Gamnesia: "Everyone’s heard it all before. “ The Wii U is doooomed! Nintendo is the new SEGA! They’ve destroyed the video game industry forever!!1!” A lot of video game publications may be overdramatizing Nintendo’s situation when they make these ridiculous claims, but it's hard to deny that the Wii U has seen shockingly weak performance, putting Nintendo’s home console business in a bit of a bind.
Nintendo has plenty of money. Their portable console business is healthier than ever and their less-than-successful consoles are continually supported by Nintendo software and Nintendo fans. For these very reasons, I have faith that the Wii U will be fine—it does not need to be “saved.” However, its sales still do pale in comparison to Xbox One and PlayStation 4, and Nintendo has displayed far too many issues with public relations, advertising, branding, online infrastructure, and more to reshape that hierarchy. It’s simply too late for Wii U to become anything more than a pacifier while we wait for Nintendo’s next console. Thus, Nintendo’s goal should not be to make the “ultimate console” in any sense of the term, but rather to provide the best-selling pacifier they reasonably can.
To accomplish this, Nintendo must focus on a clear goal for the Wii U and make every decision with this goal carefully in mind. Nintendo must create the best consumer value and properly inform the public without expending misguided or excessive resources. In this light, there is plenty that Nintendo can do to ensure a faster turnaround, greater success, and longer-lasting significance for the Wii U, even * gasp* without third-party support."
The Nintendo Switch is potentially nearing its lifespan, and several Wii U games haven't found their way over as ports yet.
I think it's better to leave games like AC: Amiibo Festival and Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash forgotten on the Wii U. Best case, they are mediocre games; worse case, they are very bad. It was a dark time for the Wii U, and the first only exists to sell Amiibo cards, whereas the second was put together in a couple of months with a shoestring budget, and it shows.
The rest of the list does have some really cool games, though. I would love to see a remake of Star Fox Zero with decent controls, and Xenoblade X doesn't require that much modification to work.
Same as Paper Mario color splash. One of the best wiiu games and getting even better with dual screen. Same reason why i prefer Splatoon 1
This article leaves out Nintendo's most controversial game to date devils Third.
I personally found the cover system really fun in that one compared to at the time most fps games completely lacking one.
Kirby is always ignored or forgotten by people, so good to see it mentioned here.
Play Kirby Canvas Curse on DS, and then play Rainbow Curse on Wii U, they're really fun and unique 'platformers' without any actual jumping.
Hanzala from eXputer: "The cruel hammer of Nintendo has fallen. Farewell, 3DS and Wii U, you surely brightened my life and many others; you won't be forgotten."
A new list goes over eight of the the most useless amiibo, ranging from the Shadow Mewtwo card to the Qbby figure.
the whole blog post i will now summarize:
"i have faith"
Why post the whole blog in the description?
i guess a pokemon RPG would be nice with PVP mode
I agree with most of what this article has.
They definitely need to work on getting some more games into the VC. Maybe get some GameCube games in there? I'd absolutely love that. If they can't do that I'd like a reason why at least.
Making use of their IP's. Yes, again. Starfox would be amazing on Wii U. I heard there was a rumor about one being made.. but yeah. rumor. Remake Majora's Mask for Wii U and I'm sure that'll move some units. people have been begging for these things. I'd love to see Kid Icarus game on Wii U as well. Bring some older games back to life.
Marketing, I think they're doing okay with it for now, marketing it towards kids for the time being. But I really hope they'll step it up. Hell, make a commercial simply explaining the Wii U and what it can do rather than involving kids and shit. I will admit they need to market it more towards hardcore gamers now. Mario 3D World is out and known, so enough with the family-oriented commercials.
I really don't know why the Wii is still in NA. I hate seeing it in Walmart or Kmart. I just hate it and it pisses me off to no end. I'd like to slap whoever decided to keep it here. There is NO use for it any longer. Wii U can play Wii games, so... What the hell are you doing Nintendo NA?!
But along with all of this; they need to listen more and get things straightened out. I don't know what's going on inside the company but they need to get their shit sorted out. I really hate seeing them make stupid decisions. I've been with them since childhood and I plan on staying with them, but I've been pretty disappointed with their actions lately.
They need to prove themselves that the WiiU is a capable console and remove the 'idiot' label people putted on WiiU's head.
I kinda disagree with that next statement because I know it's all about the gameplay. But they need to show a game that looks incredible graphically. Because people will juge the game at first sight. I hope that game is Zelda.