4 Annoying Nintendo Wii Cliches that Need to Die Immediately

The Nintendo Wii was once the best-selling game console on the market, but has been bested by the PS3 and Xbox 360 - and following are the worst signature Nintendo Wii gaming gimmicks that need to fall from the face of Earth.

Mini-game/Party game madness

If the Nintendo Wii were to go down in history for just one annoying signature cliché, it'd be party games. Party games filled with lots of Fiesta-styled mini-games make up the majority of the Wii games you'd find in the Nintendo Wii section of your local gaming or electronics store - and while it may seem that Wii party games sucked because they were such a gaming "me-too," Nintendo Wii party games actually sucked because instead of creating a solid game, these party games just jammed a bunch of half-assed mini-games into a title and called it a day.

Motion-controlled racing

I'm not sure how this fad caught on, but the Nintendo Wii was notorious for making all of its games motion-controlled - where you were made to place and steer your gaming controller as if you were actually driving a real car. Motion-controlled racing on the Wii was annoying due to the fact that racing this way caused problematic in-game racing - crashing into walls, crappy turning, etc. - and the muscle sprain in the elbows cause by motion-controlled racing was a bitch.

Mundane/life simulations

The Nintendo Wii was famous for turning anything that you could do in real life into a video game. There was Wii Sports, Wii Music, Cooking Mama, Petz, and other games based on crap that you probably didn't even want to bother doing in real life. If you find yourself cutting a cucumber and saying "it feels just like in real life" you've been a victim of this annoying - quite frankly - boring Nintendo Wii game.

Sports

Sure, it's easy to pick on games like Wii Sports, Backyard Sports, and other "Sports" based Wii games, but they aren't the only sports games on the Nintendo Wii that need to be kidnapped, bound, gagged, and tortured to death - Nintendo Wii needs to stop producing Wii games... period - well, except golfing games. Official sports games for the NBA, NHL, MLB, and NFL have been butchered on the Nintendo Wii and if you see the words "Wii" and "Sports" - also known as "Sportz" - Run!

For more, read How the Nintendo Wii is Making the Same Mistakes as the Sega Dreamcast , Is the Nintendo Wii's Motion Gaming Gimmick Dead? , and 5 Most Pointless Wii Games Based on a Single Gimmick

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