My Wii is not doing so great with a loud disc drive and it sometimes not getting power even though everything else plugged into the power strip is. So i'm thinking of just getting a Wii U to replace it is that a good idea?
@NintendoByNature what would you consider overpriced? Looking at some websites they range from 200-300 for a refurbished one and around 150-250 for a used one.
Depends, are you just gonna use it play Wii games and do you have a Switch? If you have a Switch and just want to play Wii games it's probably cheaper just to get another Wii as most of the games on Wii U are on Switch now. If you have got a Switch besides a few games like Star Fox Guard or Xenoblade Chronicles X there's not much else to play. The Wii U did have a good virtual console with games like Earthbound Beginnings which might be worth considering.
@MorningRain I'd say those ranges are kind of over priced. I got my refurbished wii u about 4 or so years ago for $100 on the nose before used ones sky rocketed.
@MorningRain Good that you mentioned it also being intended for Wii playback usage, because for it's own catalog alone, it would probably not be worth it, unless you'd be solely focusing on the games and experiences that are to this day still exclusive to the system or still offer a completely different experience, gameplay wise, but that is only a handful of titles, now that most of the titles have been re-released on the Switch. But it's a nice bonus regardless.
Long story short: the answer is yes. Because of the dual option, the Wii U is a perfect replacement for the Wii.
As a secondary option, you could also circumvent having to use the Wii's disc drive by softmodding it and installing all of your Wii games on an external hard drive. If you're even remotely interested in that option, let me know and I'll point you in the right direction. And in case you're hesitant to jump in: there's no particularly difficult steps involved, so anyone with some basic skills in installing and/or adding programs can do it.
As for those games that are either unique to the Wii U and/or offer different experiences on the Wii U:
LEGO City Undercover
Star Fox Zero
Star Fox Guard
Batman Arkham City: Armored Edition
Art Academy Atelier
Nintendo Land
Need for Speed Most Wanted U
Zombi U
Pikmin 3
And there's probably a couple of others that I still forgot, but as you can see, it's not a very long list.
EDIT:
Concerning prices for refurbished systems, keep an eye out for sites like eStarLand. They even offered a new black Wii U with Mario Kart 8 included for $199.95: https://www.estarland.com/product-description/NintendoWiiU/Ni...
Sadly enough, it's currently unavailable, but it does show that in general, they maintain fair prices for consoles.
@ThanosReXXX How would the soft modding work? I've looked into modding before but it really didn't interest me too much but if I can mod my console to play my disc games on the system I might look into it.
@MorningRain By installing software to the Wii, via a non-HD SD card, like one of these: https://www.amazon.com/Transcend-Flash-Memory-Card-TS2GSDC/dp...
To do the actual softmodding, go to this site and simply follow the tutorial: https://wii.guide/
Just read through that once or twice before you buy the SD card, and if you think/feel you're up to it, then just give it a go.
Once you're set up, I can help you with elaborating upon the install, and fine-tuning programs.
It also opens the door to emulation of basically any and all systems and handhelds that came before the Wii. My softmodded Wii has become the ultimate retro-gaming emulation box, and besides all of my Wii games, I've also installed all of my GameCube games to it.
@ThanosReXXX kinda. I have two of them set up in separate buildings, and the third was just cos I saw it going pretty cheap and thought one day I'll be glad to have the backup.
You guys had me at blood and semen.
What better way to celebrate than firing something out of the pipe?
@gcunit Separate buildings? Aren't you the land lord. Show-off...
All kidding aside: wouldn't mind having an extra GamePad myself. That contraption is about as close as you'll get to a single point of failure, where consoles are concerned...
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
@MorningRain what you want is haxchi. You have to buy a legitimate exploitable game from Nintendo eshop so when eshop ever closes this will probably be impossible. You then exploit the game by running a browser hack going to a website and it turns in to haxchi which you only need to run if your going to run home brew otherwise your Wii U functions like it’s never been hacked. You can install Wii and a GameCube games on the Wii U with home brew and even play them off tv on the game pad.
Going forward the Wii U is the ultimate legacy nintendo console playing everything except 3ds games and the N64 selection is limited to virtual console or wonky emulation. Games like Nintendo land and wario ware smooth moves and game and wario are games that likely will never see release on another console.
@MorningRain Just in case you've already bought a Wii U instead of modding the Wii, use this guide to get access to all of the same options I previously mentioned: https://wiiu.hacks.guide/#/
And I agree with the poster above me: choose Haxchi, if you want to go for modding a Wii U. Just follow the instructions to the letter, and you can't go wrong.
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
So I was tired of waiting for a xenoblade Chronicles X port to switch and I bought a physical copy of the game a while back and last week I bought a Wii U system.
But I have been very unlucky with it so far (bought from a 2nd hand store that gives 24 months garantee) as the first system came bricked... It would freeze on the starting screen just to follow after a while with am erro code that on googling it I realized there was nothing I could do.
I returned the system but as Wii U are not very common around here (or anywhere) I had to wait almost a week for a new one that they checked to make sure was in order.
So I connected the new system and all looked fine. The new system even had Mario kart installed already (altough I have the deluxe version on switch...) and after a bit of Messing around menus and whatnot I put the XCX disk and checked for updates and realized there was an option on the e-shop to download the game on the system to improve load speed. I have started it and it was going to take a couple of hours. As I was not sure the system would download while turned off I tried a couple of times for a few minutes to see if the bar was updating but on the second attempt the image would not appears on the TV, I tried a different HDMI port and then a different cable and nothing, then I tried disconnecting everything and tried again... Nothing. A second TV and again nothing. I rembered I had component cables from the Wii and then the image came around so somehow the HDMI port got busted... I returned the system yet again and I am waiting some response from them (I think they now believe I just like to brake systems on purpose I guess lol).
Definitely go for it. You can transfer all your Wii data over to the Wii U and access your Wii content and games as if you were using your old Wii. I love my Wii U!
My Wii is not doing so great with a loud disc drive and it sometimes not getting power even though everything else plugged into the power strip is. So i'm thinking of just getting a Wii U to replace it is that a good idea?
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