Since you're, like, exactly the kind of gamer Nintendo was trying to reach, I'd be curious to hear more of your thoughts on the Wii library beyond Wii Sports and Smash. What kept you interested in Nintendo even as the Wii years wound down?
If you're interested, here are my Wii retail, WiiWare and VC lists, and comments of each list:
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Retail (36 games)
A Boy And His Blob
Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie: Evil Under the Sun
Animal Crossing: Let's Go to the City
Boom Blox
Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars - The Director's Cut
Bully: Scholarship Edition
Cursed Mountain
Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop
Kirby's Adventure Wii
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Mario Party 9
Mario Sports Mix
Metroid: Other M
New Super Mario Bros. Wii
Punch-Out!!
Rayman Raving Rabbids
Red Steel 2
Resident Evil
Resident Evil -The Umbrella Chronicles
Rockband 3
Sam & Max Season One
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
Sonic Colours - Limited Edition
Super Mario Galaxy
Super Mario Galaxy 2
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Wario Land: The Shake Dimension
Wii Fit
Wii Fit Plus
Wii Play
Wii Sports
Wii Sports Resort
Xenoblade Chronicles
Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure
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Of that list, the worst game is Mario Sports Mix. That's probably the only one I can't stand at all. Not that interested in that Legend of Guardians game either. And I bought Rockband 3 only because of the midi keyboard.
The best are the Agatha Christie games, Boom Blox, Broken Sword, NSMB Wii, Resident Evil, Super Mario Galaxy, Wii Sports, Wii Fit and Zack & Wiki. I love them all.
Smash Brawl was a disappointment. Super Mario Galaxy was a bit of a disappointment too, although still a very good game. Xenoblade was brilliant for the first 10 hours until I grew up hating the battle system. I would love to continue that game but I just know I wouldn't be able to get into the battle mechanics. Still, one of the best 10 hours I've ever had in an RPG.
Wario Land was really good, but the "run back to the beginning" thing at the end of each level made me stop playing it.
Wii Sports Resort was quite good, but I noticed I liked the controls much more before the inclusion of Motion Plus. And I
really noticed that while playing Wii Sports Club on the Wii U. Hitting the ball in tennis just doesn't feel as good as it felt in the original game. Sometimes it's just better for a game to be more arcade-like than try to aim for realism.
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WiiWare (10 games)
Bubble Bobble Plus!
Cave Story
Equilibrio
La-Mulana
LIT
Mega Man 9
Mega Man 10
Sexy Poker
Toki Tori
TV Show King
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Didn't buy many WiiWare games but I always loved checking out what games were released. I'm still thinking of buying all the "Rebirth" and other new versions of classic games before the service ends (I'm sure they'll cut it at some point in future).
Of the games I bought, La-Mulana is my favorite. It actually became my favorite game in the whole history of video games.
Loved Cave Story. Bubble Bobble Plus was awesome. Toki Tori was fantastic. I even enjoyed Sexy Poker. Equilibrio might be the worst game of the bunch.
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Virtual Console (23 games)
ARCADE:
The Tower of Druaga
C64:
Impossible Mission
Jumpman
Last Ninja 3
Mayhem in Monsterland
N64:
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
NES:
Bubble Bobble
Mega Man
Mega Man 3
Mega Man 4
Probotector II -Return of the Evil Forces
StarTropics
Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels
Ufouria: THE SAGA
Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II
SEGA MEGA DRIVE:
Comix Zone
SNES:
Final Fantasy III
Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Mario's Super Picross
Pilotwings
Super Mario World
TURBOGRAFX-16:
Neutopia II
Ys Book I & II
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I love Virtual Console! Such a big amount of both known classic and less known obscure games for many systems. Had lots of fun just seeing every week what games were released even if I didn't have much money to buy a lot of them. Sure, there were rough weeks here and there, but in retrospect the Wii VC library is pretty damn amazing.
All in all, I was a somewhat poor student during the Wii years, so I didn't get too much games. There are still many retail, WiiWare and Virtual Console games I'd like to get at some point. For example, I've always been interested in those Endless Ocean games.
The full Wii library stands even today as quite an interesting thing. Sure, there are lots of bad games, but when it gets good it really gets good. And those good games are all quite different from whatever big and popular titles get released on the rival consoles. And among the good and bad there are some really obscure stuff available. I guess of all the other consoles (both home systems and handhelds) perhaps PS Vita has an interesting library like that.
As I mentioned earlier, the usual big games don't do anything for me, so for me to get PS4 or Xbox One instead of a Nintendo console, or even as a second console, doesn't quite make sense. I tried P.T. at a friend's home and loved it though, but even that isn't available anymore. I would probably only buy indie games for those machines, which I could also get on my PC too. And Fallout 4 will be available on PC too.
So, after this big rambling, to answer your question shortly:
Nintendo was able to provide me both good retro games and good first party retail games with occasional interesting 3rd party game here and there, whereas the big hitters of other consoles were mostly the same I had grown a major disinterest into way back in the PS2/GC/DC/Xbox era. Didn't even care about Nintendo back then (except what I could play on my old NES).