Wii U to pull a 3DS?

[Frogger]

Honestly, the Wii U needs a big AAA single player killer app bad. SM3DW, MK8, and Smash are great, but if you're a gamer who enjoys single player games, there's nothing but promises on the Wii U, and X won't move numbers like Nintendo bigger franchises.

The if no huge Wii U game is announced for release this year, the Wii U will have been out for two years with absolutely none of the must have, buy a console for it, single player games Nintendo is known for. No Mario. No Zelda. No Metroid. No Starfox. No Pokemon. No anything.

If it wasn't for Nintendo remaking my favorite game of all time in HD, I wouldn't have a Wii U right now and as absolutely awesome as MK is, it's something I'd wait to get. I didn't get a 3DS until Pokemon was announced, and the only reason I got one early was because of the limited edition Pikachu console. I feel like, for a lot of people, the Wii U faces a similar issue. If it wasn't for WWHD, I wouldn't even consider buying a Wii U until there was a very solid release date for either Zelda, Metroid, Starfox, Pokemon, or Mario. Probably X as well. See how wide my list varies?

Yet we're over a year in a half into the console's life cycle and not one of these basic requirements have been met. All there are is Pikmin, which is extremely niche, DKCTF, which has no console pushing power and should have been a 3DS game, and maybe W101, which is both a new IP and niche.

For me, MK and Smash are games you get after you get a console. I'm sure there are a ton of other people just like me.

By this time in the Wii's life, it had The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Super Mario Galaxy, Metroid Prime 3, Pokemon Battle Revolution, Mario Kart Wii, and Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

And people wonder why the thing doesn't fucking sell.