Wii-U thoughts so far

[retrosportsgamer]

^ So tell us the story on how you finagled Mario & Sonic Rio.

[jmbarnes101]

It's not a great story but I Went for a drive to visit a couple of Gamestop stores, I wanted to go pick up Warriors Orochi 3 Hyper for $10, and the second store had a Walmart nearby. The Walmart had previously had cheap Zelda 45th Anniversary Amiibo's so I wanted to see if they had anymore, they didn't and I regret not picking up more when I went the first time. I was looking through the display case and there was a copy of Rio sitting all by itself. I actually debated picking it up since $60 is a lot for a game but I had told myself if I ever saw it at a retail store I would grab it. I just dumb lucked my way into essentially.

[retrosportsgamer]

Strongly considering the Guitar Hero Wii U bundle - $19.99 new at this point. Feels like a weird system for the game after always playing those on ps2/360 personally. I mean you get the guitar too!

[jmbarnes101]

I picked it up a while back for $25 so $20 is a great deal. If it's something you're interested in and have the room for I would certainly consider it.

[jmbarnes101]

So Cars 3 has been announced for Wii U and Nordic announced it's still releasing Darksiders for the Wii U in May. Besides Elkin and myself is anyone planning to pick these up?

[Anayo]

I've stocked up on all the good Wii U games ( Bayonetta 1 & 2, Splatoon, Captain Toad, Pokken Tournament, Wonderful 101, etc.) but I've played very few of them. I may ironically end up playing my Wii U after it's dead and the Switch picks up steam. My only worry is that Nintendo will cut off Wii U online support soon. I wish they'd grandfather Wii U's into whatever service they're making Switch owners pay for. I think I'd pay to continue having Wii U online play for at least another year.

[jmbarnes101]

I've stocked up on all the good Wii U games ( Bayonetta 1 & 2, Splatoon, Captain Toad, Pokken Tournament, Wonderful 101, etc.) but I've played very few of them. I may ironically end up playing my Wii U after it's dead and the Switch picks up steam. My only worry is that Nintendo will cut off Wii U online support soon. I wish they'd grandfather Wii U's into whatever service they're making Switch owners pay for. I think I'd pay to continue having Wii U online play for at least another year.

I would definitely pay for another year of online Wii U service. I won't be getting a Switch until next year likely and have a ton of Wii and Wii U games to play.

[Hazerd]

Finally got around to modding the virtual Wii portion on my Wii U. Now I've got to figure out a good way to set things up without the Wii U griping at me about my memory stick not being formatted for the system.

The main reason I finally went through with it is my lack of room in my current setup. The Switch has displaced my Wii spot.

(And yes, that GBATemp guide worked swimmingly for everything. No issues whatsoever.)

Still use my modded Wii, not sure im up to modding the Wii U yet, the enhance resolution from HDMI would be nice though.

[retrosportsgamer]

I posted a couple replies to this today, mainly touching on how weird the retail life cycles were for WiiU titles.

Author brings up a good point in comments that these $19.99 games out now (Runbow) probably got like 2-3 max per store and will be long gone once they sell.

http://www.rfgeneration.com/news/wii-u/ ... U-3488.php

[Xeogred]

I posted a couple replies to this today, mainly touching on how weird the retail life cycles were for WiiU titles.

Author brings up a good point in comments that these $19.99 games out now (Runbow) probably got like 2-3 max per store and will be long gone once they sell.

http://www.rfgeneration.com/news/wii-u/ ... U-3488.php

Thanks for the heads up. I think I'll try to run around a little this weekend and check some stores out.

The era of Nintendo's Saturn begins now...