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MegaManX said:
Samus Aran said:
MegaManX said:

As far as the One is concerned paying for the online works out far better to your advantage. First you get at least 3 games per month between 360 and the One. Secondly you can find a years worth of Gold for $35 several times throughout the year easily ( I have never paid more, since I stock up ever few years) so you are only paying on average a few bucks a month. Thirdly you get weekly discounts on Arcade games and digital retail games and DLC at heavy discounts, usually 50-75 percent off. Lastly you get a much more reliable and organized online experience with far more people on and activity.

Even if you never purchase one game in store or online, you can still get easily 30 plus games for free each year, and with the bundles being offered during these 2 months by MS and the black friday ads actually being better with sales than the Wii U I would have to disagree with the Wii U being the better value.

Plus you get a far better diversity of games since the Wii U is putting out little more than platformers, a couple hack and slash games, and it's generational installments of kart racing and Smash.

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.  

 

This guy can play Bayonetta 2 on his XBOX360. What a miracle!

I don't want crappy games even if they're free. Though I did get Wind Waker HD, Pikmin 3, Bayonetta 1 and Super Mario 3D Land for free. ;) So much for paying full price, huh? 
What does the XBONE have lined up for exclusives next year? Do tell me. If you want to play third party games you're better off with a PS4.

Wii U has Zelda (action adventure), Splatoon (third person shooter), Xenoblade Chronicles (jrpg), Yoshi's Woolly World (2.5D platformer), Kirby (2.5D platformer), Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (I live in Europe), Star Fox, Mario Kart 8 dlc pack 2, Fire Emblem x SMT, Mario Party 10, Mario Maker, Devil's Third (though I don't think this looks like a fun game at all), etc. 

Plus I'm sure Nintendo is still holding a couple of surprises in their hand. ;) 

And since I also have a 3DS there's also Youkai Watch, Bravely Second, Pokémon Omega Ruby & Alpha Saphire, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, STEAM, etc.

That's about 17 games that are currently announced already, of course I won't be buying all of them, but still plenty coming. 

I can play all your games on my PC.