Best Wii U-To-Nintendo Switch Ports

I wish Namco had ported Wii U Tekken Tag Tournament 2 to Switch instead of bloody Pokken.

The Switch is massively lacking in proper 3D fighting games even after all these years.

@Clyde_Radcliffe

Street Fighter IV would be cool, the last good one.
Five is for the Trash Bin.

@somnambulance I’m glad many of these were posted too. Pulmonary and MK8D…on the go? Awesome!

Though tbh, I could’ve done without NSMBWUD or 3D World…. Or rather get pets off some older games…N64, GameCube, or even Wii games would appeal more to me since I didn’t play through most of them a few years ago.

Still, I understand why they did it.

@Azuris Even that isn't a proper 3D fighter but more a 2D fighter with 3D models. I mean ones where you can fully move in 3D, eg Tekken, Soul Calibur Dead Or Alive etc.

I would still welcome it on Switch though! Why is 5 trash? Last one I played was 4. 😃

Does Breath of the Wild qualify?

Xenoblade X never ever

@mjharper
I argue yes.

Great list! I love these games on Wii U. I still miss my mine. Hard not to pick up a used one. Oddly enough, 3rd parties have come pretty close to filling out the full line up from the original Wii U sizzle real for 3rd party support, on the Switch:

Wii U —> Switch

Darksiders II —>Darksiders, II, III, Genesis
Dirt —> GRID
Aliens Colonial Marines —>Alien Isolation
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Online —> ?
Metro Last Light —>Metro 2033 Redux
Tekken —> ?
Ninja Gaiden 3 —> Ninja Gaiden Collection

https://youtu.be/YOnyYZe1QdI

@DropDash not to mention that many of them didn’t even come to Wii U, a trainwreck with almost no exclusives left to even care for the console

@Flashlink99 yeah I was disappointed a lot lol 😅

But look at us now!

10 games that people probably should of brought Wii Us for but didn't, hence Nintendo porting the entire catalogue rather than getting sequels.

I'm still bitter we didn't get Switch version discounts for owning the Wii U versions. PS5 owners get free upgrades for their PS4 games...

@DropDash clearly the best time to be a Nintendo fan! Let’s hope we don’t go back to the Dark Ages after the Switch

New Super Mario Bros. U shows "Glimpses of the outrageous invention that was to come in Super Mario Odyssey"... Yeah... That might be a bit much of a stretch, even for this site...

As someone who still owns the Wii U, I'm glad to see some of its games be given a "second chance" on Switch, with a bit more features/changes (better or worse), especially since my Wii U Game Pad's analog sticks don't work good no more.

I still hope more Wii U games are coming to Switch, though. I would love to replay Yoshi's Woolly World (didn't like Crafted World at all) and NES Remix 1 and 2 (Ultimate NES Remix didn't have all of the games, plus the Speed Mario Bros mode...isn't as good as NES Remix 2's Super Luigi Bros mode).

@StephenYap3 Right?! How the heck have they not ported the Remix series to Switch? That was a super fun one. They should at least include it by default in the NSO.

Isn't New Super Mario Bros U deluxe broken because you can't hold jump and do the spin like the Wii U ver?

And Bayonetta Switch is extra laggy?

@The_New_Butler Umm, all those games outsold the Wii U originals, hard to sat they're "bad".

@The_New_Butler I'd take the wii u droughts any day, over the switch's library of ports, & games that look like up-rezzed 3ds games. Also the Wii U & switch are in fact very dissimilar as pieces of hardware.

@StephenYap3 as someone who still owns a Wii u, it is entirely possible for you to replay those aforementioned games. You clearly have too much money. Maybe start investing in games & systems from Nintendo's past.

No, New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe is awful, they literally removed features like that fifth player that placed down blocks, and if you're playing with four people, someone will always have an advantage because Toadette and Nabbit are overpowered characters, and there's no longer an option for using both blue AND yellow Toad. New Super Mario Bros U was already a bland game, but New Soup Deluxe just somehow made the game worse. And it costs way too much. The $60 MSRP price is more expensive than the $20 New Super Mario Bros U + Luigi U bundle on Wii U, which has more overall features.

Glad to see more people can enjoy all of those games! Since you're not counting BotW as it was a same day cross platform launch, MK8 Deluxe is well positioned as number 1. What an amazing game it is.

@The_New_Butler your statement not mine. Outside of Metroid, & F Zero which was already dormant prior, all their first party franchises were represented with strong titles; the likes of tropical freeze, pikmin 3, Super Mario 3d World, Nintendoland, etc. There was also new franchises such as Splatoon, Mario Maker, Captain Toad, & even Nes Remix. 3rd parties & indies despite dwindling support also managed to make interesting exclusives for the system such as Bayonetta 2, Rayman legends (was intended as an exclusive, & remains the best way by far to play that game), ZombiU, Runbow, ASA, Wonderful 101, Pokken tournament. Also take into account that the 3ds had it own library, & its own interesting features (either of whose features is far superior to the switch's), & Seeing as the switch is the inheritor of both, It is completely reasonable to state that the quantity of original on the switch is dwarfed by those systems, additionally, the quality of 3ds & Wii U titles is arguably better as well. The switch's original titles include an incredibly safe & iterative sequel to Splatoon, one & a 1/3 Mario games, Mario Maker 2, Luigi's Mansion 3 (haven't played either, but they seem legit), a Zelda remake, a fire emblem game with 3ds textures, 2 soon to be 3 pokemon games with 3ds textures, Arms (& the children cheered), Astral Chain (heard it was good, but according to a niche fan base), a bad mario party, a lone passable kirby title, an animal crossing game with mixed reception, a NMH game with mixed reception (not unusual, granted), a paper mario game with mixed reception (less so than its ilk though), a flawed strategy RPG in Mario+Rabbids, & 1, 2 switch. Yes I missed one or two, such as Smash Bros: the greatest hits. Aditionally the slow rollout of original games from 3rd parties such as Capcom, Suda51, Ubisoft, anyone from the west, square enix (octopath, & bravely default), Bandai Namco, Platinum, Atlus, & level 5, leaves much to be desired, as does the absence of Donkey Kong, Mario Kart, Star Fox, Pikmin, 2d Mario, compelling 1st party casual titles such as Wii Sports, Tomodachi life, or Wii Party, a follow up to Captain Toad. I'd definitely take the Wii U over the switch, which is I sold my switch to someone for pennies; guess I didn't want them to pay too much on it.

Can't go wrong with most of the Wii U ports on Switch, I think its still strange the 3D World levels weren't patched into Captain Toad later on though.
It'd be fun to see how well Wii U games fared by comparison when they got ported down to the 3DS.

@The_New_Butler as for your statement about hardware similarities, it's clearly a reductionist statement, made by someone looking back in hindsight, without all too much experience with the software to which they are referring to.

Next up: Top 10 Wii to Switch Ports

We still need StarFox Zero

@Clyde_Radcliffe
Ahh yes you are absolutly right, was just thinkin about the Graphics.
I would be pleased with a simple Remaster of Dead or Alive 2 (maybe in a package with 3?) and Sould Calibour 2.
I would try another one, but seeing all these micro dlc for Costumes on Steam is letting me stay away from it :>

Played Street Fighter V on a free Weekend, gameplay was ok, made the Special Attacks reaaaaally easy to use, maybe too easy.
Chun Li for example launches her Special Moves exactly as Ryu/Ken now, no Holdings.

But what really kills the Game is the Content, or rather the lack of Content.
When i played it, it had a Joke of a "Story Mode" (2-4 Fights), a Joke of an Arcade Mode and was filled with DLCs to pay for as Stages and Costumes.

It had Ingame Ads in form of "Skins" ....

A half baked Game that wants Money from you in every Corner.

Naa, i am happy with my classic Street Fighter 2 Versions and Street Fighter IV ultra something arcade Version on PC...

@The_New_Butler I'd still take the wii u by itself, but its perfectly fair to include the 3ds as the switch is occupying both their seats. Feel free to buy oft' lazy ports for full price, for games u already own. As for someone who doesn't own those games, it's much more financially viable to just purchase a wii u, & get those games much cheaper, & much better versions too, seeing as they use the wii u features, which u claim never took off. Pound for Pound the gamepad is also a much better basic control pad than those shoddy joycons, & its features were used at the discretion of its developers, some of whom used it extensively & smartly, a fact you don't appear privy to. I just think at the end of day, I just use my money more wisely than u do, in this particular field that is, As I have been able to accrue 60 titles for my wii, 50+ for the Gamecube, 30 for the ds, 20 or so for the 3ds, plus the 100 or so GBA, GB, NES, & SNES. Not only are these games better than the switch games, they are also much cheaper, much more original, & much more graphically impressive, taking into account the hardware they were developed for. I'd take any one of these original pieces of hardware over the switch & its "massive library" of overpriced & unoriginal titles.

@The_New_Butler Most of those games came out when the Switch was 1 and 2 years old. Install base was not that big, and they achieved that on that period of time. Calling them "worst of their franchises" is calling them bad, but in a fancy way. People like them, because they're good games, otherwise, they wouldn't buy them, right? The Wii U was poorly marketed, the main reason why it failed to be a high selling console.

@NintendoArchive

Dude.....I find some of your takes to be a bit off. First FE3H is not using anything like 3DS assets......it even looks way better than the GC/WII FE games which were the last console ones. You seem to want to throw out the fact that the series was completely modernized and the gameboard look/feel as well as the other 'new' RPG elements where never seen before in any version.

Then you act like AC was met to mixed reception....please the game sold 30M+ copies. A crap game that no one likes does not sell like that. Again I played AC on the GC back in the day and anyone saying that AC NH isn't a more depthful and complex game has amnesia. There was no crafting in the first game, there were no terraforming tools that allowed you to custom design your island.

Then some of the best 'exclusives' you just sluff off because you haven't played them. Luigi's 3 is awesome, bests the earlier entries by far. Xeno2 one of the best JRPGs out there and had a stand alone DLC that changed the combat mechanics meaningfully, and Astral Chain....its great...take the combat style of Bayo expand it, and then just wrap a much cooler concept around it for a game.

Every system since the x86 generation (ps4/xb1) has had a crap load of ports, re-releases and re-masters. That is the environment we now live in. New AAA efforts costs more than ever to develop, and several high cost flops (Fallout76, Cyberpunk, MassAndromoda) have made a lot publishers squeamish on investing in new stuff so many are taking the safe road and polishing up old stuff that was super successful to give it a run with newer audiences. So its not really fair to say if Nintendo would stop doing this other stuff and concentrate on new only, because that is just not the environment were in. Also the Switch sits in a unique spot being the first and only portable that has the juice to play a lot of games that used to be console only. I mean who didn't want something like Ni No Kuni or Skyrim on the go? So thankfully its wild sales success has allowed so many great games from many previous generations to be ported or remastered.

I will end saying....I too wish Nintendo would bring back or focus on some long forgotten franchises and give them the modernization treatment that they gave Zelda, MarioO, FE, and AC...I really wish they would give some love to their great racing games.....FZero (of course), but WaveRace and ExciteBike64 were also great. I too would love to see another 3D Donkey Kong and bringing back some of the other Mario Sports titles like strikers and sluggers.

Overall the Switch is a dream with plenty of good new content and lots of old stuff that deserved to be seen on a portable. I have owned just about every system ever made (console and portable) and for my money and the utilization I have gotten out of it, the Switch is tops.

@The_New_Butler rubish is the game you use as your pciture hahaha. The Wii U is great, I still play it, and yes, it's calling them bad, but using other words.

I echo what a couple previous said. Why NES remix 2 was never ported is beyond me. One of the most fun games i have for my wiiU. Also Yoshi's Woolley world was a million times better than that cardboard crap the switch got (and i dont mean Labo)

@The_New_Butler

I love how you said the WiiU was a bit rubish......it was/is. OMG I was just laughing out loud when I saw that. The hardware and OS really were week. I mean everything in the OS was sluggish and painfully slow. So conceptually it just didn't fly (dual screen), the overall hardware was wimpy and no stronger than a ps3 which predated it by years. So yeah it kind of was rubbish.

The best thing about the WiiU at the time was some of the quality exclusives (mostly all ported to Switch now) and then there were actually a few 3rd party games that did really nice things with dual screens.....The excellent DuesEX port comes to mind and also the Splinter Cell BL port...they both did some cool and meaningful things with the GP but for me it was more about just using it for offscreen play which the Switch gives us that as well as making it untethered.

The absolute best thing you can do with a WiiU is mod it because then it becomes a legacy machine monster. Playing Cube games on the gamepad looks fabulous and Nintendo were idiots for never releasing Cube VC as the damned hardware plays it natively so it would have cost them little to nothing to put GC on WiiU but they whiffed and left it to the hackers. Still a modded WiiU gives you Wiiu/Wii/GC/N64/SNES/NES/GBC/GBA/DS so basically Nintendo's entire library pre 3DS/Switch can be played on a modded WiiU which is at least something. Still the Switch is light years better and a modded Switch is even better yet.

It's criminal that Nintendo still have not ported Wind Waker HD and Twilight Princess HD to Switch. Those 2 games would sell like hotcakes even at 60 bucks a piece.

I just played MK8 for the first time in about 2 years yesterday. I was blown away again, especially after playing the far weaker Wii game just before.

It really is one of the best games ever. I really gotta get the 3 stars on 150cc.

@Kidfunkadelic83 It would be one of those 19.99 games.

The only things i miss from Wii U are proper UI/UX(Not minimalist crap) that reflects the Nintendo personality, lack of tv/streaming service functionality like Netflix and Crunchyroll(At least Youtube, Hulu, Funimation and Pokemon tv exist) and some eshop features like ratings and games simular to(Wii U eshop and switch ones UI is like compairing a fancy shopping mall theme park with bland minimalist shop with lack of character).

My top 5:
1. Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury
2. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
3. Bayonetta 2
4. Bayonetta 1
5. Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze

@DropDash
Agreed.

@NintendoArchive
I prefer having my games being more "unified" on Switch. Besides that, I've yet to see a version of Yoshi's Woolly World to provide me both 2-player co-op and portability.

I’m amazed how many people loved the bloatware that was the Wii U OS. It was incredibly slow to navigate, even though it looked fun.
I don’t want the console screech to a halt just so I can get my screen loaded with Miis, give me the games.
Personally, and I’ll get a lot of hate for saying this, I like the minimalist feel of the Switch’s OS. It is power efficient and for the most part, I can start a game in a jiffy.
If only it could have had folders and maybe the possibility to use themes, it would have been perfect

@QuickSilver88 new super mario brothers wii sold 30+ million copies, the wii sold 100 million, & what followed it did near a 10th that, Sales does not equate to resonance or quality. additionally while it may contain more customization, it's been alleged by some, it was in exchange for the series' character, so I've heard. Also stating that a 7th gen power level game looks better than a 6th gen level games, so what? It looks bad for the hardware its on. The flat textures & poor draw distance in the abbey is shocking; while a game like FE echoes was better looking, taking into account the kind of hardware it was on. Either way, I could make qualitative arguments all day, or I could make a quantitative one, that being that Nintendo's teams, & those with long-running associations to Nintendo, have dramatically decreased their software output, at an alarming rate given that their teams are consolidated onto one platform, & that platform's triple AAA output mirrors the Wii U's release schedule (probably a touch or so better than the Wii U's). The possible reasons for this decrease are not compelling to me in the slightest, as Nintendo is charging the same price for their games as the other companies whose games are two generations ahead. Also the switch is terrible at playing console level games. Saying it can play skyrim, is like me saying the 3ds can play DKCR. So what? they are old games. Handhelds have always played older console games.

@mjharper Not quite.

@The_New_Butler everyone talks about it, it must be subpar. And her I am, talking in fancy words as you do hahaha. Those games are good, hence why they sell well. End of story.