Samus Aran said:
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.
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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!)
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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.
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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.
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Ha I never said I could play Bayonetta 2 on my 360, but nice try.
The Nintendo lineup is weak all around for next year, you get 1 maybe 2 per genre for only a handful of genres (if you don't like platformers, Smash or MK there is no reason to buy a Wii U at all) for the whole year and that's supposed to be acceptable? Do we need another Mario Party, doesn't Little Big Planet already do what Mario Maker can do a thousand times better, what the hell does 3DS have to do with consoles?
LOL you are all over the place and yet the Wii U costs way to much for the weak software library and lack of genre diversity. Seriously how is the Wii U still $300, it's the cheapest and has "the best games" yet it's biggest game besides Smash only sold a couple million. It had a year headstart and took less than a year to drop to third place, It's just generational ports of their franchises these days for Nintendo, no new franchises, no new ideas, Pikmin 3, NEW Super Mario 4, another Mario party, maybe Pokemon 66, another mario 3d platformer, another LOZ, another Star Fox, no new game IP's just put it out for the Nintendo masses to bend over, and buy out $13 memory cards that look vaugely like our mascots.
Knock COD or Assassin's Creed but they sell way better, often reinventing the time periods and settings, while I give Mario Galaxy credit, the 2 mario games this generation just suck by comparison. No stories in Nintendo, nothing cinematic, innovative gamepads that not even Nintendo knows how to implement and the 3DS which gives people headaches.
You can knock One and Ps4 all you want, but each generation brings out new franchises and actually gets games, arcade, 3rd party and their own exclusves that are unique and different and take chances, they don't abuse their franchises because they know nothing they put out with Mario whored out on it will sell and no third parties want to be bothered by the man-childs that blindly support Nintendo. Look at the software to hardware ratio last generation to see that people with MS and Sony machines support and have a much greater variety of great games to play still to this day new games are coming out constantly including exclusives while the Wii was basically dropped over 3 years ago.
Look you like what you like, you know what you get with a Nintendo console, the same franchises with nothing new, always full price to milk the consumer, a poor online and online buying experience, and underpowered hardware that's overpriced. I prefer to get a next gen console, with a DVD and Blu Ray player, with a huge active online enviornment, tons of sales and free games for a few dollars a month, a huge lineup of games constantly coming game each month in a huge mix of genres, knowing I will get tons of 3rd party content including arcade and retail games, tons of diverse arcade games which never show up on Nintendo, and know that MS will support their console for years to come instead of the 4 or 5 year cycle where Nintendo dumps their console for a small boost in hardware.
