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VanceIX on 31 May 2014
atomicblue said:
VanceIX said:

The Wii U is at a price right now that it is the perfect console to buy, if only for single player games. For less than the price of three PS4 games you can have the console. Nintendo consoles have never been quite as much about the social aspect than they have been about the amazing first-party titles.


I find it odd that you'd say it's NOT so much about the social aspect, because that's precisely why I buy Nintendo consoles first and the other ones later; nobody does social like Nintendo. And by social, I mean local multiplayer; actually gaming in the same room as friends. I've already got at least about seven excellent games for that on the console.

I agree with you there 100%. I was referring to online-multiplayer in my post, but no one does local multiplayer better than Nintendo, and that's actually more important to me than online.



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Putin on 31 May 2014
VanceIX said:
chocoloco said:
Not everyone thinks Mario Kart and other Nintendo games are the best games, or even close to the best games. Or that they alone are worth buying a console for. Sorry.

They alone may not be, but when you are getting a console for $165 that has the best next-gen games currently available and coming out this year (and that isn't up for debate, WWHD, MK8, Pikmin 3, 3DW, and DKC:TF are all better than any other game available on the PS4 or Xbox One, and two of them are available for free with MK8).

Not everyone may, and that's why I said it was in my opinion, but the vast majority of people will love at least one or two of the games I mentioned, and getting the Wii U for that price is a killer deal.

Sorry no. Have Wii U, have some games and DKC: TF that you mentioned, generic platformer that isn't worth getting the system for. pikmin is a game in specific genre for only few people who will like it. It's not a must have game at all. WWHD or MK 8 still reharsh in some way or the other.

But, if someone want to get this console one way or another, now is the cheapest way to do it. With all that bundling and free games(desperate move by the company, but we not that one who pay for it:)).



hunter_alien on 31 May 2014
VanceIX said:
chocoloco said:
Not everyone thinks Mario Kart and other Nintendo games are the best games, or even close to the best games. Or that they alone are worth buying a console for. Sorry.

They alone may not be, but when you are getting a console for $165 that has the best next-gen games currently available and coming out this year (and that isn't up for debate, WWHD, MK8, Pikmin 3, 3DW, and DKC:TF are all better than any other game available on the PS4 or Xbox One, and two of them are available for free with MK8).

Not everyone may, and that's why I said it was in my opinion, but the vast majority of people will love at least one or two of the games I mentioned, and getting the Wii U for that price is a killer deal.


Yes it is. When in the OT you wrote that its your opinion, I was fine with that. Didnt even want to bother with a response (even tough I did not agree). But this is outrageous. Neither of those games even makes me consider spending 200$ at the moment for the WiiU and all of those games.

I understand that everyone has his own opinion, but something like that not being up for debate? Judging by sales numbers it seems that the large majority is adiagreeing with you



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bubblegamer on 31 May 2014
VanceIX said:

(In my opinion)


Well said.

That being said, i and most gamers, see sales for reference, respectfully disagree.



VanceIX on 31 May 2014
chocoloco said:
VanceIX said:
chocoloco said:
Chasesdaddy84 said:

Certainly does apply to all the consoles. People also buy knowing there is more to come. It is not just about the here and now. I too know no one that owns a Wii U. Only know a few that own the X1 or PS4, yet. Still, that is still more than the Wii U. 

The Wii U is at a price right now that it is the perfect console to buy, if only for single player games. For less than the price of three PS4 games you can have the console. Nintendo consoles have never been quite as much about the social aspect than they have been about the amazing first-party titles.

If you go only by what the people you know have, you'll miss some of the best games, if not the best in the next year or two. 

The same thing happened with the Gamecube: It had a library that was amazing and almost as good, if not as good or even better than the PS2, but no one really bought it, and it was only after the generation ended that people realized just how much they had missed.

It is cheaper than the others. I already own the PS4. In fact, I bought it less then two weeks ago. I was not too happy with my Wii. In which I only bought Nintendo games for it. My lack of favor towards the other two is too complex for me to want to share here. The point is that the Wii was a disapointment to me. Thus, I am now wary to buy a Nintendo console so soon. It seems like a console only worth buying at the end of the generation so that I know it will have enough games to sastiate my gaming thirst. That and I still am playing games on my PS3 and 360. 

You bought the PS4, which has a vastly inferior library of games and likely won't improve that for a while, and yet are wary of the Wii U, which has an amazing and diverse library of games, and has many more confirmed titles on the horizon, while being much, much cheaper? You contradict yourself. 

Once again, I own both consoles, and I haven't touched my PS4 in a while, because there's almost nothing really great out right now. It's bound to change, but not for a while. 

And I'd argue that the Wii U is already better than the Wii. It no longer relies on gimmicky shovelware like the Wii did. Once again, it's more like the underappreciated Gamecube than it is the over-hyped Wii.



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VanceIX on 31 May 2014
bubblegamer said:
VanceIX said:

(In my opinion)

 

That being said, i and most gamers, see sales for reference, respectfully disagree.

If you use sales to determine whether something is good or not, I'm sure you'll agree that Call of Duty is the greatest series ever invented and that the Wii is much better than the PS3 and the 360 ever could dream of being.



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bubblegamer on 31 May 2014
VanceIX said:
bubblegamer said:
VanceIX said:

(In my opinion)

 

That being said, i and most gamers, see sales for reference, respectfully disagree.

If you use sales to determine whether something is good or not, I'm sure you'll agree that Call of Duty is the greatest series ever invented and that the Wii is much better than the PS3 and the 360 ever could dream of being.

But that would be taking what i meant out of context. Sales are not the only thing that could tell you this, but since i can't show you every site i go to, let every friend of mine speak to you and most gamers testify they don't even like the WiiU much less consider it, i use the sales figures this website provides to show you what i said.



Kane1389 on 31 May 2014

The aesthetics of the game are kinda breathtaking to be honest. I gave it a lot of shit for its technical side, but I cant deny the art-style and the color pallets that fit the game so perfectly



Faust on 31 May 2014

Best games.... Best franchises... Inferior... Superior... Best value...


I hate those sentences and i see a lot of them in every Nintendo Threads X_X



NobleTeam360 on 31 May 2014
chocoloco said:
Not everyone thinks Mario Kart and other Nintendo games are the best games, or even close to the best games. Or that they alone are worth buying a console for. Sorry.

This.