Hey guys, I was thinking about how the games on the Wii U compare to games on previous Nintendo consoles. Now, I don't mean quality necessarily. What I'm mainly thinking is just how the Wii U compares to other consoles in terms of number of games per franchise and number of franchises that appear on each console. I made a chart that should help:
| Mario Series: | Donkey Kong Series: | Zelda Series: | Metroid Series: | Star Fox Series: | F-Zero Series: | Kirby Series: | Punch-Out!! Series: | Fire Emblem Series: |
| NES- | NES- | NES- | NES- | NES- | NES- | NES- | NES- | NES- |
| Super Mario Bros. | Donkey Kong (port) | The Legend of Zelda | Metroid | Kirby's Adventure | Punch-Out!! | Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light | ||
| Super Mario Bros. 2 | Donkey Kong Jr. (port) | Zelda II: The Adventure of Link | Fire Emblem Gaiden | |||||
| Super Mario Bros. 3 | Donkey Kong 3 | |||||||
| SNES- | SNES- | SNES- | SNES- | SNES- | SNES- | SNES- | SNES- | SNES- |
| Super Mario World | Donkey Kong Country | A Link to the Past | Super Metroid | Star Fox | F-Zero | Kirby Super Star | Super Punch-Out!! | Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem |
| Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island | Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest | Kirby's Dream Land 3 | Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War | |||||
| Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! | Fire Emblem: Thracia 776 | |||||||
| N64- | N64- | N64- | N64- | N64- | N64- | N64- | N64- | N64- |
| Super Mario 64 | Donkey Kong 64 | Ocarina of Time | Star Fox 64 | F-Zero X | Kirby 64 | |||
| Majora's Mask | ||||||||
| Gamecube- | Gamecube- | Gamecube- | Gamecube- | Gamecube- | Gamecube- | Gamecube- | Gamecube- | Gamecube- |
| Super Mario Sunshine | Donkey Kong Jungle Beat | Wind Waker | Metroid Prime | Star Fox Adventures | F-Zero GX | Kirby Air Ride | Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance | |
| Four Swords Adventures | Metroid Prime 2: Echoes | Star Fox: Assault | ||||||
| Twilight Princess | ||||||||
| Wii- | Wii- | Wii- | Wii- | Wii- | Wii- | Wii- | Wii- | Wii- |
| Super Mario Galaxy | Donkey Kong Country Returns | Twilight Princess | Metroid Prime 3: Corruption | Kirby's Epic Yarn | Punch-Out!! | Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn | ||
| New Super Mario Bros. Wii | Skyward Sword | Metroid: Other M | Return to Dream Land | |||||
| Super Mario Galaxy 2 | ||||||||
| Wii U- | Wii U- | Wii U- | Wii U- | Wii U- | Wii U- | Wii U- | Wii U- | Wii U- |
| New Super Mario Bros. U | Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze | Legend of Zelda Wii U | Metroid Wii U (?) | Star Fox Wii U | Kirby and the Rainbow Curse | Shin Megami Tensei x Fire Emblem (?) | ||
| Super Mario 3D World | ||||||||
| Unannounced 3D Mario (?) |
Obviously this list is incomplete since there will be future Wii U games to release, but I thought it'd still be cool to look at. Notice that I included only major titles. Particularly for Mario, I could've gone all out with all the minor games, but I decided to stick with the big ones. If anyone notices a game I missed let me know. I didn't include all franchises (like Pikmin or Animal Crossing) just because some of them don't have very many games (I almost didn't include F-Zero for this reason) Also, I didn't include games like Mario Kart or Smash since they always just get one game per gen. Anywho, what do you guys think? To me, it seems like the Wii U is getting a good number of franchises represented, but not much in the way of multiple games per franchise. Also, the SNES was the only console to have at least one game for each franchise!
