Is Wii wasted potential?

[darkjak]

I've owned a Wii from pretty close to the launch last year, but so far I've not seen anything of what I envisioned to be out by now.

I mean, where the hell are the shooters? The wiimote should make this the ultimate FPS-console of all time, but the only good shooter out yet is CoD3, which was out for the Wii's release, and to make matters worse, the Wii seems to be the only format not to get CoD4! The salvage I was hoping for was MP3:Corruption with multiplayer. Y'know, the multiplayer from MP2, for 16 or 32 players online, with the MP3 control scheme... God, I'm so desperate for a good shooter, that I'm willing to believe that Red Steel 2 will be worthy of my student-sallary! I mean, shooters have allways been great for Nintendo consoles. I remember both Goldeneye and Perfect Dark for the N64, and Timesplitters and Die Hard Vendetta for the Cube. My teacher once worked at Dice (I study games development at the university of Skövde), and on a lesson this week he talked about his career... When Dice were running out of cash, they decided to talk to different publishers, to make a deal about funding and the ones who were interrested in investing in the project were Microsoft, EA and Nintendo. My teacher was the one who was sent to talk to them, and he said that Nintendo wanted the game really badly for the GC, and the deal was close to going through, when my teacher called his bos who was like "Nintendo... We don't want this game shown next to Mario and Zelda, try with the others instead" (and thats how we got screwed on one of the best shooter franchises ever)...

 

Then there's the racers. Sure, the console has a really good controller to use for a wheel, but, seriously, where are the wheels? Y'know, with analogue pedals, a stick to shift with and force feedback? Not to mention the actual racing games... I mean, I allmost hoped for GT Wii to be the Nintendo equivelant to Gran Turismo, only with more fun tracks. As it turned out, it had all of the flaws that existed in the GC itteration: Too few cars (not to mention that EVERY SINGLE ONE was Japanese), technically crappy graphics, horrendous cel shading, short singleplayer mode, and according to some, bad controlls. I'm a racing nut, and I've only found salvage in the NFS games since the launch of the Cube. I tried to get Burnout 2 for the Cube about a year or two after release, but no store had it.

 

 

My question is, do you think that the Wii is wasted potential?

 

 

Crap, doublepost...