Hardware Own a Switch thinking about getting a Wii U?

[Deleted User]

Wii U must be the most underrated consoles ever.
Im sad that it didnt prosper,There was great potential, but i can understand the industry and how Hard it is to make Wii u games.
Too bad it didnt pack some more power and a way better SDK.

Technically, Wii U power is the same as PS3 and XBOX 360. [and it's true]
If Wii U didn't had PowerPC processor then probably it would be a total flop.

 

[Saiyan Lusitano]

I never owned a Wii U but I recently bought a Switch and think it's so good, I grew up on Nintendo consoles/handhelds mainly the original NES, Super NES, original GameBoy, GBC, GBA and got the Wii when it came out.

I skipped the N64 and jumped on the PSX, PS2 and PS3 (though I still owned a Wii alongside my PS3 but I sold it when I got the PS3), I'm thinking of getting a Wii U mainly for Nintendo first party titles and the Virtual Wii which upscale Wii games on HDMI connection.

My grip is in my mind a lot of the Wii U games are potential ports for the Switch and there's not many games in the library of the console since I still own the PS3 plus I'm not a fan of the two top analog sticks on the Wii U's Pro Controller, I also think some Wii games will be remastered for the Switch and I'm hoping Xenoblade Chronicles is one of them.

Convince me...

Wait a while longer for the prices to drop down further of the Wii U used consoles.

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Wii U must be the most underrated consoles ever.

Going by the Nintendo fanboys it's the "best Nintendo home console ever made" and that in itself is anything but underrated. The WiiU was an OK gaming system, nothing special.

 

[biggan1]

Technically, Wii U power is the same as PS3 and XBOX 360. [and it's true]
If Wii U didn't had PowerPC processor then probably it would be a total flop.

I think most gamers Then the hacking scenen sees it that way though... I was did.. om ashamed lol.

 

[Saiyan Lusitano]

You worry about the amount of games the WiiU has, yet you bought a NX? You're a rather odd person.

Eh, where can I purchase the NX?

 

[Deleted User]

Going by the Nintendo fanboys it's the "best Nintendo home console ever made" and that in itself is anything but underrated. The WiiU was an OK gaming system, nothing special.

Oh, okay. Somebody didn't use it in everyday use it seems.

 

[biggan1]

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Going by the Nintendo fanboys it's the "best Nintendo home console ever made" and that in itself is anything but underrated. The WiiU was an OK gaming system, nothing special.

I agree personally My favorite was the n64, but thats just me. Wii was cool when the first hacks came tbh.
I wouldnt call myself a fanboy, i like and dislike alot of games and what they do.

For me its a cheap and effective way to play lots of games that I missed whilst I save money for a Good gaming PC.
Ps4 and Xbox aint bad either.

 

[Deleted User]

Technically, Wii U power is the same as PS3 and XBOX 360. [and it's true]
If Wii U didn't had PowerPC processor then probably it would be a total flop.

I think the gpu is above the 7th generation but what holds the wiiu back is the CPU.

 

[Deleted User]

I think the gpu is above the 7th generation but what holds the wiiu back is the CPU.

Yeah but Wii U is powerful enough to emulate [Yes, emulate] Gamecube, PS1, N64 and probably even Dreamcast just fine. [Probably. Don't quote me on that]
And... yes, Wii U CPU is overally a backslash to it. If it had even that AMD cpu, it would win.
But like i said, it's not that bad.
EDIT: Also lack of RAM killed it. You only have 1GB for games, while another 1GB is reserved for system.
There's also unknown amount of eDDR ram apparently.

 

[Shady Guy Jose]

The Wii U is what the Wii should have been. Imagine the full Wii library in 1080p and the Wii U library released 6 years earlier. With two game-changing innovations: motion and dual-screen/off-TV gaming. It would have blown the PS3 and Xbox 360 out of the water, even without the Wii's low price, since the PS3 released at a much higher price tag at the time. And by releasing it at that time, they would have to keep full GC compatibility, so we'd have a Wii U with the original Wii's GC controller and memcard slots. Add in a DS card slot, maybe in the gamepad, to succeed the GC's Game Boy Player, and it would have been the perfect 2006 console, in my view.

 

[VitaType]

The Wii U is what the Wii should have been. [...] With two game-changing innovations: motion and dual-screen/off-TV gaming. It would have blown the PS3 and Xbox 360 out of the water, even without the Wii's low price, since the PS3 released at a much higher price tag at the time.

I see that claim rather critical. If you look at the development of Wii games you will see that it needed quiet a while until the devs where able to use the motion control probably in there games (unrelated from the fact that there was no Motion+ at the beginning. Also we users needed to become better with that way to control a videogame).
I think having both innovations at the beginning could have killed the console easily since there is a unspocken expection to use the new features at least very often in your games.
Sure, we Wii costumers all wanted to play with this new motion stuff at the beginning, but today we know that it's not always the best way to control a game. The users and the developers needed to learn that. Not just in a lab, but with released games and gamers "in the wild".
That's how games overall become better (and how sometimes annoying trends such as 'movie-sation' of games in the recent years come to live ) e.g. the gyro-aiming in shooters on consoles a.k.a. finally FPS can be played at least decent with a gamepad.
This confusen about finding out which games use which features or just finding games that use a specific feature along with alot of bad implementations and a longer 'experimental time' thanks to the complexity of having more features and therefore more options could have lead to a completly disastrous image of a highly expermimental/concept console.
A console that has to much to offer for average people. And it where Mr. and Mrs. Average, not the gamers with an intresst in concept consoles which made the Wii the succuess it was.
Once you learnd a concept and use it as it is the most normal thing on the world it's hard to understand that learning this concept plus another one at the same time can be very hard due to the fact that the already learnd concept is just a normal thing that you "just do".
As I said: I'm highly critical about the idea that introducing both WiiMote and Gamepad with only one console and that at release day would have lead to success. I believe it's more likely that this hypothetical console never would have been the success the Wii was.

 

[Hanafuda]

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I'm thinking of getting a Wii U mainly for Nintendo first party titles and the Virtual Wii which upscale Wii games on HDMI connection.
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Convince me...

Short reply:
WiiU doesn't upscale Wii.

More thorough response:
OP, I'm also an oldtimer vs. the median gbatemp demographic, probably 10-15 yrs older than you. NES came out my freshman year of college, and I've been a Ninty fan from the beginning. Like you, I am struggling with this WiiU thing - for me it's buy the WiiU, or use that money to cover 1/2 the cost of a Switch & stuff. It should be easier for me, since I technically own a WiiU already, and all but a few of the 1st party games we want to own. It's my 13yo daughter's though, so it's going to disappear one day. And, since it's hers, it's not modded and won't be unless she asks for it to be. If I buy a WiiU for myself, CFW day one. I own at least one example of every Nintendo console generation (excluding the VBoy) separate from the consoles I've bought for my kids over the years. I haven't yet bought my own, personal WiiU. But I already have a modded Wii, and 480p component can't be that much worse than 480p HDMI. Contrary to popular belief, the WiiU does not upscale Wii/GCN games. So all I, or you, would really gain is the WiiU games, and for those alone I'm still on the fence.

http://www.ign.com/wikis/wii-u/Frequently_Asked_Questions

Will the Wii U render my old Wii games in HD?

No. In an interview with Giant Bomb, Mark Franklin, head of PR for Nintendo, revealed that the Wii U would not "up-res" or upscale Wii games to an HD resolution.

Furthermore, 1up has provided a quote from Reggie Fils-Aime in which he says, in response to this question, "It will not do that. That's really driven by the hardware, and the original Wii games were built for a specific type of hardware. There's no mechanism to quote-unquote 'up-res' that unless we launch a brand-new game." However, the link provided for the source of this quote is a video where upscaling is not specifically mentioned, so this quote from Reggie is unconfirmed at the moment.

Finally, Ben Kuchera from Wired reports that he was "flatly told" by Nintendo representatives that "the hardware will not be able to improve the resolution of Wii games."

It is important to note, that if you are using the old red, yellow and white composit cables on the Wii then yes, the games will look significantly better on the Wii U. This is because, the old RCA cables only offer 480i and not true 480p. If you bought red blue green component cables however then the games will look the same.

Sorry, maybe not much help. But if you have a Wii w/ HBC already (including USB LoaderGX, Nintendont), then the WiiU games should be all you consider.

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[Seliph]

You worry about the amount of games the WiiU has, yet you bought a NX? You're a rather odd person.

Well the Wii U is at the end of its life without too many outstanding titles that haven't been ported to the 3ds or Switch. The Switch is very new and thus has a bunch of potential and seems to have quite a few cool games lined up for it.

 

[Nemix77]

The Switch has massive potential especially the way it's selling right now, the biggest reason why I bought the Switch is because of the controller (the Joy-Cons and Pro Controller is as traditional as any controller Nintendo has released as of late bringing back memories of the good old SNES days) and hybrid feature in which I find very useful even though my console is docked most of the time; I have not regret my purchase one bit.