OlfinBedwere on 27 August 2024
As barren as the Wii U was post-2014, and for as much as Star Fox Zero may have been the avatar for everything that was wrong with the system, those years did give us two titles that would go on to be vital parts of the Switch era, namely Splatoon and Super Mario Maker. By contrast, the best we got from the comparable part of the Gamecube's lifespan was Metroid Prime 2; a good game, but not really one that left a huge impact on its own series, let alone Nintendo's larger fortunes.
