Nintendo Wii U 1. Reasons to Pick it Over Play. Station 4 or Xbox One A year ago, the argument over which game console to buy went something like this The Play. Station 4 and Xbox One were shiny black spec troves of next gen performance assurances glossed with wishful gameplay hypotheticals wrapped around the reality of comparably anemic launch titles, whereas the Wii U had Super Mario 3. D World, LEGO City Undercover, The Legend of Zelda The Wind Waker HD, Pikmin 3 and The Wonderful 1. The best PS4X1 launch game, Assassins Creed IV Black Flag, was on the Wii U, too, and so the choice seemed obvious, at least through December 2. But 2. 01. 4 turned out to be a weird year. People actually bought the new consoles, despite much morbid prophesying in the years leading up to their arrival about the death of set tops. The Play. Station 4 went on to sell so many units worldwide that by August even Sony was scratching its head in bewilderment. And while the Xbox One appears to be selling at lower volumes Microsofts been reticent about its performance, its still outpacing life to date sales of its predecessor. Both companies are performing at levels they werent supposed to, in other words. Nintendo, too. Pundits prematurely mourned the Wii U including yours truly after gloomy fiscal 2. How to Download Wii Games. Besides being able to play discbased Wii games, your Wii console can play a variety of classic games and downloadonly small games. Follow. Online UK video games and console. Includes PlayStation 3, Sony PS3, Nintendo Wii, Wii, Nintendo DS Lite, Microsoft Xbox 360 and accessories. May, as Wii U sales slowed to a trickle. Autodesk Inventor 2008 Crack Gta. But the Wii U rebounded a week later off the arrival of Mario Kart 8, and the company on the whole rebounded in October thanks to indefatigable Mario Kart 8 sales when Nintendo announced a surprising fiscal course reversal. Nintendos Wii U has at last check sold over 7 million units, and thats before Hyrule Warriors, Bayonetta 2, Super Smash Bros. Wii U or the forthcoming Captain Toad Treasure Tracker hit the books. MORE This Is Why Nintendo Is Crushing It All of a Sudden. So 2. 01. 4 basically wants to plunder your bank account and probably already has. And the lootings just started were now looking at a console triumvirate in 2. All the latest Nintendo Switch, 3DS, Wii U eShop news and headlines from Nintendo Life. Subscribe to our RSS feed. Homebrew is a term frequently applied to video games or other software produced by consumers to target proprietary hardware platforms usually with hardware. NTFS for PS3PSXBDDVD ISOS stored on external NTFS drives. How to install webMAN on a Cobra CFW. What to do You could buy them all, of course, but thats a hardcore move and financially impractical for most. You could pick two, and even if youre dead set on owning gaming with a PC, Play. Station 4 or Xbox One, theres a powerful argument here for the Wii U as a must have secondary system, given the caliber of its exclusive content. But lets assume you have none of the above, and that youre finally ready to pull the trigger on something that isnt a smartphone, tablet or PC. Were that my circle to square, and if I didnt do this for a livingId still pick the Wii U1. Because it still has the first and second party games I most want to play now. Its been a good year for third party games you wont find on Nintendos Wii U. Alien Isolation, Far Cry 4, Middle earth Shadow of Mordor and Dragon Age Inquisition are terrific. But you could also argue the rest of 2. A darlings are basically recycling bin material Diablo III, Grand Theft Auto V, Tomb Raider Definitive Edition, The Last of Us and Halo The Master Chief Collection look tremendous in their new digs, but theyre still remakes of games we already played, however compellingly wrinkled. As far as standout exclusive new IP goes, the Xbox One has Sunset Overdrive and Forza Horizon 2 and maybe Titanfall, while Sony has Final Fantasy XIV and Velocity 2. X. But thats it. And, not that Im complaining, the PS4 and Xbox One are basically cheap midrange PCs, parleying the lingua franca of a decades old gaming paradigm interface wise. Any notion of inventive holism pretty much died when Microsoft unbundled Kinect from Xbox One. Nintendos playing a very different game with its very different looking console, where, absent robust third party support, its doubled down on first and second party properties, as well as banking on the fact that no one else on consoles, handhelds, computers, or mobile devices has the sort of franchise cross demographic appeal it does. You could call that requirement to self propel a liability or an opportunity. Thus on Wii U, you now have a small library of standouts, like Bayonetta 2, Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze, Hyrule Warriors, The Legend of Zelda The Wind Waker HD, LEGO City Undercover, Mario Kart 8, New Super Mario Bros. U, Pikmin 3, Pushmo World, Super Mario 3. D World, Super Smash Bros. Wii U and The Wonderful 1. Its an enviable exclusive lineup by any measure. Nintendos also been making something of the fact that on Metacritic, eight Wii U games Super Mario 3. D World, Rayman Legends, Super Smash Bros. Wii U, Bayonetta, Bayonetta 2, Mario Kart 8, The Legend of Zelda The Wind Waker HD and Pikmin 3 currently hold critic scores of 8. Im ambivalent about score aggregation sites and scores in general as quality arbiters, but it is interesting to note that rare confluence of critical and public appraisal. Nintendo doesnt need third parties the way Microsoft and Sony do. The point in any for profit business is, by definition, to be profitable. If Nintendo can figure out how to stay in the black, given the companys first and second party software attach rates, Im not sure how much unit sales matter in terms of whos first, second or third, so long as theres steady growth. No, youll never see crazy Grand Theft Auto V figures on the Wii U, where youre selling tens of millions of copies of a game across platforms with a combined install footprint of over 1. Mario Kart Wii sales levels. But at 2 or 3 or 4 million units a piece, the bestselling Wii U titles are selling at perfectly respectable levels given the number of systems in the wild. And if the Wii U continues to make install base inroads and its firstsecond party attach rates remain high, Nintendo may be all the support Nintendo needs to make good on its platform for at least the next several years, while at the same time being able to plausibly brag that the Wii U has the best games per capita. Its a shame Nintendo hasnt been able to lure more third party bigwigs, but whether thats the development environment the Wii U lacks processing headroom, contrasted with its peers or the chicken egg install base conundrum, its also ironically turning out to be a bootstraps referendum on a companys ability to singlehandedly revitalize its flagship platform. Nintendo just opened a massive new game development center in Kyoto. An addendum to the last point, Nintendo of America president and CEO Reggie Fils Aime confirmed in a phone interview that the companys focus is now squarely on Nintendo delivered content. We have to use our first party and increasingly second party content to grow our install base, thats our mission, Fils Aime told me, then qualified this by noting Nintendo just opened a research and development facility in Kyoto, right next to the companys global headquarters. This R D center will be the home to 1,5. Fils Aime said. Companies would be thrilled to have that many game developers working on their business. We have these game developers creating content exclusive to our platforms. Again, the key phrase here is doubling down. It guarantees nothing, but to the extent educated guesses matter when making buying choices, Id say it means well see a lot more Nintendo led content emerge from Kyoto in the years to comecontent designed to justify the kinds of idiosyncratic holistic experiences that Nintendo specializes in. Super Smash Bros. Wii U is already buoying the system as Mario Kart 8 before itSuper Smash Bros. Target Expect More.