Comments on: 3 Ways to Revive the Wii This Holiday Season

By: Robin

Robin — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:00:30 +0000

Regarding point 1. - if third party publisher support for the Wii falls off, those plucky little independent developers will have even fewer routes to get games onto the Wii.

I can see you've really thought this through.

By: PJ

PJ — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 04:06:03 +0000

How about some network enabled games? Wii Sports that was playable with friends across the ‘net would be fun. A really good golf game would be great. About any of the games in Wii Sports could be fleshed out into their own full-on title. Just add: network play with friends, network play on ‘tournament servers’, move the graphics slider a little closer to ‘realistic’ than ‘cartoon’, and you’ve got product.

By: maryintexas

maryintexas — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:20:29 +0000

I don’t know why Wii needs to be revived. It’s already so hard to find. I tried running around stores for a while and got sick of it.

I finally got a couple of Wiis, and the one that really did it was signing up for cellphone text alerts from (link) m . They sent me an alert and I was able to grab 2 in less than 5 minutes.

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By: LoPhat

LoPhat — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 19:03:29 +0000

I’m sorry…what?!? Revive the Wii? This is a bizarre story idea. What’s next, “reviving” Google?

The ardor of developers has cooled? Um..no. Actually the opposite is true. Developers’ interest in a platform rises in direct proportion to that platform’s install base. Therefore it is no surprise that everyone is rushing to develop MORE product for the Wii, not less.

If you want to give Nintendo some tough love, then hit a little harder please. This is kind of fluffy nothing…

By: Dave's Football Blog

Dave's Football Blog — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:02:22 +0000

We don’t need Wii Sports 2 or Wii Play 2. We need more involved games derived from them — like a Wii Sports Golf game with a dozen full golf courses, or a Wii Billiards game that’s more than just some cheesy demo. They could do some of these things through WiiWare if they wanted. Hopefully, some indie developers will give that a try.

And where’s my disc golf game? The 9-hole course in Super Monkey Ball was far from enough. You can’t tell me that a well-made disc golf game for Wii wouldn’t be a huge hit.

By: Dave's Football Blog

Dave's Football Blog — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:52:03 +0000

Wii Sports should be a series of games, not just a collection of minigames. How about Wii Sports Golf with 12 new 18-hole courses? How about a Wii Sports cart-racing game that lets you race with your Miis instead of Mario characters? How about a Wii Sports billiards that's actually full-on 8-ball and 9-ball, rather than a cheap demo? They could do all this through WiiWare if they wanted.

And where's my disc golf game? I've been waiting for Sega to take that disc golf minigame from Super Monkey Ball and turn it into a full-sized game with multiple courses Miis and online play. Surely someone could make that idea work.

Oh, and one more thing. Someone get Adobe on the horn and get them to build Flash 9 for the Wii. Browser gaming, blip.tv and Hulu would be pretty awesome for the Wii if someone would push that envelope just a little...

By: A

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:48:10 +0000

A friend if mine, who has been a Nintendo-only person for many years and a Wii-uber-alles kind of guy, recently “gave in” (his words) and bought a 360 because his Wii has been collecting dust for many months, too. Please, though, not another Wii Sports game. Wii Sports was certainly fun, but it got old pretty quickly. Sure, my friends that had played the Wii talked up a storm about Wii Sports when it first came out, but no one has talked about it or played it for months. Wii Sports 2 has some potential, but I think it would be short-lived. The Wii needs more games with a high re-play value, something the Nintendo GC did not suffer from, I might add. The funny thing about my friend with the 360 is that the games he’s started playing are the types of games you found on the GC. Within my social circle, the bright light on the horizon for the Wii is SSB Brawl. We still play SSB Melee when four of us are near a system that can play it; it has a very high re-play value for us.

By: RandomThoughts

RandomThoughts — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:52:34 +0000

Revive the Wii? How about having them in the stores available for purchase? I don’t know about your neck of the woods, but they are impossible to find in the NYC area.

By: Brian Lee

Brian Lee — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:31:41 +0000

“Sharpshooting could also be fun.”

This already came out on a game called Wii Play, not to mention they’re comming out with Zelda Crossbow Training…

By: DJP

DJP — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:29:01 +0000

My father and law would love a curling game in Sports II

By: 5tacos

5tacos — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:39:36 +0000

I didn’t know they needed a revival but your description of when you played last is very similar to my family. We haven’t touched our Wii in 4-5 months either.

We love the casual games and we have all the “party” mixers but something is just not holding us to the platform. We mainly play the PS2 and the kids are DS freaks. Maybe a Wii/DS game; Wii for the parents and DS so the kids can interact while the parents are playing. Just an idea in the air…

5tacos

By: Bub

Bub — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:33:40 +0000

There are plenty of casual gaming experiences for Wii out there. Plenty. Nintendo shouldn’t have to hold your hand and guide you to a store.

This blurb is so bizarre. It’s like it stands independent of the rest of the gaming universe’s commentary on Wii games at the moment.

By: Riddles

Riddles — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:02:31 +0000

No. 1 seems to be pointless since we have enough casual games as it is, what we are low on are the games for the hardcore audience.

Plus since when has Mario been for only the hardcore?

By: Shaun

Shaun — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:06:37 +0000

Been collecting dust since the spring?

Well for a journalist you're incredibly narrow minded then and you've missed a lot of quality content.

Maybe you should get rid of the Wii and stop depriving someone else of the fun you could have had.