Brandon:
You know, it's easy to forget, in these godlessly offensive modern days, how bad gamers actually used to have it when it came to console launches. The Wii U is gonna launch with twenty-three games, many of which co-exist as major installments of bigtime franchises happily among the piles of worthless spew-ware. A new Mario? Ninja Gaiden, Assassin's Creed, Tekken, Black Ops 2, Darksiders, Batman? No man could even play all these damned things with any amount of timeliness. Who needs it!
Alas, to say that the Wii U launch lineup is fantastic would seem mostly to be preaching to a choir that has been singing its praises for a while now. I can't say I've heard too much poo-pooing going on when it comes on down to it. What the lineup really got me curious about was the initial launches of systems back in the day—most specifically , their Japanese releases. And let me tell you, they were generally Not Pretty.
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.
“There are many iconic platformers yet Kid Chameleon is rarely discussed so allow me to shine the spotlight on this retro treasure.” - A.J. Maciejewski from Video Chums.
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."
Nintendo can turn Wii U into a spiritual successor to the SNES I'd be very happily surprised. What a great console.
But on topic, Wii U does have a strong launch lineup, one of the strongest ever actually. But seeing as I never buy anything at launch, I'm more interested in the other games in the pipeline a year or so AFTER launch.
We will see.
I can't believe Super Mario Bros. was released two years after the Famicom was launched in Japan. That's a long wait for a good game.
It's a great launch window and I do want one but I'm not really interested in buying games I've already completed months back. I'm still looking for something killer to compliment Zombie U to completely pull me in.
I think launches with one great, iconic game (Super Mario 64, Halo, Wii Sports) are always more memorable than ones where there's simply a huge selection to pick from.
As far as Wii U goes, I've narrowed down my day one buys to NSMBU and obviously the pack-in Nintendo Land, and I'm really looking forward to both.
... also, Altered Beast is a kickass game.