Battle of the 8th gen losers: Wii U vs Vita vs Xbox One

[Wman1996]

OlfinBedwere said:

Unpopular opinion time - the Vita. The Wii U and Xbox One were the continuation of trends from the previous console generation that most gamers had said "thanks, but no thanks" to by the time they launched. The Vita on the other hand ended up being the forerunner of the Switch and Steam Deck in that it tried to offer current-gen console experiences on the go, and only really failed because the technology wasn't where it needed to be yet (well, that and the whole memory card fiasco).

Admittedly, Vita had some excuses for its failure.

Getting good specs in a handheld/mobile device is far tougher than a PC and home console and Sony pushed the expensive proprietary memory cards to make up for some of the specs and features (touchscreen, touchpad, OLED screen, etc). 

Wii U and Xbox One were coming off of Nintendo's best-selling home console to date and the best Xbox to date. It makes the sales dip and software dip more severe in comparison.

I think most people would argue Wii U and Xbox One were more disappointing successors than Vita. Yeah, PSP got a lot right. But it was held back at times by its lack of a second stick (or even a stick that wasn't a nub), UMDs, etc. I haven't seen anyone say yet how much they loved PSP and Vita was such a huge dip.

But I see that with Wii and Xbox 360 players sometimes on how Wii U and Xbox One dropped the ball. 

If my previous post didn't make it clear enough

1. Xbox One - It has almost no exclusives (console or true exclusives) now and very few in the past. If you don't use it for Kinect titles (almost no one does) it has virtually nothing going for it that Series X/S can't do. Still, it has a massive library and some awesome features. I'm getting a good amount of use out of it in the past few months as a Halo machine and other games. 

2. Vita - Most of its games are on Switch, PS4, and PC. Still, it's a sleek device with neat features. Uncharted: Golden Abyss may be the weakest of the series but it's not much weaker than Drake's Fortune and I'm glad I played it. Vita will also hold a special place in my heart for Persona 4 Golden which I played almost 2 years before it came to modern consoles. 

3. Wii U - A really good system but it didn't help that I got it the year or so before I really started branching out into games more. When I made a Steam account in mid 2015, I ended up playing Steam as often if not more than Wii U until Switch mostly replaced both for me in mid 2017. And nowadays, Wii U is the most useless to me out of all of these since I'm not currently playing Wii games and most Wii U games can be played on Switch, PC, Xbox, or PlayStation.