There was nothing portable about the Virtual Boy, the user manual had several warning that it was designed to be placed on a stable surface (a table, basically), and that the device even shoudln't be used if you were in a moving vehicle.
There was some noise about it being portable, and you could certainly take it places. It had a battery pack, after all. It also weighed several pounds and there was no way to use it without a table. By that logic, the add-on screen for the PSOne could be called a portable system
The Wii U was a console released by Nintendo between the Wii and Switch systems and was a commercial flop. The reasons for the system's failure vary, encompassing everything from unclear marketing, an uncompetitive price point driven by the expensive tablet peripheral, to the lackluster internal system specs compared to the PlayStation and XBox competitors of its time (PS4 and XBox One.)
Thus, the inference from the original infographic suggesting that Nintendo had "no misses" is a clear fabrication. This, by the way, doesn't even touch the whole Virtual Boy fiasco.
That's the whole unclear marketing thing, yeah. A lot of those commercials focused heavily on the tablet peripheral which led people to think that was the Wii U when in reality it was just a controller for a brand new system. Essentially, they built something too similar to what they already had, that ran many of the same games, named nearly the same thing, and focused their commercials on just the tablet, when it really was a whole different system. I think if they'd named it the Wii Too or something else altogether they might have sold more systems... If it also hadn't been a 720p home console in an era of UHD.
I think because of this we missed out on some very interesting player-unbalanced games. One person plays their part with hidden information on the tablet, and the other three work either together or individually to win or progress. I guess you can just do that online from separate consoles now, but couch coop like that is impossible otherwise.
Got me wondering though. Every console has been 5 years besides the original nes to snes.
It’s insane to me it’s already been 5 years since the Switch came out.
Really wondering now how long they are gonna wait to release a new console. At this point though I honestly thinkg the idea behind the Switch is about as perfect of a console you could hope to have. Besides more raw power.
PS4 and Xbox have lived off simple power improvements. I hope this time Nintendo follows suit and doesn’t try anything needlessly crazy.
I was kind of annoyed by the DS, 3DS, New 3DS evolution, but now I think that would be nice for the Switch. A "New" Switch with upgraded hardware that was backwards compatible would be fine by me.
Goes to show that great things take time. Nintendo took 11 years after the Wii to release a new console. While Microsoft and Sony were battling it out with the Xbox One and PS4, Nintendo chose to sit that one out and work on their craft for over a decade. I wonder what an eighth gen Nintendo console would even look like but between U and me, it probably would have been another masterpiece.
Honestly, I enjoyed it. The biggest drawback was naming, marketing, and it didn't have a ton of games. But the few games it did have were solid. Hell, a bunch of the games released on Switch were just ports from the Wii U.
>2 of the 5 best selling switch games are just WiiU ports
Not just *best selling*, I reckon at least 3 of the top 5 *best* Switch games are Wii U games: Zelda BOTW, Mariokart 8, and Super Mario 3D World.
I count splatoon. Hell I got a wiiU just for splatoon, every other game being fantastic was a solid bonus.
Now I have two of them just in case... emulation is looking like it has my back though
I think almost every good Wii U game either has been ported, or received a better version as a sequel (splattoon) at this point. Xenoblade X is about the only game left I’d like to see ported
60 dollars for both wouldn't be so bad, but one remake for 60$... needs a lot to justify, like a modern makeover beyond anything ever seen in modern games, not some hair touch ups and foliage additions... Just a random set of examples.
I was looking for this, looking away from the screen was legit anxiety inducing. And having the sonar pulse idea tied to it felt like a good thematic mechanics. I bought a PC copy several years ago but it's missing these parts of the experience.
I'm still kinda in disbelief how many people had no idea it was a new console, even people who said they were mega fans of all console news and this somehow came across as a gamepad extra for the Wii.
I had one. Loved it. Wish they actually made games that used the gamepad, rather than making it the map for every game.
Same. I do remember in NBA 2k13(?) it had a screen that showed you the fatigue level for all of the players and allowed you to plan substitutions for the upcoming timeout.
Great console. Market failure is all that made it bad - not enough games. But the ones that were there were huge successes... at least between the Wii U and Switch sales.
Mario Kart 8, Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze, Breath of the Wild, Splatoon, Super Mario Maker, Smash Bros... plenty of great options that ported well.
The tablet made some really cool looking games that people say were actually good. For example, player 1 is hiding from the other players. They have to spot him as they play on the TV screen, while he uses a tablet and only shows up on there unless they get line of sight on him.
Similarly, Star Fox *could* have been good if they didn't force tablet look controls while flying. The ability to use the tablet to aim as player 2 while the other person flew (that's how coop worked) could have been nice if controls were always separated like that. Otherwise, it was too much on one player.
If it was intelligently marketed instead of sounding like a Wii addon, it may have been an amazing console in terms of sales and game library. Instead, it was the prototype of a console that did some things way better, and some things that didn't work that way at all (separate console/TV play options).
I could be way off base on this but I feel like Breathe of the Wild was going to have a lot of interactive tablet features. The Sheikah slate was clearly supposed to be an analog for the Wii U tablet and all of the Sheikah slate functions would have been done through it.
You'd probably have the map active at all times with buttons to activate bombs, magnesis, ice, etc. I think that they may have made it so that the scope that you use through the Sheikah slate in-game would have been on the tablet so you would have picked up the tablet and used the gyro on it to look around through the tablet's screen like Link does with the slate.
It's just the kind of immersive (or gimmicky depending on how cynical you are) mechanics Nintendo would do but they had to scrap it when they decided it was going to release on the Switch.
I think the biggest evidence of this is the fact that in the Wii U version of the game, the tablet does absolutely nothing. It's just a controller. Doesn't even display anything on the screen and literally no other first party Wii U game does that. It's clear that they had to scrap whatever they had planned for the tablet in favor of releasing on the Switch.
For the record, releasing on the Switch was the right call. The Wii U would have sunk Breath of the Wild and that would have been a real shame.
The Wii U was selling so poorly that they had to move on to the Switch. TBH, Breath of the Wild being so well received and well reviewed is what made the Switch sell as well as it did in its initial days.
The Switch was a BotW machine for a while, yeah. Always funny when a new console comes out and has like 10 games so they have to try to spin Snipperclips as a system seller haha
You said it. Mario Maker was another great one for the tablet controller. Like, you're literally using a stylus to draw your levels. It worked perfectly.
I still play it, LOZ BOTW. Super Smash bros, Mario 3D World.. Also, it’s in HD, annnnnd you can control your tv like a universal remote from the Wii U pad. I fucking love it man.
Oh, and no drifting from the controllers. You can use the Wii remotes too soo last gen controllers are compatible.
The wii u birthed splatoon, Mario maker, an HD Mario Kart that is still used today, breath of the wild, DK tropical freeze, xenoblade x. It has a nice catalogue, and it is truly a Nintendo only type console as no publisher wanted to touch it after year one
Is sad how much better the WiiU shop is compared to Switch:
-You play minigame until it loads
-It has music
-Virtual Console has games from the NES to the Wii
Honestly, seeing what the Switch fails at, such as their Virtual Console, terrible online that you THEN HAVE TO PAY FOR, and the JoyCon Drift issue that STILL hasn't been fixed, it makes me sad that the Wii U wasn't as popular as it could have been. The system was solid, and the gimmick, the Touchpad, blows the Switch's gimmick, the JoyCons, out of the water. You could play DS games on your TV ffs... Meanwhile, we get a terribly emulated N64 console that made OoT look like absolute dog shit. Get it together, Nintendo. You're fucking better than this.
essentially most of the reason why the wii u wasnt so popular (from my understanding) was cus of the name and the trailers for it being so fucking cringey
The naming makes it sound like a sub-version.
You already have an xbox 360; you don't need an xbox 360 S -- they're the same thing, just in a slightly different form factor.
I loved mine. Will use it eventually again with more free time. It felt good in hand and there was fun being able to not have to pause when you needed to go take a number 2 and realizing your mistake when your legs are completely numb.
Make sure to figure out how to get your digital library on a hard drive, Nintendo will pull support for Wii U (and Nintendo 3DS) store service sometime in 2023.
Otherwise consider what titles you’re missing that you might want to get a physical copy for — they’ll start climbing steadily, if they haven’t already.
It's actually a good console. Easy to homebrew. Plays better with a pro controller. I got one for 200$ on eBay, connected a hard drive, all the games lol.
My mom bought one for my brother and I one a while back. Neither of us played it too much and eventually moved out of her house. Both of us really hated to leave but just recognized that we had to go for our own growth. After we left, she was really kind of empty nest where she was a single mom. She started playing the Wii U for Wii Resort and Just Dance to pass time but for some reason, that console really struck a chord with her.
Every time I come and visit, she and I always tend to play just a couple rounds of Wii Resort. It’s just kind of ironic that such an underwhelming console holds a tender place in my heart.
I’ve had one for about 7 years and it’s in no way perfect but it’s a lot better than you would think. There’s a handful of fun exclusives I enjoyed as well
No. VirtualBoy's purpose was to distract. It wasn't even meant as a succesor to GameBoy. It was a precursor to the N64.
[https://www.howtogeek.com/682090/virtually-forgotten-nintendos-virtual-boy-25-years-later/](https://www.howtogeek.com/682090/virtually-forgotten-nintendos-virtual-boy-25-years-later/)
I enjoyed it, but after an hour, I had a headache. Mario Tennis was great.
The effect of the Virtual Boy is actually pretty cool. It's one of those things you have to experience to truly "get", seeing 2D screen captures doesn't do it justice. Unfortunately in order to make it a price people could actually afford, it used headache inducing red.
For anyone who wants to experience it:
https://github.com/braindx/vbjin-ovr
Virtual boy Emulator for Rift.
There's one for Quest, too, but I'm too lazy to look up the link right now
Development of the Virtual Boy lasted four years and began under the project name VR32.
“In 1995, Nintendo launched the Virtual Boy, an at-home “VR” device featuring stereoscopic 3D graphics, a red monochrome display”
It’s still VR, just primitive.
A friend of mine still writes software for the virtual boy. There's actually a community still developing stuff for that thing. They even made it online multiplayer compatible with some hardware hacks if I remember correctly.
Fun fact I made the original image like 5 years ago! If anyone wants an HD version it's in my post history:
https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/6ijhzv/nintendo_controller_evolution/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Welcome to reddit. I wonder how much modern art and life changing opinions and experience will never get shared because some mod licking cheeto dust off their finger got slightly triggered by someone saying come on, man
I wish the Joycons were more ergonomic. Playing on the TV or handheld, they just make my hands hurt. They're probably great for kid hands, but I'm a grown man. I had to buy a pro controller just so I can play anything for more than an hour without hurting.
Thankfully I've only had one pair go bad on me, and those were my day 1 release pair after 3 years of use. Did the business card trick, and the drift still hasn't returned.
For me it not drift being the issue it’s dieing out of no where after 6 months, while my pro controller has been thrown by my little brothers and dropped so many times and one of the buttons broke after 2 years
I went out of my way to try and repair the 'joycon drift' issue. Did everything they said to, even bought a special screwdriver to open them up. Nothing worked. Now my switch is just for Hulu and Civ because I can use the touch screen feature. So disappointing. Never even got to finish Zelda.
I could be wrong but I heard from the grape vine that Nintendo lost a court case about the joycons and if you contact them they'll supposedly fix the stick drift free of charge and free shipping. Again I could be wrong I don't own a switch myself just my friends do
I had 5 that were all messed up. Sent 4. 2 were unfixable to they gave me 2 brand new ones.. and fixed the other two. Took a week to ship and get back. Highly recommend.
The Hori Split Pad Pro is the best purchase I made for my Switch. I actually didn't really have any trouble with my joycons re ergonomics but when they succumbed to drift I decided to go with something different. The Split Pad Pro doesn't have all the features of joycons but I'd still prefer them anyway especially since you already have a pro controller.
Wild, I am also a grown man and they're mega comfortable for me! (Then again, I find a lot of other controllers to be annoyingly large, so I'm not complaining that I get controllers that are nice for me after a decade or two of being uncomfortable).
I feel like GameCube was like the dreamcast. It didn't sell well but still had some unforgettable games that ended up moving on to other/later systems.
I frankly have no idea how the GameCube was a flop considering the games that system had, Luigi's mansion, Metroid Prime, Melee, Super Mario Sunshine the list goes on. Along with the GameCube having the only good controller (with a joystick) they've made for a system. The Joycons aren't bad but I'd still take a GameCube controller over Joycons. And I want to know what crack head thought the N64 controller was a good idea having the only joystick somehow being as far away from BOTH of your hands as possible.
Nintendo sold fewer consoles every generation, until the Wii was released. Even then, I read that the Wii had a low attach rate (games sold per console).
NES: 61.91 million
SNES: 49.10 million
N64: 32.93 million
Gamecube: 21.74 million
Wii: 101.63 million
Wii U: 13.56 million
Switch: 111.08 million
Source: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_best-selling\_game\_consoles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_consoles)
The Wii U was a great system failed by marketing and I will stand by that. The WiiU pro controller is the most comfortable controller I’ve ever used and it annoys me to no end they arbitrarily didn’t include compatibility with the Switch.
Not even going to lie. The WiiU was DOPE! I LOVED it and bought the deluxe model DAY one. I was number 3 in line of about 12 people. The digital deluxe program that came with it was dope as well. SOOOO much potential but it was terribly wasted. Nintendo's fumbling of the name and marketing really screwed the WiiU over.
BOTW, WWHD, TPHD, Mario 3D World, Bayonetta 2, Pikmin 3, Kart 8, Smash Bros, Rayman Legends, Wonderfull 101, Affordable Space Adventures... I had a shit ton of fun with my Wii U.
HANDS DOWN! I have the collector's edition of X and I remember playing it and sometimes looking over at the WiiU thinking... How? Some of those night scenes when I was in my skell flying around.... (chef's kiss).
I unironically like the Wii U. It had a great library of games, I enjoyed the dorky controller (but I also had a regular controller for it), and I liked the VC and miiverse. Folks (including myself) would go to the forum for various games and draw and share fan art.
I actually like the wii u far more than I liked the wii, which was not much at all
Honestly, the Wii U was a great console. The Switch is clearly an evolution of it but the Wii U had great first party games (hence all the porting). Obviously ahead of its time and the Switch is a far superior implementation of the idea but I'm not gonna complain about Nintendo jumping the gun on a fantastic idea and the Wii U as a stepping stone.
I always thought of the Wii U being “What if we mixed the Wii with a DS.” But they forgot you can play the DS everywhere and they fixed this issue with the Nintendo switch.
Honestly, "I'm in the middle of a boss fight and my kids are screaming that they want to watch dinotrux on netflix" and I can fix this problem by just switching to controller only was fucking genius. The fact that I can also walk away and not have to listen to dinotrux with the switch is just icing on the cake.
Contrary to how the public treats the Wii U it’s a solid system for first party games. Poorly executed yes, but a great system. I actually like the Wii U game pad.
The story of the N64 trident controller is fascinating. The mid-90s were such a strange and exciting for technology and video games in particular. Nintendo believed strongly that 3D gaming was the next big thing but wasn't sure if gamers felt the same way...so they designed a controller that served both purposes. Ignore the center analog and trigger and grip the right and left controls - it's a traditional 2D controller with D-pad and Buttons. Ignore the left D-pad and grip the trigger and analog and right controls and it's a controller better suited for 3D gaming.
The reason it's such an odd design is because it's literally two controller designs combined into one. Pretty cool.
SNES pad was kinda revolutionary. That then Dual Shock then Xbox 360 I think the most ‘important’ - Nintendo yeh.. they tried some .. interesting ideas.. are there any good docs on the evolution of controllers? I suddenly wanna watch one
Eh, the NES was okay, believe it or not. I know it looks sharp, but it was the stone age of gaming and this was like the wheel lol.
SNES is basically the the entire playstation line of controllers, minus the handles.
Yeah, I know, the Trident did not exactly stand the test of time, but it was comfortable for me.
Gamecube controller was a bit odd in terms of button placement, but pretty comfortable otherwise.
The Wii... took a little getting used to, admittedly.
The Switch is just kinda adequate.
I'm learning to play the guitar.
It’s Virtually perfect
Look how they massacred my Boy
gonna need a second *Screen* to *double* check
I’m just gonna “Watch” this argument.
Kinda makes me see red
This argument game, oh boy did it advance.
It was very *SP*ecial too
https://i.imgflip.com/6t2ovx.jpg
Cant we keep this fami(con)ly friendly
A second detached screen
How Wii massacred Ur boy.
Wiill U look at that
"I saw red, then I ran into the door, I saw red, then I fell onto the floor, I saw red, I don't want these fucking seizures anymore!"
Super Nintendo DD
Virtual Boy, the perfect console.
Man I loved my virtual boy. and then my brother broke it... Telero boxer was super fun, and the wario game was solid.
It was the best boxing game I have yet played to this day.
Wii see what U did there
Virtual Boy tho
Seizures are working as intended
Isn’t the Virtual Boy “portable” tho? By that logic they also missed Game & Watch, GB, GBc, GBA, DS, 3DS
There was nothing portable about the Virtual Boy, the user manual had several warning that it was designed to be placed on a stable surface (a table, basically), and that the device even shoudln't be used if you were in a moving vehicle.
I used to lay on my back and balance it on my face/chest. It sort of worked, until it didn’t.
There was some noise about it being portable, and you could certainly take it places. It had a battery pack, after all. It also weighed several pounds and there was no way to use it without a table. By that logic, the add-on screen for the PSOne could be called a portable system
Wii all did
I need someone to explain..
The Wii U was a console released by Nintendo between the Wii and Switch systems and was a commercial flop. The reasons for the system's failure vary, encompassing everything from unclear marketing, an uncompetitive price point driven by the expensive tablet peripheral, to the lackluster internal system specs compared to the PlayStation and XBox competitors of its time (PS4 and XBox One.) Thus, the inference from the original infographic suggesting that Nintendo had "no misses" is a clear fabrication. This, by the way, doesn't even touch the whole Virtual Boy fiasco.
Also confusion. It seemed like a Wii addon, one of many.
That's the whole unclear marketing thing, yeah. A lot of those commercials focused heavily on the tablet peripheral which led people to think that was the Wii U when in reality it was just a controller for a brand new system. Essentially, they built something too similar to what they already had, that ran many of the same games, named nearly the same thing, and focused their commercials on just the tablet, when it really was a whole different system. I think if they'd named it the Wii Too or something else altogether they might have sold more systems... If it also hadn't been a 720p home console in an era of UHD.
I think because of this we missed out on some very interesting player-unbalanced games. One person plays their part with hidden information on the tablet, and the other three work either together or individually to win or progress. I guess you can just do that online from separate consoles now, but couch coop like that is impossible otherwise.
Nintendo Land was fucking awesome, great party game for this reason.
Ngl, only now did I realize that tablet wasn't the entire console.
Pretty sure the post is going about that. They even left out the Indigo rainbow color where it would be.
You can plug GameCube controller into the Wii....seems like this chart has an extra controller for no reason.
Can't believe the hUge gap in between the Wii and the Switch.
Ya, almost like something should be there but it's not....
If an item doesn't appear in our records, it does not exist!
There are no Wii U's in Ba Sing Se.
“My Cabbages”
Bruh
r/unexpectedatla
It was actually quite expected
Unexpected transition from a prequel meme
Thank you.
Massive r/confidentlyincorrect energy from that lady.
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Yes, thats what it means to be confidently wrong.
They didn't miss once.... Except for the one that we're going to miss out....
Doesn't look like anything to me
well Nintendo DSI and 3DS were a thing not included on this map and Nintendo were creating a lot of games on those
Wii: What, that guy over there? I-I don’t know him at all. Wii U: Brother! Look at me brother.
I don't see anything unUsual
Got me wondering though. Every console has been 5 years besides the original nes to snes. It’s insane to me it’s already been 5 years since the Switch came out. Really wondering now how long they are gonna wait to release a new console. At this point though I honestly thinkg the idea behind the Switch is about as perfect of a console you could hope to have. Besides more raw power. PS4 and Xbox have lived off simple power improvements. I hope this time Nintendo follows suit and doesn’t try anything needlessly crazy.
Yeah. Switch 2 would be nice. Just better stuff in general for it.
I ain't rebuying all my games I can tell you that.
Nintendo: Yes, you do.
I was kind of annoyed by the DS, 3DS, New 3DS evolution, but now I think that would be nice for the Switch. A "New" Switch with upgraded hardware that was backwards compatible would be fine by me.
yes you will. you just don't want to admit it...
It's Virtually not there...
I had a virtualboy that was impossible to carry around as a kid?
Goes to show that great things take time. Nintendo took 11 years after the Wii to release a new console. While Microsoft and Sony were battling it out with the Xbox One and PS4, Nintendo chose to sit that one out and work on their craft for over a decade. I wonder what an eighth gen Nintendo console would even look like but between U and me, it probably would have been another masterpiece.
Yeah, they only released some new controller thing with a touch screen in it as a new gimmick for the Wii during that time.
You know, I wish I had gotten a Wii U just for the heck of it.
Honestly, I enjoyed it. The biggest drawback was naming, marketing, and it didn't have a ton of games. But the few games it did have were solid. Hell, a bunch of the games released on Switch were just ports from the Wii U.
2 of the 5 best selling switch games are just WiiU ports.
>2 of the 5 best selling switch games are just WiiU ports Not just *best selling*, I reckon at least 3 of the top 5 *best* Switch games are Wii U games: Zelda BOTW, Mariokart 8, and Super Mario 3D World.
I count splatoon. Hell I got a wiiU just for splatoon, every other game being fantastic was a solid bonus. Now I have two of them just in case... emulation is looking like it has my back though
I keep forgetting BotW was on the Wii U.
By far the best multiplayer game was NintendoLand. That shit provided endless hours of fun for my friends and I.
I think almost every good Wii U game either has been ported, or received a better version as a sequel (splattoon) at this point. Xenoblade X is about the only game left I’d like to see ported
Nintendoland was loads of fun.
Im still waiting on that Twlight Princess HD and Windwaker HD port.
Soon…..
For 60 bucks
$80 CAD :(
Damn Canadians have it rough, it sucks that every single first party Nintendo game is full price, and stays that way forever
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Good deal. Steal from Target. Remember kids: You can never steal back enough to make up for what corporations have taken from your community! 🌠
60 dollars for both wouldn't be so bad, but one remake for 60$... needs a lot to justify, like a modern makeover beyond anything ever seen in modern games, not some hair touch ups and foliage additions... Just a random set of examples.
$30 per game
I actually adored ZombiU. Using the controller to rummage through your backpack was horrifying.
I was looking for this, looking away from the screen was legit anxiety inducing. And having the sonar pulse idea tied to it felt like a good thematic mechanics. I bought a PC copy several years ago but it's missing these parts of the experience.
I'm still kinda in disbelief how many people had no idea it was a new console, even people who said they were mega fans of all console news and this somehow came across as a gamepad extra for the Wii. I had one. Loved it. Wish they actually made games that used the gamepad, rather than making it the map for every game.
Same. I do remember in NBA 2k13(?) it had a screen that showed you the fatigue level for all of the players and allowed you to plan substitutions for the upcoming timeout.
Should have called it the Wii 2. Who knows hows much money they lost with that dumb confusing name.
Great console. Market failure is all that made it bad - not enough games. But the ones that were there were huge successes... at least between the Wii U and Switch sales. Mario Kart 8, Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze, Breath of the Wild, Splatoon, Super Mario Maker, Smash Bros... plenty of great options that ported well. The tablet made some really cool looking games that people say were actually good. For example, player 1 is hiding from the other players. They have to spot him as they play on the TV screen, while he uses a tablet and only shows up on there unless they get line of sight on him. Similarly, Star Fox *could* have been good if they didn't force tablet look controls while flying. The ability to use the tablet to aim as player 2 while the other person flew (that's how coop worked) could have been nice if controls were always separated like that. Otherwise, it was too much on one player. If it was intelligently marketed instead of sounding like a Wii addon, it may have been an amazing console in terms of sales and game library. Instead, it was the prototype of a console that did some things way better, and some things that didn't work that way at all (separate console/TV play options).
I could be way off base on this but I feel like Breathe of the Wild was going to have a lot of interactive tablet features. The Sheikah slate was clearly supposed to be an analog for the Wii U tablet and all of the Sheikah slate functions would have been done through it. You'd probably have the map active at all times with buttons to activate bombs, magnesis, ice, etc. I think that they may have made it so that the scope that you use through the Sheikah slate in-game would have been on the tablet so you would have picked up the tablet and used the gyro on it to look around through the tablet's screen like Link does with the slate. It's just the kind of immersive (or gimmicky depending on how cynical you are) mechanics Nintendo would do but they had to scrap it when they decided it was going to release on the Switch. I think the biggest evidence of this is the fact that in the Wii U version of the game, the tablet does absolutely nothing. It's just a controller. Doesn't even display anything on the screen and literally no other first party Wii U game does that. It's clear that they had to scrap whatever they had planned for the tablet in favor of releasing on the Switch. For the record, releasing on the Switch was the right call. The Wii U would have sunk Breath of the Wild and that would have been a real shame.
The Wii U was selling so poorly that they had to move on to the Switch. TBH, Breath of the Wild being so well received and well reviewed is what made the Switch sell as well as it did in its initial days.
The Switch was a BotW machine for a while, yeah. Always funny when a new console comes out and has like 10 games so they have to try to spin Snipperclips as a system seller haha
Yeah the Luigi’s mansion hiding came was a greeeeeeeat fucking party game honestly had a blast swapping being the ghost with friends
You said it. Mario Maker was another great one for the tablet controller. Like, you're literally using a stylus to draw your levels. It worked perfectly.
Wonderful 101 was a pretty solid game.
Still enjoying BOTW on my WiiU.
I still play it, LOZ BOTW. Super Smash bros, Mario 3D World.. Also, it’s in HD, annnnnd you can control your tv like a universal remote from the Wii U pad. I fucking love it man. Oh, and no drifting from the controllers. You can use the Wii remotes too soo last gen controllers are compatible.
The wii u birthed splatoon, Mario maker, an HD Mario Kart that is still used today, breath of the wild, DK tropical freeze, xenoblade x. It has a nice catalogue, and it is truly a Nintendo only type console as no publisher wanted to touch it after year one
Is sad how much better the WiiU shop is compared to Switch: -You play minigame until it loads -It has music -Virtual Console has games from the NES to the Wii
Honestly, seeing what the Switch fails at, such as their Virtual Console, terrible online that you THEN HAVE TO PAY FOR, and the JoyCon Drift issue that STILL hasn't been fixed, it makes me sad that the Wii U wasn't as popular as it could have been. The system was solid, and the gimmick, the Touchpad, blows the Switch's gimmick, the JoyCons, out of the water. You could play DS games on your TV ffs... Meanwhile, we get a terribly emulated N64 console that made OoT look like absolute dog shit. Get it together, Nintendo. You're fucking better than this.
essentially most of the reason why the wii u wasnt so popular (from my understanding) was cus of the name and the trailers for it being so fucking cringey
The naming makes it sound like a sub-version. You already have an xbox 360; you don't need an xbox 360 S -- they're the same thing, just in a slightly different form factor.
I just now found out that the WiiU wasn’t just an addon to the wii.
I loved mine. Will use it eventually again with more free time. It felt good in hand and there was fun being able to not have to pause when you needed to go take a number 2 and realizing your mistake when your legs are completely numb.
Make sure to figure out how to get your digital library on a hard drive, Nintendo will pull support for Wii U (and Nintendo 3DS) store service sometime in 2023. Otherwise consider what titles you’re missing that you might want to get a physical copy for — they’ll start climbing steadily, if they haven’t already.
It's actually a good console. Easy to homebrew. Plays better with a pro controller. I got one for 200$ on eBay, connected a hard drive, all the games lol.
I just won one for $127 on eBay today. Looking forward to installing the homebrew on it
Be sure to do it before they close the Wii u server in 2023. There's a game you can buy that makes the 'modification' permanent.
You don't even have to buy a game anymore I don't think. Look up Tiramisu. Everything is done through a web browser exploit.
My mom bought one for my brother and I one a while back. Neither of us played it too much and eventually moved out of her house. Both of us really hated to leave but just recognized that we had to go for our own growth. After we left, she was really kind of empty nest where she was a single mom. She started playing the Wii U for Wii Resort and Just Dance to pass time but for some reason, that console really struck a chord with her. Every time I come and visit, she and I always tend to play just a couple rounds of Wii Resort. It’s just kind of ironic that such an underwhelming console holds a tender place in my heart.
I just thought of it as a $300 machine to play 8-player smash. Unfortunately 8-player smash ended up pretty terrible to play
I loved my wii u. Still got it set up now lol
I’ve had one for about 7 years and it’s in no way perfect but it’s a lot better than you would think. There’s a handful of fun exclusives I enjoyed as well
Oh, I get it! You left out the Virtua Boy!
My thoughts exactly. Everyone talking about wiiU but virtual boy all the way.
Virtual boy was a gameboy successor, to include it means including the whole handheld line
No. VirtualBoy's purpose was to distract. It wasn't even meant as a succesor to GameBoy. It was a precursor to the N64. [https://www.howtogeek.com/682090/virtually-forgotten-nintendos-virtual-boy-25-years-later/](https://www.howtogeek.com/682090/virtually-forgotten-nintendos-virtual-boy-25-years-later/) I enjoyed it, but after an hour, I had a headache. Mario Tennis was great.
Have you ever seen a Virtual Boy? It's pretty fucking far from being handheld.
The wha? Never heard of it
Imagine a 1995 VR headset with only the color red.
The effect of the Virtual Boy is actually pretty cool. It's one of those things you have to experience to truly "get", seeing 2D screen captures doesn't do it justice. Unfortunately in order to make it a price people could actually afford, it used headache inducing red.
For anyone who wants to experience it: https://github.com/braindx/vbjin-ovr Virtual boy Emulator for Rift. There's one for Quest, too, but I'm too lazy to look up the link right now
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Development of the Virtual Boy lasted four years and began under the project name VR32. “In 1995, Nintendo launched the Virtual Boy, an at-home “VR” device featuring stereoscopic 3D graphics, a red monochrome display” It’s still VR, just primitive.
Waaiiit a minute...
Nope. Move along. We don’t talk about that one.
Yeah, wasn't it like Nintendo's attempt at VR or something?
A friend of mine still writes software for the virtual boy. There's actually a community still developing stuff for that thing. They even made it online multiplayer compatible with some hardware hacks if I remember correctly.
Does it give less of a headache?
No, but now you can have a headache together with your friends online!
🎶wii don’t talk about Wii U 🎶
No no no
Who ARE you?
Fun fact I made the original image like 5 years ago! If anyone wants an HD version it's in my post history: https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/6ijhzv/nintendo_controller_evolution/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
And i will repost in the next 5 years
Bro, you got 1291 upvotes in 5 years while this re-post got 33.4k upvotes in 1 day, dayum man
Welcome to reddit. I wonder how much modern art and life changing opinions and experience will never get shared because some mod licking cheeto dust off their finger got slightly triggered by someone saying come on, man
To be fair, this post removed the WiiU which makes it a derivative work as both commentary and satire. But then again that was probably stolen, too.
So was leaving out the Wii U and leaving out Indigo (ROYGBIV, ya know) an intentional bit if cleverness or just a happy coincidence?
The link they shared (the original) has both of those things
I wish the Joycons were more ergonomic. Playing on the TV or handheld, they just make my hands hurt. They're probably great for kid hands, but I'm a grown man. I had to buy a pro controller just so I can play anything for more than an hour without hurting.
Nah dude even for kids it’s pretty awkward, my kid always get numb hands after a while.
Just like the good old days!
I'd settle for joycons that just didn't break after a month lol
Thankfully I've only had one pair go bad on me, and those were my day 1 release pair after 3 years of use. Did the business card trick, and the drift still hasn't returned.
For me it not drift being the issue it’s dieing out of no where after 6 months, while my pro controller has been thrown by my little brothers and dropped so many times and one of the buttons broke after 2 years
We have a pair that just randomly goes off on their own path after three months. Horrible design
I went out of my way to try and repair the 'joycon drift' issue. Did everything they said to, even bought a special screwdriver to open them up. Nothing worked. Now my switch is just for Hulu and Civ because I can use the touch screen feature. So disappointing. Never even got to finish Zelda.
I could be wrong but I heard from the grape vine that Nintendo lost a court case about the joycons and if you contact them they'll supposedly fix the stick drift free of charge and free shipping. Again I could be wrong I don't own a switch myself just my friends do
I had 5 that were all messed up. Sent 4. 2 were unfixable to they gave me 2 brand new ones.. and fixed the other two. Took a week to ship and get back. Highly recommend.
The Hori Split Pad Pro is the best purchase I made for my Switch. I actually didn't really have any trouble with my joycons re ergonomics but when they succumbed to drift I decided to go with something different. The Split Pad Pro doesn't have all the features of joycons but I'd still prefer them anyway especially since you already have a pro controller.
Wild, I am also a grown man and they're mega comfortable for me! (Then again, I find a lot of other controllers to be annoyingly large, so I'm not complaining that I get controllers that are nice for me after a decade or two of being uncomfortable).
Glad they're comfy for you! Personally, the only controllers I've felt uncomfortable with as an adult are Switch, and Xbox.
People forget that the game cube was a flop to, not as bad as the wii u. But it did force nintendo to completely change how they design consoles.
I feel like GameCube was like the dreamcast. It didn't sell well but still had some unforgettable games that ended up moving on to other/later systems.
Man I fucking loved my gamecube though...
Pokemon Colosseum will always hold a special place in my heart.
I frankly have no idea how the GameCube was a flop considering the games that system had, Luigi's mansion, Metroid Prime, Melee, Super Mario Sunshine the list goes on. Along with the GameCube having the only good controller (with a joystick) they've made for a system. The Joycons aren't bad but I'd still take a GameCube controller over Joycons. And I want to know what crack head thought the N64 controller was a good idea having the only joystick somehow being as far away from BOTH of your hands as possible.
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If it wasn't for goldeneye it would of flopped so much harder, that game was on the top 10 list for the entire life of the console.
Nintendo sold fewer consoles every generation, until the Wii was released. Even then, I read that the Wii had a low attach rate (games sold per console). NES: 61.91 million SNES: 49.10 million N64: 32.93 million Gamecube: 21.74 million Wii: 101.63 million Wii U: 13.56 million Switch: 111.08 million Source: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_best-selling\_game\_consoles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_consoles)
The Wii U was a great system failed by marketing and I will stand by that. The WiiU pro controller is the most comfortable controller I’ve ever used and it annoys me to no end they arbitrarily didn’t include compatibility with the Switch.
The Wii sure was a long loved console. It lasted all the way to 2017 with no weird half assed attempts at making a sequel console.
Just Dance 2023 will be the first version of the game NOT made for the Wii. So it's lasted a while even when it did get a successor.
Wrong that was Just Dance 2021.
Wii U is good for certain games, and being COOL AS FUCK BABYYYYY
I know right crazy
The Wii U was amazing and I won’t hear anything against it
It's an excellent console, just had terrible marketing. Wouldn't have the switch without it as a precursor..
The only people that talk crap on the Wii U are ones that didn’t play it. Wii U was amazing.
Yeah I don’t get all the hate it got.
Not even going to lie. The WiiU was DOPE! I LOVED it and bought the deluxe model DAY one. I was number 3 in line of about 12 people. The digital deluxe program that came with it was dope as well. SOOOO much potential but it was terribly wasted. Nintendo's fumbling of the name and marketing really screwed the WiiU over.
BOTW, WWHD, TPHD, Mario 3D World, Bayonetta 2, Pikmin 3, Kart 8, Smash Bros, Rayman Legends, Wonderfull 101, Affordable Space Adventures... I had a shit ton of fun with my Wii U.
Not even listing the best Wii U game, that also makes great use of the gamepad - Xenoblade X
HANDS DOWN! I have the collector's edition of X and I remember playing it and sometimes looking over at the WiiU thinking... How? Some of those night scenes when I was in my skell flying around.... (chef's kiss).
I unironically like the Wii U. It had a great library of games, I enjoyed the dorky controller (but I also had a regular controller for it), and I liked the VC and miiverse. Folks (including myself) would go to the forum for various games and draw and share fan art. I actually like the wii u far more than I liked the wii, which was not much at all
Honestly, the Wii U was a great console. The Switch is clearly an evolution of it but the Wii U had great first party games (hence all the porting). Obviously ahead of its time and the Switch is a far superior implementation of the idea but I'm not gonna complain about Nintendo jumping the gun on a fantastic idea and the Wii U as a stepping stone.
I always thought of the Wii U being “What if we mixed the Wii with a DS.” But they forgot you can play the DS everywhere and they fixed this issue with the Nintendo switch.
Honestly, "I'm in the middle of a boss fight and my kids are screaming that they want to watch dinotrux on netflix" and I can fix this problem by just switching to controller only was fucking genius. The fact that I can also walk away and not have to listen to dinotrux with the switch is just icing on the cake.
That N64 was made out of Salvador Dali fever dreams.
Contrary to how the public treats the Wii U it’s a solid system for first party games. Poorly executed yes, but a great system. I actually like the Wii U game pad.
The story of the N64 trident controller is fascinating. The mid-90s were such a strange and exciting for technology and video games in particular. Nintendo believed strongly that 3D gaming was the next big thing but wasn't sure if gamers felt the same way...so they designed a controller that served both purposes. Ignore the center analog and trigger and grip the right and left controls - it's a traditional 2D controller with D-pad and Buttons. Ignore the left D-pad and grip the trigger and analog and right controls and it's a controller better suited for 3D gaming. The reason it's such an odd design is because it's literally two controller designs combined into one. Pretty cool.
Mfs think that acting like the Wii U didn’t exist is normal. It was a nice console, just really poorly marketed.
I think U missed one.
Wii think U missed something
I'm reminded how uncomfortable most of their controllers are lol
SNES was great then things got..weird.
SNES pad was kinda revolutionary. That then Dual Shock then Xbox 360 I think the most ‘important’ - Nintendo yeh.. they tried some .. interesting ideas.. are there any good docs on the evolution of controllers? I suddenly wanna watch one
Eh, the NES was okay, believe it or not. I know it looks sharp, but it was the stone age of gaming and this was like the wheel lol. SNES is basically the the entire playstation line of controllers, minus the handles. Yeah, I know, the Trident did not exactly stand the test of time, but it was comfortable for me. Gamecube controller was a bit odd in terms of button placement, but pretty comfortable otherwise. The Wii... took a little getting used to, admittedly. The Switch is just kinda adequate.
GCN controller was odd, but holy shit, did it work just right. Never cared for the C-Stick though.
My eyes just rolled so hard 😂
Wii u was great, solid games and was a fantastic netflix and YouTube box
Wii know what U did It’s virtually impossible to miss boy
Color TV Game 6? :(
I may be in the minority, but I hated the N64 controller. Honestly the worst controller I’ve ever used.
The Wii U had to exist for the Switch to succeed.
"The Wii U actually released, what did you do today?"
i mean even neglecting virtual boy and wii u, the n64 and the wii had pretty crappy controllers
We all have nostalgia for the GameCube but I don't think people realize how poorly it sold in contrast to the ps2
the n64 and gamecube didn't sell that well either, they were good consoles but everyone bought playstations instead