It's been nearly 14 years since the Wii U launched and over 9 years since its retirement; now that all that time is passed, how do you feel about the system?

neve even touched it r (literally) . But from the pictures it always reminded me of those fisher price toys you see online. I know it has many great games on it, but just by looking at it, its easy to assume its just a revised Nintendo Wii, much like the DS had the DSi and DSi Xl. It was really smart of Nintendo to bring all the big WiiU games over to the NS1 as almost no one had a Wii U

Trash system. Maybe the worst I have ever owned and I had a SegaCD and a 3DO.

A prototype for the Switch. That clumsy controller always put me off when I try to play something.

Mario 3D World is amazing though.

Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was.

Great first party games. Shitty hardware and user experience.

I liked it more than the Wii ... I don't care how much people get their panties in a wad about that, but I liked Switch and especially Switch 2 better than those two.

Given it didn't have a full product cycle, the library was pretty good. Mario Kart 8 was better than Mario Kart Wii, Mario 3D World wasn't quite as good as Galaxy but close, Splatoon is better than any new IP on the Wii, Mario Maker was terrific, NSMBU was better than NSMB Wii, BOTW is way better than Twilight Princess or Skyward Sword, DKC: Tropical Freeze was significantly better than DKC Returns, Smash was better on Wii U than Wii, Bayonetta 2 was good, Pikmin 3 was good.

I dunno, the Wii had Xenoblade which is considered one of the greats of its genre. Splatoon is terrific though, yeah.

IMO it was Nintendo’s sloppy rough transition into HD. They went into Wii U expecting to pump out software like they had on the Wii/GCN, but ended up releasing an HD upscaling of NSMB as the system’s killer launch title, and nothing in sight until Pikmin 3 & Mario 3D World almost a year after launch.

Don’t get me wrong, the system did see some great games. Nintendo just misjudged how demanding developing for an HD system in addition to a portable GCN (i.e. 3DS) would be. The fact that they unveiled the console an entire year-and-a-half before launch with no games ready to show says all that you need to know.

I loved the Wii U

I liked it as a dual screen experiment, though library was pretty anemic, even Nintendo's 1st party,

I still have mine hooked up for few games that can't be ported to anything else due to nature of Gamepad (or play way better as WiiU games with things displayed on Gamepad).