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

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curl-6 said:

Yeah the Wii U has a fair few excellent games now, but actually owning one during its time was constantly frustrating and consisted mostly of sitting around waiting through months of nothing for the next worthwhile release.

The fact that the Xbone had way, way more games makes me hypothesize that it would have been a better primary console. On the other hand, I can think of almost nothing on Xbox One that I'd consider worth playing that's not on PS4/Switch.

Really comes down to exclusives vs third party.

I think it comes down to what else you have to play games with. You can have dozens of shitty games with virtually nothing worth playing. NES and SNES had great games coming one after another, but N64 had serious games droughts, I had N64 and PSX back in the day and despite Playstation having a lot more games (and I had more PS games than N64 games because they were a lot cheaper) it doesn't hold a candle to N64. Later in it's life Playstation had few really good games too, but it was really hard to survive the 5th gen as a gamer without Playstation. It's much easier today with Virtual Console and downloadable games from older systems in general. In retrospect, I even enjoyed Gamecube, despite thinking stopping playing video games, except for the older systems (well, up until Wii was introduced), at the time.

Last edited by bdbdbd - on 14 November 2024