Is Anyone Still Regularly Playing Their Wii U?
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I used it a lot when it was current, funnily enough stopped playing it when they stopped releasing games on it! :O
Still gets a lot of use though as it became my main homebrew/retro console (replacing the Wii), which is awesome.
I miss Miiverse. :(
Still gets a lot of use though as it became my main homebrew/retro console (replacing the Wii), which is awesome.
I miss Miiverse. :(
I would have voted for a 3rd option "No, are you out of your mind?"
I'm as big a Nintendo fan as they come, but that clunky system had the popularity it deserved. Praise be that they saw the light and the Switch is an aces piece of hardware.
And while we're at it, let me take a moment to dump on Miiverse. The UI slowing, garbage tier social media platform that people have somehow brainwashed themselves into praising. Was it "unique"? Sure. But tying things like screenshots to that platform was excruciating, and quite frankly the platform was full of depressing nonsense where kids were just looking for attention. Fuck "Squid Ink doesn't melt steel beams" memes. And fuck miiverse.
Sorry. Had to go off on one. People been gaslighting themselves that the Wii U was a quality platform since release.
I'm as big a Nintendo fan as they come, but that clunky system had the popularity it deserved. Praise be that they saw the light and the Switch is an aces piece of hardware.
And while we're at it, let me take a moment to dump on Miiverse. The UI slowing, garbage tier social media platform that people have somehow brainwashed themselves into praising. Was it "unique"? Sure. But tying things like screenshots to that platform was excruciating, and quite frankly the platform was full of depressing nonsense where kids were just looking for attention. Fuck "Squid Ink doesn't melt steel beams" memes. And fuck miiverse.
Sorry. Had to go off on one. People been gaslighting themselves that the Wii U was a quality platform since release.
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I still play my Wii U! I can't afford a Switch or a PS5, so the Wii U is all I've got to fulfill my video game needs.
I play Resident Evil Revelations the most (Raid Mode), I just can't stop playing it! I recently went through Zombi U and Fatal Frame 5. I am going to try to 100% Fatal Frame. I play Mario Kart 8 online a lot (I just can't get passed two certain cups on the 150 cc Grand Prix mode). I want to play through Bayonetta 1 & 2 on hard mode after I'm done with Fatal Frame.
I still use my Wii U to watch Crunchyroll as well (I can't seem to cast Crunchyroll from my laptop to my TV anymore).
I play Resident Evil Revelations the most (Raid Mode), I just can't stop playing it! I recently went through Zombi U and Fatal Frame 5. I am going to try to 100% Fatal Frame. I play Mario Kart 8 online a lot (I just can't get passed two certain cups on the 150 cc Grand Prix mode). I want to play through Bayonetta 1 & 2 on hard mode after I'm done with Fatal Frame.
I still use my Wii U to watch Crunchyroll as well (I can't seem to cast Crunchyroll from my laptop to my TV anymore).
No, not in a while. Its probably been 2 years since I last played it, which was for breath of the wild
Man mails in Wii U for repair, Nintendo mails back his wedding ring
A Japanese man mailed Nintendo in Japan his Wii U to repair, and Nintendo mailed back his wedding ring that was inside. A Wii U wedding ring!
www.nintendoenthusiast.com
A Japanese man mailed his Wii U to Nintendo for repair — and Nintendo mailed back his wedding ring, which was inside the Wii U.
So yes, that's my answer.
I play mine fairly regularly, mostly either Monster Hunter 2 Ultimate or a handful of Virtual Console games I have on there. I gave it some heavy use recently with playthroughs of Star Fox Zero and DKC Tropical Freeze. Won't get rid of it, either, since it's the only way to play Fatal Frame V.
Kind of. My son loves Yoshi, and Woolly World is significantly better than Crafted World... So we end up turning it on every now and then, yes.
I bought one exactly 12 months ago for emulation. Since, I've used it to play one GameCube game (Luigi's Mansion) and 2 Wii games (Pikmin 1+2). I still have it plugged in and definitely plan to play more on it, but more new games have come out this year than expected so I've spent less time playing older games than I thought. And the next series I was going to dive into - No More Heroes - was also ported to the Switch. I think the only Wii U game I actually intend to play on it is Yoshi's Woolly World, because I'm pretty confident the two Zelda games and Xenoblade X will be ported to Switch where I'd rather play them.
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It's a no from me. I just checked to see if I had any games left on my backlog on it, and realized I don't. It's main purpose now is MK8 when there's people over but without COVID, it means no people are over.
I last booted up my WiiU so I could play Metroid Prime 3, which is something I never got around to do. I only got a few hours in before abandoning it. It's essentially only around so I can play Metroid Prime every now and then.
I would because I didn't get a switch yet but my wiiu broke. Disk drive is malfunctioning and preventing me from booting the videogame. A damn shame. I'll try to fix this by disconnecting the drive, but so far I haven't had the time to do that and when I do I won't be able to play my physical copies anymore.
Oh man keep going, it's so excellent. It actually starts out kind of aping some tropes from other successful FPSes at the time but it totally gets back to what makes MP the legendary series it is.
Nope, I think I might sell it because I have no use for it anymore. I actually have the Wind Waker edition as well.
I'm 99% sure Wind Waker HD and Twilight Princess HD will come to the Switch at some point, as the rest of the games I own on it have already been ported (Ultimate, DKC:TP, TW101, etc).
I'm 99% sure Wind Waker HD and Twilight Princess HD will come to the Switch at some point, as the rest of the games I own on it have already been ported (Ultimate, DKC:TP, TW101, etc).
I actually just bought one this year and while I haven't touched it since the next gen consoles started, I did get some good use out of it and plan to go back to it soon. It's really great several good Wii U games as well as BC/VC. I was able to play through both HD Zelda remakes, Paper Mario 64, Sonic Lost World, Mario Galaxy 2 (once the Switch port said it was excluded!) and Yoshi's Wooley World (liked this more than I expected to).
It is clunky and I remember the painfully slow release schedule but I think it has value for sure.
Edit: The best part as mentioned above is the BC/VC for me. I was able to move my Wii/GameCube library over digitally which is great because it's with Wii U having HDMI it's just much simpler for ever revisiting those games.
It is clunky and I remember the painfully slow release schedule but I think it has value for sure.
Edit: The best part as mentioned above is the BC/VC for me. I was able to move my Wii/GameCube library over digitally which is great because it's with Wii U having HDMI it's just much simpler for ever revisiting those games.
I wish I could still browse through my Miiverse posts. I treated them like albums of gaming memories, personally I really enjoyed just scrolling through my posts and looking at them over the years, and now they're not there. :(
Remember that time I made my wife draw a funny picture to go along with the thing we just did in Mario 3D World?
Remember that time I made my wife draw a funny picture to go along with that thing I just saw in Tomodachi Life?
It's a wonder she is still with me.
Ahh memories.
Now my Twitter is just endless New Horizons memory posts instead.
Remember that time I made my wife draw a funny picture to go along with the thing we just did in Mario 3D World?
Remember that time I made my wife draw a funny picture to go along with that thing I just saw in Tomodachi Life?
It's a wonder she is still with me.
Ahh memories.
Now my Twitter is just endless New Horizons memory posts instead.
Except play my copy of Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn for some reason. There are some scratches on the disc and it'll freeze on the opening cutscenes when trying to run it through the Wii U's BC mode but then I pop it in on my actual Wii and it plays fine. I was like...wtf.
Yeah, I'll play it occasionally.
Considering a few of the Switch ports have more interesting features with the Wii U GamePad, I consider a few of them to be the original, definitive way to play that specific game.
Also, I refuse to buy Wii U ports on Switch unless it's obviously better.
Considering a few of the Switch ports have more interesting features with the Wii U GamePad, I consider a few of them to be the original, definitive way to play that specific game.
Also, I refuse to buy Wii U ports on Switch unless it's obviously better.
I had packed mine away to clear space but then my 5 year old started watching people play Wii U games on YouTube, so I told her she could actually play those games instead of just watching them. She likes to play SM3DW and Yoshi's Wooly World.
After getting it back out, I was able to finish off Captain Toad and Thomas Was Alone. I got her a Switch for Xmas and Luigi's Mansion 3, so the Wii U will probably be going back into the closet. I love the thing and still have a huge backlog for it, but we don't have space for 2 systems.
After getting it back out, I was able to finish off Captain Toad and Thomas Was Alone. I got her a Switch for Xmas and Luigi's Mansion 3, so the Wii U will probably be going back into the closet. I love the thing and still have a huge backlog for it, but we don't have space for 2 systems.
I only got mine a few years ago, and the games were mad cheap, so I'm still playing through Wii and Wii U games on it. I still have NSMBU, DKC Tropical Freeze, W101, Xenoblade X, and ZombiU to check out.
I actually had it hooked up until just recently with the releases of the PS5 and Xbox Series X when I did some reorganization. It was finally time to box it up. I was pretty much only booting it up for Virtual Console at that point.
