They can also disable the servers providing services for your console (news channel, weather channel) when they feel like you should move on and buy their next console.

So I won’t buy another console again, even if I still love my Wii, that I power on occasionally.

The Wii has Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2.
There hasn’t been a Super Mario Galaxy anywhere else besides the Wii.
The Wii is awesome.

If you’re more interested in the Wii than GameCube functionality you could consider getting a WiiU. You’d get HDMI output with full Wii Library compatibility (there may be some odd outsiders) plus whatever WiiU games you might want to play. You can also play GC games on it by methods but it won’t read the discs or take their controllers.

Sorry I missed the question, I think it’s absolutely a classic console. I actually prefer the Wii/WiiU era games over the Switch ones. I haven’t liked a Mario Party since Wii, Mario Kart Wii was imo the best, and the Wii WarioWare is great. I’ll edit with my collection maybe

The Wii was a console system for people who were unaware of or didn’t like console systems.

So if you’re in that co-hort, or an active Nintendo fan… yeah, it’s a great console.

It says a lot that the best selling titles on it largely came with extra plastic bits that are likely collecting dust now.

Full disclosure, I own a Wii, it’s hooked up and running and everything. Other than occasionally showing off the absolute insanity that is Muscle March, I really can’t think of any game on it I’d still play.

https://youtu.be/2YRqI7JuZO8

The Wii is great. Play games that make the most of the wiimote and nunchuck, those are the best.

My favorites were Metroid Prime Trilogy made/remade for the wii controls, and Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess / Skyward Sword. And the fun arcade/sports games like bowling, golf, Mario Galaxy, etc

Looks like I missed House of the Dead 2 and 3, so I may try to find a used wii and used copies to play em. It’d be awesome if Nintendo released a Wii Classic like the NES and SNES Classics.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/top10/1637-the-top-10-wii-games-that-make-the-best-use-of-the-wiimote

https://old.reddit.com/r/patientgamers/comments/4nvthu/which_wii_games_make_the_best_use_of_the/

There’s a reason why the Wii sold as well as it did. It was very good for its time in that the motion controls were just accurate enough to not be a total frustration. It sat at a modest price point relative to its competitors, and Nintendo has always been extremely good at maximizing on the potential of their consoles with superb game design.

So yeah, I think it was actually as fun as you remember it… but that was still almost 20 years ago. No doubt you’d enjoy it if you picked one up, but I’ll bet its age will show. It’ll depend on your tolerance for dated game and UI design to know how much you’d enjoy it in the long run. Plus, I do believe that a lot of the services like the Virtual Console have been sunset.

I wish I had kept mine because I would kill for some Wii Resort ping-pong or bowling.

I have 11 Table Tennis in VR and somehow the physics just don’t feel nearly as good as Wii Resort/Wii Sports. Various bowling games in VR I’ve tried are the same… IDK how the motion controls can be worse when I literally use my hands. 🤷🏻‍♂️

It’s the game quality, really. Same with most Nintendo systems I would say. Come for the motion gimmicks, but stay for the quality games.

I just got a Wii to play RE4, WarioWare: Smooth Moves, and a couple GameCube games. I still need to get the component cable (I’m on composite, which isn’t ideal) but I’m finding it just as fun as I remember.