Is Wii U the Dreamcast of the 2010's?

[MikeRox]

DerNebel said:

Hynad said:

DerNebel said:

And that is an opinion very much fueled by nostalgia.

It's not nostalgia. Back then, I had fun on the console like I had never had before on any system. Was I already nostalgic during that era, even though the Dreamcast wasn't yet a relic of the past? 

The Dreamcast offered amazing arcade ports (flawless ones, in fact), great exclusives, and was ahead of its time. Nowadays, some games may not have aged very well, but many are still fun to this day. Nostalgia has nothing to do with it.

With games/systems that you've loved years ago nostalgia always plays a part of it, that's just human nature. You only remember the best things about these things.

You say its nostalgia, but in the case of gaming that is incorrect. Unlike any other medium, it is also impossible to appreciate games the same a few generations later as you can at the time they are released.

Books and movies you still watch in exactly the same way. However, the technology improves so much with video games that things age much more noticibly and in a much more detrimental way to the experience.