How it felt to watch this awesome console fail back in the day(lemmy.world)

posted 5 months ago

The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world

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BossDj@lemm.ee

22 points

5 months ago

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

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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOP

12 points

5 months ago

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.

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skulblaka@sh.itjust.works

26 points

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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Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works

0 points

5 months ago

And no compelling games library. What do you buy a Wii U to play? Bayonetta 2?

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KRAW@linux.community

3 points

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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Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works

1 point

5 months ago

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.

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smeg@feddit.uk

1 point

5 months ago

Mario Kart 8 was probably the “killer app” (in my opinion), fortunately the switch also gave that a second lease of life!

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