Classic characters of Xbox : John 117 (Halo : Combat Evolved), Ryu (Ninja Gaiden), Conker (Conker Live and Reloaded)...
Conker is a game with violence, but the violence is humor, the game is based on humor and parodies, the universe is crazy but REALLY FUNNY, you can't play Conker and not laugh, it is impossible. Ask to all people who have played this game, it is really funny. You can't say that the story is bad, the gameplay is not innovative, but THE story is quite funny, so the game is very good. Microsoft buy excellent developpers, like Rare, like Bungie, like Bizarre... etc.
And you can create a game which is innovative with the gameplay... Look at Halo : Combat Evolved, for example, on Xbox. It left the November 8th 2001 on America, on Xbox, and it was really innovative... The gameplay was innovative, the game was innovative, he used graphics for immersion, the best graphics at the time, but the gameplay was innovative too. The game had a story, a good story, and for a FPS, a story is very rare, and a good story, it was impossible to see. Look great FPS like Quake, or Unreal... They had no story. And the use of the vehicles was extremly good, I can say that it is the only one FPS who proposed vehicles with a perfect control, very intuitive, very easy to control, and the game good used possibilitys of vehicles. The AI was great too, if you play to the game attentively, you can see that, the ennemies are very intelligent, they used tactics systems, teamwork, and cover! And it was on a console, and a FPS in a console cannot have controls like a PC with mouse and keyboard, but the controls of Halo : Combat Evolved was great for a console, it is the best controls of a console FPS that I've seen. So, you can easily see that a game can be REALLY GREAT, with innovative gameplay and a graphics exceptionnal who help to the immersion... and that the universe of a game with violence can be extremly good. The universe of Halo is really great, the grunts are really funny, the design of Covenants is really reat, well, you can't frorgot them...
And... The console had not innovative gameplay with a pad, yes... but the developpers made a game with a really innovative gameplay.
So, if the developpers of the Wii do not use the potential of the Wii, the innovation of gameplay will use to nothing.
Damn, I have spoken of Halo. I need to play Halo, it is irresistible. I will play Halo all this day, now. I will finish Halo a new time, before I won't be able to play Halo.