Is the Wii U Underrated?

[@crazynaut223]

"Nintendo's a soulless corporation now, I miss how they acted during the Wii U era" The KZbin Creators Program:

[@Crafty_boy70]

They were also much more ruthless with fangames and other things. Stuff like Pretendo 100% wouldn't have flied during the Wii U era, and yet nowadays, it seems pretty safe.

[@staringcorgi6475]

@Crafty_boy70pokemon uranium

[@Crafty_boy70]

@@staringcorgi6475 RIP 🫡

[@superduperdrew12345]

​@Crafty_boy70They still do that stuff a lot, it has honestly made me lose respect for them over the years. You can argue that about Pretendo and I would counter with Dolphin which kept seeing more inprovements but has never had issues from Nintendo. Only thing close was when Valve took it off Steam to prevent any issues.

[@Gestersmek]

​@Crafty_boy70In fairness, Pretendo wouldn't have ever existed in the Wii U era.

[@BugsyFoga]

Time for another segment of “ Scott proves he’s the number one Wii u enthusiast on KZbin”

[@flyforce16]

I'll watch every Wii U video of his. I love his analysis

[@Beanzops]

I eat the cotton candy from my walls

[@SuperCrazyfin]

until you get 40 seconds in

[@LoonixTV]

@@Beanzopsits yummy 🤤

[@Platitudinous9000]

@@Beanzops tasty! 😋

[@LukasLuke2]

I see so many people online say, “modern gaming is dead” and I’m willing to bet 20 years from now people will look at the games coming out today and brag how things were better back then.

[@KaitouKaiju]

I miss when they made real games like black myth wukong :(

[@Freak80MC]

It's a proven thing that every generation thinks the newer ones suck, going all the way back to ancient Greece. Humans think they know true objectivity but really it's all subjectivity. Unless you want to believe every generation in which case living as cavemen truly was the best time to be alive lol

[@miguelhxrnandez]

@@KaitouKaijuto be fair, black myth wukong is a really good game.

[@apersonwhomayormaynotexist9868]

I'm a big comic reader and there's a joke tagline to the comics industry many people know, "Comics: Dying since 1939." Everyone always claims media isn't what it used to be when their nostalgia at how they remember enjoying games overrides the objective centers of their brains for thinking about how a game feels now. When you've just played a game, you remember what you think, and odds are a lot of your thoughts were, 'this was great, but ____' or "I wish this was ______", meanwhile in 20 years you won't remember what you thought, just how you felt, and most games, regardless of how good they actually are, provide at least some amount of fun. So in 20 years, you'll remember that fun but not all your nitpicks, and for the new games you're playing you'll focus on your thoughts and not your feelings

[@DerrickWilson-fm7vc]

I mean, this is true in the sense that people will always look at the past more fondly. But it’s also true that more games are released in a buggier state than ever before. Add in micro transactions, gacha mechanics, and I think it’s reasonable to say the industry used to be in a better state Games haven’t gotten worse, but the divide between good games and bad games have. And many AAA games fall into the bad games camp now, making that divide feel stronger

[@olivergoldvalente]

Bro can't ever stop making Wii U videos and I'm so here for it. This is one of my favorite channels now.

[@angelplayz02]

If I had a dollar for every single time Scott talked about the Wii U I’d be rich

[@kazooke]

A few thousand at most

[@174Anime]

which is alot but its not strange it happened more than twice.

[@tiffanyl2121]

You can track the way Nintendo experiments with their products and the way they go about that by remembering who’s leading the charge. Yamauchi focused on console wars and making powerful machines, Iwata focused on games and constantly surprising his customers, and in this generation we have a careful businessman who runs the company……like a company.

[@Cybercymbre]

It's underrated to people that weren't there to live the generation

[@MarioMasterProductions]

Exactly

[@jumentoqueanima]

XD Tbh, as someone who lived it, I like it. It's a neat console. But the Switch is very, VERY good.

[@connor9568]

I was there, it’s underrated

[@LandonEmma]

I was there though

[@felipemartinez9140]

I remember a YT comment saying "Wii U was the last console made with love" WHAAAAAAT

[@zimz1096]

I had a friend whose house I’d go to and play on the Wii U with them and they always referred to it as their Wii, even some Wii U owners didn’t realize it was a different console.

[@Simok1234]

Well, people have always called every Xbox an Xbox, and a lot of people will still call any PlayStation a PlayStation. The Wii U is a Wii in a similar effect, but calling it that just wasn't as common, I kinda did it sometimes. I'm sure someone there realized it wasn't the same thing as a 2006 Wii.

[@nikkimvee4710]

I was in a hockey league one year where we had 36 losses in a row of the 37 games we played. This is how it felt to own a Wii U.

[@nikkimvee4710]

No, we did not win the final game. It's the only thing that could be funnier than losing 36 times in a row.

[@FeiFongWang]

Well, at least you started out stronger than the Wii U

[@blooberryjamyt5688]

I'm sorry, but the cat coming into view of the camera and Scott baby talking them was the cutest thing I have ever seen

[@skx444]

I think most people who claim this weren't actually around during the Wii U era. There's a ton of new younger nintendo fans who started with the switch who are very vocal but I don't know how many of us Wii U day one adopters believe this lmao

[@bt3743]

"I miss the 3ds and wii u menus" no you don't, you were eight years old and didn't know either system existed.

[@Colbdolb]

I got the Wii U when I was 10 in 2014, me and my friends had a blast playing it back then.

[@bt3743]

@@Colbdolb At ten years old you would have been entertained by someone jangling keys in your face

[@LandonEmma]

I was there

[@aturchomicz821]

@@bt3743 Speak for yourself😂😂

[@Magic_Ice]

22:42 “Even your cat will love the Wii U” is better marketing for the system then what Nintendo did.

[@erkantiryaki5542]

To be fair that is like better marketing than like 99% of the stuff that any company does.

[@worcestershirey]

I was also a teenager during the Wii U era and honestly it's nostalgic but every single time I think about Nintendo I'm thankful we're not in that era anymore. Nintendo still has it's Nintendo problems but good god the grass is so much greener over here that the old grass is revealed to just be dirt

[@billfrantz1638]

Scott out of context 0:33 : “I shower in Wii”😊 (I couldn’t resist)

[@kelb0y9o20]

It's what he does

[@superduperdrew12345]

Scott out of context 7:29 : "Bananas mode"

[@nchldmn]

You cant spell underrated without "U"

[@accountwontlastlong1]

And nderrated

[@FeiFongWang]

You can't spell bumbaclot without U

[@accountwontlastlong1]

@ which bumbaclot dog i am

[@MrKrustaceon]

I think it is underrated but saying the wii u generation is better than the switch generation is absolute insanity. Those who say this dont know what is is to have ultra smash as the only mario sports game on the console…

[@garrettmetting6938]

What is an ultra smash? I won’t play tennis unless it lets me grow really big

[@lpfan4491]

There is a diffrence between saying the console was better and that it has a better game library. WiiU lovers know it the best that the potential of the console was utterly wasted outside of having Wii and DS VC. The WiiU straight up has more features than the Switch and they could have been used to great effect if it wasn't effectively abandoned by all developers, including Nintendo themselves.

[@RusticRonnie]

@@lpfan4491it didn’t have a better library, basically every wii-u game worth playing is on switch. Switch is only missing 1 main line zelda.

[@lpfan4491]

@@RusticRonnie No sh*t, I literally just said that most WiiU lovers including me are aware of this fact and wish the console was actually used to full potential.(Same pain Dreamcast fans deal with I guess)

[@miguelhxrnandez]

​@@lpfan4491the difference is dreamcast fans actually had a good console. the wii sucked and still stucks. yall are nostalgia merchants the way yall ride for a console that yall didnt grow up with

[@briansilva3765]

Best part of the Wii U era, was owning a 3DS and not a Wii U, I remember all those years and the only time I've ever wanted that console was when Xenoblade X was coming. Eventually in 2016 I got mine Wii U from a friend, and I enjoyed it for an year and half until I got the Switch. I played it Breath of the Wild on it, enjoyed the vast VC and the creative multiplayer games, but man that console was sad.

[@GamerDadJer]

So 1) most people romanticizing the Wii U like this weren't there 2) a lot of people romanticizing the Wii U like it after modding it

[@KaitouKaiju]

Yeah I modded mine day one so it just had all my modded Wii stuff on it plus new games as they came out for the Wii U At the time it felt like the ultimate Nintendo console because you could play every gen on it

[@richardperaza5083]

I was about to say that a lot of the time I hear that they say the Wii U era is better is because of modding and yet once the Switch 2 comes out everyone is going to say the Switch Era is better bc of that same reason

[@caden3ds]

No and no

[@SomniaCE]

I think a system's modding capabilities matter in these kinds of discussions. When I praise the PSP I always bring up how easily moddable it was and how much you could do with it. That was a huge plus both while it was on store shelves and in the modern day!

[@amandacartagena4721]

honestly modding the consoles is just bringing them to their full potential so in a sense i would take it into account but i will admit im heavily biased because i have modded every single thing ive owned so far and i just kinda feel like that is how the consoles SHOULD actually be (bust me im super illegal)

[@jumentoqueanima]

I'd say it is underrated. Good console. But the Switch era is so good, people who shit on it are crazy.

[@Curlyheart]

Can you call it an era when it's not over yet?

[@tountoes1677]

it's just the same people who go always old good new bad. It's more psychological than anything. Most people just don't realize it.

[@knuclear200x]

You say that because the Switch has no games

[@Curlyheart]

@@knuclear200x WE MEET AGAIN

[@TorayNix]

​@@Curlyheartat this point it's pretty much over not entirely, but still

[@dbudke]

You know what was underrated? The mix of the menu music coming through the TV and Gamepad and how they would sound so good. Don’t even get me started.

[@McSqueezy]

welcome to "Scott talks about the Wii U: Part 2 (Part 2)"

[@superduperdrew12345]

Supporting the Wii U felt like supporting the losing team and having fun, supporting the Series X has just felt like supporting the losing team.

[@Raf8347]

Underrated the same way as getting a Divorce

[@maddoxreddish4352]

Idc if the wiiu wasnt that good for most fans, but as a child during the generation getting it in 2015 with smash and splatoon was a god send, didnt have to share my step bro's ps4 and could play every game i had on the gamepad, minecraft was go good on the wiiu, the builtin mic was low quality but it worked, obviously people are gonna overlook the bad parts, most of the people with a wiiu were just kids who didnt care or know about game releases or droughts, smash 4 releasing introduced me to smash, and now im one of the top players in my state in a high school esports program, even if the wiiu itself wasnt really that great, its still done great things for 13.56 million people

[@RacingSnails64]

The best WiiU experience was the 1v4 games in Nintendo Land. The Mario chase, the Luigi's Mansion ghost hunt, and the Animal Crossing candy patrol one. They truly made good use of the gamepad's separate screen.

[@daydragoon331]

Made so many memories on those 2 game modes, Nintendo Land is a legit underrated multiplayer experience

[@caden3ds]

Fr

[@JakePellegrino]

No Patrick, the Wii U was not underrated...

[@TheDMan2003]

The Virtual Boy was not underrated either.

[@SmashBrosmike85]

The WiiU was underrated. I was a full grown ass adult back then and a friend sold his WiiU to me and even though my time with it was short, I had a blast with this console. Too bad Nintendo and other companies gave up on it so fast.

[@Bailey_West]

If someome says: "Nintendo was peak during the Wii U era" you should ask them: "when was Zelda Wii U was revealed?" Their answer will tell you if they lived through it or just want to be unique

[@marioq8395]

My theory was always that Nintendo was developing the Wii successor when the original iPad came out. They saw a lot of their casual audience going to mobile so they felt they needed to incorporate some type of tablet and touch screen tech with their console. They just never had a clear vision for the console or who they were talking to once it was clear the Wii crowd wasn't coming back. The Switch being such a huge success is such an amazing comeback .They clearly knew what they had with the Switch and how to sell it.

[@zef9151]

Tablets were just a huge trend in early 2010s that just stopped going on right away. Even Microsoft went full on tablet mode with Windows 8 and shat themselves HARD

[@AnimalXing]

As someone who owned a Wii U day 1, I’ve always hated the Wii U. The Switch is better in every way

[@Hellodude62627]

I find that hard to believe

[@staringcorgi6475]

It’s like owning a ps vita since day 1 I feel bad for those people

[@LittleMusicBags11037]

Except for the eShop

[@olejniczak12]

​@@LittleMusicBags11037 Don't forget the leap backwards with the menu. No proper folder functionality, no themes, no life to it.

[@BBG-69420]

Bro's just edging part 3 of his retrospective, just post it already.

[@schnarfschnarf5886]

I love how all of Scott's stuff has dust on it or is a Lil dirty or there is a stray hair around.. He is like a real dude😊

[@superduperdrew12345]

They put a lot of effort into making him seem lifelike, if you listen closely you can even hear him breathe sometimes

[@SyonicYt]

Omg Scott talking to his cat is so adorbs

[@LARAUJO_0]

It really depends on who you ask. I think people saying it's one of the worst consoles ever are underrating it, but people saying it's anywhere near as good as the Switch or Wii are overrating it

[@thekingtauros]

Man, I loved my Wii U in college. Firing up MK8 and Smash with my buddies and then switching to the gamepad for Wind Waker when the roommates wanted to put something on the TV. The WiiU was also my anime machine because of the web browser. On top of all that, the Virtual Console and backwards compatibility? GOATed system.

[@streygaq6988]

I feel the same. Same use cases

[@nsgames24]

Short answer: Yes. I still feel that folks could've seen the potential of the Wii U, if Nintendo played their cards right.

[@iLLadelph267]

i really liked the Wii U but the fact you can't even use it without a gamepad is pure fuckery

[@KFXG]

I've always liked the WiiU, but I wouldn't say it is underrated. Its first party games were pretty good, but the console isn't as good as most of what Nintendo released prior to it, and the 3rd party support just wasn't there. As shitty as the modern gaming era is outside of Nintendo, the Switch is 100% better than last gen's Nintendo system. I'd say every Nintendo system is better than it except for the Virtual Boy, and NES, although I can definitely see why someone would like the NES more. "The WiiU was Nintendo at their creative height" is something someone who has never heard of a GameCube would say. Yeah, Mario Maker and Splatoon are creative and great, but I'd argue Mario Maker isn't even that creative of an idea, though, because I used a website almost 20 years ago that would allow you to create and share Mario stages with others on the site (it was not made by Nintendo btw). It was essentially a smaller Mario Maker on a web browser. Those "Hold Right" stages people made in Mario Maker were even made by people way back then, too. Fans literally laid the groundwork for Mario Maker 20 years ago.

[@RenownRecluse]

17:10 scott stops to look for a second

[@zoinksscoob5077]

THATS ON A NINTENDO CONSOLE?????

[@LittleMusicBags11037]

@@zoinksscoob5077 They let anything on it. It's a damn nightmare trying to look for actually good stuff

[@workinprogress8978]

The Wii U just had unused potential. It was an actually great concept that developers just didn't want to account for. If you mod it it is actually an amazing pre-3DS Nintendo emulation machine.

[@bt3743]

I hate this weird romanticising of the wii u, it was an overpriced, underpowered waste of space that had some good games but they all took too fucking long to release and every port from other platforms was half-assed and/or overpriced with missing features and the gamepad integration was abysmal in damn near every game and the UI and Menu's were god-awful slow and added nothing. The switch has the superior UI simply for the fact i can actually turn the system on and boot into a game within the same week. I may have a soft spot for it being the nintendo fanboy i am but i refuse to rehabilitate an objectively bad console

[@staringcorgi6475]

The same with the vita

[@RusticRonnie]

I think it was priced ok, it was just never a moment that it was worth buying. Not because it was too expensive but because it was never marketed to anyone with buying power.

[@staringcorgi6475]

@ it was not priced fairly because it was in the same range as the ps4 but with less games to care about and inferior graphics. And for the majority of people looking games for their kids they’d rather buy a 3ds which is cheaper and has the same franchises and even the same game or similar

[@gplastic]

Every console is underpowered and overpriced dude, at least the Wii U had good games. The only "objectively good" experience you're ever gonna have is on a PC.

[@staringcorgi6475]

@gplastic not really though back in the day consoles that hardware that pc failed to replicate

[@Simok1234]

2014 was the most optimistic year as a Wii U owner for sure. Im hoping Switch 2 will carry over some of the nice aspects of a backwards compatible "sequel console."

[@zontopho]

The only thing I can think of saying that the Wii U generation did the best was how comfortable the gamepad was compared to other controllers

[@Igorcastrochucre]

Most, if not all systems are at their best when the support for them ends, Scott's Wii U's retrospective is something we never got before, a recap of the library, the atmosphere, the sentiments of the time, showing that there were definitely cracks on this image the internet built around the Wii U and the factors that surrounded its failure.

[@GregoryStarpoop]

Wii U felt like a blink and you miss it generation, I feel like they gave up on it and knew it was a failure 2 years or less into it

[@aws-107]

Scott making every possible Wii U video except for part 3

[@Nemo__]

I play my Wii U more than my switch. And i bought the Wii U and end of its life cycle and the switch had just come out. I've looked past the gimmick stuff ever since the the FX Chip. So all that doesn't bug me.

[@blindtreeman8052]

The kids who grew up with it are now old enough to have the nostalgia for the thing.

[@Kogami]

Surprised this isn't over an hour long- oh wait, that's on Scott the Woz's channel.

[@swimsvg1855]

Overhated? Yes. Underrated? No.

[@shambleslongplay3566]

You know the wii-u was bad, when the top 20 best games for wii u list, is the top 20 worst wii u games list but backwards.

[@SluggishRain]

I thought that title said "Is the Wii U Understand?" I then realized how nonsensical that is.

[@Curlyheart]

I thought your comment said "Is the Wii U Undisputed?"

[@RoseLexThorne]

Not until Scott gets into his "translate manuals into 30 languages and back to English" arc.

[@dignelberrt]

I was gonna watch a movie tonight but FINE. I guess I'll watch a 40 minute video on the Wii U instead.

[@GenesisJames]

The Wii U era was the first time I was constantly keeping up with news and new releases. Lemme tell you, it was a STRUGGLE half the time. I'm pretty sure Xenoblade X carried the last two years of the Wii U for me; there wasn't a single game released after that which interested me, and by this point I'd already finished the games I bought previously. Splatoon and Xenoblade X made up most of my Wii U play time simply because nothing was coming out, and especially later in the console's life, what WAS coming out wasn't exactly great. Scott mentioned in one of the Wii U videos that there was a sort of camaraderie between Wii U owners, which WAS kinda fun, but we only had that because practically everyone was playing the same games due to how little actually released on the system 💀 The system was clunky, slow, didn't have basic features around at the time on other consoles, didn't know what to do with its gimmick, and had almost no support from devs that weren't Nintendo. Menus with "personality" don't make up for not having any games! Nintendo practically submitted to their failure after 2015!!

[@makaronishenouda6413]

I feel like it depends on your perspective. With respect to modding potential, it is far and away the best Nintendo product, no comparison necessary or even feasible. I'm not the kind of person to spend hundreds of dollars on the latest games except for a few rare instances, so experiencing decades of Nintendo's legacy content for free is absolutely perfect for me. And something must be said for the general aesthetic surrounding the system. I find the menu UI and music gorgeous. The frutiger aero style they were going for in the early years of the Wii U's life was also reflected in many games, which I would take every day over the bland, lifeless, minimalistic, corporate vibes the Switch gives off. Additionally, Miiverse was a wonderful step forward for Nintendo's online infrastructure. Maybe it wasn't perfect, but at the very least it was entertaining and fun, and I'm glad that I can experience it to this day with an even more passionate fanbase on Pretendo. I also think the Wii U's failure and obsolescence is partly why I enjoy it so much, with the knowledge that I'm part of a very obscure, devoted install base of like-minded users sharing many of the same rare experiences. Viva la Wii U

[@Kaybeeguy]

People who say the Wii U era was better are looking at the past with rose tinted glasses.

[@Nerdtendo6366]

The WiiU era was rough, but god it’s my favorite home console and nothing will change my opinion about it. Hell, there was so many fantastic home console games that half the Switch library is just damn WiiU ports

[@ahmedhasan4966]

Saying that half of the switch libary were Wii U ports is an exaggeration.

[@JustJoshIsUnavailable]

⁠@ahmedhasan4966 At launch they were 🐦

[@JustJoshIsUnavailable]

I wouldn’t say they were ported for being “fantastic”, but because no one actually got to play them

[@JohnSegerclucka]

💯 😂😂😂😂​@@JustJoshIsUnavailable

[@simplebutnotsolongname6642]

@@JustJoshIsUnavailablethat and A lot of their Switch games weren’t ready yet. So the Wii U ports alleviated drought.

[@kevintappminville195]

The console was definitely underrated. We literally needed nothing but for devs to optimize their game a bit and release them! That's all!

[@gatovolador3677]

This guy can’t stop talking about the Wii U And I love every second of it

[@targetlocked3401]

At this point, the only way you can differentiate if you are watching Scott the Woz or Scott's Stash is the presence and absence of the Blue Border.

[@Markimark151]

The Wii U is as underrated as Sega Saturn, the console isn’t as bad, but it lacked third party games and bad marketing which Nintendo gave up on the system just three years after they launched the Wii U by teasing their successor the Switch!

[@crimsonshadow1140]

The vita as well

[@Nickk7878-v8t]

I own Funky Barn. It's fun. Don't expect a masterpiece, but highlighting it as classic Wii U shovelware isn't fair, I think.

[@moshebaum7612]

Just finished modding mine with Aroma, really easy to do and Wii U is an emulation machine!

[@ZenaphobeZerj]

To be honest, as a person who picked up the Wii U for playing Smash Bros in college, it was a great console. But my god was that the main thing it was used for.

[@TheMasonGamer]

Well, it was until Scott got a hold of it

[@batmanbud2]

It was the best home console of the 8th generation. That should tell you how i felt about the 8th generation as a whole.

[@3dsfan2002]

3ds and ps4?

[@MrFuggleGuggle]

Almost every game originally for it can be found on the Switch or another system / platform. The few exclusives that remain - outside of personal or a bit of historical value - are not really worth it taking up space in your home, if you have a working original Wii.

[@VinciWare]

The core games were underrated, but the console concept wasn't. and that is coming from someone that loved the Wii U.

[@Pressbutan]

Was the Wii U underrated:No, not really.

[@HabitsRabbits]

Leaks say tomorrow is the beginning of the Switch 2 and this man is still talking about the Wii U

[@jstyxx4110]

Absolutely not. There’s barely anything on it at this point that’s not just available elsewhere, and those left are mediocre at best. The amount of games even then are just there. As pointed out in the series, a lot of the era was waiting for things to come out. Even some of its best years (2014 for example) barely can outclass even some mid-tier years of the Switch. Same reason why most complaints of WiiU ports (besides price) I feel are fairly pointless. The Switch’s Install base is almost twelve times bigger. I never played games like Xenoblade X or 3D World before, and many others haven’t either.

[@steeda6]

I graduated high school in 09 and focused on life and college and responsibilities and missed the wii u era... now that I have one it's a "ahead of its time" console. As a zelda fan, the gamepad was perrrffecct for menu-ing and dungeon maps

[@real2end]

I enjoy to know that others also feel terrible just spending time looking at game stuff now that they are an adult.

[@dave7886]

The 3DS era though

[@3dsfan2002]

3ds best handheld ever!!!

[@captainkarnage9874]

Had it while I was in college, it was literally just a Mario Kart and Smash machine Otherwise it was a very dry sad era

[@Miisee]

I was 10 during the Wii U generation. While I do have a personal bias, I'm not above acknowledging the Wii U's problems and how it wasn't particularly a good era for Nintendo or fans. Still, I can't help but feel exhausted by how the conversation surrounding the Wii U has rather stagnant and repetitive. People are free to feel how they want, but I feel that the Wii U has been critcized enough at this point. This March will be 7 years since the Switch launched and this month in particular will be 7 years since the Wii U ceased production globally. It's also been 11 years in total since the Wii U launched. Were fairly removed from that era of Nintendo, and I think we should all try to collectivley shake up the discussion. Instead of always trying to highlight the Wii U's various blunders, why not highlight its strengths? People have valid reasons to like this console or even prefer certain aspects of it compared to the Switch. Opinions aren't always black and white. I recognize that stuff like menu music or "charming menus" aren't the end all be all for someone's enjoyment of a console. The games are what I and most are here for, but I don't think there's any harm in wanting something like that return that made part of the Wii U so special for a lot of people, even if it's insignificant in the grand scheme of its history.

[@aegisleague4053]

It was easier to wave away their flaws when they weren’t a 150 million installbase, multi billion dollar film making, theme park owning financial juggernaut. A company with that many resources, some of the best employees in the business and every customer and developer clamoring to them should be able to have an eshop that works, functional netcode and games with stable framerates.

[@mattfarmer7867]

I love the WiiU. I had it when I was alone in my first apartment. When I moved into my first house with my wife I played Color Splash on the gamepad while she watched TV or whatever. I love that thing.

[@solindefault]

No. Rightfully rated. There wasn’t anything it was better than at the time not even the portable handheld which was kicking it to the curb .

[@staringcorgi6475]

It’s still the worst home console that Nintendo put out unless you include the color tv game but that doesn’t count because it only played 1 game

[@petergunner1091]

Everything the Wii U did amazingly well they transferred to the Switch.

[@42camels]

22:47 Even Scott’s cat likes the Wii U

[@TheBlackShinigami]

Scott being 16 when the WiiU came out and me being a college student def makes sense the more I think about it

[@blueocten]

I loved the Wii U generation growing up. My favorite part was playing Smash 4 and then almost exclusively playing retro games and 3DS games until the Switch came out.

[@superduperdrew12345]

It's underrated in that people see it as a 5/10 and it's actually a 6/10

[@dylanrivera333]

Thanks Scott for the content

[@GameDawgs]

Thumbs up for sticking to your guns. The Wii U was a disappointing time to be a fanboy. I still have mine, but haven't played anything in a long time.

[@shilluba]

I've always been a huge Nintendo fan back since the SNES era, when everyone was buying their PS1 and 2's (the games were way cheaper here in Brazil due to bootlegs and piracy) I remained faithful with my N64 and NGC. When the Wii was released I was already an adult and could buy way more games than I ever could before, had so much fun with it and the DS/3DS. Zelda and Mario will always be some of my favorite series! During the Wii U era I bought a PS4.

[@Cosmosis-86]

I really loved the Wii U, Nintendo Land utilized the game pad really well … but to say that the Wii U era was better than the Switch era… you gotta be nuts 🥜

[@LittleMusicBags11037]

Only the vibes are superior

[@SpookyPunchGhost]

I was a teen in the Wii U years as well and you hit the nail on the head on every point of the experience. Appreciate that a big Nintendo youtuber is finally calling out the revisionism on Virtual Console and overhyped first party games. Thanks for telling it like it is. Only thing is you didn't talk about how incredible Xenoblade Chronicles X was. I know you're not an RPG guy but that game is up there with Splatoon and Mario Maker for ambition and quality imo. It's effectively a prototype for Breath of the Wild (which Monolith also co-developed) as a lot of its elements were carried over. No Xenoblade X, no Breath of the Wild frankly. Glad its out of Wii U purgatory.

[@goldmemberpb]

2014 was the only time I wish I got a wiiU. Now, I do have the system and softmodded it. It was nice to be able to to play xenoblade X and even Color Splash but now that I got an amazing PC, i think, " Maybe I could just emulate it all instead of looking at crusty 720p visual on my 4k tv".

[@fieldystick]

Yeah, I'd definitely take 2010-2012 era waggle over the Wii U. Massive eye roll.

[@cdgui267]

i dont think so, the games were really good but they didnt use the gimmick of the system that well, so it failing by being an underpowered system with no significant gimmick doomed it from the start, the switch is everything the wiiu wanted to be and much more fleshed out

[@Shadowflare10]

The Wii Us games were good but the hardware wasn't, beyond software not using the gamepad, the cpu was a bottle neck and everything loaded super slowly - especially in the operating system. Software sells systems, yes, but that statement assumes the hardware is decent lol

[@Wind1ntheNight]

Funky barn always making an appearance fr

[@Kirbstering]

It's very easy to look back on past consoles with rose-tinted glasses and ignore all the other frustrating elements. The first ever HD Mario being a New Soup game was severely underwhelming. Developers left and right pulling out didn't help the console's library. The GamePad was frustrating to use and wasn't used nearly enough within games to justify it being the way it is. There are definitely gems, no doubt, but at this point Nintendo has charged full-price for Switch ports for almost all the games which mattered. And trust me, everyone complained about the Wii U when it was the relevant Nintendo console. It's just easy to ignore all that and focus on just the best games. The same will happen to the Switch in a few years, even though I do think it is one of Nintendo's best.

[@GeBuddy]

I always felt if I got out I'd get confused on which screen to look at.

[@massdefection]

The only thing I slightly disagree with is I think the Virtual Console was slightly better still on Wii U, but I've always been very big on owning my games rather than paying a subscription. I do think it had a better variety of games I was personally interested in as well, but that's also a bit of a personal take on it.

[@staringcorgi6475]

The virtual was horrible on Wii U it’s a downgrade compared to the wii since the input lag was bad and atrocious but it’s most noticeable in the n64 games and along with the darker filter which is a stupid way to prevent seizures like why not have a seizure warning

[@massdefection]

@staringcorgi6475 I did say it was mostly due to my personal preferences on owning vs subscription and the variety being more my style on the Wii U catalog. I don't even like most N64 games.

[@staringcorgi6475]

@@massdefection i think Nintendo still should’ve not fucked up the n64 because it’s one of their most important consoles and they got it right on the wii

[@AwesomeMooseSmile]

​@@staringcorgi6475i mean to be fair, as bad as the virtual console for Nintendo 64 was on the Wii U, on the switch it's even worse because not only is it just as bad, but also you have to pay a bigger subscription for it.

[@massdefection]

@staringcorgi6475 I'm not gonna fight over something I couldn't give less than a single damn about.

[@christianguest63]

I loved a lot of games and things about the WiiU but the one thing I use EVERY DAY is the WiiU stand. I can fit my phone perfectly on it's side and have it sit on top of a desk, table or even a pillow on my chest in my bed. It's by far the single most frequently used piece of a Nintendo product I own to this day.

[@AlexMartinez-de9th]

2:21 when are you going to put down the copy of funky barn god

[@kipschumm1849]

I wasn’t that into the Wii U or 3DS during their lifespan but I’ve had lots of fun with these consoles after modding them. Being able to play Wii and GameCube games natively over HDMI on the Wii U is icing on the cake.

[@coolzulu4178]

I was a kid who actually had time for video games when the Wii U was around, so of course id look fondly back on it