Wii U. Now I’m generally an optimist, but as a Nintendo fan, I wasn’t too happy with this console. I‘m sorry, but I gotta be pessimistic on this one :D
The 2 minutes of loading to turn it on sucked. Three years later (or whatever) when they claimed they “fixed” it, but it was still like 85 seconds, sucked.
The broken portability sucked.
The fact it was limited to one Gamepad controller sucked.
The abandoned features sucked.
That Nintendo cut support of the Wii before its time to support the clunky slow Wii U, sucked.
The pretentiousness of it sucked “Asymmetric gameplay, that’s why only one Gamepad” sounds a lot like “those are speed holes, it makes the car go faster.”
The game droughts sucked (well, at least it wasn’t N64 or Gamecube).
The lack of a killer app sucked.
Its failure to not only live up to the Wii name, but even come close to it, sucked.
And the Miiverse’s ignored potential sucked. It was a goddam social media platform, it should have launched as a mobile app.
So happy 10th birthday you bastard!
It wasn’t all bad. The good parts of it: Xenoblade Chronicles X, that doodle app, Earthbound port, and Wii backwards compatibility. Also, unlike the Gamecube, I wasn’t ashamed to say I owned one :D
PS. I realize entitled pessimistic/assy posts like mine are the third biggest problem on the Internet outside of virtue signalling and fanboy activism/cancel culture. And in that, I regret my post. At the same time, my feeling of disappointment turned resentment in something I tried as hard as hell to like, in this case the Wii U, overrides my wish that the Internet was a better place.
Last edited by Jumpin - on 19 November 2022I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.
