Another silly pro-Wii U article written by a rabid Nintendo fanboi. No, the "best console to buy this Christmas" (or ever) is NOT the Wii U, it's really the worst console, behind the PS3, 360, PS4, and XB1 (all are much better choices with solid libraries, better hardware, and no silly gimmicks). These pro-Wii U articles are actually quite funny, they are filled with all kinds of fanboi fantasies about how great the anemic Wii U game library is, in complete denial of the truth...
Another garbage pro-Nintendo fanboi article, "promoted" by N4G. How odd that there are so many of these nonsense articles on N4G lately. Nintendo's marketing dollars at work, so it seems.
On topic, there really are no reasons to "back Nintendo in 2015", unless they scrap the Wii U and release a genuinely good console to replace it. If you don't buy into Nintendo's gimmicks (and clearly most people don't), it's best to simply avoid th...
At this stage there probably isn't going to be another Nintendo home console. The Wii U has been a huge disappointment, lacking in even the most commonly expected features and falling way short in specifications and power. Nintendo surely realizes that they are no longer able to compete against other companies when it comes to hardware design, which is why they've used gimmicks to try to attract customers for over a decade. Let's hope that they just abandon any future home cons...
Five Reasons the Wii U Lost the Console War:
1) Weak CPU, weak GPU, anemic 2gb RAM (with only 1gb available for games), no internal HDD or even a bay for one, no ethernet port, no bluray/DVD support, no Dolby Digital support, no analog triggers on all controllers, overall very poor hardware.
2) Akwkward, oversized, low-rez Fisher-Price wannabe gamepad gimmick distracts from gameplay rather than adding to it.
3) Meager selection of rehashed games with entire ge...
Nintendo is clearly paying N4G to put these kinds of garbage opinion pieces up, look at how many pro-Wii U articles have been appearing lately. Same for dealspwn.com, they are well paid by Nintendo to hawk the crappy Wii U anywhere they can.
No, that old "needs better marketing" excuse is flat wrong. What the Wii U NEEDED was better, more competitive hardware, without the gamepad gimmick. Nintendo gambled that yet another gimmick would reel people in, just like they did with the Wii before it. But people learned their lesson after being burned by the Wii, gimmicks alone are simply not enough to sell a product, anymore.
Sadly, there is nothing that Nintendo can do to salvage the Wii U at this point....
Wow looks like a fantastic free-roaming shmup, day 1 buy!
Wii U also has: cheap, underpowered, feature-lacking hardware, a poor game selection with entire genres of games missing, a poor online service, pitiful internal storage, harsh anti-consumer DRM, rehashed games, and an oversized, awkward Fisher-Price wannabe tablet gimmick that you are forced to use and which distracts from gameplay rather than improving it.
Unless you simply must have more Mario and Zelda games, it just isn't worth it.
"Nintendo, the masters of gimmicks".
Fixed that for you. ;)
17 "best exclusives" in three years? That's a really pitiful list considering how long the Wii U has been out, and some of those games are questionable anyway. Not a very good advertisement for the Wii U there, friend.
They better be working on the next console, the current one is a failure, based on a cheap gimmick and lacking in even the most common features, with very poor specs. Let's hope that Nintendo will finally come to the realization that gimmicks alone aren't enough to have a successful product. People actually want solid hardware that can compete for many years to come, instead of some cheap crackerjack gimmick tied to mediocre hardware.
Why don't I own a Wii U yet? Maybe because it's a gimmicky POS? If you don't buy into the gamepad gimmick, all you end up with is a weak, underpowered, feature-lacking system with a pitifully small selection of mediocre games. It can't even match multiplats on systems that came out 8 years before it, lol. No thanks.
@eyeofcore - OK, you want the actual details of why the Wii U was poorly designed? No problem, here you go:
-- Weak CPU
-- Weak GPU
-- Measly 2GB RAM, of which only 1GB is available for games (the other two TRUE next gen consoles each have 8gb of RAM, WAY more)
-- Pathetic internal storage of only 8GB or 32GB (PS4 and XB1 both have 500gb internal HDDs standard!)
-- No Dolby/DTS sound support
-- No internal hard drive or even a bay for ...
No, the Wii U is the farthest thing from the "must-have console of 2014". It is a poorly-designed, feature-lacking, underpowered console ruined by yet another gimmick (from a company well known for gimmicks). Unless you simply must have every Mario and Zelda game ever released, it really just isn't worth it at all. Both of the other (true) next gen consoles have far, far more to offer than the Wii U ever will.
Once again, "dealspwn" proves that they...
There is one huge thing that Microsoft did, that damaged the XB1 more than anything else: the Kinect gimmick. Had they simply left that out of the launch console, and put more resources into the console itself, they'd be in much better shape this generation.
YAY! More gimmicks from the Big N!
Dealspwn is a notoriously pro-Nintendo/anti-Sony website, look at all their past apologies for Nintendo's terrible hardware and rehashed games, and you'll see that's the case.
They're clearly angry that the Wii U has failed, and doing all they can to tear down other systems. Junk website.
I looked at a bunch of these at a local BB yesterday, don't understand what all the hype is about. They really looked pretty cheap, much poorer quality than Skylanders or Disney Infinity figures. For 12.99 each they are a huge ripoff, really they should cost no more than 4.99, for what you get.
Nah, a Wii U isn't mandatory for anything, unless you're into lame gimmicks tied to poorly-designed hardware, which is all Nintendo is about these days. The Fisher Price gamepad certainly doesn't make the system worthwhile, game selection is very anemic, 3rd parties abandoned it a while ago, and the usual rehashes are getting really tired and played out. Too bad Nintendo didn't put more stuffing into the console, it can't even match multiplats on the last gen consoles, n...
Great ideas, but they are far beyond fantasy when it comes to Nintendo products. If we've learned anything about the Nintendo of the last decade or so, it's this: they simply don't have the expertise to design genuinely competitive, high-end hardware. So instead, they design mediocre hardware, and throw in a gimmick to try to reel people in. They will never release any kind of cutting edge product in the future, just not something that they are capable of doing, anymore.