What if?: Bring Wii U back!

[Pemalite]

burninmylight said:

Pemalite said:

Top 10 best selling Switch games.
1) Mario Kart 8. - Wii U Port.
2) Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. - Wii U Port.
3) The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. - Wii U Port.
4) Super Mario Odyssey. - Switch Exclusive.
5) Pokemon Sword and Shield. - Switch Exclusive. (Probably a ported unreleased 3DS game going by it's poor visuals.)
6) Animal Crossing: New Horizons. - Switch Exclusive.
7) Pokemon: Let's Go, Pikachu! - Switch Exclusive. Remake.
8) Splatoon 2. - Switch Exclusive.
9) Super Mario Party. - Wii U Port.
10) New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe. - Wii U Port.

50% of the Switch's best selling titles ARE ports from the WiiU.
Arguably, the WiiU's issue was not game quality or popularity but likely quantity and poor hardware.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_Nintendo_Switch_video_games

Smash Ultimate isn't a port; it takes A LOT of the framework of Smash 4 Wii U as a baseline, such as engine, art style, animations and move lists, but it's as much a port as Splatoon 2 is to the original. There is plenty of new enough in it to justify it's status as a sequel.

I say this as someone who would have been just fine with a port of it.

Eh. I consider it an enhanced port due to the re-use of the engine and so forth, allot of effort went into it though, no doubt.

Can it still stand as a standalone title? Sure. But I would argue that allot of the added-extras in the Switch version could have just been WiiU DLC.