That’s great news for most people, but I barely noticed.
Because despite the fact we’re very clearly living in 2022, I’m still playing my Nintendo Wii.
And it turns out I’m not alone.
I was bringing the TV, she was supplying the vacuum.
But we needed one more thing.
Something that would truly take our pad to the next level.
“We are riding the nostalgia train all the way baby,” I replied excitedly.
The Wii is a conversation starter, and it isn’t hard to find affordable games.
“The next step ingamingis bringing gaming back to the masses,” he said at the time.
The originalUS Wii bundlecame with a single remote, nunchuck and the staple game, Wii Sports.
“I checked like every Walmart and Target trying to find one,” he says.
“It was crazy hard to get.”
But eventually, people did buy Wiis – many of them.
“You couldn’t find Switches, you couldn’t find PlayStations, Xboxes,” he says.
“I think it led to people dusting off their old consoles.”
“Wii Sports will always be better,” the caption reads.
I’m not going to pretend there aren’t downsides to owning a decade-and-a-half-year-old system.
“What we call rare is everything that’s worth over $24.99,” he says.
Pokemon and Zelda titles are big as well, he says.
Rileigh Braisher, a 21-year-old from California, says she usually gets new Wii games from eBay.
She got into the Wii again after playing her boyfriend’s PS4.
“It couldn’t fulfill what I remember my childhood Wii did,” she told me.
“Nothing beats Wii sports, and I mean that.”
