Topic: Ten Reasons Why You Should Own a Wii U

Whatever, the colors are the same across all platforms. Furthermore, have you ever walked outside and looked at the sky? First it's dark, then it gets pinkish and a little yellow, then it goes all blue for a while, then it goes back to warm, then cooler colors. Thus it is in life, thus it is in games.

Because you can play all the great 3rd party games! Like just dance! And Lego! Nah, just kidding. Splatoon though... The Wii U is probably my 2nd favorite console of all time at this point. I'm not quite sure why, but I just really enjoy it!

1.) when you buy a wii u, you buy everything Nintendo. I don't know of a single console that has as many eras of gaming or as many games from each era available. One of the best unique things of the wii u. I recently fell in love with earthbound and super metriod.
2.) Couch play, playing with friends together
3.) Online guest, Mario kart and Smash bros. Something that's been lost on the newer consoles( online guests).
4.) Games that offer the best combination of pure fun and quality
5.) Unique gamepad play, playing games on the gamepad from another room or controlling the volume, TV inputs, channels, turning the TV off and on.
6.) Nintendo AAA games- Category of its own
7.) legit DLC that was created after the game was actually finished.
8.) Games that have longevity: I've put about 300 combined hours between Mario kart and smash. Never put over 25 hours into a ps4.
9.) A respectable price range between Nintendo games: Wonderful 101-$30, Kirby Canvas $40, Donkey Kong tropical freeze- $50, Splatoon $60.
10.) the best versions of all the best Nintendo games we've all grown up with and love)

More like just the Wind Waker and what is easy enough to run on the virtual console.

you're not good at comedy. F-

also your first example still has 10X less primary color than most Nintendo games anyway?!

(also, if it was 2008, we would still at least have more JRPGs and pre-Kinect Rare)

10 reasons why you shouldn't own a Wii U:
1) The control for the gamepad sucks.
2) Lack of 3rd party.
3) Miiverse is filled with trolls.
4) New Virtual Console games only releases one game per week.
5) Has the worst Indies.
6) Demo still has limited uses.
7) Finding stuff in Eshop is difficult.
8) The space between the Wii U pad and Console is too short.
9) Wii U lacks 1st party games.
10) Stuff is ridiculously expensive on Eshop. (GBA games cost 7.99? Really? How ridiculous!)

Okay...here're ten reasons:
1. Great 1st-party games. Stuff like 3D World, DKC: TF, Pikmin 3, Mario Kart 8, Hyrule Warriors, Splatoon, etc.
2. While third-party support is seriously lacking, the indie games I've played have been very good (Shovel Knight, Runner 2, etc.). Also, there's Rayman Legends and Bayonetta 2.
3. Earthbound. Just...Earthbound.
4. It's the cheapest out of all three home consoles on the market.
5. You can play all of your Wii games on it.
6. Smash Bros.
7. The Gamepad is really good for drawing.
8. Off-TV play.
9. The internet is better than the Wii's.
10. Onlike the other 3, you can use online sevices in games FOR FREE.
@Sakurai I'll admit, some of those are valid points as to problems the system has, but after glancing at your signature, I'm not gong to acknowledge them, because I'm apparently the "Cancer of gaming itself"!

Please don't tell me you took my signature seriously.

If you mean that it hurt my feelings, no. You're some random person on the internet. Your words can't hurt me. I'm just sick and tired of trolls.

You say that as if "Nintendo is the cancer of gaming itself" was an actual attempt at humor. If it was, I think you need to see a doctor...

You were the one who got all snarky at the comment about Wii U games being more colourful. "How dare people enjoy this platform! They should all be only enjoying the platforms that I enjoy!". So your counter example was to say that the PS4 was just as good.... by posting a screenshot of a PC game that was yellow and brown. I think you missed the point. I mean... find a better hobby and maybe even a sense of humour while you're at it. Soon.

Really soon

No, I took issue with kkslider's characteristically over-simplistic generalization about multiplatform games being grey and brown, a problem that hasn't existed for some years. And if you'd actually played or researched the game I linked you would know that the day/night cycle inject a wide array of colors, not just red, yellow, and orange, into the world, and not posted your similarly over-simplistic snarky comment.

Let's begin, shall we? (Let's make this short and simple.)

1) The control for the gamepad sucks.

Your personal opinion.

2) Lack of 3rd party.

Valid. Kind of... if you don't consider indies.

3) Miiverse is filled with trolls.

Don't tell me you pay attention to the 'trolls' in Miiverse... Anyway, it's sorta ironic... if you know what I mean.

4) New Virtual Console games only releases one game per week.

Right. VC games are the number one reason people need to buy a Wii U! -_-

5) Has the worst Indies.

triple facepalm Scram Kitty? Shovel Knight? Guacamelee? Any of those ring a bell?

6) Demo still has limited uses.

Well, yeah... I wish the demos had a generous number of uses...

7) Finding stuff in Eshop is difficult.

A Search button exists in the eShop. Nuff said.

8) The space between the Wii U pad and Console is too short.

I don't really get this. I'm assuming it's the maximum distance between the GamePad and the system before you start to experience issues. That said, it's not short at all. It depends on where you take the GP to. Besides, you also have to consider the walls between the GP and the Wii U.

9) Wii U lacks 1st party games.

My head is beginning to get sore from frequent facepalming...

10) Stuff is ridiculously expensive on Eshop. (GBA games cost 7.99? Really? How ridiculous!)

Yeah, the games can be quite expensive.

However, at the end your points are not really that valid. shrugs

You got all that from "HD games with primary colors"? And you took "issue" with it? Really? Come on dude, you know that's not what was meant by it. Take something like Splatoon, Mario, Kart or Smash and compare it to most of the other games on the market. They're colourful games in HD. Far more colourful than Batman, The Witcher, Tomb Raider and so on. There are colourful games on other platforms for sure but on the Wii U it's the rule rather than the exception.

In regards to my taking down of your tantrum in response I was simply poking fun of the fact that you picked those games. You said "PS4" as a bold proclamation and posted a PC screenshot. From a game that isn't shooting for a colourful artstyle. I'd have some sympathy for your response if you hadn't stuffed it up that much. You could have said that while that point is fair Nintendo are not the only ones and cited Sunset Overdrive, Bioshock Infinite and No Mans Sky. But nope, you said "PS4", posted a PC screenshot of a game that's not "colourful" in the sense that it was meant and got all worked up when I pointed and laughed.

I think it's quite clear who's actually upset here, man. In any case, multiplatform releases don't change their colors upon release. The only game I know of doing that is Okami and similar remasters or ports to next gen. The Witcher 3's day/night colors are the same on PS4, X1, what have you.

And really now, you're not complaining about the use of primary colors, but rather realistic art styles at this point. So... yeah, that's pretty silly.

Indeed, I'm laughing my ass off at this one

I never said they did. I even gave you help by suggesting better examples you could have used. I just thought it was hilarious that you said "PS4" and then posted a PC screenshot. Equally as hilarious as the fact that you even "took issue" with the statement at all. It's gold, you can't make this stuff up.

If you think someone saying that Nintendo games "have primary colours" is about the fact that it can actually display those colours? Or that indeed games which take a realistic style show colours across the spectrum? You're missing the point entirely. Sunset Overdrive is colourful, Splatoon is colourful, Bioshock Infinite is colourful. The Witcher is not.

How much have you even seen of the Witcher 3? I've walked through cities with garishly-dressed medieval folk, found dye works and clothes washers. I've seen caves dripping crimson from the roots that run through them and rode through a mountain valley full of wildflowers. Again, not to mention the lighting which ads different colors to literally every area of the game. It is literally as colorful as a realistic-looking game can get. Hell, it even ads extra color to the world in ways that make it look less realistic, like how the water looks tropical and clear where it would typically be stagnant and murky.

Do you have any actual experience with this game, because either you're trolling or quite misinformed.

All of this stigma for multiplatform games not having color is equally as foolish as the stigma condemning Nintendo games as 'kiddy' for using bright primaries.

People tend to conflate "lack of color" with "realistic art style".

That said, I prefer abstract art styles to realistic ones for the same reason I prefer animation to live action. They allow the artist to better meet their vision.

@Haru17
I haven't played the game if that's what you're getting at. However if that is what you're getting at I'd be kinda surprised given your previous rants. I've looked at screenshots, trailers and so on and I've played a bit of the previous version. I could have got it but it's not my thing so I'm not going to spend full retail on it. But based on what I have seen on it? It's not a desaturated game by any means, I never said it was. But it's not the sort of game that I'd call "colourful" in the sense that we're using it. The colours are realistic and maybe a tad oversaturated if anything, but it's not "colourful".

As I said, there are colourful games on non-Nintendo platforms. Nintendo doesn't have a monopoly on those sort of games. But if you want games with strong primary colours? Most of them are on Nintendo's platforms. That's all that was meant by it and you had to get all defensive about it. I mean you couldn't have someone saying the Wii U does something better than your beloved PS4 right? So you posted a PC screenshot and claiming that it was from a PS4 game. Which was hilarious. Post of the day.

Not really. It's just that there's a whole spectrum of "colour" in games. There's stuff like Batman and all of the samey-brown stuff from last generation well to one side. Then there are games like Splatoon, Sunset Overdrive, Jet Set Radio etc on the other. There's a whole spectrum of games in that middle section. I'd argue that games like Far Cry, The Witcher, Assassin's Creed and so on are in the middle there. They're not colourful games in the same way that Splatoon is but that doesn't mean that they're bland.

All I think was being said was that Nintendo regularly leans heavily towards the more colourful side of that spectrum. Wind Waker is all of the very vibrant primary colours. You get a similar deal with a Mario game which has a dude running around in a bright red suit most of the time. The footage they've shown for Zelda on the Wii U? It's the same again. Over and over again Nintendo are producing very, very colourful games. There are some in the middle there like Pikmin and Metroid but most of them are very colourful.