Topic: Wii U Recommendations Thread

Exclusives-- Zombie U is cool. I like Sonic, Isn't lego undercover exclusive- heard great things but don't have it. Tekkin, Madden 13, NFS, Zen Pinball- but these are available on other systems....

For the past year, I let my ties to gaming fade away. It was an important year for me as I was doing exams and as a result had to spend more time studying and less time playing games. After finally getting accepted to college this week, I want to get back into the run of things, dedicate more time to my passion.
I say this like I didn't pick up a joypad for the past year, I've still been playing plenty of games (Fire Emblem being the stand out title), just far less than usual. And also, the games I have been playing have all been handheld, I want to make a return to console gaming.
I've been keeping an eye on NintendoLife for the past year, and while sometimes it was difficult to see new games coming out that I couldn't get, it does mean that an entire library of new games (and even systems) are on the market.
I think now seems as good of time as any to buy a Wii U, and I would like to get the Premium bundle. I'm in Ireland, and while I do want the console, it does seem quite expensive, especially with added software (Possibly NSMBU and Batman, to begin with).
I would like to ask the good members of NintendoLife if now IS a good time to buy a Wii U or if I would be better off leaving it until nearer Christmas, and if so where to buy it, and even some suggestions of games. If anyone could help me I would be very grateful.

First off — welcome back to your passion! I hope it is a glorious reunion.

To answer your question, word is that a deluxe set bundled with Wind Waker is coming soon-ish: http://www.destructoid.com/report-wii-u-32gb-with-wind-waker-...

So if that sounds interesting, wait a little longer!

As for game recommendations, Pikmin 3 is all I have... but I love it to death and would recommend it in a heartbeat.

Now is a good time to take the plunge. I bought mine in April and have no regrets. Many of the first wave of games are half off (at least here in the U.S.) or in some cases less than $20- zombie u, mass effect, need for speed. Pikmin isn't a "system maker," but it's a great game. Wonderful 101 look like a good title. There's at least a half dozen really good titles coming out in the next three months- Donkey Kong, Xenoblade, Sonic, Rayman, Mario 3d, Mario & Sonic at the Olympics, Bayonetta, plus several other coming out after the new year.

wii u needs an achievement/trophy system wide it will give people more incentive to buy the console and the games and will gill give games massive replay and rebuy ability please nintendo if you read this...we need a systemwide trophy/achievement system for all wii u and nintendo eshop games also ik the wii u is powerful we need older game ports like all the cods bf3 homefront dantes inferno the mass effect trilogy and so on and we definitely need a system wide achievement/trophy system for all games...thank you for your time

@pkee

I'm with rockodoodle on this one, now is a great time to buy one. Just got mine this past week, and while there aren't a ton of games out until late this year/early next year, it's the best time to slowly get back into it. I picked up NSMB U and downloaded Ducktales, both have kept me very busy, along with Nintendo Land (which came with the system). You can't go wrong with some of those $20-$25 launch titles, either. I wanted to pick up my Wii U before the crazy influx of AAA titles coming in 2014, so that I wasn't buying the system then like $300 worth of amazing games all at once.