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

[VanceIX]

chocoloco said:

VanceIX said:

chocoloco said:

Chasesdaddy84 said:

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.

It is cheaper than the others. I already own the PS4. In fact, I bought it less then two weeks ago. I was not too happy with my Wii. In which I only bought Nintendo games for it. My lack of favor towards the other two is too complex for me to want to share here. The point is that the Wii was a disapointment to me. Thus, I am now wary to buy a Nintendo console so soon. It seems like a console only worth buying at the end of the generation so that I know it will have enough games to sastiate my gaming thirst. That and I still am playing games on my PS3 and 360. 

You bought the PS4, which has a vastly inferior library of games and likely won't improve that for a while, and yet are wary of the Wii U, which has an amazing and diverse library of games, and has many more confirmed titles on the horizon, while being much, much cheaper? You contradict yourself. 

Once again, I own both consoles, and I haven't touched my PS4 in a while, because there's almost nothing really great out right now. It's bound to change, but not for a while. 

And I'd argue that the Wii U is already better than the Wii. It no longer relies on gimmicky shovelware like the Wii did. Once again, it's more like the underappreciated Gamecube than it is the over-hyped Wii.