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At this point, I only have two retail Wii U games: Nintendo Land, which came bundled, and ZombiU, which is third party. I'd have gotten more, but Steam sales and the 3DS have conspired against the platform.

I have little desire to pick up NSMBU, so my next game will likely either be one of the March/Spring releases like Monster Hunter or Pikmin, or a 3rd party launch game.

Originally, I was considering getting Darksiders 2. After all, it seemed to be one of the 3rd party games that took the best advantage of the Wii U without taking advantage of Nintendo fans. *cough*Mass Effect 3*cough* But now that THQ is dead, it'd feel like my money is going to waste, since no living publisher would look at my purchase and feel justified for supporting the platform.

CoD is not a series I'm fond of, AC3 is apparently a glitchy mess, and I've also heard bad things about Armored Edition. So I guess that makes the remaining launch titles I'm interested in Scribblenauts Unlimited, which I think is overpriced, Ninja Gaiden 3, which has fairly low review scores, and thus worries me, and eSop titles.

Thing is, I don't feel like I'm being unfair to 3rd parties. I've invested more cash into 3rd party games for the Wii U than 1st party games, especially when you count my Trine 2 purchase. The 3rd party offerings just don't seem that great yet.