Despite a Library Full of Shovelwares, The Nintendo Wii Has Great Games

Nintendo’s most successful console was cursed with an endless supply of shovelware games but it also was the home of fantastic games.

The Best Games The Wii Has to Offer

The Wii has an extensive library with many great titles and it can be really difficult to choose a top 10 considering how many great games the system has.

 

Nintendo At Its Best

Nintendo released some of the best games it ever has on the Wii.

 

An Impressive First Party Library

The Wii being an extremely successful console, Nintendo has published a tremendous amount of first-party games and many really good ones and some of the most original when it comes to taking advantage of motion controls.

 

Hidden Gems You Should Play

Among a never-ending sea of shovelwares, many genuinely great games didn’t meet the success the deserved and some of them should definitely be remastered and ported on other consoles.

 

Unique Ports

One of the oddities of the Wii was that it was grossly underpowered compared to the Sony PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360 so many franchises had dedicated ports, none of them better than their counterparts but some were more than honorable.

 

Retro Games

One thing that’s often unknown is they were many great retro-gaming compilations on Nintendo’s system and for quite a few arcade games, motion controls were the way to go.

 

A Mixed Bag Of Exclusives

Because of its weird motion controls, the Wii often had a lot of exclusive games requiring them but if some of them were really good many were average and gimmicky.

 

Some Of My Personal Favorites

Among the many legitimately good games and the wacky fun motion controlled ones, these are the ones I loved playing over and over.

 

The Ones Everyone Should Know

The Wii had many well known games that were the same as on other consoles and many of them were good.