You biggest personal dissapointment about wiiu

I have enjoyed the console, but I am pissed that there is no true 3D Mario platformer along the lines of 64, sunshine and the galaxy duo. That is my favorite series, and the system feels incomplete without it. Ihonestly will not consider an NX until on is announced(if at all).

3D World is absolutely a true 3D Mario platformer and it wrecks the shit out of Sunshine. It comes off as a somewhat disappointing follow up to Galaxy 2 as the level design had to be dialed back to accommodate multiple players, but it's still a damn good game and I do appreciate that they went for a different feel.

My biggest gripe about the WiiU is the 1st party output in general. Good games no doubt, but they also feel like they came off an assembly line. It's like that soulless status quo feel of the NSMB games managed to creep its way into their design philosophy as a whole. Every gen Nintendo has made at least one game that just blows the majority of other games out of the water, that still hasn't happened here. They're just happy to be safe with their by-the-numbers design, the push for creativity and overall ambition has been all but completely absent.

I know it sounds like I'm being too harsh about Nintendo, but shit dudes, I hold Nintendo to a high standard. A higher standard than pretty much any other game company. For nearly 3 decades I was conditioned to expect the best of the best from Nintendo, a company that always strives to 1up their previous efforts as game designers. Now I get the feeling that they release games with the mindset of "Hey, this is good enough."

What it really comes down to is that I buy Nintendo consoles almost strictly for Nintendo games. It's not like buying a Playstation or an Xbox where you know that most of the 1st party stuff is going to be mediocre, but you expect 3rd parties to pick up the slack. So if Nintendo can't impress on their own console, then you're shit outta luck.

To a much lesser extent, I was expecting some cool things from the tablet. I figured 3rd parties would ignore it, but I thought that at least Nintendo would do some brilliant things with it. Nah. I supported the idea of the tablet when it was first revealed. A controller with all the inputs of a standard controller and a decent sized touch screen? What's not to like? Yet in the long run it didn't really offer much and it's clear that they could have gone without it.

3D World is absolutely a true 3D Mario platformer and it wrecks the shit out of Sunshine. It comes off as a somewhat disappointing follow up to Galaxy 2 as the level design had to be dialed back to accommodate multiple players, but it's still a damn good game and I do appreciate that they went for a different feel.

My biggest gripe about the WiiU is the 1st party output in general. Good games no doubt, but they also feel like they came off an assembly line. It's like that soulless status quo feel of the NSMB games managed to creep its way into their design philosophy as a whole. Every gen Nintendo has made at least one game that just blows the majority of other games out of the water, that still hasn't happened here. They're just happy to be safe with their by-the-numbers design, the push for creativity and overall ambition has been all but completely absent.

I know it sounds like I'm being too harsh about Nintendo, but shit dudes, I hold Nintendo to a high standard. A higher standard than pretty much any other game company. For nearly 3 decades I was conditioned to expect the best of the best from Nintendo, a company that always strives to 1up their previous efforts as game designers. Now I get the feeling that they release games with the mindset of "Hey, this is good enough."

What it really comes down to is that I buy Nintendo consoles almost strictly for Nintendo games. It's not like buying a Playstation or an Xbox where you know that most of the 1st party stuff is going to be mediocre, but you expect 3rd parties to pick up the slack. So if Nintendo can't impress on their own console, then you're shit outta luck.

To a much lesser extent, I was expecting some cool things from the tablet. I figured 3rd parties would ignore it, but I thought that at least Nintendo would do some brilliant things with it. Nah. I supported the idea of the tablet when it was first revealed. A controller with all the inputs of a standard controller and a decent sized touch screen? What's not to like? Yet in the long run it didn't really offer much and it's clear that they could have gone without it.

This is a great post, and sadly, true. It's worrisome that what's the disappointment here doesn't have much to do with the U at all, but with Nintendo and their ambition. This is why I fear for the NX, because a new system is not going to solve such a problem. I can't say if it's laziness, if they're scared, creatively bankrupt, or just too fiscally conservative (perhaps a combination of all), but whatever it is it's impacting what has made them so loved for in the first place.

Their games are great, but they are no longer amazing. Today's Nintendo largely feels like they're in it mostly for the business instead of out of the passion for the medium.

@jg4xchamp: Ive enjoyed many games a lot more then Bayonetta 2. Doneky Kong: Tropical Freeze, Splatoon, and Xenoblade Chronicles X being just a few. Also dont forget about Boxboy, seems everyone wants to forget Nintendo makes eShop games too.

3D World is absolutely a true 3D Mario platformer and it wrecks the shit out of Sunshine. It comes off as a somewhat disappointing follow up to Galaxy 2 as the level design had to be dialed back to accommodate multiple players, but it's still a damn good game and I do appreciate that they went for a different feel.

My biggest gripe about the WiiU is the 1st party output in general. Good games no doubt, but they also feel like they came off an assembly line. It's like that soulless status quo feel of the NSMB games managed to creep its way into their design philosophy as a whole. Every gen Nintendo has made at least one game that just blows the majority of other games out of the water, that still hasn't happened here. They're just happy to be safe with their by-the-numbers design, the push for creativity and overall ambition has been all but completely absent.

I know it sounds like I'm being too harsh about Nintendo, but shit dudes, I hold Nintendo to a high standard. A higher standard than pretty much any other game company. For nearly 3 decades I was conditioned to expect the best of the best from Nintendo, a company that always strives to 1up their previous efforts as game designers. Now I get the feeling that they release games with the mindset of "Hey, this is good enough."

What it really comes down to is that I buy Nintendo consoles almost strictly for Nintendo games. It's not like buying a Playstation or an Xbox where you know that most of the 1st party stuff is going to be mediocre, but you expect 3rd parties to pick up the slack. So if Nintendo can't impress on their own console, then you're shit outta luck.

To a much lesser extent, I was expecting some cool things from the tablet. I figured 3rd parties would ignore it, but I thought that at least Nintendo would do some brilliant things with it. Nah. I supported the idea of the tablet when it was first revealed. A controller with all the inputs of a standard controller and a decent sized touch screen? What's not to like? Yet in the long run it didn't really offer much and it's clear that they could have gone without it.

I think that the only thing that I'm particularly disappointed in when it comes to Wii U is that Nintendo didn't have a clear idea on what to do with the gamepad in the first place. It took them years to start making things that make use of it in a good way. By then it was far too late. They would have been better off designing a upgraded wiimote and nunchuck along with the Pro controller.

I think the gamepad was more a "let's be different somehow", rather then "let's put a screen on our controller, cause then we can do all these amazing ideas we have for it". Since they obviously didn't have any amazing ideas for it. I'm not sure what people were expecting either. Oooh, I can have a map on my controller. Revolutionary. This will save me 0.2 seconds everytime I have to look at the map.

@MirkoS77: I wouldn't really say they're creatively bankrupt when they just released one of their biggest new IP's on a dying console and was actually sucessful despite everything going against it.

(Talking about splatoon ofcourse)