Nintendo Switch 2 day one buyer discussion thread.

[bonzobanana]

Ashadelo said:

bonzobanana said:

The wii u was one of Nintendo's biggest failures and had fantastic compatibility with wii as it had the same hardware underneath for compatibility. The dual screen element of the wii u I think the original wii gpu is used for the gamepad independent graphics. The tri core powerpc cpu would downclock and operate in single CPU mode for full wii compatibility. You had a much more powerful console that could also do full wii hardware mode without emulation.

But lets be honest, the wii u was one of the ugliest consoles every made, the controller looked like like it was modeled after one of those toys babies play with. 

I loved the look of the wii u and bought one close to release. However it was the performance that was disappointing with often games being much inferior to the versions on PS3 and Xbox 360. There was a wii u game that used to really annoy me, it took ages to load levels and you could hear the optical drive being used constantly in that time where as the PS3 and 360 loaded those sections quickly thanks to their hard drives and caching. Sonic Transformed was 640p and looked a bit blurry on my projector compared to 360 and PS3 etc. I loved it for its Nintendo games but it was a bit garbage for multi-platform games. In the end with the wii u being such a huge failure I would often buy the wii u versions as they were practically giving them away at one point. I think most of my wii u games were bought sub 10 pounds many at less than 5 pounds. It was a bit like the Dreamcast at the end where games were discounted to unbelievably low levels. So it was a failed console  without long term support but made much more bearable by the ridiculously cheap games. I did pay pretty much full price for Zelda BOTW though but did see it after I bought it perhaps 3 months later for a fraction of the price but not as cheap as the others. I think it was about 15 pounds.