Mario Kart 8 makes the Wii U the first must-have console

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chocoloco said:

Chasesdaddy84 said:

chocoloco said:
Not everyone thinks Mario Kart and other Nintendo games are the best games, or even close to the best games. Or that they alone are worth buying a console for. Sorry.

That's kinda the boat I'm in. The game looks cool enough I guess. But I have no interest in it at all. I don't know a single person (outside of gaming forums) who cares at all. Matter of fact, most everyone still doesn't fully realize what the Wii U is. I'm more interested in Zelda or Wonderful 101. Not a single Wii U game is worth buying the console for. That applies to all next gen offerings so far across all the platforms. 

Certainly does apply to all the consoles. People also buy knowing there is more to come. It is not just about the here and now. I too know no one that owns a Wii U. Only know a few that own the X1 or PS4, yet. Still, that is still more than the Wii U. 

The Wii U is at a price right now that it is the perfect console to buy, if only for single player games. For less than the price of three PS4 games you can have the console. Nintendo consoles have never been quite as much about the social aspect than they have been about the amazing first-party titles.

If you go only by what the people you know have, you'll miss some of the best games, if not the best in the next year or two. 

The same thing happened with the Gamecube: It had a library that was amazing and almost as good, if not as good or even better than the PS2, but no one really bought it, and it was only after the generation ended that people realized just how much they had missed.