GamesRadar - 2013 is going to be an important year for gaming. Pundits and professionals have been spewing doomsday prophecies claiming the end of consoles is nigh (something Microsoft and Sony obviously don't believe), and last year's launch of Nintendo’s Wii U isn’t giving many gamers faith in this generation. Launched a little over four months ago to low fanfare, the system has stalled out at the starting line. Sales are low, releases are few and far between, and many are claiming that Nintendo's follow-up to the Wii us dead on arrival. The Wii U, right now, is broken.
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.
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.
Its not dying they just need two things:
Better games and Better adversting cause the majority of their user base from the wii will probably have no idea what the diffrence is.
Far from dead, why don't we wait to see what E3 brings before we all start writing on the tombstone.
i remember the vita is like this when it came out same for the 3ds, almost everyday of the week you see articles like this and even the PS3 at 2006....
but look at these systems theyre still here ^_^
just like what others says all it needs is games and better marketing
what it really boggles me is why nintendo release the wii u without top notch first party titles to back it up
and the issues with hardware itself (OS is Slow)
It's on life support. Where's the damn VC with gamepad compatibility?
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Not a knock-out.
Just waiting on some games.