Thread 722923385

>nintendo's best console, in theory
>it flops
Why?

nobody gave a fuck about the gamepad

>>722923385 (OP)
https://youtu.be/jEEfHOdhJJY

>>722923385 (OP)
>nintendo's best console
but that isn't the n64

The SNES was Nintendo's best console, though, because full 3D games weren't being developed yet. Going beyond Mode 7 was a mistake. There's a reason the N64 and GameCube sold like shit.

>>722923870
>NSMBU
>Nintendo Land
>MK8
>3D World
>Splatoon 1
>Game and Wario
>Smash 4
>Mario Maker 1
>Starfox Zero
>Tokyo Mirage Sessions
>Xenoblade X
>Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze
>Pokken
>Pikmin 3
>Hyrule Warriors
>Wind Waker HD
>Twilight Princess HD

the SNES is so far ahead of every other Nintendo console it's not even funny

>Sony's best console, in theory
>too expensive, let's just remaster PS2 games instead

Although it's also thermally unstable (honestly potentially worse than early model 360s).

>>722923385 (OP)
gamers HATE good consoles
its also because Nintendo implemented its mechanics in the worst way possible. if they made the console a bit more powerful, replaced wii remotes with proper controllers and focused more on the gamepad being able to play games remotely like steam link, i do think it could have not flopped as hard

>>722923968
>There's a reason the N64 and GameCube sold like shit.
Yeah, it was totally because 3D games suck. No other reason at all.

>>722924378
aren't the thermal issues only on the fat model? i thought they were fixed with the slim models

>>722924245
>Nintendo Land
>Star Wars Trilogy
>Wonderful 101
>Bayonetta 2

>>722923385 (OP)
The marketing made it seem like an add-on to the Wii and no one knew otherwise

>>722923385 (OP)
>nintendo's best console
The actual console was awful.
There were some decent games, but the experience of using the console was absolutely dire.
>t. wii u owner

>>722924507
More or less. Assuming the NEC/TOKIN cap issue is a genuine issue that pervades the PS3 that extended into the slims (I believe until the CECH-2501A models).

>>722923385 (OP)
Still mind boggling they didn't run ads with those two Japanese men driving around say saying "Wii would like to play... with *U*"

>>722924474
Yep, the PlayStation was the beginning of the casualization and death of vidya. You are nothing more than a maggot infesting its rotting corpse.

>>722924258
GBA was like SNES round 2 tbf

>>722924563
This, i even ignored threads about it here on /v/ because i thought this was just portable wii. Only few months after the release of wonderful 101 did i realize this was a new console

>>722924245
>NSMB slop
>tech demos
>good games that came out too late (everyone had already moved to proper 8th gen consoles)
>remasters
>practically no third party support because this is a 7th gen device trying to compete with 8th gen machines

>>722923385 (OP)
I bought one at launch. My experience:
>hyped up to be a serious core gamer console with real power
>launch exclusives ended up sucking (Zombi U), best launch title was a Sonic racer lol
>multiplats from late gen 7 ran surprisingly poorly and in many cases Wii U was getting later entries to series that were never on the Wii (Mass Effect 3)
>the best Wii U games came later in life and at a trickle pace like a repeat of the Gamecube's second half
>gamepad was cool enough but the console should have shipped with a Wii U Pro controller as well
>launching with 8gb and 32gb of internal storage was laughably cheap even by 2013 standards
>third party support peaked at launch and fell off fast and hard
Ended up switching to PS4 and PC for that gen.

the logo is a small pp

>>722924573
>8 or 32 GB internal storage
>nintendo expected players to use 2 TB+ external drives if their manual is to be believed
>4 usb ports
>can only support 1 external drive at a time
>couldn't even transfer data between external drives until an update
>low power usb ports so certain drives would not work and even crashes the whole system and possibly corrupt your data unless you used a splitter or had a HDD that plugged into the wall separately
mental

>>722925308
you admitted in your own post it has good games though, so which is it

>>722925506
Yup.
All topped off with an OS as slow as molasses to use.

>>722925469
stop thinking about cocks all day

>>722923870
WHATCHU KNOW ABOUT THIS SONG WHITE BOY?

>>722923385 (OP)
Because ti released in 2012. Back then, you only had few woke stuff, sjw, tranny, political bullshit. Even zoomers weren't that bad

It all started going downhill with Trump being elected, every decent subreddit closing, COVID and the twitch streaming bullshit, Nintendo Switch and the basedboy shit

Right now they could sell something like that for 700e and it would still sell. Back then, people weren't as dumb as now

I didn't buy it but in retrospect I should have because I love Splatoon now. I ended up buying Splatoon 1 so I could play the campaign and gave it to my nephew who owned the Wii U I borrowed kek

>>722923385 (OP)
They were using the same hardware as the Wii, which used the same hardware as the GameCube. Being 10 years behind the curve on graphics was inexcusable when the Wii U was released in 2012. Predictably no third party developers bothered with it and even Nintendo made fuck all in terms of games for it. There was no Zelda or Metroid game for it, and the Mario game was the worst 3D Mario game they ever made. I'm a huge Nintendo fan and I didn't even buy it because I was so fed up with their bullshit.

>>722924245
>Rehash
>Not Core Gaming Genre
>Not Core Gaming Genre
>Wasted the M64 style game slot of a NSMB game
>Splatoon
>Not Core Gaming Genre
>Not Core Gaming Genre, and the worst one in the series
>Mario Maker
>Not Core Gaming Genre
>Disappointing Crossover unless your an Idolfag
>Xenoblade X
>Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze
>Rehash
>Not Core Gaming Genre
>Rehash
>Not Core Gaming Genre
>Rehash
>Not Core Gaming Genre
>Remaster
>Remaster

Consoles are carried off of their Platformers, RPGs, Shooters, and Action Adventure Games, all other genres while worthwhile do not sell consoles to actual gamers, and with that you only have 4 worthwhile games

>>722925626
>5 or so good games vs dozens of good games on the competition
Gee, I wonder why people didn't buy it.

It was gay. I liked it, but it was gay.

>>722927187
No homo