 At the same time , criticism of the Wii Remote and Wii hardware specifications has surfaced . Former GameSpot editor and Giantbomb.com founder Jeff Gerstmann stated that the controller 's speaker produces low @-@ quality sound , while Factor 5 President Julian Eggebrecht criticized the hardware audio as substandard for a console of its generation . UK @-@ based developer Free Radical Design stated that the Wii hardware lacks the power necessary to run the software it scheduled for release on other seventh @-@ generation consoles . Online connectivity of the Wii was also criticized ; Matt Casamassina of IGN compared it to the " entirely unintuitive " service provided for the Nintendo DS . 
