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What does the Wii U still offer that the Switch doesn’t?

DarkMagician

DarkMagician

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Oct 25, 2017
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I'm actually curious about this now with recent announcements. Save for 3D World and Nintendo Land, I actually struggle to think of something the Wii U offers over the Switch. Asymmetrical gaming never resonated with me, and I pretty much only used the Pro Controller with that console. It hasn't even had Miiverse in quite a while either.
 
Pallo

Pallo

One Winged Slayer
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Oct 27, 2017
423
Nintendo Land multiplayer with friends.
Which yes, is really fun and the only reason why I still keep my Wii U plugged in.
 
salromano

salromano

Mr. Gematsu
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Oct 25, 2017
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Game & Wario
Kirby and the Rainbow Curse
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD
Nintendo Land
Paper Mario: Color Splash
Pikmin 3
Star Fox Zero + Guard
Super Mario 3D World
Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE
The Wonderful 101
Xenoblade Chronicles X
Yoshi's Woolly World

etc. etc.
 
Dee Dee

Dee Dee

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Nov 2, 2017
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Actual Virtual Console
All the Zeldas. All of them.
Free online
Netflix + Crunchyroll
Xenoblade Chronicles X
Tokyo Mirage Sessions
Pikmin 3
Nintendoland

Edit: Oh, OP even mentioned Nintendoland. That game just always gets overlooked...
 
Htown

Htown

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Oct 25, 2017
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Virtual Console is the big thing for me, and its backward compatibility with the Wii VC.
 
Video Games Are Dumb

Video Games Are Dumb

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Oct 25, 2017
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Well, there's a lot of highs and far more lows. The Wii U was a failure and deserved to fail, or at least it isn't a surprise it did.

Xenoblade Chronicles X is arguably the best game in the XC series. Meanwhile that awful Amibo Animal Crossing board game is the worst game associated with that franchise. Tokyo Mirage #FE is a pretty bizarre JPRG with some funky tunes.

Virtual Console was a major part of the consoles lifecycle. Though the emulation was pretty crumby.

The one and only game that I can truly point to as the Wii U's masterpiece is Affordable Space Adventures. It used the entire touch screen to operate a little spaceship in a 2D adventure. Even if it is ported, it will lose that sensation of a peripheral.
 
TheCrackedJack

TheCrackedJack

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Oct 27, 2017
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-It had more media apps like Amazon Prime Video and Netflix
-A social space like Miiverse.
-Shockingly, it had more AAA releases even though Bethesda has done well. You got multiple Call of Duty's, multiple AC's, SC: Blacklist, Need for Speed, Madden, Deus Ex, Mass Effect 3, 2 Batman Arkham games, Ninja Gaiden 3 and I could go on.
-It had a great internet browser
-DS, N64, and SNES games to play
-The remaining strong WII U titles mentioned above me
 
hanshen

hanshen

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Jun 24, 2018
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Chicago, IL
I kept mine just for metroid prime trilogy and Wind Waker HD, the only two games I own on Wii U. I also play rogue squadron 2 & 3 on it through homebrew, because my tv only has hdmi.
 
maximumzero

maximumzero

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Oct 25, 2017
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New Orleans, LA
Zombi U, Deus Ex Human Revolution, Paper Mario Color Splash, Art Academy, Yoshi's Woolly World, Wind Waker & Twilight Princess HD, Need for Speed Most Wanted U,Super Mario 3D World, Mario Party 10, Pikmim 3, a fairly decent web browser, a way to play my Virtual Console, Wii, and Wiiware software, and a bunch of other stuff I'm forgetting.

This actually reminds me I need to take a last look at my software library and see what holes I still have left to plug. I know I need LEGO Avengers and I need to bite the bullet and pay MSRP for Devil's Third...regret not just getting that at its launch way back when.
 
Arklite

Arklite

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Oct 27, 2017
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The one and only Xenoblade Chronicles X. Probably the best sci-fi/space RPG this gen, though its only competition is Andromeda.
 
themadswagger

themadswagger

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Nov 3, 2017
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One of my favorite things about the Wii U is that the gamepad screen could display maps, like in Lego City Undercover. It also made inventory management instantaneous, like in the Zelda ports or Darksiders 2.
 
Platy

Platy

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Oct 25, 2017
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Brazil
Besides what everyone said...

Top 3 consoles to Homebrew to turn into a retro heaven, including non emulated GameCube games, Wii games and the best way to play DS games
 
Video Games Are Dumb

Video Games Are Dumb

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steviestar3 said:
Nothing? There's a reason it failed.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

This post is going to get a lot of crap but it's genuinely difficult to argue against it. Even before the Switch launched, there were plenty of cultural contrarians arguing that the Wii U was, in fact, a great console ignored by a cruel consumer market. Not unlike the Sega Dreamcast.

As someone who owned the Wii U, let me assure you, that's a myth. Nintendo essentially halted all major development around 2014, kicking out half baked sequels and oddities (DONT SEE TOO MANY PEOPLE BEGGING FOR A PAPER MARIO COLOR SPLASH PORT, DO YA???)

You can argue what makes the console valuable and entertaining today but that's simply hindsight. At the time, the Wii U was miserably dry of meaningful games for looooooooooooooooong stretches before Nintendo dropped another C+ title.

The Switch blows the Wii U out of the water. No contest in the slightest.
 
EatChildren

EatChildren

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Oct 27, 2017
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bane833

bane833

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Nov 3, 2017
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Superior online functionalities
Wii BC
Virtual Console
A few exclusive games that haven´t been ported yet
 
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