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I still cant believe a console with a controller with all the buttons, triggers, clickable sticks, but no analog triggers sold less than a system with a contoller that had only one controller stick, and two easily accessed buttons besides start/select and home.



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The last true Nintendo console.



SvennoJ said:

Downsampled to 540p makes 720p look better than upscaled to 1080p :p 

That's bullshit and you know it. 



Conina said:
SvennoJ said:

Downsampled to 540p makes 720p look better than upscaled to 1080p :p 

That's bullshit and you know it. 

It was the game, Fast racing Neo was unplayable on my projector, too much blur to make anything out. Do-able on the gamepad.
It's like those old newspaper photos, blow it up too much and you can't see what it is anymore until you take a step back.

Anyway the :p should have given away it wasn't meant serious as a general rule. MK8 looks much better scaled up to 1080p than on the gamepad.



A decent machine to a few, a disappointment for many, irrelevant to the vast majority and a joke to the rest. I consider it to be a disappointment.



I predict that the Wii U will sell a total of 18 million units in its lifetime. 

The NX will be a 900p machine

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The Wii U is inevitably going to be compared to other disappointing game consoles (sales-wise, I am not talking about quality). One question I wonder is if the Wii U is more like the Saturn or more like the Dreamcast. It definitely has strong similarities to both platforms
The Wii U's ultimate legacy is that it will be the worst-selling Nintendo home console of all-time. There is no way it can catch up the GameCube's 21.74 million units.



Lifetime Sales Predictions 

Switch: 161 million (was 73 million, then 96 million, then 113 million, then 125 million, then 144 million, then 151 million, then 156 million)

PS5: 122 million (was 105 million, then 115 million) Xbox Series X/S: 38 million (was 60 million, then 67 million, then 57 million. then 48 million. then 40 million)

Switch 2: 120 million (was 116 million)

PS4: 120 mil (was 100 then 130 million, then 122 million) Xbox One: 51 mil (was 50 then 55 mil)

3DS: 75.5 mil (was 73, then 77 million)

"Let go your earthly tether, enter the void, empty and become wind." - Guru Laghima

Wman1996 said:
The Wii U is inevitably going to be compared to other disappointing game consoles (sales-wise, I am not talking about quality). One question I wonder is if the Wii U is more like the Saturn or more like the Dreamcast. It definitely has strong similarities to both platforms
The Wii U's ultimate legacy is that it will be the worst-selling Nintendo home console of all-time. There is no way it can catch up the GameCube's 21.74 million units.

More like the Dreamcast in my opinion. The software that is there is mostly great, although limited in quantity.