RolStoppable said:
Nope. Wii U is GC to GBA connectivity. The asymmetric multiplayer is taken straight from there, including ideas from the GameCube game Pac-Man Vs. being implemented in the Wii U game Nintendo Land. Shigeru Miyamoto was a strong proponent for the GC to GBA connectivity back in the day and with Wii U he wanted to build the entire system around it. The Wind Waker was the poster child for singleplayer GC to GBA connectivity. I see people drawing parallels between Wii U and Switch, but these two systems are nothing alike. Switch salvages games that were wasted on the Wii U, but that's where the connection between these two systems ends. |
Ah, I completely forgot about the Tingle tuner. I didn't have a GBA so never used it at the time. It was nice to use the gamepad to swap items with the touchscreen in WIndwaker HD yet could have done without it.
I guess the second screen experience died with the WiiU, nobody talks about smart glass anymore either. It was nice in Lego city undercover, much easier to mark things on the map, yet not $100 extra nice or whatever the gamepad added.
Anyway I hope Nintendo and others put plenty of new games on the Switch next to salvaging the WiiU as I don't intend to buy all the same games again.
