The Wii U may be dead, but... who cares?

[GoOnKid]

Some people are salty over Nintendo's decision to pull the Wii U's plug this soon. Now they say the Wii U is dead and they feel somehow betrayed by Nintendo. But this always makes me wonder about some things: what about all the games that are already available? Why do they stop counting the very first moment after they are released? Is it one certain game that would make these folks happy? Why does it make one happy to know that a console will last longer?

I could somehow explain this by a gamers' deeply inherent wish to look forward to new games. We all love things that we can't have yet. Barny Stinson couldn't have said it better: new is always better. We are always longing for the latest and best stuff. Well, best is subjective. Sometimes, it just needs to be shiny, but anyway. And if we can't have something to look out for, are we pissed?

Now let's say history went differently and the Wii U sold like warm bread, while having the exact same library. Would these people think otherwise about it? Me thinks yes. I think the salt comes from having a feeling of misinvestment, if that makes sense. It's human psychology to have a desire to be a part of the largest available group in order to feel safe. Not everyone has the balls to withstand that.

But I say that we also need to appreciate what we already have! The system hosts games in all genres, safe for three: online shooters (Splatoon alone can hardly make it against the masses on the other platforms), open world games (Wii U has nearly none, only Lego City Undercover comes to mind), and sports. Those three genres are what appears to be the most successful ones on PS4 and Xbox One. Even more so, it appears that the whole library of PS4 and Xbox One consists of hardly anything else. Well, throw some RPGs into the pool, too. The Wii U gets hardly any of these games while the twins get hardly anything else. Therefore, I think this generation is very divisive, even much more than the last one.

But I mean, many of the Wii U's games are big. Like, really big! A game like Hyrule Warriors take forever to finish, Xenoblade X has some players with more than 300 hours on their clock, and Super Mario Maker never runs out of new levels. Or take those games with an online multiplayer mode like the holy trinitiy of Mario Kart 8, Sm4sh and Splatoon. I played all three of them for over a hundred hours each and I am still not tired of them! Also, I heard TMS:FE is pretty big, too, as well as of course Monster Hunter. And finally there are those games that I use to replay every once in a while like DKCTF, YWW, Starfox Zero (I played that for over 40 hours, take that reviewers!), Fast Racing Neo, SM3DW, Fatal Frame 5, or even Devil's Third (I enjoy it even more with every run, take that reviewers!). I don't even WANT new games anymore (although I will buy Paper Mario huehuehue).

Therefore, I couldn't give less f*cks about the Wii U being dead or not. It's a pretty awesome console nonetheless.