Why does SW continue to take a dump on the Wii U when..

It's had great games like Super Mario 3D World, Windwaker HD, Donkey Kong TF, Pikmin, Rayman Legends, etc. All of these games are extremely polished and fun. Mario Kart 8 is next month and we have Smash for the holidays. So why SW, why?

Its the same stuff, no new IP's. Just more Mario, Zelda and DK.

lol wii u

Because it's not a PS4

It's a shit console and a meagre list of games we've seen all before will do nothing to change that.

lolWiiU

I'm probably going to get a WiiU after E3. I'm expecting a price drop. It will be a great system with a decent library of titles to play during the usual summer lull in game releases. Showing Ninty some love!

MariiU

SW has awful taste.

SW doesn't care about games, just sales and moronic trends.

Why does SW continue to take a dump on the Wii U when..

..is it me or did you just answer your own question.

• Underpowered
• Underfeatured
• Over a decade behind in terms of online and not improving
• Fails to acquire 99% of multiplats
• Barely any new IPs to act as incentives for everyone who wasn't going to buy the damn thing without knowing any details (aka the diehard Nintendo fanbase)

Don't get me wrong. I LOVE Super Smash Bros and I LOVE Mario Kart. We only get 1 per gen and those games actually feel like fully-fledged sequels. Better yet, those teams embrace online which means I could play with friends and family out of the house and even out of the state. Hardly care for the rest though. If i gave a damn about Windwaker, I would have bought it on the gamecube. It hardly needed a remake as cell-shaded graphics age extremely well.

Mario? Eh, last 3D mario I was a fan of was Sunshine because it was DIFFERENT. This system doesn't even really have a 3D mario. It has New Super original DS Mario Ports and it has Mario 3D land sequel. Both are basically just normal 2d mario gameplay with one having slightly more dimensions to it. I stand by my statement they could just release a level editor and just release dlc items every year or so and that'd set the typical mario fan for life. What changes in each game besides maybe 1 new item each installment?

No metroid and more DK when nobody wanted it. Ya, ok. You can't get more out of touch then Nintendo. At least Microsoft could tell when they were being stupid and quickly made an effort to change course.

But the Nazis confiscated all of them? What do you mean had?

If the same stuff was regular new Metroid games as often as the other franchises I'd probably own one but no...hoping they let Metroid go 3rd Party since obviously they aren't using the property effectively. Are they only holding onto it so the can stick Samus in the Smash Bros and Party games? That's BS.

pretty much this

most gamers 10-30 years old....

which means they grew up in the ps1/ps2 era dominance.... they have sony in their pacifiers.

and all the people who thought consoles was for nerds...dude bros..are sony/xbox fans now.

More iterations of Mario, DK, SSB, etc. And, whether SW wants to admit it or not, graphics are more important than they claim to most.

So in other words you've never played 3d world.

Good to know

What I don't even know the read I just did.

Lack of third party. First party offerings aren't thatexciting. Then there's the way Nintendo handled/handles it.

It's easy to dislike the WiiU.

Everything that's not the PS4 seems to get shat on with the exception of the 3DS.

@handssss:

-Claims the Wii U doesn't have a 3D Mario

-Talks about Super Mario 3D World, a 3D Mario game

@SolidGame_basic:

Smash Bros holiday? Oh no no, Summer is more likely.

Absolutely incorrect.

@Shewgenja:

Wii U just got a price cut last Holiday...Nintendo was taking a $50 loss per console before now a $100 loss per console. You want them to lower it AGAIN??? $300 is more then reasonable. If you cant afford that, the gaming shouldn't be your focus in life. If people can afford a PS4 or Xbox One they can get a Wii U.

Jesus, is it a heavy flow day or something? I say I want one and it's not good enough? I could buy several, but I want to see what Nintendo does to sweeten the pot at E3. Probrem?

Because it took eons for those games to come out.

Underpowered....clearly you listen to the wrong people in this business. Maybe if you worked with the damn thing you would know that's not the case. Xbox One is roughly 33% stronger then Wii U, PS4 is about 50% stronger then Wii U. Its not a big deal.

Underfeatured....Other then Party Chat, not really, unless your one of those apes who thinks it should play CD's and DVD's and BluRay and have Twitter and all that crap.

Nintendo Network is a great online, EA helped make it and liked it so much they wanted it from Nintendo, Nintendo said nope, EA got pissed at Nintendo and now ignore Nintendo. Have fun paying to play online. Again other then missing Party Chat, Wii U's online is the best there is. That being said Nintendo MUST take advantage of it and make more games online.

Multiplats, you don't buy a Nintendo console for 3rd party games, you buy an Xbox or Playstation for them since their exclusives are junk, but most 3rd party devs are crap these days anyway.

New Ip's oh yeah cause PS and Xbox do new IP's all the damn time? Xbox did Titan Fall another FPS game woo hoo. Plasystation did The Last Of Us...which wont become a series necessarily. Nintendo did Wonderful 101, and it failed, Bayonetta 2 can be called an new Nintendo IP, and Miyamoto is making a new IP. You don't understand that making a new IP is a risk, it has no fanbase or known and loved character if Nintendo said we will only do new IP's that would kill them and nobody would buy them. Not to mention Nintendo has more IP's then the other 2. Nintendo should focus on Starfox, F-Zero, Ice Climbers, Custom Robo and such.

Yeah, they've stated pretty clearly Wii U isn't getting a price drop.

At the same time, I understand people's concern about the price. But it's completely ignoring a great deal of that cost goes to selling the console with a touch screen controller. People who only look at power in a discussion about the Wii U price obviously don't understand the console, and they shouldn't spend money on it because it's not designed for that kind of gamer.

@Master_Of_Fools That's one of the most biased, one eyed fanboyish and flat out wrong posts I've ever heard. Congratulations.

Because they can

The reason I don't want a WiiU is the game selection or lack thereof sometimes

The lack of?

It's currently offering the best exclusive lineup

@Master_Of_Fools:

All of the things he stated are true, but it's also those very reasons why many gamers don't want to buy one. It's not biased to say the system has its own unique strengths, which it absolutely does. It is biased, however, to say that gamers shouldn't be concerned about features not being included.

@Master_Of_Fools:

Great post.

@Master_Of_Fools:

Perhaps if Nintendo didn't always strive on shitty hardware, missing features and rehashes of the same childish games year after year, people wouldn't feel this way. This isn't the 80's anymore and we're not 10 years old anymore. People certainly want more.

@IMAHAPYHIPPO: no there was very little truth in his post. He downplayed the power disparity, which is a joke. He claimed the online was better on wii u. Think about that's! You've just agreed with him! He said people don't buy Nintendo for multiplats. And? That's not a good thing! He calls. Bayonetta a new ip and makes excuses for why Nintendo doesn't bother with them. He is all over the place.

Lol. The way you 'understand' Nintendo, it sounds like you are ten years old.

Not everyone is going to get excited about playing Mario games , Donkey Kong , and a Zelda remake. Best will always be subjective. You could say it's offering more exclusives though , but that's just a number.

Apologies, I'm just not having a good day, got a 2 week ban from XBL on my 360 today cause I had the word "Sh*t" in my bio....Apparently that was inappropriate, I have had it that way for a month...I expect a ban from Nintendo from that but Microsoft??? Like wtf.

I always wondered. If you get banned with a Gold account, can you still use Netflix? I know it's an OT question but I let my live account lapse years ago and never got the banhammer.

@charizard1605:

Why? Because I'm not into games with fictional plumbers, gokarts and childish furry critters?

And can the Wii U support my Sennheiser headphones in 7.1 Dolby Headphone Surround? Both Sony and Microsoft has done this for two generations now. Were in the 8th gen and the Nintendo still doesn't support Toslink. To those of us who appreciate audio even more than visuals, this is a very big deal. Especially since my gaming headphone setup costs more then a Wii U.

Relevant reasons: Weak sauce hardware, next to no 3rd party support, somewhat steep price, shoddy online (from what I hear, I don't really game online.)

Irrelevant reasons: Being insecure man-children, hating controllers they haven't even tried, claiming IP fatigue even when they usually play the same tired old games with a new name and look.

Right now it's the only new console with a library that stands on its own. It won't be that way for long obviously

This is why:

Overpriced

Underpowered

Terrible sales (probably because of the last 2 things)

You mentioned 5 games, 2 are on other consoles. None of them are new IPs

Only thing coming out for it are the same Nintendo IPs

Still 2 generations behind in regards to online functionality and other system level designs

Almost no third party support

Everything new that is getting announced is not for the Wii U

All of the interesting Nintendo IPs go to the DS, the rehashes come to the Wii U

Nintendo nor any 3rd party is really utilizing the tablet, which essentially means its tacking on an extra $100 for nothing.

The company has poor direction and seem afraid to fire the people who created this flop

They were trying to create another gimmick, but they failed. Instead of buying a tablet peripheral, people actually bought a fucking tablet.

The Wii U is capable of making very pretty Nintendo games. It's exactly as powerful as Nintendo needs it to be for their games. I don't buy Nintendo consoles for multiplatforms. I think multiplatforms are mostly crap. I don't deny anybody else's freedom to enjoy those types of games for the same reason I'm allowed to prefer console exclusives. So, for me, not having multiplatforms is a non-issue.

Also, Nintendo's been very sneakily creating new IP for years in the form of completely overhauling their exclusive titles. Mario 64, Mario Sunshine, the Galaxy duo, and 3D World were vastly different games. Really the only similarities were the characters and the fact that Mario jumps.

That said, I agree they need to create some new franchises, but not just for the sake of doing it. What are these new games going to be? What genre? What are they? Everybody just throws out, "Needs new IP," but nobody really has too many answers when it comes to what they are. Nintendo doesn't even release games in its existing franchises, I'd rather get some we haven't seen in awhile before getting new ones entirely.

And believe it or don't, I've spent more time online with the Wii U than the ps4 or the xbox one, mainly because I wasn't about to re-up on Xbox Live just for the sake of having it. For months after the purchase, I watched Netflix on Wii U because I had no reason to pay for Gold, as I wasn't playing multiplayer games. I got a free year of PS+ last August, but other than that, I probably wouldn't have it for PS4 right now had it not been for that. So, in that way, I enjoy the Wii U online more than the other two. I don't enjoy playing multiplayer games with screaming children and generally vulgar people I don't know. I just find it annoying. So, I'm not really missing anything on the Wii U.

Bummer dude. At least it's only 2 weeks.

Haters gunna hate, just play what you want to play. On that note.. the Wii U is MUCH MORE appealing to me when mixed with at least one of the other two as well. I prefer the best of all worlds personally and buy for any system a decent game releases on. All the haters either are going to get one eventually, are PC gamers only, or are young enough to automatically assume that the games are too childish (ironic right?)... Nintendo will do fine.. there is a world outside of SW's and it is MUCH larger... lol

Take a deep breath and repeat after me.. Who gives a shit... feel better?

@WitIsWisdom:

I'm 39, Owned a NES, SNES, N64 briefly and even a used Gamecube that I rarely played. Didn't buy the Wii and certainly have no interest in the Wii U. Yes. The games are very childish. And like I said. Even if the games would have been good. Nintendo won't even support my headphone setup. Because just like HD on the Wii, they don't take high quality a/v serious.

Why should anyone care about the Wii U? It has no third party support, and Nintendo isn't taking ANY risks with their first party games. One of the most creative gaming companys of all time is now simply shoving out rehashes every year now.