When people talk about the Wii U and how much it lost out on, most people jump directly to Zelda. Its the first nintendo console not to have a dedicated Zelda game. But there are actually a lot more reasons to be upset over the Wii U's soon-to-be death than that. personally Im not the biggest Zelda fan, though i do enjoy the games i have played, i just dont want people thinking thats the only thing Wii U ownders didnt get. so now Im going to list ever way the Wii U did not live up to its potential.

1. No 3D mario platofrmer. We got 3D World but that was an experimental type mario game that mixed elements of 2D and 3D gameplay. it didnt count and don tell me it did. it was not Sunshine 2, it was not Galaxy 3, it was something nobody wanted.

2. No real Mario Party. Mario Party 10 is the definitive worst Mario Party game we ever got. it reused sound effects, graphics, and models from a few of the last party games they had worked on. not to mention people really didnt like the car mechanics and it seems like now we are doomed to keep it.

lets just get these out of the way- 3. no Metroid at all... 4. the worst Animal Crossing ever... 5. no real pokemon title either... 6. also no real kirby

7. Virtual Console is abysmal, you can get like what, not even 100 titles from each platform? i think GBA and DS line just hit 10 or 20 games.

8. on the bottom of the gamepad you will see an accessory port. no accessories were ever fully developed for it. it just exists. the Gamepad just has a useless port built into it. there were ideas for gamepad attachments, but most were scrapped very early on.

9. on the top of the gamepad there is wha I believe to be an infared sensor a lot like what the 3DS has. also never used. and dont tell me its to use with the sensor bar because i have been able to use motion controls on the gamepad without having the censor bar even plugged in. 

10. the Wii U can support up to 8 players and to my knowledge only 2 games actually utilize that feature, correct me if im wrong.

those are all the things i wanted to mention. now let me clarify this- this is not specifically a list of things Nintendo should have done, and I am saying anything about the hardware or specs. i focused on potential- things the console could have done in its current state, but didnt. 

Says the guy with 200 WiiU games...

1. It's a real 3D Mario still. It's unlike other 3D Mario games but that doesn't change it from being a 3D Mario.

2. Whether you like it or not, it's still a Mario Party game. So nothing is missing in that catergory

4. Thats a spin-off, not an main series Animal Crossing game.

5. Only console that got that was the GC and even then those Pokemon games were spin offs and not like the main series RPGs

7-9 I agree with

1. Technically 3D World is a real 3D platformer. It's just not a collectathon-like 64 or Galaxy.

2. Aren't really all Mario Party different from each other? That would be like saying a Final Fantasy is not a Final Fantasy anymore if they make it action RPG instead of traditional RPG.

3,4,5,6. The only home console that got real Pokemon games was the Gamecube, all of the other Pokemon games are on handhelds. Can't argue with the others, though.

7. Agree. Just the backlog of the DS-Wii (the two biggest libraries ever on Nintendo systems) should have been enough to keep the system going for a long time, and the lack of a GC VC when we have that GC adapter is really dumb. The lack of a DS VC on the 3DS is unforgiveable as well, it's naturally BC, why can't I buy digital DS games? No wonder DS piracy goes through the roof.

8. Do you really want more add-ons on the system?

9. No idea what you're talking about.

10. Well, they shouldn't force 8 player gameplay where it wouldn't fit.

You seriously thinking of not buying the NX? 

bye bye Wii U, welcome home NX.

maybe i should clarify my point about the pokemon games. the N64 got the stadium games and the gamecube got colosseum and gale of darkness. even the Wii had battle revolution which was something.

Ah, those? I don't think they are needed anymore. The 3DS can already make 3D Pokemon battles, so really a game when you just battle is kind of redundant.

I agree with everything here. This was definitely an experimental time for Nintendo. Rumors say that the current software on NX is being made in the same fashion of the NES days in terms of relative quality and output.

Pokemon Stadium had the mini games though which were the best part, hell Stadium 1 & 2s miningames alone are better than Mario Party 10