Was gonna make this into a profile post but I hit the character limit so I'm doing it here!
I need to get rid of nearly everything I own, and so I have a few hoarded electronics I'm selling away because I probably haven't touched these things in years, since I got out of high school. But I'm taking quite some time on whether I want to keep a teen-age Wii U or my childhood Wii. I'm more leaning towards selling off the Wii U even despite it possibly being more of a commodity.
I thought the gamepad was cool when I used to play on it, but I see it now as more of a burden since it's heavily tied to the Wii U at all. I've seen how far CFW has gone and it's all cool since the browser exploit days, but even with the benefit of HDMI, I think I see more personal value in a Wii that has access to GameCube controllers, RC24, and *better* display on Wii due to vWii being blurry and strange on output (not to mention black borders). Having a Wii controller just feels better to me than dealing with the gamepad with its short battery life and baggage. That, along with my memory of the Wii U being slow in general to launch things, and a library that I don't remember too much of (I was honestly playing more VC games, I think), I have my reasons to lean towards the Wii even though a lot more people online seem to say that the Wii U is overall better.
That said, I don't exactly aim to be playing on my Wii in the near future with life stuff. My 2DS, Switch, and especially my Laptop definitely cover all bases, and I don't even use my Switch much either. It's just that if I ever feel the itch to play a Wii U game, the future is now and I assume emulation will have my back to purchase and play a those handful of those games I missed out on. But I do have more of a personal connection with the Wii - and again, if I ever were to boot it up again, it'd probably be faster to set up even with modern TVs and I'd likely be doing it with friends around where we just grab a controller and hop in.
Maybe it sounds like I've already made up my mind, but I'm curious to know if anyone feels strongly on why I should not bother. Don't get me wrong, I did love the Wii U and still think it's cool, but it definitely catered to more of my childhood side than being a console I would actually wanna use again the older I get. It's just a bulkier system and the Wii has been close enough in functionality for my needs over the years.
I need to get rid of nearly everything I own, and so I have a few hoarded electronics I'm selling away because I probably haven't touched these things in years, since I got out of high school. But I'm taking quite some time on whether I want to keep a teen-age Wii U or my childhood Wii. I'm more leaning towards selling off the Wii U even despite it possibly being more of a commodity.
I thought the gamepad was cool when I used to play on it, but I see it now as more of a burden since it's heavily tied to the Wii U at all. I've seen how far CFW has gone and it's all cool since the browser exploit days, but even with the benefit of HDMI, I think I see more personal value in a Wii that has access to GameCube controllers, RC24, and *better* display on Wii due to vWii being blurry and strange on output (not to mention black borders). Having a Wii controller just feels better to me than dealing with the gamepad with its short battery life and baggage. That, along with my memory of the Wii U being slow in general to launch things, and a library that I don't remember too much of (I was honestly playing more VC games, I think), I have my reasons to lean towards the Wii even though a lot more people online seem to say that the Wii U is overall better.
That said, I don't exactly aim to be playing on my Wii in the near future with life stuff. My 2DS, Switch, and especially my Laptop definitely cover all bases, and I don't even use my Switch much either. It's just that if I ever feel the itch to play a Wii U game, the future is now and I assume emulation will have my back to purchase and play a those handful of those games I missed out on. But I do have more of a personal connection with the Wii - and again, if I ever were to boot it up again, it'd probably be faster to set up even with modern TVs and I'd likely be doing it with friends around where we just grab a controller and hop in.
Maybe it sounds like I've already made up my mind, but I'm curious to know if anyone feels strongly on why I should not bother. Don't get me wrong, I did love the Wii U and still think it's cool, but it definitely catered to more of my childhood side than being a console I would actually wanna use again the older I get. It's just a bulkier system and the Wii has been close enough in functionality for my needs over the years.
