Add to that upgraded titles like Wii Sports Club that added online to the titular fad and if you liked the Wii, as millions did, you surely should have liked Wii U. But add in its backwards compatibility, with not only retail Wii discs but the entirety of its Virtual Console and WiiWare catalog, and the Wii U could play over a thousand games on Launch Day. Though the Wii U had a stellar line-up of titles, the quantity remained low. Play the Best Version of Wii Sports (and a Thousand Other Wii Titles) It’s a tiny convenience but one I miss when playing on other systems, and one I’ll miss on the Switch.
Turn on the TV, set the Input, turn the channels or even adjust the volume. The Wii U GamePad had a small “TV” button on its face that, when properly paired with your television, brought up basic remote functions on the embedded screen.
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But you still have to turn your TV on with a remote. The Switch’s main draw is that you can play the same games on your television and anywhere away from the house. This is what the Wii U did that the Switch can not. Let us not dim your eagerness for this shiny new thing let us instead shine a light on the old thing and remember its idiosyncratic and ambitious feature-set, soon to be obsolete. And yet, with it now out in the wild, I need two hands to count off all that it cannot do in comparison to its maligned predecessor. It is Nintendo’s lowest selling home system by a country mile.Įxpectations and excitement for the Switch have reached fever pitch. Whereas the Wii parlayed its motion controls and iconic Mii avatars into one of the most successful game systems ever, the Wii U limped out of the starting gate and never found its footing. The Wii U was meant to be a shoo-in success story, the follow-up to a gaming phenomenon. And as excited as we are, we also can’t help but think of the prior Nintendo home console that is being left behind, its suite of underappreciated features abandoned and forgotten.