Engadget: Wii U Is the Only True Game Console

i see your crappy ps4 and xbox one as 3 generation old in my view. Thats because of my gaming pc is so far ahead. So why should I spend $500 on a crappy last gen console like the xbox/ps4? Spend more and get dat PC. But bu bu teh console exxxclusivess!! take those exclusives, turn them sideways and stick them straight up where the sun done shine.

its funny how you say one console is last gen and the other is next gen, but you don't make any mention of the PC, which is leagues ahead of all the consoles. When comparing to the PC, the xbox one/ps4 and the wii u are pretty much the same in terms of hardware. If I were to put it in numbers, lets say the wii u is 500 points, the xbox one is 1000 points, the ps4 is 1200 points. Does any of that matter when the PC is at around 100,000 points? When you see it like that, the only thing, and i mean the ONLY thing that you should consider when buying a console is the games, not anything else.

IMO, WiiU is receiving positive media attention, because it's the underdog.

It always had the cherised franchises going for it and it's still the weakest console.

It's not a cop out. Deal with it.

Standards do change and it is related. Did you notice Gamespots scoring system has changed recently? Do you realize time has passed since the Wii-U launched? Or are you just a time traveler? Also LOL at comparing consoles that launched at the tail end of a year literally 2-3 weeks ago to a console that has been out 52 weeks. As I said in the past. It's like comparing a new born to a year old. Who's gonna be better at fine motor skills and speech? You tell me. There's also only one answer to that question.

No, it is a cop out. Deal with it. Yes, the scoring system changed recently, but honestly, I havent any proof this affect the standards in any way. Therefore the point still stands. Whether you like it or not, The Wii-U's launch library stands up to the One's and outperforms the PS4's.

Also, your other argument is a really weak sauce argument. The PS4 and Xbox one aren't competing with the Wii U on launch, they are competing with the Wii U as it is now.

Hahahaha! Exclusives?! Like Ryse, Lococycle and Knack?
Multiplats? Like the ones on PC?
You got nothing. Nothing.
$100 extra? So never play online? Get out of here.

What's the best Wii-U online game? It has none.

Wii-U lacks multiplats. So what if PC has them too? Sheep don't have high end PC's. It's just one more platform that has these games, whereas the Wii-U doesn't.Just further proves the Wii-U is a total failure as a "primary" console, and is only decent as a secondary machine for the occasional Nintendo game.

Right there with you. I'm getting one early next year.

There's plenty of games out for it I want to play already, and more coming.

Since I didn't have a Wii for long last gen I'll also have that entire library to choose from as well.

If you were happy with the wii as your primary console last gen, the wiiU is more of the same.

The only good titles for the wiiU are a going to be a handful of first party games, like Mario Galaxy. Everything else will be garbage. If you're really invested in Nintendo's franchises, buy a wiiU. But don't expect more that 1 or 2 good game releases a year. And those games are going to be fundamentally less ambitious, forget about open world games like Grand Theft Auto.

Nintendo literally can't make big budget games like Call of Duty. And it's not just them, Japanese development for consoles has fallen off a cliff because Japanese studios don't have the staff, budgets, or resources for development of modern AAA console games. So they've given up and pretty much all Japanese development is now on the handhelds, mostly the 3DS.

@rtechie: I would expect the Wii U to turn out the same like the Wii, that being a truckload of overlooked titles. As a matter of fact, when it came to 7 or above scoring games the Wii had 180 games of which 81 of are exclusive.

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It certainly isnt as much (overal librarywise) as its competition. But it certainly wasnt a slouch in the exclusive library. Certainly a lot more than 1 or 2 good games per year.

Ratings on video games have been subject to grade inflation for a number of years due to manipulation by publishers. It used to be that 9+ games hardly existed (1 or 2 per year, at most), now just about every decent title is a 9 and lots of games get 10s. Most reviewers aren't even allowed to rate games less than 6, under any circumstance. In modern ratings a game gets a 7 just for booting up and not crashing constantly.

Of the games you listed (I haven't played them all) I would only put 2 3rd party games above a 5, No More Heroes 1 and 2.

Virtually all the games for the wii were shovelware garbage. That's just a fact. The same sort of defenses were made for the GameCube's terrible library, but there were virtually no decent 3rd party Gamecube games (I can think of 2, and one was a remake).

If you don't like Mario and Zelda the GameCube, wii, and now the wiiU have nothing to offer.

*spits out milk*

Goes to show that you have to try a thing for yourself before you believe the perception of the media. From the sound of it, the Wii U seemed like a cheap, garbage piece of plastic that was flimsy in every way. It really just lacked software, but now this system is getting some good games. So far, for me, Wii U is an exceptional console from software to hardware. It's innovative, comfty, and has some great titles.

Fair enough. Pretty sure we have always counted 7 upwards games, as they are "good". But you can of course cut off wherever you like.

Because they aren't horrible. They are unimpressive, and I won't be buying a next gen console yet... but they are factually not horrible. And yet sheep want to defend how crap the WiiU has been by acting like the PS4 and Xbone are disasters. Fun fact, they got as many AAA games at launch as WiiU did in it's first year.

@locopatho: Some people use the 8+ bar. But I use the 7 bar. So while I prefer The One launch, I can see why by other standards the Wii U would win here.

@rtechie: That is a lot of assumptions wihtout stuff to back it up. Nah, whether you like it or not, using the metagame and standards here the Wii had a very decent exclusive library. A lot of games on the Wii were shovelware, but a lot of games were pretty darn good. Also, while I am at it, please consider using this, you may find it rather educational.

Yet the WiiU got a lot of crap for it, and if the same is said about the X1 or PS4 it has to be defended.

Because the WiiU had a worse launch then X1 or PS4. None of the three had an amazing launch but you don't get to pretend that they were all the same either.

You're making a big deal out of some mediocre crap. It just surprises me. They lie constantly in all the anti Wii-U threads and I never see you there.

No, THAT'S a lie. The PS4 and Xbox One games are NOT all medicore crap.

Depends who's lying. If it's some low level fakeboy or idiot saying "LOL ONLY MARIO" there's no point engaging those folks. If an actual poster was to get something wrong about WiiU, I'd correct them. Yes even if it was pro Nintendo, I am actually a fan of theirs when I'm not nerd raging like a bitch :P

Which launch game exclusives for those systems are better than NSMB U?

Not all of the individual launch games are horrible. But the launch line ups as a whole are very much mediocre crap.

So multiple "Good" (A), "Great" (AA) and "Superb" (AAA) are "mediocre crap" now?

Xbox One has 8 "Good" games, 6 "Great", and 2 "Superb" games for example. Many of them are on 360 as well (Albeit inferior in lesser or greater ways) so it's not exactly earth shattering... but I don't see how in the world you can call it "mediocre crap".

(Please don't do the "multiplats don't count" thing either... Twilight Princess is the biggest hyped sheep game I ever saw!)

Except for the world of dumbasses multiplats indeed don't count. If it's on PC then there is no reason to buy a console for it. Twilight Princess was never officially released on PC. I don't understand why you'd think an A rating is good. There is Forza and Killer Instinct on the Xbox One, and Resogun on the PS4. That's pretty darn barren.

lol multiplats. System Wars has never cared about them. Exclusives define a system's worth, not games that whore themselves out.

Oh ok you're just doing the bullshit thing of "lets ignore 90% of the Xbox and PS libraries while counting multiplats for Nintendo".

Gotta make up some way for Nintendo to win I suppose.

Let's pretend that Resogun is a more important game than Assassin's Creed or Battlefield. Lol.

Let's pretend that a last gen port of Wii Fit is a more important that GTAV, the probable Game Of The Year. Lol.

Why do I think an A rating is good???

Let's pretend our personal preferences are more important or accurate than others...