Which system won this generation to you?

[Fazermint]

Funny to see the Wii leading the poll here, but this is a Nintendo site...
It's far easier to name a dozen quality titles from the PS3 or 360 library than it is from the Wii library. I give it to the 360 based on the game quality to price point ratio along with a far better online service (you get what you pay for...). Sony definitely had the console with the most potential but they squandered it all away with poor decisions and dev's weak utilization of the power available to them. Nintendo made their money off of a gimmick. I don't think motion controls themselves are a gimmick. It's the idea of foregoing any sort of technological leap to put out a console where motion control was the only thing it had going for it. Can you imagine what kinds of adventures Mario, Link, and Samus would have had if the Wii had any sort of power behind it?

The Wii would probably win this poll regardless of where it's being held. Between the three, the Wii has sold the most units. This shows us that gameplay remains the most important success factor for games, while hardware power, though still important, gets a secondary role. If you have trouble naming quality titles for the Wii, you either don't know that many games or we have a very different definition of quality titles

 

[dgwillia]

PS3, best exclusives. Its heaven for an RPG/Fighting fan like myself, everything got even better after they added Playstation Plus, now I'm just swimming in games.

My 360 barely gets any play lately outside of Halo and a few downloaded games, and I literally just played my Wii last week for the first time in about 6 months (Because I had to trade in my PS3 toward a new model and was without it for 2 weeks)

 

[Arras]

I voted for the Wii because it has the most unique exclusives. The PS3 and Xbox aren't bad consoles, but the vast majority of the library is the same and you can usually play these games on a PC as well, but better. Besides, I own both a Wii and PS3 and I used my Wii about 20 times as much.

 

[retKHAAAN]

The Wii would probably win this poll regardless of where it's being held. Between the three, the Wii has sold the most units. This shows us that gameplay remains the most important success factor for games, while hardware power, though still important, gets a secondary role. If you have trouble naming quality titles for the Wii, you either don't know that many games or we have a very different definition of quality titles

the number of units moved is moot when you consider how many people played Wii Sports at a friend's house, bought a Wii, played it for a month, and never touched it again... Gameplay is surely the most important success factor for games...but there are only so many ways you can wag a not-quite-so-accurate wand around and call it new or innovative. Wii Sports, Mario Galaxy, Twilight Princess, and Metroid Prime were great fun when I first bought my Wii. But once you've played those games, you've seen everything the Wii has to offer.

Please, list 12 Wii games worth buying the console for. I think I already did 1/4 of the work for you...

 

[TripleSMoon]

Funny to see the Wii leading the poll here, but this is a Nintendo site...

^This redundant damage control response got old a LONG time ago. "Oh, the only reason so many people like *insert Nintendo product here* the best is because this is a Nintendo site." Please. GBAtemp started out as a ROM-hosting site for a Nintendo handheld... today, it's far from a "Nintendo site." We have dedicated sections for all major (and many minor) platforms, most of which have large user bases, not just the Nintendo sections. GBAtemp is nothing more than a namesake now, not an actual representation of the site's content. Heck, the GBA section is even one of the less active sections on the forum.

 

[AngryGreek766]

I actually find it quite funny that anyone on here says 360 lol..what a shitty piece of hardware compared to the ps3 also barly any exlusive games besides FPS and u gotta pay for a bunch of shit. I have one i have 4 games dead rising,mass effect, saints row, tales of vesperia only because i cant get those on ps3. In my book the only reason anyone would actually say the 360 is the best is they couldnt afford a ps3 6 years ago when they came out and got a xbox instead bought games on live and now are stuck with it so they defend it. Microsoft is garbage.

Winner PS3 runner up Wii

 

[Lurker2]

Wii Exclusives.
Animal Crossing City Folk
Another Code R
Arc Rise Fantasia
Battalion Wars 2
A Boy and His Blob
Castlevania Rebirth
The Conduit 1-2
Contra ReBirth
Deadly Creatures
Donkey Kong Country Returns
Elebits
Epic Mickey
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Series
Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn
Gradius ReBirth
Harvest Moon Series
Kirby's Series
The Last Story
The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword
MadWorld
Mario Kart Wii
Metroid Prime: Trilogy
Metroid Other M
New Super Mario Bros. Wii
Nights Journey of Dreams
No More Heroes 2
Pandora's Tower
Pokémon Series
Red Steel 1-2
Rune Factory Frontier
Samurai Warriors Katana
Sin & Punishment Star Successor
Sonic Series
Super Mario Galaxy 1-2
Super Paper Mario
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Tales of Symphonia Dawn of the New World
Tatsunoko vs. Capcom Ultimate All-Stars
Trauma Center Series
Valhalla Knights Eldar Saga
Wario Land Shake It
WarioWare Smooth Moves
Wii Series
Xenoblade Chronicles
Zack & Wiki Quest for Barbaros' Treasure

PS3 Exclusives
3D Dot Game Heroes
Atelier Series
Demon's Souls
Flower
Folklore
God of War III
Gran Turismo 5
Heavy Rain
Infamous 1-2-Festival of Blood
Journey
Killzone 2-3
The Last of Us
Linger in Shadows
LittleBigPlanet Series
Metal Gear Solid 4
MotorStorm Series
Ratchet & Clank Series
Resistance 1-2-3
Siren Blood Curse
Starhawk
Tales from Space About a Blob
Tales of Xillia 1-2
The Unfinished Swan
Time Crisis 4-Razing Storm
Tokyo Jungle
Twisted Metal
Uncharted 1-2-3
Valkyria Chronicles
Warhawk
White Knight Chronicles 1-2
Wipeout HD
Yakuza 3-4

360 Exclusives
Ace Combat 6
Banjo-Kazooie Nuts & Bolts
Blue Dragon
Crackdown 1-2
Dead or Alive 4
DeaD Rising 1
Dust
Fable 2-Journey
Fez
Forza 2-3-4
Gears of War 2-3-Judgement
Geometry Wars 2
The Gunstringer
Halo Series
Infinite Undiscovery
Kinect Series
Lost Odyssey
Saints Row 1
Shadow Complex
'Splosion Man

 

[Foxi4]

The Wii would probably win this poll regardless of where it's being held. Between the three, the Wii has sold the most units. This shows us that gameplay remains the most important success factor for games, while hardware power, though still important, gets a secondary role. If you have trouble naming quality titles for the Wii, you either don't know that many games or we have a very different definition of quality titles

I will bet you a million bucks that if you hold this poll on an unbias site, either the 360 or the PS3 will win hands-down. The Wii sold the most units because it was the cheapest and it was marketed as a console for young audiences - the 360 and the PS3 were aimed at the core gamer. It's not really appropriate to use the word "mature audience" and "children", but just for the sake of the argument, numbers-wise, there's more "children" than "mature gamers" and the Wii greatly benefitted from that, becoming the no.1 gift on holidays of all-sorts. It was designed to be easy on the wallet and kid-friendly, that's the secret to its success. Additionally it was marketed as a fitness tool to widen the target crowd, but I doubt that had a huge impact - at the end of the day, the Wii sold due to good marketing strategies and an accessible price point - the magic of the WiiMote helped, of course, but not the "gameplay".

 

[retKHAAAN]

^This redundant damage control response got old a LONG time ago. "Oh, the only reason so many people like *insert Nintendo product here* the best is because this is a Nintendo site." Please. GBAtemp started out as a ROM-hosting site for a Nintendo handheld... today, it's far from a "Nintendo site." We have dedicated sections for all major (and many minor) platforms, most of which have large user bases, not just the Nintendo sections. GBAtemp is nothing more than a namesake now, not an actual representation of the site's content. Heck, the GBA section is even one of the less active sections on the forum.

damage control? what damage is there to control? are you trying to argue against the fact that the vast majority of tempers registered here because of homebrew/piracy/hacks/mods available for Nintendo products? Please compare the Wii, DS, 3DS, and GBA traffic to the traffic the other consoles get and then get back to me.

 

[EyeZ]

I voted the PS3 as i did own all 3 consoles in the poll at the same time, and the PS3 is the only console i have kept.

The 360 was the console if you wanted fps's and the wii, to me, was just too gimmicky, i tired of motion control very quickly.

 

[TripleSMoon]

the number of units moved is moot when you consider how many people played Wii Sports at a friend's house, bought a Wii, played it for a month, and never touched it again... Gameplay is surely the most important success factor for games...but there are only so many ways you can wag a not-quite-so-accurate wand around and call it new or innovative. Wii Sports, Mario Galaxy, Twilight Princess, and Metroid Prime were great fun when I first bought my Wii. But once you've played those games, you've seen everything the Wii has to offer.

Please, list 12 Wii games worth buying the console for. I think I already did 1/4 of the work for you...

Exclusive games, you mean? Let's see now. First I'll list games I've actually played (it's rather short, since I've only had my Wii for about 7 months, and money has been scarce until recently).

-Super Mario Galaxy
-New Super Mario Bros. Wii
-Kirby's Return to Dream Land
-Zelda: Twilight Princess
-Zelda: Skyward Sword
-Metroid Prime Trilogy (Prime 1 and 2 with added motion controls)
-Super Smash Bros. Brawl
(Note: The only game I got that wasn't that great was Metroid: Other M, and I still had a bit of fun with that)

Now, for other exclusive Wii games I haven't played, based on general reviews and/or player response...

-Donkey Kong Country Returns
-Super Mario Galaxy 2
-Metroid Prime 3
-A Boy and His Blob
-Pandora's Tower
-Xenoblade Chronicles
-Kirby's Epic Yarn
-Sonic Colors
-Sonic and the Secret Rings
-Red Steel 2
-Epic Mickey
-The Last Story
-Mario Kart Wii
-Sin & Punishment: Star Successor
-No More Heroes
-No More Heroes 2
-Super Paper Mario
-Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
-WarioWare: Smooth Moves
-Wario Land: Shake it!

There you go. Just off the freaking top of my head (quickly referring critical scores on Wikipedia for the ones I was unsure about, just to be safe), I named more than double the amount of Wii games you asked for, and all of them are exclusives. And only 2 of them are ports/dual releases from the GameCube (Metroid Prime Trilogy and Twilight Princess).

Aside from that, contrary to popular belief, the Wii did get some decent multiplats, even though it was nowhere near as many as it would've been with more power. Rayman Origins, all the LEGO games, most CoD games, and many of Activision's games (for example) got pretty decent "downports" for the Wii.

I'm not saying that the Wii was "factually" the best by any means. There are good reasons to consider any of the three major consoles the best of this generation, in my opinion. But it's stupid to make these dated, BS claims like "the Wii has no games" when it very clearly does, arguably even more decent exclusive titles than either of the other consoles.

damage control? what damage is there to control? are you trying to argue against the fact that the vast majority of tempers registered here because of homebrew/piracy/hacks/mods available for Nintendo products? Please compare the Wii, DS, 3DS, and GBA traffic to the traffic the other consoles get and then get back to me.

The damage control being "boohoo, the Wii is winning this poll, i'mma just brush it off as the result of this being a Nintendo site!" when it's balanced decently among all the major consoles. And why people came here has NOTHING to do with whether there's a dramatically bigger Nintendo community here. Many of those Nintendo fans do in fact own and play other companies' consoles (like myself). Also remember, the Wii and DS are DRAMATICALLY easier to pirate/play homebrew on, so of course it's going to attract more users for that reason that for the same thing on PS3 or 360.

 

[suppow]

reverse-fanboy detected.

 

[Foxi4]

Wii Exclusives.
House of the Dead 2-3-Overkill //Not a Wii exclusive
No More Heroes 1-2 //No More Heroes 1 is not a Wii exclusive
Sonic Series //Not all are exclusive (Unleashed, Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity and Sonic & Sega All-Star Racing are available on non-Nintendo platforms)

Just clearing up the confusion.

Also, mind you, the Wii has a lot of exclusive titles mainly because it's unable to properly support multiplats. If I were to compose a list of which console has the most "multiplatform games", the Wii would fall far behind its competitors. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter if a game is exclusive or not - what matters is if it's fun or not.

 

[TripleSMoon]

Just clearing up the confusion.

Also, mind you, the Wii has a lot of exclusive titles mainly because it's unable to properly support multiplats. If I were to compose a list of which console has the most "multiplatform games", the Wii would fall far behind its competitors. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter if a game is exclusive or not - what matters is if it's fun or not.

That's why I didn't include any games like "Transformers: Cybertron Adventures" on my list which were obviously nothing more than "replacements" for the more AAA-versions of the game on PS3/360 (if you know what I mean).

And my bad on No More Heroes 1.

Also, one note: I don't think the Wii being "unable to properly support multiplats" is quite as accurate as "it was impractical/too expensive to put them on there." Any time a multiplat game went on the Wii U, it basically had to be remade from the ground up to work on the more limited hardware. The companies that did this tended to do a pretty decent job of it (like I said before, a bunch of Activision's games), but you can't blame the rest of companies for not doing it, for obvious reasons. I think the fact that the Wii versions of certain multiplats (id est, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed) critically fared BETTER than their 360/PS3 counterparts just adds to my point.

 

[retKHAAAN]

congratulations on listing wii exclusives, though, what I asked of you was to list 12 games worthy of a console purchase. how many people do you think ran off and bought a Wii for A Boy and His Blob or Red Steel? Now you can wiki the PS3 and 360 exclusives list and find that they are both more than twice as long and include more "critically acclaimed" games.

The damage control being "boohoo, the Wii is winning this poll, i'mma just brush it off as the result of this being a Nintendo site!" when it's balanced decently among all the major consoles. And why people came here has NOTHING to do with whether there's a dramatically bigger Nintendo community here. Many of those Nintendo fans do in fact own and play other companies' consoles (like myself). Also remember, the Wii and DS are DRAMATICALLY easier to pirate/play homebrew on, so of course it's going to attract more users for that reason that for the same thing on PS3 or 360.

and thank you for re-iterating my point. This site has a dramatically bigger Nintendo community. Therefore, you can expect any poll to skew towards Nintendo.

 

[suppow]

Just clearing up the confusion.

Also, mind you, the Wii has a lot of exclusive titles mainly because it's unable to properly support multiplats. If I were to compose a list of which console has the most "multiplatform games", the Wii would fall far behind its competitors. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter if a game is exclusive or not - what matters is if it's fun or not.

agreed, a reason a play more often on my wii than the other for me is the difference between the type of games on the Wii and the ones on 360/PS3/PC.
i like FPS, but i found that whenever i found a new game to play on my 360 it ended up being another FPS more or less.
and it's been said before, but most multi-plat you can play on pc.
when it comes to exclusives between 360 vs PS3, i think the PS3 might win. i dont know

it depends on what type of games you like.

 

[suppow]

congratulations on listing wii exclusives, though, what I asked of you was to list 12 games worthy of a console purchase. how many people do you think ran off and bought a Wii for A Boy and His Blob or Red Steel? Now you can wiki the PS3 and 360 exclusives list and find that they are both more than twice as long and include more "critically acclaimed" games.
and thank you for re-iterating my point. This site has a dramatically bigger Nintendo community. Therefore, you can expect any poll to skew towards Nintendo.

i dont think trolling will get your point any farther.
if you bought a wii and didnt like, and then ended up with buyer's remorse, that's fine
but you dont have to take it out on others.

lol

 

[Foxi4]

Also, one note: I don't think the Wii being "unable to properly support multiplats" is quite as accurate as "it was impractical/too expensive to put them on there." Any time a multiplat game went on the Wii U, it basically had to be remade from the ground up to work on the more limited hardware. The companies that did this tended to do a pretty decent job of it (like I said before, a bunch of Activision's games), but you can't blame the rest of companies for not doing it, for obvious reasons. I think the fact that the Wii versions of certain multiplats (id est, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed) critically fared BETTER than their 360/PS3 counterparts just adds to my point.

You see, that's the thing with Wii multiplats - they're not multiplats. More often than not, the entire game was made from the ground up and has nothing to do whatsoever with the source material. Force Unleashed and Force Unleashed 2 for the Wii are *not* the same game as on other platforms and should be considered separate entities entirely. The system was unable to run certain engines and developers resorted to making entirely exclusive ones, but that doesn't make their games multiplatform - that's just confusing naming.

The only games on the Wii that I can think of that is actually multiplatform outside of the ones I mentioned were Call of Duty games - the core engine did not require a whole lot of horsepower and when the graphics were downscaled, you could pretty much release the same games on all three platforms. In other cases, the games were written from the ground up for the Wii, and that scratches them off the multiplatform list in my opinion.

 

[TripleSMoon]

congratulations on listing wii exclusives, though, what I asked of you was to list 12 games worthy of a console purchase. how many people do you think ran off and bought a Wii for A Boy and His Blob or Red Steel? Now you can wiki the PS3 and 360 exclusives list and find that they are both more than twice as long and include more "critically acclaimed" games.

and thank you for re-iterating my point. This site has a dramatically bigger Nintendo community. Therefore, you can expect any poll to skew towards Nintendo.

All the games I listed got good reviews. and when I say good, I mean they all got mostly 80% (or the equivalent) or higher.

And I didn't reiterate your point. I simply pointed out that just because someone is more likely to come here for homebrew/piracy of Nintendo games doesn't mean they don't play other systems as well, and just don't come here for the homebrew/piracy reasons for other systems because they aren't as accessible for that purpose. In the end, unless a mod came here and decided to show us some list of active users in each section, etc, there's no way for you to conclude that there's a larger Nintendo community here. And there's DEFINITELY no way to conclude that the Temp is "a Nintendo site." But I don't think pointing out facts to you will do anything, so I'll stop here.

You see, that's the thing with Wii multiplats - they're not multiplats. More often than not, the entire game was made from the ground up and has nothing to do whatsoever with the source material. Force Unleashed and Force Unleashed 2 for the Wii are *not* the same game as on other platforms and should be considered separate entities entirely. The system was unable to run certain engines and developers resorted to making entirely exclusive ones, but that doesn't make their games multiplatform - that's just confusing naming.

The only game on the Wii that I can think of that is actually multiplatform outside of the ones I mentioned were Call of Duty games - the core engine did not require a whole lot of horsepower and when the graphics were downscaled, you could pretty much release the same games on all three platforms. In other cases, the games were written from the ground up for the Wii, and that scratches them off the multiplatform list in my opinion.

I'm pretty sure the Spider-Man games were the "same" too (downports with worse graphics). Also some games you mentioned, like Sonic Unleashed. The way I see it, if the content is generally the same, it's the same game.

 

[GamerzHell9137]

Haven't seen much good games in this gen.
The most i liked are Mario Kart Wii,Little Big Planet,COD MW3 and.... ehhh... yeah that's it.
No one won this generation cause all were shit.

...........

Well Handhelds are consoles too.
If they are in too then DS won for me.
It had many good games.
The PSP was not bad too but DS had better games.