Embracing the Wii U: 5 Reasons Haters Should Reconsider Slamming the Console

[SlayerRondo]

Soleron said:

Obvious rebuttals

- Nothing first-party that takes advantage of its power has been announced except maybe Pikmin 3.
- Then announce games with those possibilities in. The Wii/Kinect/Move showed you can get burned by waiting for potential to be realised.
- Those weren't the mistakes costing it sales, except possibly stable online matchmaking. And the state of that on Wii U looks the same as Wii, reading between the lines. We know Nintendo will abandon Wii U development in a few years in favour of 3DS+1 just like they did for Wii->3DS->Wii U in that order.
- There is no evidence that third parties are choosing to support Wii U, or that cross-platform titles with /next/-gen will arrive at the same time or same condition on Wii U as they will on PS4/X720.
- ZombiU is the best example of a third party game? Bayonetta is paid for, no one else is voluntarily bringing AAA-style Wii U exclusives. "We'll have many games that use GamePad" - then please announce them first.

All in all the article wants us to buy on promises which the Wii and 3DS also had plenty of. Rational customers will wait for games they want to buy to come out before actually purchasing. Hating on Wii U is also irrational, but making an informed choice not to buy just yet is sensible.

I have to disagree partly with some of the points you have raised

- Given that we dont fully know the power of the WiiU it is a bit early to assume what games do and dont use all its power.

- What console in History has launched with a game taking advantage of all its power?

- Yes the potential of the WiiU remotes screen has not been untilized to the best of its capabilities so far but has the DS not shown the potential of a second screen.

- The Wii motion controlls also were quite poor quality for what they claimed but a second screen is a second screen and we know what were getting.

- Nintendo will only decrease game development for the WiiU if people stop buying games for the WiiU and thats in the event the console is already failing and therefore irrelevant.

- The fact that third parties are putting games on the WiiU is a good sign that they are supporting the console.

- Maybe third parties will not bring all PS4/Xbox720 games to the WiiU and maybe all WiiU third party games wont end up on the PS4?Xbox720

- Nintendo has the best first party line-up of either Sony or Microsoft in terms of critical acclaim and sales and therefore dont require the same level of third party support that PS4 and Xbox 720 will.