An ode to Miiverse and WiiU's dying breath

[Ganoncrotch]

Yeah the Wii-U was a great idea... the problem was... that idea was basically the Switch but back in 2012 the tech just wasn't there for that power in a hybrid handheld system. Topped off with the strange hardware configuration you had Nintendo torn between wanting to create a new console... and an unwillingness to move away from the name which sold 150million consoles to people who hadn't before known about Nintendo.... they didn't know about Video games, they knew the Wii and as such Nintendo put a massive bullet in the head before it even came out the door in one of the most confusing names a system has had in major releases.

But I agree with you, the wii-u did have some fantastic ideas, but the issue was the damn droughts of software, while Nintendo were going back and forth between trying to save the 3ds from its very shaky first years, to trying to get customers aware of the Wii-us existence the Wii-us software library was really not where it needed to be, you've listed some great titles in the OP, but keep in mind... those are pretty much all you had on the system for 5 years (you left out Capt Toad and Bayo 1/2) but that handful of games just was never going to keep a system in stores, Gamestop and such make their money from Software sales, the return on a console sale is minimal in comparison, if the games weren't there to have customers coming in the doors, then justifiably stores were not going to have a reason to stock the hardware.

Also, I don't mean to sound ratty here, but you can expect Nintendo to absolutely gut the historical value of the Wii-U in 2018/19 I would be very surprised if we didn't see absolutely every single piece of relevant software from the platform repackaged on the Switch as either a deluxe edition or as a sequel, and you know what... I'm fine with that, as someone who didn't Jump in to the Wii-U because I could see very early on that it was doomed to fail, I really look forwards to playing the best that system bought to gaming but on one of the best machines that Nintendo have created in the last 2 decades.

Thank you Wii-U for being the Prototype to the Switch and for showing Nintendo that if they don't have a steady stream of games lined up for a machine, then it will die a death, for those 2 things, the Wii-U's place in gaming history was earned.

 

Edit - You did mention Bayo (my bad)

Also.... Farewell to the MiiVerse Smash4 stage

Can never have hilarious stuff like this popping up again.