It did have a lot of great first-party titles. Mariomaker was a dream come true and was perfect with the touch screen.

I got mine for £70 second-hand, honestly still the best family game console, sports titles, mario kart ... I still think its better than the switch

The virtual console, while not the best, also had a decent number of retro games you could just buy, not some dumb subscription or anything but just buy.

I paid £100 for ours 3 years ago and quickly collected all the best games for it. It's a really cool console. Our Switch gets used a lot as my son loves Pokemon games and it comes with us in the car very often, tethered to my phone. The WiFi U has never skipped a beat. No controller issues or anything. The Switch Jiycons on the other hand are dreadful. I have had to open them all up and fix them at one time or another. The Switch is hopeless in my opinion. Waaay underpowered.

Better than the switch? Mmmmmm not in my world, but to each their own.

Better off soft modding an original Wii and filling it with retro goodness.

nah

I think it was rated just about right

From day 1 with Nintendo land it was a goat. You wouldn't know unless you played it with friends, it's the perfect BS party game. Add Mario Kart 8, Xenoblade Cross and BOTW and you have the leaders in the genre IMO.

Lived with 5 housemates while at uni so the Wii u was the only console we could all play at the same time. We got way to into the mario chase game on nintendoland.

Cool setup consider getting a bigger shelf doe i fear your stuff will overheat

I feel the switch is what the Wii U should have been, I will have to dust mine off soon and jump back into Wind Waker, It’s been too long.

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It has some gems for sure

Mines still set up. Nice to have metroid zero and DK64 on it.

I didn’t even know it existed until the next smash bros came out and I realized I didn’t have the right console for it.

Still didn’t get one till the switch and ultimate.

I miss For Glory

Yoshi's Woolly World is infintely better then every other switch game prove me wrong

Highly subjective, I'm not a fan of it, it's not my top choice genre, that's mostly why.

It was rated entirely properly. The console had plenty of issues, the only thing that saves the wiiu is its exclusives, and virtual console was pretty darn good too, for the time, I could play wii, GameCube, n64, gameboy advanced and color, nes, and snes games, and I didn't need to hog the TV all the time, I could let my sister watch jank reruns of Hanna Montana while I played megaman and majoras mask.

But you had very little range with the wireless gamepad, the gamepad is required, and it had shitty battery life, plus the software is really janky too, it's not the most capable machine in the world. It lags playing minty wii discs, and let's not even talk about the abysmal resolution and framerates of a game like botw. As much as I personally don't like the switch, it's also a huge upgrade from wiiu too.

I just wish they brought back the virtual console aspect to the switch and sold old games at reasonable prices. I mean what a missed opportunity to not put the entire gameboy library on the latest handheld console model Nintendo owns. Why can't I play pokemon fire red or megaman battle network or smth on the switch? Huge waste of potential if you ask me, we could have had a gameboy consolizer directly from Nintendo themselves

Anyway, I'm digressing now, thanks for joining my Ted talk

Facts. I don’t care if sales numbers suggest it sucked For true Nintendo fans, its a solid offering.

It was one of the consoles of all time

That and Luigis ghosts game were big hits here.

Nope.

Highly objective, you should be a fan of it, it has to be your top choice genre, I'm in your house

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