Why do people pretend that this console wasn't filled with bangers? Mario Kart 8, Mario 3D World, Pikmin 3, DK Tropical Freeze, Nintendo Land, Smash Bros U, Yoshi Woolly World, Mario Maker, Splatoon, Paper Mario Color Splash, and it had good third party support with Call of Duty Ghosts and Black Ops 2, Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flag, and Deus Ex Human Revolution, and Rayman Legends.
>>743305275Mario 3D World wasn't a big 3D Mario.The Wii U needed a big 3D Mario.
Because most of them aren't exclusive with current context, Starfox Zero is not well liked and Kirby Rainbow Curse us decent but not worth having a whole system for.
>>743305275Switch 1 snoys still need to pretend like it was all bad even though all of the games on switch 1 are just ports from the Wii U.
>>7433053823D World is a great game and has good game feel and a bombastic finale and the hardest bonus levels in the series. If we're being honest it's top 3
It was one of those "made of pure soul" consoles like the Dreamcast or the Gamecube. In spite of any shortcomings, any game that either was intended as an exclusive, or remained one, tended to slap for some reason.People forget that even Rayman Legends was supposed to be Wii U exclusive at one point.
>>743305275Because the switch WHIRRRed up almost all of its noteworthy exclusives, and since so many more people bought switches, in the public consciousness they became switch games and not wii u games. A huge contributing factor to the switch's success was porting the wii u's library. For example, mario kart 8 sold 8.5 million on the Wii U and MK8D sold 71 million on the switch. SMBU sold under 6 million on the Wii U and SMBUD 19 million on the switch.
>>743306043If I'm not mistaken a Shovel Knight expansion was also exclusive for a while
>>743305275I can't deny it had bangers, but those bangers were divided up by months long droughts
>>743305275I bought this shit just to play Xenoblade. I literally never played any other game on my Wii U, didn't even bother hacking it even though all my other consoles have CFW on it.
>>743305957Oh, it's the best Wii U game hands down by virtue of being A 3D Mario game, but, of the 3D Mario games, it is the least appealing when compared to Galaxy 1, Galaxy 2, Sunshine, and Odyssey.3D Land has the excuse of being on a handheld, which probably wouldn't be able to run a 64-style 3D Mario game with 3DS graphics.The 3DS can run Mario 64 with the Render96 Mario model, but it probably can't run Sunshine.
>>743306495I considered getting Xeno X back in the day but I wasn't sure I would like it.
>>743306514>it's the best Wii U game hands downIt's the the third best Mario game, Period. Sunshine is aids.
>>7433065143D World has it's own distinct appeal1. it's classic Mario in 3D2. it's a multiplayer gameTotal different entity to Mario 64.It is maybe my favourite Mario game overall, that said. it's really fun.
>>743305275personally its my most used console simply because of the vWii, been too lazy to mod it for gamecube use so far but I'll get to it once I upgrade from haxchi, still using that because... lazy
>>743309379I love using it for Gamecube, it's so seamless if you install the channel and slot an SD card.
>>743309560Wii U with CFW is a beast. I've played so many gamecube games with it
>>743305275>look at how great [Nintendo console] was because it had [Nintendo exclusives]!You can say the same for the N64 or the Gamecube. They undersold, but the consoles themselves are "underrated" because if you really wanted to play those games you couldn't get them anywhere else. If that's your mindset then Nintendo basically can't lose, even when they release a stinker.Also 3rd party support was not great. Most of the examples were from around the time it launched and/or ports of games that had already been on PS3/360 for a long time. e.g. DXHR came out in 2011; the WiiU port was in 2013. The hardware was just too weak to be competitive, which is why AAA support dried up. WiiU crawled so Switch could sprint.
>>743305275And how long did it take for most of those games to come out?Most of them didn't release until multiple years into the system because after the wii nintendo expected third parties to be tripping over themselves to get on the wiiu.When that didn't happen they had a serious "oh shit!" moment when they realized that if they didn't pull the system's weight themselves it really would go out on a wet fart with literally nothing on it.>and it had good third partySir, please take off the clown shoes and makeup.
