It is now well established that the Wii is the greatest 3D Nintendo console.

[TooB]

Yeah, but 3rd party gamecube ones don't really exist

[Hiro]

*shrug*

[TooB]

this is a really good topic

and this is a really good post

[TooB]

this is a really good topic

and this is a really good post

*shrug*

[Kalahari Inkantation]

tec can you show me what you love about the wii aside from the galaxy games

An Incomprehensive List of Good Wii™ Games, metacritic scores in parentheses

super mario galaxy (97)
super mario galaxy 2 (97)
twilight princess (95)
super smash bros. brawl (93)
skyward sword (93)
xenoblade chronicles (92)
metroid prime 3 (90)
donkey kong country returns (87)
new super mario bros. wii (87)
sin & punishment: star successor (87)
kirby's epic yarn (86)
punch-out (86)
super paper mario (85)
tatsunoko vs. capcom (85)
monster hunter tri (84)
no more heroes 2 (84) (i would include the first game too but it eventually lost its exclusive status to the ps3)
rhythm heaven fever (83)
warioware: smooth moves (83)
mario kart wii (82)
madworld (81)

more obscure or lesser scoring games that may or may not be arguments in favor of the wii:

kirby's return to dreamland (77)
zack and wiki (87)
fire emblem: radiant dawn (78)
muramasa: the demon blade (80)
the last story (80)
little king's story (82)
boom blox (85)(let's ignore the n-gage port)
trauma center: under the knife (78)
trauma team (82)
mario strikers charged (79)
warioland: shake it (78)
excitebots (77)
castlevania: the adventure rebirth (78)

note: metroid: other m has been excluded out of principle

How does this compare to Kaz's SNES list?

also i DARE any of you to compile a gamecube list that even remotely challenges this

[spoiler]

It simply can't be done.

nor could it be done with the n64, nes, wii u, or any nintendo home console aside from arguably the snes, which is why this thread exists: we are all in agreement that the wii is the greatest 3d nintendo console[/spoiler]

[Kalahari Inkantation]

It is now established that the Wii is the greatest 3D Nintendo console

Why? I'd say GameCube has the better entries for franchises like Zelda

true

and Smash Bros

debatable

(probably Metroid too?)

true

some great original first-party games like Pikmin and Luigi's Mansion

true, although whether luigi's mansion is "great" is debatable

and it was a pretty huge leap in graphical potential over the N64. It has much better controllers than both N64 and Wii.

true; debatable

in any case, i'm not comparing hardware so much as just system libraries

and even with a better zelda, even with an arguably better smash, even with unarguably better metroids, and even with pkmn and luigi's mansion

the gamecube's library simply doesn't hold a candle to the wii's

[YPrrrr]

tec can you show me what you love about the wii aside from the galaxy games

An Incomprehensive List of Good Wiiâ,,¢ Games, metacritic scores in parentheses

super mario galaxy (97)
super mario galaxy 2 (97)
twilight princess (95)
super smash bros. brawl (93)
skyward sword (93)
xenoblade chronicles (92)
metroid prime 3 (90)
donkey kong country returns (87)
new super mario bros. wii (87)
sin & punishment: star successor (87)
kirby's epic yarn (86)
punch-out (86)
super paper mario (85)
tatsunoko vs. capcom (85)
monster hunter tri (84)
no more heroes 2 (84) (i would include the first game too but it eventually lost its exclusive status to the ps3)
rhythm heaven fever (83)
warioware: smooth moves (83)
mario kart wii (82)
madworld (81)

more obscure or lesser scoring games that may or may not be arguments in favor of the wii:

kirby's return to dreamland (77)
zack and wiki (87)
fire emblem: radiant dawn (78)
muramasa: the demon blade (80)
the last story (80)
little king's story (82)
boom blox (85)(let's ignore the n-gage port)
trauma center: under the knife (78)
trauma team (82)
mario strikers charged (79)
warioland: shake it (78)
excitebots (77)
castlevania: the adventure rebirth (78)

note: metroid: other m has been excluded out of principle

How does this compare to Kaz's SNES list?

also i DARE any of you to compile a gamecube list that even remotely challenges this

[spoiler]

It simply can't be done.

nor could it be done with the n64, nes, wii u, or any nintendo home console aside from arguably the snes, which is why this thread exists: we are all in agreement that the wii is the greatest 3d nintendo console[/spoiler]

If anything I would say the few 90+ titles is a damnation of the Wiis library vs the N64 or GC if we're going by metacritic

[Kalahari Inkantation]

if we're going strictly by # of 90s, the gamecube has 8 vs. the wii's 7

the n64 probably has like 6, but it predates metacritic

however, i'm going by something like average top 20 score, and sheer quantity of critically acclaimed games

in both measures, wii >>> gamecube/n64/wii u/etc.

[YPrrrr]

if we're going strictly by # of 90s, the gamecube has 8 vs. the wii's 7

the n64 probably has like 6, but it predates metacritic

however, i'm going by something like average top 20 score, and sheer quantity of critically acclaimed games

in both measures, wii >>> gamecube/n64/wii u/etc.

N64 has 17 at or above 90 lmao

The Wii has 14 btw.

GameCube has 26

[Kalahari Inkantation]

That's quite a surprise.

although rayman isn't exclusive so it's really 16

but how many of us would really say that donkey kong 64 > donkey kong country returns

or that super mario 64 > super mario galaxy

or that half of those 16 are even playable today lol

The Wii has 14 btw.

GameCube has like 27

i'm only counting exclusives lol

[YPrrrr]

I'd rather have the console with great exclusives and great cross platform games

I love you PS4

[Kalahari Inkantation]

i mean, i would too (that's why i own a ps4 over an xbox one, and a ps3 over a 360), but i really only had exclusive libraries in mind when i made this topic lol

the best games on nintendo platforms are overwhelmingly exclusive anyway

[YPrrrr]

That is usually true. I miss NCAA football 

[C.Mongler]

but how many of us would really say that donkey kong 64 > donkey kong country returns

donkey kong 64 is the fucking worst donkey kong game by a large margin, unless we start counting weird shit like donka konga or dk jungle climber


but even then im still pretty confident i'd hold firm on that cuz dk jungle beat was still better and more focused than dk 64 lol and i'll be damned if i still dont love donky konga at least until my hands start hurting like a bitch from clapping for an hour

[Kalahari Inkantation]

yep, dk64 is turrible compared to dk's representatives on gamecube and wii

sm64 is nothing compared to galaxy

many others on the n64 list are outright unplayable

therefore the n64 is clearly a lesser platform than the wii