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by endemic 3388 days ago
> at the very end of its lifecycle

This might not be a bad thing. Plenty of quality software already released that you can obtain cheaply. I skipped the Wii U, but am going to pick one up so that I can actually play Zelda, as well as explore the other games I missed.
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mercer 3385 days ago
I bought most of my consoles at the end of their lifecycles.

The way I see it, buying a console already means that you get 'last-gen' or 'lesser-gen' compared to PC. So why not go one generation lower and benefit from tons of titles (reviewed and re-reviewed after things cool down), very cheap prices, (oxford comma!) and not dealing with early-adopter issues.

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cmrdporcupine 3387 days ago
It's not a bad little machine for a few games. You could keep yourself busy and totally immersed in Legend of Zelda just playing BoTW, the HD re-issue of Wind Waker (_highly_ recommended), the re-issue of Twilight Princess, the Wii copy of Skyward Sword (weakest of the bunch imho, but there) and Minish Cap in virtual console. Worth the buy just to play those.

Same goes for Mario. Super Mario Wii U is great. Super Mario 3d World is great. Super Mario Galaxy series for Wii runs great on it.

And Mario Maker! Hours of fun.

I hear great things about Spatoon. The Pikmin games are great.

But my kids mainly use it for Minecraft and Mario Maker.

A highly underrated system, imho. Nintendo released some great titles for it.

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mercer 3385 days ago
How can you leave out Metroid Prime Trilogy! The first installment is probably the first in a list of less than fives games that I've finished multiple times.

Other than that I agree with what you said.

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cmrdporcupine 3385 days ago
Sure, but Metroid Prime is a GC series that they haven't updated :-( To play it these days you're actually just better off playing it in Dolphin, which I recently did. It looks great you can even get texture packs to upgrade it.
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mercer 3384 days ago
True, I'm really hoping we'll get a new Metroid game on Switch. That said, for many people the control scheme of the original put them off, so being able to play it using the (easier) Wii controls, higher resolution, and getting the whole trilogy for about 20 bucks is a pretty nice plus of having a WiiU.

Unless you hate these types of backtracking games, of course :).

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jghn 3388 days ago
I bought the Wii U primarily for this game, back before all the delays happened. Things worked out magically for me, just a couple of years after the fact :)
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