Feature: Best Wii U Games

The Wii U had 50 games?

Well... I still only have 8 Wii U games. 😅
1. Mario Kart 8
2. Super Mario 3D World
3. Nintendoland
4. LEGO CITY UNDERCOVER
5. Wii Party U
6. Mario & Sonic at Sochi 2014
7. Paper Mario Color Splash
8. Animal Crossing Amiibo Festival

I have a plan to Break Games Limit by adding never before played games to increase my quota until 12 games or possibly more than 12 Wii U games.

Interesting list. Never got around to getting the wii u tho, but I agree with rayman and botw being in the top ten, no matter what system those are great games!

Rayman Legends was my first and favourite Wii U game

I totally forgot botw was on wii u

Didn't even realize Wii U had 50 games to rank aside from virtual console. I only have like 8. The lack of software was Wii U's biggest failing.

Looked over the list and realized I own 40 of the titles on the list, and only don't own the others because I never had any real interest in them. It's a shame that it didn't get the attention it deserved from people or Nintendo.

So Wii U had more original games than Switch and they call it a flop!

It is a CRIME to have Nintendo Land at the bottom of the list. It deserves AT LEAST top 10!!! Shame on you Nintendo Life readers. Shame. On. You.

No Star Fox Guard or Pokkén Tournament. Boo!

For me, the Wii U was basically just a Mario Kart, Splatoon and Mario Maker machine. Very underwhelming library when it comes to single player experiences but at least the 3DS made up for some of the slack. Now I have 500+ games on my Switch.

This is probably the only top 10 I actually own boxed and have played extensively. Objectively one of Nintendo's worst consoles, and probably the one I love the most.

@Little_Squee I don't think anyone was saying it didn't have original games, it's just that not enough people bought them.

But what was there was amazing, Nintendo wouldn't be porting them to Switch otherwise.

Hmm, is Raymond Legends really that good to be top 10? Or perhaps it says something about the lack of games on Wii U... Funnily enough I just downloaded the Switch demo!

Super Mario 3D world deserved better </3. It is my favorite Wii U game (not counting BotW as I played it on the switch)

Wow, you made all the Rabbits Land fans cry. Congratulations.

_^"whimper"

@Clyde_Radcliffe It is better on Wii U than Switch, like many other games such Captain Toad, due to the 2nd screen on Gamepad

Weird list. But fair play finding 50.

It had 50 games to rank? 😃 Seriously I played the thing more than my Xbox one or PS4. Loved the thing.

I know there are a lot of great titles there, but Mario 3D World deserves much better! My favourite WiiU title just after BotW.
Whoever says WiiU has no good games, they definitely didn't have it. Of course Switch is way better, but it wouldn't be the same without the games ported from the WiiU, would it?

@Clyde_Radcliffe It's a fantastic game, much better than NSMBU, for example. And the WiiU had the best version of it, thanks to the second screen.

I've been revisiting my Wii U lately. I'm now going through Color Splash and SteamWorld Heist. I think the console deserves more love than it gets, and in spite of Nintendo starting to give up on it pretty early, I still think it had a good catalogue of games. Some of these were not exclusive to begin with or lost that status, but Wii U's unique features still make some of them the best versions to play those games.

Also, no Devil's Third? Shame. ()

I have a lot of Wii U games. The Wii U was a commercial failure, but for me, it is the best console of all time. It brought my family together in a way no other console has ever done before. I have a lot of memories playing games like Mario Kart 8, Nintendo Land, Wii Party U, Wii Fit U, and more. People can diss the Wii U all they want, but it will always be my favorite console.

Tropical Freeze is too low. It's one of the best games of all time, let alone a top 5 Wii U game. I guess no Funky Mode was the deal breaker.

I would take the combination of 3DS and Wii U, over Nintendo switch with the current horrible little output of games and lack of 2nd screen.
Nintendo gave switch owners no games since 2019, apart from an average paper Mario game.

After Super Mario 3D World, there are not many games left for reasonable porting to Switch. Maybe Xenoblade Chronicles X and Yoshi

@tzahn I agree, it is my number 1 Wii U game, but I still prefer DK Country returns on 3DS, I wish it gets an HD release someday

So... Nintendo, you know what to do: bring Wind Waker to Switch!!!

Yoshi's Wooly World Kirby and the Rainbow Paintbrush Super Smash Bros (yes I enjoyed Smash 4) Captain Toad Treasure Tracker along with Wind Waker HD. I have many more Wii U games in my Library but these are the ones I still play today from time to time. Tropical Freeze I play on the Switch now but I did buy it on Wii U, just never got around to playing it that much.

Look at that strong list of games that didn't get hindered by a pandemic. Those were the days!

@mezoomozaa I would love to see Donkey Kong Country Returns get the HD treatment. I bought the 3DS version too but I prefer playing it on Wii thanks to the higher frame rate.

Wiiu had Tekken, Mass Effect, Dues Ex and Call of Duty....

The fact lego city undercover is here means this list is great most underrated game ever IMO this community knows it's stuff rebougjt it on switch just to have it portable fun little game with a great sense of humor. I haven't had this much fun with a lego game since lego indiana jones and lego star wars the complete saga.

Arh, apart from my SNES, this was my favourite console. I agree with the top 10, however Twilight Princess should be in at number 3.5.

Man, Nintendo Land was robbed. Every other game in the top 10 has is available on another Nintendo console and aside from Wind Waker the port/sequel is better lol.

@Little_Squee

Who said the Wii U has more original games than the Switch? That's a factually incorrect statement.

Also, they call the Wii U a flop because it sold incredibly poorly. It's objectively a sales flop.

@JimmySpades
Dang, I was gonna make the same joke lol

I loved my Wii U, though. Great console. Pretty telling that the top 2 games were both available on other systems at the time they launched, though.

How can Xenoblade Chronicles X not be in the top 3?!

@Max_the_German AND Zelda Wind Waker!!!!!!!!

Funny how only the top 3 games had scores over 9, and the top 2 were Zelda games! (Also, called it! BOTW won!)

I just replaced the battery in my Gamepad because the kids still regularly play the system. I really need to go back and finish my second play through of Xenoblade Chronicles X. I was attempting to only use the assault rifle skills which makes the game a lot more difficult than cheesing it with longsword skills.

Very happy to see Deus Ex here, one of my all time favourite games

@karatekid1612 Agree! I guess we will get a Zelda compilation (WW, TP) and SS HD due to Zelda anniversary.
After Wii U ports, we will get Wii ports for Switch, e.g. DKCR, SMG2, NSMBWii, all those Kirby games, ... To much easy money for Nintendo not to realise it!

The majority of these made their way to Switch. Outside of the Zelda games (which could at some point also come to Switch), there is no reason to own Wii-U. I would like to see a Batman Arkham Collection on Switch.

My top 10 has to be:
1. Twilight Princess HD
2. Wind Waker HD
3. Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze
4. Mario Kart 8
5. Super Smash Bros for Wii U
6. Breath of the Wild
7. Super Mario 3D World
8. Hyrule Warriors
9. Batman Arkham Origins
10. Splatoon

From the ones I have played, everything is out of order. Really suprised how high some games are

Only a dozen or so decent games maybe 5 must owns with most of those being remasters.. the wii u sucked its controller sucked long live the switch

@Little_Squee,

Nobody called the Wii U a flop, it was one with only 13 million or so consoles sold, that does not mean it was not one of my favorite Nintendo consoles, and like you said it had some good games.

I know Xenoblade X is the main Wii U port remaining that people really want, with fewer votes for Fatal Frame V (and I guess people would want Star Fox Zero if it had normal controls), but Tekken Tag 2 would be really great too. Definitive version of the game with the extra costumes and Tekken Ball mode, plus just having it on the go would be amazing.

Wii U had a lot of good exclusives for a system that sold basically nothing!

I'm hanging onto mine, since it doubles as my Wii.

I'll just say how dissappointed i was with Wind Waker HD. To recreate that game and still have Links elbow clip through his shield as he runs, is my idea of complete incompetence. Nearly as annoying as the divot in Samus's chest plate in Metroid Prime 2, but that isn't visible for 90% of the game like Links magical elbow. Which is what i will always call Wind Waker. The Legend of Link's Magical Elbow.

this list is whack

I'm surprised to not see ZombiU on here, or mentioned in comments. I can't comment on if the campaign was stand-out or not, since I haven't played any horror games before or since (besides Luigi's Mansion), but I definitely enjoyed it. It's stand-out was definitely the multiplayer though; I didn't get as much time with is as I'd like due to the multiplayer prerequisite of human contact, but the time I did have was amazing

@stinky_t Zombi is not that great. I played it on Xbox One and found rather boring and average looking graphics wise.

Kirby and the Rainbow Curse and Paper Mario: Color Splash were robbed. I'd probably have also put Mario Party 10 here, too.

These are some pretty great games though.

My top 10 would be:

1.-Zelda Breath of the Wild
2.-Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze
3.-Mario Kart 8
4.-Super Smash Bros.
5.-New Super Mario Bros. U
6.-Super Mario Maker
7,-Hyrule Warriors
8.-Injustice
9.-Super Mario 3D World
10.-Resident Evil Revelations

Missing a few gems like:
Pushmo World
WiiU Party
Kirby & the Rainbow Curse

I went back and looked at my time spent on WiiU games - it was almost entirely on multiplayer games, and TONS of times on those games (We still pull out Game & Wario b/c of the great multiplayer stuff!)

With that separate screen on the controller, the WiiU provided game play experienced not available anywhere else - it was an underappreciated FAMILY fun console.

Also - Need 4 Speed: Most Wanted U was excellent!

I had all of these games, except 2 of them, and many more. I had about ~120 physical games, and a good 150+ digital games. The Wii U was great, and had tons of games. I loved the Wii U. Totally an underrated system. It was a blast, and I got as many games as I could for it. I used to show off my collection to people and they would freak out going "I didn't know the Wii U had half that many games", and I'd say "why, its a great system". Tons of stuff on it. I used to travel a lot, and I had the car adapter for the system. So, I'd plug it in, and play games on road trips, and show the Wii U Gamepad and me playing games on it, to other cars as we drove by. I always got shocked looks like "you can do that with that?'. I used to have the portable tv adapter to the Gamecube as well, and I used to travel and have road trips with the Gamecube in the car too. It was great. l, of course, do it with the Switch as well. The Switch is the best. But the Wii U was great. I loved being able to watch tv at the same time as playing on the Gamepad. Now I get to do it with the Switch too. But yeah, the Wii U was a fantastic system that had tons of games for it. I heard lots of people complain that it "had no games", but it totally did. People just didn't pay attention. Or didn't want to. But I had a lot of games for it, and I didn't get to buy every game I wanted on it. I could of had even more on it.

Wow, how did Lego City Undercover get so high, terrible game, remember those load times!

@Dman10 the Wii U version did have a lot of Gamepad integration, so that likely is a difference. I also don't believe that version has the multiplayer? If it does I'm not sure how it'd work

I've played both versions of BOTW (Wii U first) and didn't notice any performance or visual differences. BOTW was developed as a Wii U game, so it runs great on it. (I'm not saying there aren't any differences, just that they aren't substantial)

In retrospect it's easy to praise the Wii U's library, but the main problem of its time was the big drought of releases that happened specially in 2015 and 2016. Without third party support, with only a few indie hits and with the 3DS (an actual successful platform) to develop for, Nintendo just wasn't able to keep up. Thankfully there is a happy ending. Without the Wii U's failure, the Switch wouldn't be where it is today.

As we all know, BoTW is a WiiU game, and had features removed to be a Switch one.

@mezoomozaa We got ACNH and Age of Calamity too. Also, the pandemic probably messed up all of Nintendo's plans for the past year

We can argue about placings but, to be fair, some great games in that top 50. Smash then Kart for me as the top 2

@Tulio517 As someone who primarily plays Nintendo titles on Nintendo systems, it's interesting to note that I haven't felt a lot different about the Switch than the Wii U. The first party library of the Switch has been propped up a lot with Wii U ports, and if you took those Wii U ports out, you get some first party drought spells (most noticeably to me, there was very little in the just over a year span between Super Mario Odyssey and Super Smash Bros Ultimate).

As someone who owned a Wii U, the Switch has felt very similar. Lots of dry spells waiting for a new first party title of significance. It just feels like the Nintendo experience as of late. It happened with the DS, the 3DS, the Wii U, and the Switch.

@Heavyarms55 Wh-what? The software library was probably the best thing about the Wii U, hence why so many games get ported to Switch. It failed on pretty much every other front.

My Wii U is hooked up, but I still want all my favorite games ported to Switch. I have much more time to play Switch over Wii U. I hope Wind Waker and Twilight Princess are brought over to Switch soon.

@HorridCrow What games it had were good games. It just had a very small library. Wii U often went months at a time with no major releases to speak of.

@Smores500 I'd be really curious to see what 2020 would have been like without the pandemic. I do feel like it was setting up to be a really strong year for Nintendo and the Switch. Thankfully, we still got Animal Crossing New Horizons.

Whoa, can’t believe NintendoLand is so far down the list! Seriously one of my favorite couch co-op games from Nintendo - my friends and I spent dozens of hours on this one. It made great use of the Wii U’s dual screens, too.

@HorridCrow Really? I wouldn't sell the Wii U so short. The Wii U was where they moved away from Friend Codes to Usernames. It felt like a dream (and sadly was, as the Switch for completely unknown reasons, regressed back to Friend Codes). The Wii U also has a great Virtual Console to its name, one that expanded to GBA and DS games.

The "gimmick" of it that they sold it with (asymmetrical gameplay), I'll admit perhaps wasn't too well implemented into games. Look, I don't know the reason for that, but instead of that, what you got with the two screen setup was a console version of what worked so well with the DS and 3DS, where (for instance) you could have a map on one screen and the gameplay on another.

One thing that the Wii U was pretty good about that it set out to be was that system where you could play your games on the gamepad while someone else was using the TV. You could also take the gamepad a distance away from the TV, so you could play other places. The Switch maintains this, but the Wii U did it first.

The Wii U was also a lot better about having media platforms, like Netflix, which added to the whole idea of having your screen separate from the TV. A lot of people have tablets and the like nowadays, but what if you just had the game console and a TV? Having Netflix on the game console that you could watch separately while someone else is watching the TV was a neat feature for that circumstance.

So many good times spent with my Wii U. Awesome library of games. Though I am a bit tired of them being ported to Switch, I still havent played Xenoblade Chronicles X yet, so I do hope that one does!

Also: Miiverse!

Twilight Princess didn't have "improved controls". Aiming was better on Wii and the horse controlled terribly

Where the heck is star fox zero...?

I have 86 Wii U retail releases and another 44 digital games I’ve bought plus another 15 or so still on my retail list to get. It gets very little love but it wasn’t lacking in good games. My daughter plays Minecraft on it often and we’ve enjoyed playing a bunch of games. I don’t typically rate games just know their were a bunch of very good ones and even enjoyed some of the 1st party games not on the list; Paper Mario, Mario Tennis, Kirby, and StarFox.

What neat little list of games the Wii U had... I'm quite fond of that ol' failure of a console.

I would put Affordable Space Adventures a bit higher since, to me, it had the absolute best gamepad integration of any game on the console... to the point that I cannot imagine that game being played in any other way on any other platform.

I really wish I would have played the Wind Waker and Twilight Princess HD remasters when we had the WiiU hooked up. Honestly I barely touched the WiiU (The Switch is where I do 90% of my gaming now though). Hopefully we’ll get them on the Switch soon enough so I can revisit a couple of my favorite Zeldas.

Wish I got the chance to play Kirby and the Rainbow Curse... I loved my Wii U. At least my sister is keeping it safe. Still a few exclusives I wouldn't mind delving into. I also downloaded a lot of GBA games on it

Technically, "Nintendo Land" was meant to be the "Wii Sports" style launch title that introduced people to the GamePad's functions, and it did a decent job at that. It just wasn't as popular, polished, or ultimately as fun as "Wii Sports," acting more like the Wii U's version of "Wii Play" but without the controller pack-in.

I own every game on that list and more.
I have over 80+ physical games on that awesome console.
It has more original games than Switch and to those who say " it had 50 game to rank? you missed out on a lot of great games that were better on the Wii U thanks to gameplay improvements like Splinter Cell Blacklist, Deus Ex, Mass Effect 3, NFS Most Wanted, Rayman Legends, Tekken Tag and both Batman games.
So many great uses of the second screen that improved the experience.

Even Mario Maker and Splatoon play better on the Wii U thanks to the second screen so much so that I haven't touched MM2 or Splatoon 2 since I bought them as they feel like a step backwards imo..

No ZombiU? People!

I have my Wii U still setup and play it along with my Switch a lot, actually.

Project Zero was easily my favourite. Really hope we see a new game sooner rather than later.

So many great games on the WiiU! Plus the controller had built-in headphone jack AND voice chat functionality. Xenoblade Chronicles X, Monster Hunter 3U, Bayonetta 2, Wonderful 101, Donkey Kong Country TF... well, just look at that list.

Any body know what game BRIE LARSON thinks is the best? I really need to know

Nintendo Land and Bayonetta 2 are my favs

@BulbasaurusRex Wii sports was an arcade sports game for everybody. Nintendoland was aimed at kids. Wii sports showed why the wii mote was great. Nintendoland showed why the GamePad was useless.

Nintendo really miscalculated here.

I can't believe we don't have NES Remix on Switch. I'd buy it again!

Blimey - we collectively didn't vote for Star Fox Zero! That's disappointing - and I was really hoping for a Switch Port with fixed controls.

How many of these have been ported to switch so far?
I feel like even though the WiiU failed, Nintendo has made up from the software being ported from it

Criminally underrated console, and I'm sorry that people don't understand this but Nintendo Land is the killer app Wii Sports was AND THEN SOME. Maybe it didn't sell as many copies, but the asymmetrical gameplay with the game pad was on another level that even the mighty switch hasn't reached.

Also:
Gunman Clive Collection

The Wii U is my favourite home console of all time, thanks to its dual-screen stuff. ZombiU was a killer exclusive not on this list. Sonic Lost World was decent, and the Wii U port of Terraria was the best version, too. I also had fun with Watch Dogs, Assassin's Creed 3, and Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. Plus, of course, most of the great stuff on this list.

When color splash is so bad it doesn't make the top 50

lol, is this a list of Switch games...

the wii u is an awesome system. I still have mine plugged in and Im playing Chrono Trigger on it!

now do a list of the games available on virtual console!

I basically have all of the top 10 if you count the switch versions or sequels. Some are in fact the wii u versions though. I pretty much have it ready to go at any point for the vc and still regularly buy vc titles. But, my next purchase is Yoshis Woolly World. Might even grab it tomorrow 😜

As someone who skipped Wii and Wii U, it tells me enough about Skyward Sword that there were 3 mainline Zelda games on this list, and none of them were Skyward Sword.

A great list no doubt! I count about 7 games that still aren’t available elsewhere.

@Sooezz Skyward Sword was a Wii game. This is a Wii U game list.

@JimmySpades 51 actually, they forgot Cloudberry Kingdom.

Some great games here, or at least the ones I've played, that have been ported to the Nintendo Switch.

Besides all the first party games, which are all gems, my favourite two games were Xenoblade Chronicles X (about 480 hours put into it) and Unepic!!!! Gutted Unepic is not in this list.

I agree with the top ten but would move 3D World up to 11.

@DK-Fan No, it showed that the Wii U GamePad was also great. It wasn't useless at all! It's just that not many games aside from "Nintendo Land" made very good use of it (and like I said "Wii Sports" was overall a more entertaining package), but the concept itself was great.

Aside from bad marketing, where Nintendo screwed up was not utilizing its new selling point properly. We could've had the gyroscopic motion controlled action games we now have on the Switch but also with a proper IR sensor for pointer and camera controls that don't necessitate re-centering or stupid right stick maneuvering (or just more FPS games that just used the Wiimote and Nunchuck, something that the original "Splatoon" should've done but stupidly didn't). We could've had 1-to-1 swordfighting with the Wii MotionPlus while the GamePad acted as a shield or some other secondary control system. We could've had various forms of asynchronous multiplayer games. But no, hardly anyone did anything more with it than simple second screen functionality like on the DS or 3DS, and in one notable case where it was used properly ("Star Fox Zero") it sucked for the good majority of players and offered no alternative control scheme. When even the Wii U version of "Jeopardy" didn't bother to use its asynchronous functions for the obvious use of privately wagering and responding to Final Jeopardy, then something is definitely wrong.

So no, the GamePad itself never sucked, nor did "Nintendo Land" make poor use of it, but it never latched on afterwards.

Super Mario 3D World is my #1 game on any platform. Amazing game. Great to see DKC ranked so high, always surprised when it’s left out of Switch “best of” lists.

I loved the Wii U, wish Breath of the Wild was released earlier to give the console a shot.

No Devil's Third. For shame

No Kirby Rainbow Curse, for shame.

@liljmoore When Devil's Third's multiplayer went down I had to make do with Metal Gear Online.
Something of a downgrade, but scratched the itch ~

Super Mario 3D World for my number 1. It was the reason I bought my Wii U. I'd say Bayonetta 2 and Wind Waker HD are next in line. I also played tons of MK8. You know what I also have to mention The Wonderful 101.

So what's next, NES, GameBoy Color, or GameBoy Advance?

Mass Effect 3 on the Wii U was my most memorable non-nintendo experience on the system

@DreemWeever

That was on the first page of the article (#50) or did you just rush to the end?

@RushDawg As far as I know the best nintendo games on Switch were mostly released on Wii U.

I regret having sold my Wii U but that’s the of the hard choices I had to make over the last year. Netted a lot for the entire collection but I sure miss playing 3D World.

I had nearly every important release aside from a couple hard to find games and never got around to buying a switch because of all the Wii U ports.

Not sure if I want to invest in Switch just for the few games I’d play and since it’s getting to be rather old now. Maybe I might buy someone’s collection down the road.

@Sooezz Skyward sword was never on the Wii U. And it was a great game, apart from the hand holding and being told what to do and where to go all the time. It's like the opposite of BotW: Great story and the best dungeons of any Zelda game, but very little freedom to explore.

That list of exclusive games really makes me want another generation of Nintendo "failure" console.

And Wii U version of Zelda BotW clearly would have been a superior version of the game if only Nintendo themselves did not removed the dual-screen setup. Visual/performance differences is not that noticeable, really.

I’ll never understand why wind waker gets so much more love than twilight princess. If when you went underwater at the end, the game opened with another 4 dungeons, I would have said best Zelda game ever. But the sailing was so tedious for me.

I guess nostalgia plays a big part, because I also love Zelda II - my first experience of the franchise

Pretty solid list. I do confess to have plonked a fair amount of hours in Black Ops II and Mass Effect 3. Thought Sonic Lost Worlds would have made the list as it’s one of the last Wii U exclusives (minus the pc port)

Y’all smoking something if a port/remake is #2 😂 and I know that BOTW was meant for the WiiU only initially and got forever delayed. But I doubt the majority of WiiU and Switch owners played it on the WiiU... in my mind it’s a Switch launch game and they only released it on the WiiU cuz they said they would lol. But man, most of these games in this list I never played. I liked the list overall and I know I can change by votes but the current #1 and #2 are iffy lol.

I'd say it's missing a few titles as Ninja Gaiden Razor's Edge, Mass Effect 3, Call of Duty BO, ZombiU, Watch Dogs, Splinter Cell, Injustice, Nano Assault Neo, Earthbound Zero, Starfox Zero...

But, this list shows that WiiU deserves more love. To me Pikmin, Mario Kart and Xenoblade sold the console itself, and not to mention the Zelda remakes and Breath of the Wild. And, Miiverse, how I miss it...

I'll play my WiiU for the years to come. Honestly (and it's a unpopular opinion) I prefer WiiU rather than Switch.

There should rather be a list of top 10 games (or game equivalents like Smash and Mario Maker) you can't find on the Switch.

10. Fatal Frame 5
9. Assassins Creed IV
8. Zombi U
7. Need for Speed Most Wanted U
6. NES Remix 1 and 2
5. Yoshi's Wolly World
4. Splatoon
3. TLoZ Twilight Princess HD
2. TLoZ Wind waker HD
1. Xenoblade Chronicles X

@BulbasaurusRex

You’ve kind of hit the nail on the head there though. Nintendo themselves struggled to find many real uses for it. It was an answer to a question nobody was really asking. It then kind of got stuck between two stools where Off TV play wasn’t a big selling point because not every game used it but the other features were going unused too. Kind of a metaphor for the machine as a whole, Nintendo never really knew what it was supposed to be.

@Highonda_H_S Amen. Splatoon is a far more quintessential WiiU game and CANNOT be anything less than a TOP 3 WiiU game.

When I see these lists, I always like to give a nod to the much overlooked Tank! Tank! Tank! for its multiplayer fun and use of the much neglected Wii U camera.

@theiRiS fax

@NintendoByNature wooly world is great and has a great soundtrack. Now you mention it I’m gonna replay it with my son.

@1UP_MARIO my sons on a huge yoshi kick and wants to play crafted world every day. So maybe this change of pace will be a good one for us both 😅

@NintendoByNature he’s in for a treat. Both of you

Love my Wii u. My Wii u collection

The Wii U launch kind of reminds me of the PS3 launch. It came right off the heels of the massive success of its predecessor but just couldn't reach previous heights due to poor marketing, lack of software that really took advantage of the system, and an overall lack of focus on what the system is supposed to be. The difference here is that Nintendo just ditched it early instead of committing to fixing it like Sony did with the PS3.

@RainbowGazelle Oops, I just always had it in my head that Skyward Sword was on Wii U. So that's just extra funny to me then, that Wii U didn't really have a Zelda game to call its own (BotW is a Switch game and you can't tell me otherwise)

@Strumpan Oops, guess I just had it in my head this whole time that Skyward Sword was a Wii U game, since it was between Twilight Princess and BotW. The way you describe it, it sounds fun enough, but I am not a fan of the visual style I've seen in clips.

I have 40 out of these 50 games my top 10 are.

1 Super Mario 3D World
2 Pikmin 3
3.Mario Kart 8
4. Bayonetta 2
5. Smash Bros Wii U
6. Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze
7. Shovel Knight
8. Zelda Twilight Princess HD
9. Zelda Windwaker HD
10.Game and Wario

@BenAV 500 switch games? How do you have time for that?

@DonkeyKongBigBoy I doubt I'll ever get through them all but I've actually been doing a pretty good job of getting through a large chunk of them. Had a big gaming year last year with lockdown and have already finished like seven games so far this year.

That's a good list, but, I wish Armillo would have made it. That was a great game that I don't think very many people ever heard of.

I have the bulk of these and way too many other games to count. Pretty sure over 100. The Wii U was also an amazing Lego machine that I've sunk hundreds of hours into counting Lego Dimensions. And, probably the best Skylanders platform. And, it's virtual console support was great. I have lots of GBA games on it. And, don't forget Zen Pinball and all the various pinball tables.

The Wii U is still in regular rotation and I'll be playing my backlog of games for many years. It's my BOTW machine and I only have about 50 hours in. Really a great console.

@dronesplitter I personally completely plan on getting a Wii U specifically for GameCube games!