Ranking the Wii Series
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- čas přidán 16. 11. 2023
- I personally rank all the "Wii" series games for Wii, Wii U and Nintendo Switch.
This video was originally released via Card #42 of the Scott The Woz Collectible Trading Cards in late 2022.
Edited by Dominic Mattero and Scott Wozniak
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I'm not the only one who hopes he makes a Wii Party video right?
Wii party U is pretty lit ngl
Not at all! Wii Party is a severely underrated game and deserves more love!
wii party and wii party u are one of my favorite games so id love to see this
Nope. Both games are fantastic.
Yes please
Wii Sports Resort really is something special. Wuhu Island is one of the most fully realized locations Nintendo's ever had, which is crazy since it's so down to earth compared to their more wacky worlds. But I think that's the beauty of it, being so similar to our own world, and yet so inviting all the same. And all of the activities from bowling to basketball to swordplay to archery and especially the island flyover gave you tons of reasons to come back. It's genuinely one of my favorite games of all time.
Reading this made me realise Resort may be one of my fav games too
@@Klick404it’s definitely mine!
Wii Chess should have let you assign Miis to specific pieces
they should also just go wherever they want every couple of turns just to mess you up
@@kirbybieI like this idea. A lot.
@@kirbybie that would be funny
@@kirbybieNintendo Switch Chess should be made and keep NS Sports's own take on the Mii, but keep the original Mii as an option. It could include Miis and Sport's Miis as pieces as an option too.
I have never heard of Wii Chess until now
I like to imagine Scotts laying on the ground kicking his feet in the air behind him while talking about these games.
Even if the carpet is on a table
Crazy to think that Scott just ranked every single Wii game in under 36 minutes
well yes, i suppose 35 minutes and 57 seconds _is_ under 36 minutes
@@CocoTheMiibig if true
Well it's the Wii Series.
I remember being home on Christmas break, eating Christmas cookies, and playing wii sports resort all night. Good times
I thought I owned just Resort for the longest time (this was from 2011-2023 I owned a Wii since 2011) Earlier this year I found Open Season, COD3 and Wii Sports + Wii Sports Resort all on Wii. It was really cool and the game discs work too (I used a Wii U)
Good times
the wii series is the 8th best selling video game franchise of all time, surpassing franchises like final fantasy, sonic, and zelda, so i'm surprised it's not talked about more
TBF surpassing Sonic isn't that hard.
Yeah, but mostly because they aren't available to play on new devices anymore.
They're more of a nostalgic relic I guess, but I suppose it could still be surprising that they aren't talked about much.
to be fair the only reason wii sports and wii sports resort sold so well is because they came bundled with every wii console
@@v4n1ty92 While yes that is true, you have to remember that the reason the wii sold so well was because of the popularity of wii sports and wii sports resort. I'm not saying that's the only reason but it's certainly a big one.
I suppose wii fit, sports, party, and play are the main contributions
Scott somehow manages to be more down to earth/toned down on this channel and still crack me up. I need to watch videos from the stash more.
he reminds me of dankpods on this channel
@@snoleopard100%, but for games. Scott makes great content altogether though, doesn't surprise me that this channel is high quality lol
I actually really enjoy Wii Music, please tell me I’m not the only one
i really enjoyed it too, i dont understand the hate 😂
I LOVED Wii Music when it came out. Maybe it’s because I was a die-hard band geek when I was in middle and high school, but I always got a kick out of creating music and variations on songs in the game 🎶
“So yeah, I wanna be crucified “
- Christ the Woz
I was overjoyed.
Jesus the chris*
*Rex Mohs
@@RyMacG4 * Jesus Christ
Johovah the messiah
Timestamps:
1:11 #13 Wii Chess
3:07 #12 Wii Music
5:23 #11 Wii Sports Club
10:14 #10 Nintendo Switch Sports
17:58 #9 Wii Party U
21:33 #8 Wii Party
22:51 #7 Wii Fit
25:02 #6 Wii Play Motion
27:35 #5 Wii Play
30:00 #4 Wii Fit Plus
30:34 #3 Wii Sports
32:22 #2 Wii Fit U
33:37 #1 Wii Sports Resort
Oh boy I wonder how Scott feels about the most musically complex game in the Wii series.
I'm talking about the Tanks! minigame from Wii Play.
That video was great
When I saw the title, I instantly felt nostalgia for a wii game where you ski down a mountain that used the balance board. I haven’t played it in a long time, and maybe it’s just my nostalgia talking, but I remember it having one of the best atmospheres I’ve ever experienced in a game. When Scott got to the end of the video and didn’t even mention it, I googled the game only to find out it was called We Ski instead of Wii Ski.
Called *Family Ski* in Japan, it was made by Bandai Namco’s Ridge Racer team, and would be followed by two sequels: *We Ski & Snowboard* then *Go Vacation* .
@@chazmaru9583go vacation is awesome
There is a wii fit minigame where you snowboard
Go Vacation was sooo fun
We Ski is so fun, I miss being a young child and playing it all night
Wii Party U was a drop of water in the desert for Mario Party fans at the time. It's not great, but it's a hell of a lot better than what Mario was offering. I remember being ecstatic to play on a board without piling into a car
The island fly over always made me wish it didnt have such a small time limit, there is another island if you go far enough (but it is a wayyy smaller island). It also came with morning, sunset and dusk mode. It was just a relaxing game mode that i wish got brought to the switch
Defending Wii Music in 2008 was training for defending the Wii U in 2014.
Wii Music is a fun game man you could jam with other miis in the menu screen shit was awesome
Imagine having Wii Music U…if Wii U never discontinued
would have worked better with the Wii motion plus @@yasmine123ification
I like that Scott's tag in Nintendo Switch Sports is "Former Dad"
wii party is one of my favorite games of all time, played it all the time with my friend, bought it with a wii remote bundle and it was so good
They need to make something like it for the Switch it was so amazing.
Dude how the hell do you just keep landing hit after hit, legitimately one of the most talented people to ever do it right here. And this isn't even a main series video 😸
the glazing is too much bruv
@@hyperspace2752 Scott makes me happy what can I say, i could literally die anytime, why should I be ashamed of what I enjoy
@@hyperspace2752There's so much negativity in the world, let a guy gush. And I agree, Scott's output is amazing.
Cause these videos were made in 2022 as part of the trading cards he sold on his shop. So these were made ages ago and he's just uploading them now
@@mattw6740 I don't see how that makes them any less great
Never realized until this just how many games in this “Wii” series there were. With that name they definitely standout in a Wii and Wii U game collection.
Of the ones I played I’d say Wii Sports Resort is my personal favorite and best.
I definitely want to try out the "Wii" games that I never got around to having.
And yes, Wii Sports Resort is also my favourite and it's definitely the best one.
@@eglolYou should, Wii Music, Wii Play and the standard Wii Sports are amazing titles
I’m surprised he didn’t include 51 world wide classics, that really gives me wii vibes
He only wanted to go over all of Nintendo's games that had "Wii" in the name, hence the Wii series name (And Nintendo Switch Sports because it's a spiritual successor to Wii Sports)
clubhouse games it’s it’s own series, there was a game on the ds before the switch
@@SuspiciousScoutNintendo Switch Sports is a direct successor to the Wii Sports games, so it is part of the Wii series (confusingly lol). It is also the only one to not include Wii in the name
@@carro179 Well I think it's just splitting hairs at that point. I only said "spiritual successor" because it's obviously succeeding the Wii Sports games in many ways, just it's transformed into a pretty different thing aesthetically with the sportsmates and new spocco square location,
Wii Chess saved me from my cancer 10/10 game
it made my cancer worse 4/10
Hi cancer, I'm Wii Chess
Introducing Wii Chess. Finally, chess you can’t feel.
Not enough people talk about how Switch Sports was made just to sell more right joycons.
I know it’s unpopular but I loved WII music so much! My musical family loved it!❤
I’m glad I’m not the only one!
I remember playing so much of that as a kid. Especially making music videos with all my friends' miis lol
Glad to see Resort at the top where it belongs, also love to see the Wii Fit U love
Yess me2
Wii Sports Resort is such a great game, I love all the Swordfighting modes and of course the amazing Island Flyover
I hate only 5 min flying.
i dont remember flyover being in Resort, might check the game out again.
Wii Sports Resort was a banger.
Damn i just realized the wii music composer and musicians 4:20 are the predecessors to party phi, the wii party host.
genuinely stoked that wii sports resort was yr #1 pick. that’s the first video game i ever played all the way back in christmas 2009 so it really holds a special place in my heart
Wii Sports Resort is unironically one of the most pure fun games Nintendo has made. Yeah I wouldn't put it in my Top 100 due to barely revisiting it... but I just have a strong respect for how much soul is put into it despite what it is.
Hey Scott! Been a fan for awhile and I love your videos, and I'm glad to see you talk about the Wii series, because it feels like most people forget about the Wii series aside from both Wii Sports games and Wii Play and that Mis are kind of forgotten now, which is a bit sad to me, because I grew up with the Wii and I'd love to see the Miis and the original Wii Sports games make a big comeback on Switch or the next console because I a soft spot and a ton of nostalgia and good memories with them.
Wii Sports Resort being at the top brings a tear to my eye. Genuinely one of my all-time favorite games.
my dad always liked to play Wii Play, great memories to back in the day
I know these are supposed to be somewhat simple somewhat dumb fun for the most part… but these games were genuinely such a great entry point for many of my non-gaming friends or relatives I wanted to play games with. I feel like there’s a bit of a missed opportunity with ideas like these on the switch.
I think I also just feel like my switch mii’s are too forgotten and never included in my switch fun
Yeah, they want us to forget about the Miis, so they try to hide them in settings. Since a lot of us had childhood memories of the Miis no matter how hard they try the Miis will refuse to die out.
@@therealzhenplaz200I'm just glad that the 2 games I play the most on switch, miitopia and smash ultimate, utilize the miis pretty heavily.
Thank you so much for this video, Scott. There's a lot of games in here that I didn't even know existed, haha. I'll definitely pick up a copy of Wii fit U next time I'm in my retro shop... maybe even a board.
Scott makes a good point with locking customization for Nintendo Switch Sports.
Imagine in order to get more hairstyles in Splatoon 3 you have to play through the catalog or randomly pull one from the Shell-Out machine.
I’d consider Nintendo Land as the third one in the Wii Play series, but to each their own.
Yeah but uh .. it’s not
@@julianmitchell5776 Debatable. We've never really had Nintendo touch on this topic. What if it somehow is according to Nintendo? We don't know.
@@luigitime202That’s the thing tho, we don’t know. Nintendo switch sports was deliberately said by Nintendo to be a part of the wii series. I don’t think they’ve mentioned anything about nintendo land being a part of the same series
@@gbx4858 I mean, it’s a game about Miis, and it introduces you to what the console is capable of. You know what other game does that? Wii Play. It hasn’t been deconfirmed so I’m just kinda set in my ways lol
I think what scatt was trying to say about the simplicity of these games is the simpler the game the more room there is for fun. And not complicating it with like Wii motion plus or whatever. Also Wii play and Wii fit plus over Motion is crazy.
I think wii party's replaybility is exponentially bigger thanks to spot the sneak
Spot the sneak is the real iconic mode of wii party
Man I hate break it to you but there are so many more games on the Wii than just those
It makes me so happy to see praise for Wii Fit U :') I LOVE the new minigames it added. I was sad at the removal of the penguin minigame but the new ones were so good that I don't mind. The ocean exploration one is genuinely one of my favorite experiences of the Wii series. Super underrated and another awesome game tragically stuck on the Wii U forever.
Yeah a lot of the popular Wii U titles were moved to Switch, but Wii Fit U wasnt remade on switch, and no game equal to it was made for switch sadly
...quietly in the back... I loved wii music🙊 awesome video again Scott :)
20:00 Scott never heard of Poofesure raging moments in Wii Party U
*Elissaaaa! Go away!!*
I love wii party so much it's just so nostalgic to me 😭 wii sports resort, wii sports, and wii fit are also all amazing
the wii series was one of my first intros to gaming since wii sports automatically came with my wii. As a child growing up with this system, this series made it super easy to learn how to play video games. I learned controls and caught on quickly to the layout of the remote and the gimmicks that came with it. I genuinely view this series as the most widespread wii game series since the game can be enjoyed by any player, whether you had played video games or not.
Crazy to say I almost completely agree ur ranking! Although I never play Wii U before (I just skip it and play wii when I was young)
And I love ur content Wii is my best childhood memory
So keep it up I looking forward to ur new content 🫡
I appreciate this video as someone trying to collect all of these
Kind of surprised Ring Fit Adventure wasn't included. I think it definitely fits the general "vibe" of a Wii series game, but maybe it's just a bit too different to really put it in the same category as Wii Fit despite both being fitness-centered games.
Nintendo Switch Sports is here because it's banking on the Wii Sports formula through and through, and Wii Chess is just here because it wrote Wii on its nametag. Ring Fit Adventure doesn't really have either of those, even with Wii Fit in mind because they are fundamentally and structurely completely different, not to mention it doesn't even acknowledge Miis at all.
@@MizunoKetsuban That's a good point. Actually kind of surprises me that there's no presence of Miis at all in Ring Fit Adventure. Not even as some sort of profile picture for a leaderboard or tracking your progress. Then again, ever since the Switch entered the scene, Miis have been less emphasized and present in Nintendo's games and marketing. Even the Mii Maker is hidden in the profile settings of the Switch as opposed to being up front in one of the game-card slots as it's own separate application like before. But circling back to your point, you're right. Ring Fit Adventure is ultimately it's own separate thing detached from Wii Fit and the greater Wii series of games and is structually a lot diffeent gameplay-wise despite aiming for a similar audience. It's not a direct sequel or remake. You could see it as a spiritual successor, as many see it as "the Switch's Wii Fit", but it's still its own thing. It's like if someone compared 1-2 Switch to Wii Play/Motion as the Switch's equivalent to that, but it has no ties to it really, and again, has no Miis present.
Wii Ski was missing too…
@@foseball5652 It's We Ski. Not Wii. It's not a Wii game.
@@MizunoKetsuban I gotcha, still absolute gem of a series that i feel matches the vibe
Man I loved the Wii series of games it was mostly awesome I love these type of videos
I wanna see theses on the main channel while we’re waiting for a main post this would be a nice sunrise
I always loved the concept of Wuhu Island. I always wanted a free roam mode in Wii Sports Resort outside of only flying around the island.
After watching this video, I see that Wii Fit U has some kind of Wuhu Island biking, which is great, but. I didnt have Fit U nor a Fit Board.
I genuinely loved Wii Music - I played it loads as a kid, and for some reason it was one of my go-to games when my friends came over
Wii Sports Resort is probably within the top 5 first-party Wii games, it's an incredible experience
My family and I ADORED Wii Party (the original) we played it every weekend and got so worked up over this silly little mii game. It was our wonderful tradition and I will always be nostalgic for it
The best way to describe Switch Sports in my opinion is that it tries to appeal to those who have nostalgia for Wii Sports, but it scrubs away everything that would invoke nostalgia. Moving away from Miis, different styled music, the game being entirely indoors, (in what feels like the ship from Wall-E might I add) it all feels like it's trying to piggyback off of the legacy of Wii Sports without understanding why it's looked at so fondly now.
So many TikToks use music or elements, or outright base themselves on the Wii's aesthetic that for Nintendo to only bring over the *gameplay* shows they don't know why those of us in our early-to-mid 20s still feel something in our hearts for the Wii series.
yess finally a video about every wii title game 😄👍🏻
No surprises about Wii Sports Resort there. I have dozens of amazing memories with it. My favorite thing to do was 100% island flyover. I loved to have little internal monologues about where I was flying and why 😭 the only game that could’ve topped it for me was 51 Clubhouse Games, but I understand why it wasn’t included
Wii all love Scott’s content
every shot with the game boxes on the carpet and scott’s arms make me imagine that he’s just filming these while laying face down on the ground swinging his legs in the air
Always amazed by how much Scott's hands emote.
Wii Sports Resort is such a banger. Wuhu Island is easily one of my favorite worlds in all of gaming
I play the shit out of Nintendo Switch Sports , I got it like a year and a half ago and still boot it up semi-regularly.
Its awesome. I think it got placed too low. I dont have friends who would ever want to play wii sports so the online-centric design really bumps it up for me.
It also gets me up and moving which is a big reason I play it.
ahhh the good ol' Wii series, an absolute classic...and my favourite fucking video game franchise ever!! next to Cooking With Mama...
Ok, so after seeing the video, the final ranking is
13. Wii Chess: 1:11
12. Wii Music: 3:07
11. Wii Sports Club: 5:23
10. Nintendo Switch Sports: 10:13
9. Wii Party U: 17:58
8. Wii Party: 21:33
7. Wii Fit: 22:51
6. Wii Play Motion: 25:02
5. Wii Play: 27:35
4. Wii Fit Plus: 30:00
3. Wii Sports: 30:35
2. Wii Fit U: 32:22
1. Wii Sports Resort: 33:38
Great video!
Honestly, since the Switch was announced and I saw that the Joycons could work like Wiimotes I was wanting a Wii Sports like game from Nintendo on the Switch. Even though Switch Sports has similar gameplay as Wii Sports it has a completely different vibe than Wii Sports. I still really like Switch Sports though and I think bowling and soccer are the highlights of this game. In bowling I was playing online and got 9 strikes in a row (my record) and soccer online is really fun. Also, Tomodachi Life had clothes for Miis and Switch Sports for some reason had to have new avatars to include clothes 😂.
i play wii party at least once a week, an absolute childhood staple of mine. i actually enjoyed wii music as well!
i much prefer the format of the videos on this channel. the casualness makes it feel much more personal
what they should do for a next gen sports game is
#1basketball
Tennis (Yes again)
Boxing
Rugby (for a nice change of pace)
IF they can Football!
or this can be in a sports plus game after its initial launch sports game
i was hoping for nintendo to add a basketball mode in the switch sports series since it made since with the motion controll for the joycon but thats not the case
Wii play #1 to me. Lazer hockey & tanks all day. Great vid.
That chess gameplay is so attrocious😭 losing against a rook and queen on lv2 is wild
Poofesure created many broken Toad Wiimotes with Wii motion plus 😂 great video
Weird to put Cooking Mama 3 as your #1 Wii Series game, but go off
It's wild to me how Scott doesn't remember that Wii Chess doesn't use Miis. I think he mixed up his criticism that it didn't use Miis with the game not using Miis to create a false memory.
The game is just that boring.
I think Wii Sports OG is also super important because it came for FREE with every Wii sold. So literally, anyone who had a Wii, also had Wii Sports. It meant everyone could play with everybody and i think thats why it was also so effective for us all.
I also think 1-2 Switch might have had a better reception if it was free bundled with the Switch like Wii Sports instead of a $60 game. Because i wonder if the original Wii Sports would have had the same reception if it pulled the same move 1-2 Switch did
Imagine Wii Chess like this: Miis in costumes and fighting in a cool fashion with additional mission modes
Or the pieces had the heads of miis on your system
partially related but i feel that 1-2 switch or everybody 1-2 switch would make for great scott the woz episodes
Sports , play , and resort are all masterpieces .. yes play in it’s own right is a masterpiece lol
Party Too IMO
Say what you will, but that physical copy of Wii Sports Club will be the most valuable one in the future.
where is pilotwings resort?
Wii Music was wildly fun and enjoyable when I was a kid and I will defend it with my life
Now this is content
I had a lot of fun with ring fit tbh, i would enjoy more in that vein
Forgetting about wii sports club is very fitting...
Ah, Wii Chess… Chess you can’t feel
31:20 "you don't have to explain any of them", tell that to every kid outside of north america and japan that had basically never heard of baseball lol
Big fan of the "carpet-tier-lists" lmao
Wii Sports Resort is in my top 10 games for sure
20:00 I know spot the sneak is from the original Wii party but it was so much fun with friends on Wii party u lol
I'd consider Pilotwings Resort to be part of the Wii series as well.
Wii Play Tanks didn’t have to be such an S-Tier mini game
Gosh. Wii party Wii Play and Wii Sports Resort are at the top for me. I grew up on Wii Party and Wii Play. My most cherished video game memories as a kid are playing Wii Party with my cousins.
Baseball was my #1 fav in the package
I appreciate the Wii Fit/Plus/U love
I love the original Wii Sports, but it would not be fondly remembered if it wasn't a Wii pack-in.
Here’s the rankings for anyone trying to keep track:
1. Wii Sports Resort
2. Wii Fit U
3. Wii Sports
4. Wii Fit Plus
5. Wii Play
6. Wii Play Motion
7. Wii Fit
8. Wii Party
9. Wii Party U
10. Nintendo Switch Sports
11. Wii Sports Club
12. Wii Music
13. Wii Chess
Wii Party is my favorite no question game is just so fun Wii Music be underrated asf
1, 2, Switch & Wii Party/U really were designed for a timeline in which Blockbuster & other rental stores never died out
I really hope NDCube being the Mario Party developers and us not being on a "Wii" console doesn't snuff out any chance of another Wii Party. The two games aren't just Mario Party wannabes, they're unique, clever, and really charming. You mention there are too many modes, but honestly a lot of them are amazing. Spin-Off, Bingo, Friend Connection, Mii Fashion Plaza, Do U Know Mii, Bridge Burners, it's so fun to have these modes that can let you play the game so many different ways with your friends and family.
And EVERY Party game needs a Spot the Sneak, that mode singlehandedly makes Wii Party my favorite Party game series
My favorite Wii Games:
Wii Sports Resort
Wii Fit Plus
Wii Sports
Wii Party
Miitomo