The wii is probably not as good as you remember. I don’t know the technical terms, but the original controller didn’t actually do 1:1 tracking. Someone smarter than me explains here:

https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~okreylos/ResDev/Wiimote/MainPage...

They added motion plus later, which was better, but also required frequent recalibration.

In addition to Nintendo, MS and Sony took a shot at it. I don’t blame Nintendo, I think people just stopped caring.