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Areym on 28 April 2016

That sweet ass tablet, brotha.



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hoala on 28 April 2016

a good system which got destroyed mainly by nintendos decision (splatoon voice chat and map rotation, just 2 mario kart dlcs, dual screen expierence in star fox, amiibos)



Ultrashroomz on 28 April 2016

I bought the console solely for Smash, and I was certainly satisfied with that regard.

I'll never forget the day that the world briefly turned upside down when Sakurai decided to put in Cloud into the game.



"Just for comparison Uncharted 4 was 20x bigger than Splatoon 2. This shows the huge difference between Sony's first-party games and Nintendo's first-party games."

SvennoJ on 28 April 2016
Soundwave said:
SvennoJ said:
I just realized I've used the WiiU more than I have the Wii. The Wii was great at the start yet in the later years Mario galaxy and Zelda was all that I played on it. It's not much of a difference though.

Yeah to be honest, I played my Wii U more than my Wii too. I got bored of things like Wii Sports/Fit very, very quickly so I didn't bother with those much.

I played a lot of the Mario Galaxy games, DKC, Mario Kart, NSMB Wii ... but I've logged more time in Splatoon than any of those and probably about equal amounts into 3D World, DKC: TF, Mario Kart 8, and NSMBU. A bit of time in Mario Maker too.

I've put more time in Lego City undercover than all Wii's Marios combined. 3D world and NSMBU got a lot of attention again, fun in co-op, same with Rayman Legends. My kids heavily played Splatoon while I put way too much time in Mario Maker, editting on the gamepad for hours at a time. MK8 gets played often as well, my wife and kids like it a lot.

The WiiU gets a lot of flack, yet it's still used daily in my house, if not simply by one of my kids watching you tube on the gamepad. It's the best game streaming there is by far, less display lag than my tv and very convenient with kids. I've used it to watch Netflix while playing Elite Dangerous on my laptop. It's handy when the tv remote is missing again. I still use it for Wii Fit while watching TV, or out on the deck when the sun is out. The console is small and easily put anywhere so the limited range isn't really much of an issue. It's very sturdy too, survived countless drops with my kids growing up. (Our iPad had a nasty crack in the screen less than half a year after we got it)

I only really miss Paper Mario and Zelda. And I had hoped for something like Zack and Wiki taking full advantage of the gamepad.



Mike321 on 28 April 2016

A great new ip in splatoon and the introduction of iconic third party characters in smash.



                                                                                     

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Frogger on 28 April 2016
Mar1217 said:

As your hope for a digital only home console :3

I don't plan on bragging when I'm right.



Soundwave on 28 April 2016
Mike321 said:
A great new ip in splatoon and the introduction of iconic third party characters in smash.

Pretty sure Smash on Wii did that first though. The Snake reveal caused big meltdowns.



Chrizum on 28 April 2016

What is a Wii U?



Platina on 28 April 2016

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I had a lot of fun with it so I don't regret my purchase.. was a commercial failure though



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Soundwave on 28 April 2016
SvennoJ said:
Soundwave said:

Yeah to be honest, I played my Wii U more than my Wii too. I got bored of things like Wii Sports/Fit very, very quickly so I didn't bother with those much.

I played a lot of the Mario Galaxy games, DKC, Mario Kart, NSMB Wii ... but I've logged more time in Splatoon than any of those and probably about equal amounts into 3D World, DKC: TF, Mario Kart 8, and NSMBU. A bit of time in Mario Maker too.

I've put more time in Lego City undercover than all Wii's Marios combined. 3D world and NSMBU got a lot of attention again, fun in co-op, same with Rayman Legends. My kids heavily played Splatoon while I put way too much time in Mario Maker, editting on the gamepad for hours at a time. MK8 gets played often as well, my wife and kids like it a lot.

The WiiU gets a lot of flack, yet it's still used daily in my house, if not simply by one of my kids watching you tube on the gamepad. It's the best game streaming there is by far, less display lag than my tv and very convenient with kids. I've used it to watch Netflix while playing Elite Dangerous on my laptop. It's handy when the tv remote is missing again. I still use it for Wii Fit while watching TV, or out on the deck when the sun is out. The console is small and easily put anywhere so the limited range isn't really much of an issue. It's very sturdy too, survived countless drops with my kids growing up. (Our iPad had a nasty crack in the screen less than half a year after we got it)

I only really miss Paper Mario and Zelda. And I had hoped for something like Zack and Wiki taking full advantage of the gamepad.

I would love to use remote play on the Wii U ... it was a feature when announced I thought I would use a lot buuuuuuut ...

The Wii U gamepad screen is a cheap piece of crap. It's literally a worse quality screen than even $70 no name kids tablets I see at Best Buy. It's a screen like something from a 2002-era portable DVD player that a grandma would use. I don't know how Nintendo even finds components this shitty, it's like they go back in time to special order them.

I didn't play through 6 years of the Wii with miserable muddy low resolution SD on an HDTV to now not enjoy HD graphics on the Wii U, so I basically play all the time on the HDTV. I can't go back to SD resolution, which is what the Wii U tablet screen basically is.