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I'm voting Wii.

I definitely enjoyed some of the games it had (Donkey Kong Country Returns, Kirby's Return to Dream Land, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga, Mario Sports Mix, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Sonic Colors, etc.) and its motion controls when they were done well. Really fun system there, in my book.

...but looking back now, I kind of wasn't too impressed with it myself and adding to the few odd design choices that I wasn't a fan of (Wii Remote Plus obsoleting the Wii Remote and especially the Wii Motion Plus accessory, to name one of them), it was the first Nintendo system to alienate most of the third-party space that resulted in some games either being "stripped down" to varying degrees or downright cancelled, not helped either by the smorgasbord of shovelware polluting a good chunk of its library (this is "normal" for most successful consoles, yes, but this often made me feel like Nintendo and its developers had gotten a little too comfortable with their games at times); yes, the third-party library here is quite massive and helped make Nintendo a huge killing in that era, but for me...a great third-party library isn't always on how many are there. The Wii also happened to be the first Nintendo home console to give me actual disappointments, with Super Smash Bros Brawl and Wii Party still giving me traumatic memories to this day and age.

I could probably go on regarding my overall thoughts on the Wii these days, but while I (again) still found enjoyment in that system and still (somewhat) label it as a "classic", all of the fond impressions I had for it had gradually withered and I felt that many of the ideas and features I liked from it were done better by other home consoles from Nintendo's hands. The least thing I can say about the Wii is that I still enjoyed it much more than the Nintendo DS, which is undoubtedly my least favorite Nintendo system of all time for giving me even lesser fond and fun times than the Wii did, as well as doubling-down on its touch screen idea on many ways than my much-preferred "map and inventory" management setup.