I somewhat disagree. The Wii does have lots of issues like poor graphics and such but it wasn't really meant for all that when it was made. Nintendo originally made the Wii for the family. Like todays modern day consoles like 3DS and PS2 I can imagine the family getting down and playing POKéMON black and Call Of Duty as a family. But sitting down playing Wii sports and also getting a little excersise doesn't hurt. Sure the Wii could have done better but I think it's just fine.

Before I provide an answer, here is a story.

A while back, I went to a pawn store looking for a few NES games to help rebuild my collection, and of the five games, I only managed to get one quality game. By that I mean I found two atrociously bad games (Back to the Future and Who Framed Roger Rabbit) one game I wasn't interested in (Dr Mario), and the fourth cartridge was in poor condition. Now...I also saw a line of GBA games of varying quality but due to funding could only buy Pokemon Emerald for about $15 dollars. Awesome deal. Now...while I was looking for these games, I noticed that literally half of the store's stock was Nintendo Wii's and related peripherals. If one shelf was used for Ps3, Ps2, Xbox, Xbox 360, Gamecube and Dreamcast items, then about 6 or 7 shelves was used for Wii items (I considered packages with a controller and whatnot one item instead of 3-4 items to be nice) and about two shelves in a corner had brand New Nintendo Wiis hardly even used.

I believe the Wii was 100% gimmicky and a waste of money. The Wii's only good games are a small number of first party games by Nintendo and the scattered third party game, but Nintendo's poor relations with third party developers made development nearly impossible (such as not letting developers have access to the Mii code for online) and most of the games are generic, sub-par mini game compilations or extremely sloppy ports that looks like they date from 1995. 

I don't mind the lower graphics, assuming the game play is good but all you really do is "waggle" or shake the controller wildly. The only reason to really own a Wii is to download older games, but we got Vizzed and old school consoles for that.

Personly i really like the wii cause of the vc so i can play really good retro games with out emulators

The only way I would get a wii is if it was going for under $100 and was already flashed and emulation ready.

It might very well be a scam, it is pretty fun, but it is somewhat of a ripoff now that you compare the price and the game itself.

Nintendo has now upped the level of the scam with the 3DS and the upcoming Wii U. The 3DS is moving many times more slowly than the original DS ever did with complaints about the 3D effects and just low quality of the games.
The Wii U is supposed to be better than the current gen systems, but how long have they been out for? According to an article I read earlier, the new wii should be many times better than the current systems because of advances in technology, but that won't happen. If the original wii came out and didn't support already existing high def graphics, what makes anyone think that the new wii will live up to its hype?
Nintendo charges so much for it's systems because parents will buy it for their children.

xfighter1138 : Well the same thing could be said about the PS3 and the X-box 360. Hardcore games are their way of saying,"Instead of going outside, buy our products".

Nintendo made the Wii for kids knowing that parents would buy it so the kids would stay quiet. To me if your over the age of 30 or you live alone the Wii is not for you. But some people enjoy it because it is Family friendly. Xbox and PlayStation have always been made more for Teens and Adults. Nintendo  gets more of the family and kids.  Its just business for them. ^^ 

The Wii is great unlike you. Lol just kidding.

xfighter1138 : i live in sweden and i have downloaded alot of roms! Tell tim that he's fine!

kittykatgurl : I wholeheartedly agree with you Kat.

AGREED man 100%                                                

I don t believe the Nintendo wii was a rip of it was new and innovative at the time and has many good games

I agree with the majority here with their comments about the wii.  Hardly any of the games are worth playing.  That being said, mine was worth every penny!  Why?  Because it makes my girlfriend happy.  Now, before you sound off ladies, I know there are some serious female gamers out there.  My girl is just not one of them.  She wanted a wii, and I got her one.  Mostly I was just siked she wanted to play games at all.  She uses her wii fit, and her and her friends have a blast drinking and playing all those stupid little party games.  Whenever I get her one I've got to spend an afternoon playing the dumb thing to unlock all the mini games for her and her friends to play.  On the up side I got to justify to myself spending all that money just to play Twilight Princess, Mariokart, and Metroid Prime Trilogy.  The new Mario was cool for a few hours too.  In the end, the system is worth whatever you get out of it.

Davideo7 : I insist that the 2600, & NES both have worse libraries. If the Internet and ratings were around back then, we'd tear them up to shreds. But since these things didn't exist back then. We only ever look and the classics, and maybe a few infamous games like ET. But if we could look at most games like you can do with the Wii, I'm positive that the Wii would at worst tie the NES, and easily defeat the industry-crashing 2600.

Now, people often call the Wii Hardware outdated, but if you look at how the hardware from each generation of gaming updates, GameCube to Wii was a normal hardware update. The 360 and PS3 were hopelessly OVER upgraded (for 2005/6), which is the main reason they cost so freaking much. They jumped far ahead of the established upgrade amount for a game console.

Yeah, there's literally only one game I want to play on the Wii and that's The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword. Other than that. It's a useless piece of console that I wouldn't even give a second glance. I'd rather just keep my gamecube then to waste my money on a Wii. How they keep selling them is beyond me and you're right. If they hold back the console making the people that they are a huge demands. We humans are going to automatically need it. We are materialistic about things like that specially gamers when it comes to video games and consoles.