Samus Aran said:
Let's check metacritic 90%+ games for variety in genre shall we: Super Smash Bros. Wii U: 94% (fighting game) Super Mario 3D World: 93% (3D platformer) Rayman Legends: 92% (2D platformer) Bayonetta 1 & 2: 91% (Hack and slash) The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD (Action adventure & puzzle solving) Guacamelee: 90% (2D platformer) That's 5 different genres. Yes, I think 3D and 2D platformers have enough differences to call it a different genre. XBONE: Nothing. Wow, such variety! What is XBONE still getting this year? Well, nothing. Wii U still has Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker on the way which is a 3D puzzle solving game. (in fact, it was first going to use Link as the main character!) |
Well I can play 2 of those games on Xbox One (Rayman and Guacamelee) and 2 on my 360 (Bayonetta and Guacamelee). That 's half your games I don't need a Wii U for. LOZ and Smash are essentially ports of games I can play on other systems before they came out for less and 3D World is just mission pack sequel. Bayonetta 2 is ok but that's all you have to show for it after 2 years on the market, a full years advantage!
Metacritic is honestly irrelevant, sure it's a gauge but it's hardly the last word on the quality or originality of a game. If it were than Wii U wouldn't have been the first horse in the race now trailing in last place. You also mention 1 or 2 games per genre as if that's supposed to last them the droughts that the Wii U is known for, there is no third party support so you sit around and maybe 1 or 2 retail releases will come out a month. Like Kart Racing well there is only one to choose from, like fighting game, hope you like smash cause that's it. Like hack and slash, well we got one and a port of another. LOZ, well that will be another year to an original title, like third parties, we aren't getting any of those this generation.
Xbox One has
FPS Halo MCC (I assume ports are ok since you used LOZ), Sunset Overdrive, Destiny, Far Cry 4, COD AW, TItanfall
Survival Horror Evil Within, Dead Rising 3, Alien Isolation
3rd person/Open World GTA 5, Minecraft, Watch Dogs, Dragon Age Inquisition, Assassin's Creed Unity, Project Spark, Warframe
Fighting Killer Instinct 1 and 2
Sports FIFA 15 NHL 15, NBA 15, NBA 2k15, Pro Evolution Soccer 2015, WWE 2015 Madden 2015
Racing Forza 2
RPG Middle Earth Shadow of Mordor Borderlands
Stealth Styx
Adventure D4 Ryse
Platformers/Kids Lego Gotham 3, Disney Infinity, Skylanders TT
Tower Defense Defense Grid 2
Platformer Rayman Legends, Guacamelee, Max COB
There is over a dozen genres most of those games you won't find on a Nintendo console and those are all games that are out now, give the ONE another year and it will blow away the Wii U lineup of what...the next six months all I see as confirmed are Kirby and Captain Toad and maybe Splatoon and another Yoshi, that's all that's been confirmed for the first 6 months of next year, come on!
And I'm barely touching on all the great 2D and other great arcade games that cover generes from Pinball to Toy Soldiers.
Enjoy getting your bimonthly game and always having to pay full price while I get numerous games each month for free and for a reduced price which was the point of my post to begin with.
