Email: My problem with Wii U

The library lacks ambition. 2D Mario is cool but there’s nothing ambitious about NSMB U. There’s nothing ambitious about Wii Fit U. Nintendoland comes across as Nintendo exploiting a bunch of franchises without putting in the work for a real game. Pikmin 3 is the only game that looks like some real effort went into it, but I don’t give a shit about Pikmin.

I’m still annoyed at how Nintendo led me to believe there were motion plus games on the horizon only to cancel those plans and put out an HD console (or maybe the plan was to get a Motion Plus install base ready for Wii U, but I don’t care). Putting out more Motion Plus games would have been very ambitious and would have kept me as a Nintendo customer. At this point I have more respect for Sony because they actually integrated Move controls into their premier shooter library (Killzone, Socom, Resistance, Mag). The most Nintendo did was integrate Motion Plus into a shitty Zelda game.

You do amplify an interesting point. The Wii was considered ambitious. Wii U doesn’t seem as ambitious. Nintendo would say, “But it is ambitious because we are beginning to separate the game console from the TV.”

I suspect Nintendo is counting that once Wii U are in homes, word of how nice having that extra screen is will come out. And they may or may not be right. No one reading this site has a Wii U in their home yet.