Nintendo Wii Review – Multimedia 2011
The Nintendo Wii was released shortly after the PS3 to strong sales and a continued demand that has continued well into its second year of availability. Though the Wii lacks many of the hardware components and multimedia capabilities that its chief competitors Xbox 360 and PS3 offer, its focus on interactive game play and game title development has helped its strong popularity among video game consoles.
The WiiSports package helped solidify the Wii’s reputation for interactive gameplay, while proving to be its best-selling game, with more than 29 million units sold. The Wiimote controllers enable users to move and mime the motions of different activities, making for a livelier video game experience. With expanded controller options, including nunchucks and boxing gloves, the Wii has carved a niche for itself that seems well-insulated against the advances of either Microsoft or Sony.
The Nintendo Wii dispells the myth of the sedentary video gamer with its fun, engaging, interactive video gameplay. With hundreds of titles that are designed to get you off the couch and onto your feet, the Nintendo Wii takes its community offline and into the living room. However, there are still dozens of titles that can be played with players in living rooms across the world, on your feet or otherwise.
Though there are dozens of Wii games that have exceeded the million-mark in sales, the ten best-selling games for the video game console are:
1. Wii Sports (26.295 million approximately)
2. Wii Play (11.51 million)
3. Mario Kart Wii (6.42 million)
4. Super Mario Galaxy (6.1 million)
5. Super Smash Bros. Brawl (5.633 million)
6. Wii Fit (5.27 million)
7. Mario Party 8 (4.86 million)[81]
8. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (4.52 million)
9. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (3.4 million)
10. Super Paper Mario (2.28 million)
With most titles retaining economic prices, the number of game title sales, as well as the list of million-mark game titles, is likely to continue to grow.
WiiConnect24 is part of the Wii’s online service that offers several unique Wii Channels, including a Wii Shop Channel, while providing online gameplay for users. The matchmaking process for organizing users can be made according to skill level, age, language, region and other custom needs. With unique user IDs friends can locate one another with relative ease. However, despite offering some well-designed online community features, the Wii lacks many of the user communication tools like video and voice chat that both Xbox 360 and PS3 offer.
The Wii utilizes IEEE 802.11 wireless technology to provide users with limited web browsing and online game play. Though the Wii might not be ideal for users looking to integrate their game play with computer and multimedia functions, its remote access capabilities are a strike in its favor, enabling users to access their Wii from a remote location with the help of a Nintendo DS console.
Wii lags far behind its competitors in the way of multimedia, offering little compatibility for most audio and video file format discs. However, with some remote access features and a seamless integration feature for use with the Nintendo DS handheld console, the Wii does leave several inroads for additional uses.
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