• BossDj@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Wii U too. Two consoles with a whole extra screen on your controller. Brilliant and cool features. Misunderstood or poorly timed?

    • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
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      5 months ago

      Misunderstood for sure, I think. The Wii U suffered from what was probably the worst marketing campaign of any game console, ever. I didn’t even know it was a new console and not yet-another-Wii-addon until halfway through it’s life cycle and I think that was a pretty common misunderstanding.

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          5 months ago

          Rayman Legends, Pikmin 3, Super Mario 3D World, Smash Bros off the top of my head. It had plenty of excellent games

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            Yeah, which of those would you say “Oh boy, I’m going to spend several hundred dollars on a new console so that I can play THIS game”?

            The Wii U had no killer app. The Gamecube had a stronger library throughout its life than the Wii U did. The Wii U was the thing they were also making during the 3DS era. Hell, the big game that was developed for the Wii U, Breath of the Wild, became a killer app for the Switch.

            Given a Wii U and a collection of games for it, you can have some fun, certainly. It also has access to the Wii’s library, being essentially a Wii with an HDMI port, and it can access a lot of the older Nintendo library in a way that the Switch stubbornly doesn’t. A modded Wii U is a pretty cool thing to have. The Wii U had an abysmal career but it lived so it could retire.

    • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOP
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      The way I felt about the Wii U was probably similar to how adults felt about the Dreamcast back then.

      It seemed really cool, but it didn’t feel worth the money while there were other great consoles already. I was still getting a ton of use out of my original Wii.