Despite being completely killed off by Nintendo itself, the Wii U seems to be having a late surge of new titles just lately - a new N64-style platformer launched just last week and there was even a release on Christmas Day last year. Now, it looks like there's yet another title on the way.
A newly-discovered ESRB rating suggests that Shakedown: Hawaii, a game which launched on 3DS last year alongside Nintendo Switch, is headed to the system. You can see it for yourself right here; ESRB has given the game a 'Teen' rating and has clearly indicated Wii U as the destined platform.
The Retro City Rampage successor saw a number of updates on Switch last year, and developer Vblank Entertainment’s commitment to launching the game on 3DS went down well with Nintendo fans. Perhaps we should have expected a Wii U version to come eventually all along?
Have you already grabbed the game on Switch or 3DS? Would a Wii U release tempt you? Tell us below.
[source twitter.com, via gonintendo.com]
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Wii U is still getting daily use here. In fact I just finished Bayonetta on it.
I will pass on this game though. Too many backlog titles left in its awesome library that are simply way better. Wii U will always be one of the most fun and underrated consoles for me. But I love how it's still getting a release now and then.
Oh YEAH! Now thaaats what I'm talkin' about!
Day One baby!
Wait. Is this game any good?
I do still play on my Wii U but mainly to play normal Wii games. Its proudly hooked up to the tv next to my PS4 Pro and my Switch
I did the system transfer so all my data was removed from the original Wii.
Even to this day a family game of Wii Sports Bowling can be tremendous fun. Especially now I have a 6 year old daughter who's just getting into Video gaming
If they feel they can make a good buck from it, sure. But resources costs and getting it rated, I dunno if they're going to get much of a return on the Wii U game.
Ironic when they refused to release Retro City Rampage on the system, mainly because the Wiiware version could be played on it.....
@Sculptor That's the thing - I bought mine a couple of years into its life when I already knew it was a flop but fancied getting back into gaming (Xmas 2014, 8GB white edition, £149!) - but there were exclusive titles on it I really wanted to play. So to me I definitely got my money's worth!
Wii U was not the travesty it's made out to be. I think alot of people just didn't get the gamepad or they had their heads so far up Sony's butt that they already made up their minds. They didn't care to even give Wii U a chance. It was all about them Uber graphics on PS4! I remember the launch and all people were talking about was Sony's new thing.
Oh and don't give me the, but i thought it was an add on for Wii and not a new system baloney. If you were any kind of gamer and didn't know it was a new system from Nintendo well you clearly weren't paying attention. Advertized well enough or not a gamer would know these things. If you cared enough to that is.
Now scuse me i gotta get back to my hidden gem console.
I miss the blue banner of Nintendolife.
Love the Wii u and still play games on it regularly when I have the chance. Also have a big backlog aswell as 3ds games. Life.
Unpopular opinion but it’s one of my favourite consoles.
@1UP_MARIO
As is mine! Gamecube too! Ask anyone though and you'll hear flop this and tanked that. The only system Nintendo ever made that truly bombed was virtual boy.
That moment when I tried to turn on my Wii U last night after no use for almost 2 yrs.... yea... Wii U pretty much said Ef U coz dang thing is bricked (dunno how, outside of 2 yrs of neglect 😅) anyone familiar with Error Code: 160-0103?
@1UP_MARIO it really WAS a great console with soooo much potential.... if the Switch's system could function like the Wii U's gamepad, then it'd be PERFECT!
This is awesome to see. Still play mine regularly.
Nintendo was right in that in the future the WiiU will be remembered fondly like the Gamecube (Also a failure like the WiiU) Still its great to see many of the WiiU classics get ported to the Switch for those who never got to experience them. Heck Mario kart 8 Deluxe is still selling like hotcakes. Glad to hear 2 more WiiU ports are coming this year, my bets are on Pikmin 3 and Starfox Zero
I was thinking to myself this morning I should connect the old WiiU back on the TV.
Does the eshop still work on it?
@Zeldafan79 Actually a big reason for the Wiiu's failure is in its marketing. At the time of launch Nintendo was not clear as for what the WiiU was. Most people assumed it was an add-on for the Wii given its name. Also a incredibly poor move is the severe lack of games for the system. When it launched it supported almost no big 1st party games, with them dribbling out big games once every while. We didn't start getting a ton of games till 2014, 2 years too late. Thankfully Nintendo learned a valuable lesson and sunk a ton of time and money into marketing the Switch. And Nintendo focused on putting out a ton of big named games for it at launch, and ever strongly afterwards.
@originaljohn Yep, infact My Nintendo still gives out discounts for WiiU games in exchange for gold points.
These are the same guys who released Retro City Rampage on the PSP in 2016. Not surprising, but still cool.
@Zeldafan79 Also by far the biggest mistake of the WiiU.....Wii Sports Club was not a packaged game. The president of Nintendo fought so hard to get Wii Sports to be packaged with every wii, and it was a massive success. So I have no idea why they didn't do the same with Wii Sports club, or why they turned it into a subscription service. Especially now that you can no longer play it since they shut down the service.
"Ah, part of us really misses looking at this bulky beast every day.."
You realise you don't have to put it away because you have a new console, I still use mine regularly and its kind of ironic that a large part of the Switch's early success was built around a couple of Wii U games and an updated version of a third one
@WiltonRoots I got the same deal a couple of months before Xmas 14. So weird that I got the system when it was already a flop; most systems are hitting their stride a couple of years in. Certainly got my money’s worth; even if you focused exclusively on Nintendo ips and virtual console/eshop it was more than enough to keep you going. However, the third party offerings (bare in mind I have 70+ physical games for the Wii U was terrible compared to Xbox and Playstations offerings in the two generations the Wii U ‘straddled’. Some good ones, but the way they played was no where near as good as on rival systems (Avengers Lego runs poorly for example) which is a shame as first party games from Super Mario 3D World all the way through to Breath of the Wild run great.
I honestly find it hard to go back to using my Wii U at this point. The game pad is so bulky and low res and I keep wanting to walk into the other room with it, and can't.
But it has one main thing over Switch: Virtual Console and a lot of lovely GBA, Wii, N64, and other classic games that I can't get on my Switch. For some reason, Nintendo doesn't want more of my money.
@JedRock Here's some things to try:
https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Support/Wii-U/Troubleshooting/Error-codes/Error-code-160-0103/Error-code-160-0103-1133496.html
https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2431/~/error-code%3A-160-0103%2C-160-1709
And then there's this slightly weird auto-voiced video here, but it does contain several solutions. If you can't quite follow the video because you're possibly going to be distracted by the (somewhat annoying) robot voices, then you can also read the description underneath the video, which contains the entire text:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoAJUH1grJc
@carlos82 My thoughts exactly. Looking at it right now, sitting comfortably underneath my living room TV, right next to the Wii, the Switch and a couple of Xboxes...
@Marios-love-child I WISH I still had Wii Sports to play with my kids, cannot, for the life of me, find it! Wii U will always be special for myself and my son.
Still play Wii U for Call of Duty: Black Ops II and some other games. A real shame that Nintendo lacked the foresight to make it more popular than it ended up being.
@patbacknitro18 I'd say the 3 biggest errors of Wii U were:
1. Marketing
2. Too many game droughts (first half of 2018 for Switch is a perfect example of how to avoid game droughts)
3. Released a year before PS4/XB1 so got caught up in too many power comparisons (Switch was already underpowered compared to current gen systems at launch so apart from 3rd party support drying up, Switch should be fine even after launch of PS5/Series X)
@ThanosReXXX thank you so much.... I'll give those a try.. haven't looked at the vids, yet, but hopefully it's more than just "do a reboot" because Lord knows I've done that like 9000 times yesterday😅😒😔
@JedRock Oh, it's a bit more than that alright. Basically a rundown of all possible options.
And you're welcome. Hope it's any good. But if nothing ends up fixing this, then I'm pretty sure that, assuming you haven't modded your system, Nintendo will still repair it, so you'll always have that as final option.
I still use my Wii U on occasion for Virtual Console games and to revisit some of its amazing library. I've also foregone the Switch version of TMS #FE and grabbed it on the Wii U instead (mainly due to price). It's an underrated console that was mismanaged and had a couple of odd, limiting design choices.
I still have mine hooked up incase I want to play Monster Hunter Tri Ultimate. The newer Monster Hunter games don't have water fights anymore but man Tri was fun in the water. Especially, the Lagiacrus fight.
I also have been playing Monster Hunter to train myself to become a real life Monster Hunter. Maybe I should fight my cat for real experience and capture him so I'll be ready incase a dragon attacks my village!
They should shut down the online services for this and 3ds. Focus on the switch.
@Grumblevolcano More pointedly it was a system launching at the end of 7th gen that "finally" caught Nintendo up to the hardware of 7th gen, and they launched it promoting a ton of 7th gen multiplat titles "finally" arriving on Nintendo - and then a month later, that was dead, the new consoles were coming out as of Sony's Feb reveal 3 months in, EA was trashing it left and right, and WiiU never found it's niche. Combine that with still marketing it toward the Wii crowd that had already abandoned the ecosystem years prior when phones hit it big, a tablet out of spec for what was currently the tablet boom, and had lost much of its core audience with the follies of the Wii, and on top of THAT long lag periods of first party games (helping the image that the machine was built for multiplats it wasn't going to get) while Nintendo tried to figure out HD development, and more than half their staff was making 3DS games instead.......
We always say "wrong system at the wrong time" but it was outdated hardware without software to justify it, unlike Switch, aimed at a new temporary market that was already gone, and without their loyal market because they ignored them for years, while internally they were unprepared to launch it, and couldn't commit time to salvage it because they were already at their limits securing 3DS.
A fun little system that, in hindsight, was never going to have a chance.
Happy with my Switch, but I love the Wii U. Made a promise that starting in Christmas of 2018 I'd play through and review a game in my Wii U backlog every holiday break indefinitely. Finished Xenoblade Chronicles X in 2018 and Child of Light in 2019. Thinking I'm gonna take down Paper Mario Color Splash this year. Long live the Wii U.
Oh, and of course, I'm STILL making my way through the enormous Wii catalogue on my Wii U
Awesome game. Seems to have a special place in his heart for the Wii U. I personally loved the console
It’s a great game!
I expect this sort of thing from vBlank. These guys were cool enough to release Retro City Rampage on the Wii Shop Channel even though it well past its glory days.
@WiltonRoots I have well over 300 games for my Wii U. Wii, U, vc, Eshop, wiiware etc... it’s used more as an entertainment hub with YouTube and Netflix, and occasional gaming on it today but is still hooked up and I don’t see that changing. it’s a shame it was a flop console because it definitely deserved to sell better. I believe that Nintendo’s only real mistake was releasing it 2 years late. Wii sales where slowing and it wouldn’t have felt so out of date as it did releasing when it did. It seemed like Nintendo purposely held it back due to Wii’s success, and it cost them. I can see a switch pro this year because i don’t think Nintendo will risk losing switch’s momentum.
I love the Wii U, and think it's a great system, but, I didn't think very many people still played it. These cheap $1 games that look like they were made in flash totally makes sense putting it on there, but, I would have thought a bigger game like Hotline Miami, it's going to be hard for them to make back their initial investment in porting it.
@ThanosReXXX soooo... I may not have modded my Wii U, but..... I'm PRETTY SURE I modded my Wii years before so I could play imports like Fatal Frame 4.. and then I transferred that console data to my Wii U..... at least, that's what I recall doing
It came out on the Vita which is also dead. The previous game came out on the psp in 2016. They also made a DOS version. They seem fairly committed to getting it out there.
@WiltonRoots
Yep I sorta had the same thing. I got it in May 2015. Fat library with lots of epic exclusives. Games like Xenoblade X, Breath of the Wild, Paper Mario and FAST Racing NEO were still on the horizon to hype.
And I was addicted to a MMORPG in the years prior, so I had missed all the third party titles that released on the Wii U in its first two years. Which turned out to be a surprising amount - right now I am still catching up with those as well. Only Batman, Deus Ex and Most Wanted are left. In most of these games I actually really dig the added GamePad functionalities.
Because of this, to me it never even felt like Wii U lacked third party support. So it's been a complete and 'normal' experience for me - even on that front. xD
Combine all that with the glorious first/second party offerings, unique experiences in games that were really catered to the GamePad, the many controller options (how I miss playing first-person shooters with the Wii Remote / infrared pointer these days), pretty nice media apps / Miiverse / internet browser and awesome visuals by those who really tried. And you have this console that apart from a somewhat sluggish OS hits all my sweet spots. Wii U feels like a niche now, but I am very glad to have been part of it. It was crazy, it was fun and to top it all off, it gave be the best solo game experience I ever had with BotW. Best 150 bucks I've ever spent.
@JedRock Save data, you mean? In that case, you could simply move that to an SD card, so it's removed from your Wii U's memory, in the scenario where you may have to send it to Nintendo for repairs, and when you get it back, you simply move it from the SD card to the internal memory again.
I do have to wonder, though: if you've used save data from a modded Wii on an unmodded Wii U in Wii mode, then that actually shouldn't work, so I'm suspecting that the vWii inside the Wii U is also modded.
Either way, any and all traces of modding need to be removed from your console before you send it to Nintendo, otherwise they will not help you to repair it.
yea... but see, the problem is that I can't get past the Wii U loading screen... or in the RARE occasion that it gets to the Mii hub, it freezes, anyways... so, can't ever get to the point where I can safely xfer data
@Averagewriter yea, it was Fatal Frame 4 and Day of Disaster that I really wanted to play... but in all fairness, neither of the games are THAT great considering the hassle I had to go through.. not to mention installing the English text patch for Fatal Frame 4... I may've appreciate both more if they would've just released them as US ports.
The Wii U gamepad is the most comfortable controller I've ever used.
Something about the size, the weight, and the placement of the buttons all work just right for my hands.
I dug my modded black 32GB Wii U out of storage and hooked it up for the first time in a few years just two weeks ago and I'm glad I did. It was worth it for Nintendont alone, playing quality GameCube titles upscaled to 1080p with the original controllers via the USB adapter, Haxchi for my ripped games like Human Revolution and Arkham City installed on a 64GB USB thumb drive and a plethora of old consoles emulated via RetroArch, which after extra years in development is a lot more slick on the Wii U now.
In my case it also plays more versions of Mario Kart than any other console :-
Yep, eight different versions. And with the fairly recent FIX94 hack a lot of GameCube titles can be played directly on the Wii U Gamepad with all the controls working for true Off TV Play (all we need now is a more reliable method of getting Wii titles with Classic Controller support working from the Wii U menu because the current Wii U VC Inject method usually fails).
Just because it was a sales failure doesn't mean it failed as an awesome piece of gaming hardware. Bummer that Amazon Prime, BBC iPlayer and presumably other video apps beyond Netflix and YouTube don't work any more though. And what the Wii U did with it's browser dual screening was really clever, I've not seen anything like that since.
@Donutman our Wii U is also an entertainment hub. In the back of my mind though, I worry a little bit about when Netflix or YouTube decide to turn off their apps on the device, like they did with the Wii. I'll enjoy it until it goes off the air though.
That worries me as well, but it’s more because then when online goes away and system dies, I lose all my digital games forever. I can at least still play steam games I purchased from several PCs ago.
At this point it's like those super late Dreamcast games that kept getting released in small Japanese markets.
I Always enjoyed my Wii U and the game pad features and with owning a library of 900+ Wii games, 70+ Wii U games and hundreds of classic downloads between wiishop and eshop there’s absolutely no reason for me to disconnect it. And the Wii U eshop blows the Switch eshop away in terms of the store layout. Idk what the hell Nintendo is waiting for to give the Switch eshop a fresh coat of paint?!? It’s horrible as is!
@JedRock it could be many things. Did you try booting it up again with a hard reset by holding power in?
We knew that already.
The Wii U is far from dead.
It's still receiving new games and people are still playing games on it.
Imagine if Sega announced the new Skies of Arcadia as a Wii U exclusive instead of Switch. Every fans on Earth will open their mouth non-stop or drop dead or riot the streets in protest against Sega.
@Sculptor @Gamecuber Yeah so to me, and this is also true with the Dreamcast and Saturn, just because a machine was a failure commercially, doesn't mean in the slightest that the machine was crap, it just didn't do well. The software and the enjoyment I got out of them meant it was a winner in my eyes. The Wii U is up there as one of my favourite consoles of all time. My least favourite? The N64. Mad how that works but that's just my personal taste.
@patbacknitro18
They definitely did something right this time! The switch has been a hit since day one. I still think the Wii U is a solid system. The name sucked though that's for sure.
RetroCity Rampage was the last psp game ever. So is interesting the sequel Shakedown Hawaii be the last wii u game.
They love to be last game on console. Shakedown Hawaii is the last relevant 3ds game.
The WiiU is basically the only thing holding me back from getting a Switch.
Wii U, i wish Nintendo got the credits they deserved with this console. It basically lay the foundation of the Switch, while keeping the best of the Wii.
@Pete_Stooge I hear people keep saying that, but the Switch lacks the thing that made the Wii U so distinct: The second screen. It allowed for asymmetric gameplay and novel game design. The Switch just strip mined the Wii U's library, but other than that, it's really more like a PS Vita than a Wii U.
@TheFox Agreed, although the potential of the second screen was bigger than actually realised in most games. The concept of letting you choose to play your games on your tv or just on the gamepad is something the Wii U introduced. And in wii mode you can play mariokart with your friends using the gamepad just as a screen. We see that on the Switch as well. Talking about software, some of the best Switch games are also available for Wii U, or were IP's created originally for Wii U. The only big thing Switch did was take it outside the house. And for me, as i practically only play games in the evening after work on my couch, i don't really care about it.
The developer's website disagrees with this.
https://www.vblank.com/ShakedownHawaii/
@Marios-love-child Yeah, me too, I also use my Wii U more than my Switch, and also mostly in Wii Mode. Mostly to play VC games, especially F-Zero, (I have a lot of VC games I transferred from my Wii but I've been playing that one the most,) and I recently started Sonic Colors too. Sometimes I'll venture outside Wii Mode to play the Wii U VC's Zapper games with my Wii Zapper, though. (Of those, I have Wild Gunman and Duck Hunt.)
Long live the U King.
I still love my Wii U as well. I've been using it lately for a lot of backwards compatibility gaming with the Wii (playing Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn and Sin & Punishment: Star Successor). I also grabbed the Sonic Wii games to give them another go even though I'm mostly just interested in finally beating Sonic Colors.
There's still so much I missed on the Wii that I'm happy to play catch up using the Wii U. Plus, all the virtual console stuff is fantastic.
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