PS4 or X1? How about the Wii U?

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After a few recent quality games being topped off with the recently highly acclaimed GOTY contender Super Mario 3D,free online ,legendary franchises and a lower price then its competitors...consider the Wii U.

Seems the press is luving it as well.....

The best Wii U option today is the Wind Waker HD bundle, in my opinion. $299 will get you a Deluxe Wii U, a digital copy of Wind Waker HD and a unique GamePad.

That leaves plenty of dough to pick up additional games. Round out your collection with Super Mario 3D World and Pikmin 3, and you have a stellar starting library for $420, if you pay full price on both of those games.

$420 won’t even get you a PlayStation 4 and a retail game this holiday. It’s not even enough to buy the Xbox One by itself. For current home consoles, $420 is best spent on the Wii U this fall, purely in terms of value.

Now, consider that the Wii U is the last home console with free online play, and you’ve got an extra card in its deck.

Surely, this time next year the horizons for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One will be far and away more crowded. These are new platforms, though, and new platforms almost always lack games.

This holiday, the one that caps off 2013, enjoys an obviously valuable purchase that’s going largely overlooked. The Wii U, in my mind, is the best current home console. That won’t excite or please a lot of you, but it’s where I stand.

Forget the launch lineup, forget the mixed messages, forget the initial price point and forget the early marketing efforts. The Wii U that piddled out of the gates in November of 2012 was a very different system than the one we’re looking at today.


That leaves plenty of dough to pick up additional games. Round out your collection with Super Mario 3D World and Pikmin 3, and you have a stellar starting library for $420, if you pay full price on both of those games.
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http://www.uproxx.com/gammasquad/2013/11/5-reasons-buy-wii-u-ps4-xbox-one-holiday/

http://gizmodo.com/why-im-getting-a-wii-u-1469695384

http://www.technobuffalo.com/2013/11/22/wii-u-this-holidays-hidden-gem/

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Not even considering a Wii U until it's under $200. I wouldn't mind playing some of the recent releases, but the price is laughable compared to the competition.
 
The WiiU is DOA. I played mine for about a month last year, then went back to the x360. Now that I have the X1 I will probably trade it in when I trade in my x360 here in the next couple of weeks.
 
Xbox or Playstation, pick your poison, plus a wii u when it's one nine nine.
 
I'd like to play the HD Wind Waker, but I'm not going to buy a console just to do it. I'm not a big Mario fan, so they just don't have enough games to pull me in ... never have.
 
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My only console currently and I'm happy with that. This coming from me who played 360 for the entire last generation. I see no reason for a new console anytime soon. Whenever I do it'll probably be PS4, Microsoft lost me.
 
Couldn't care less about platform games no matter how many hypocritical 10/10 reviews there are.

But I already own a WiiU... Haven't turned it on in months. An actually new Zelda game or Metroid might get me to turn it back on though.
 
I won't be buying a Wii U until it's $99. Part of it being that Nintendo's exclusives don't tend to excite me, unless from third parties. Those tend to get me more excited than the first party stuff mainly because it comes across as more unique. It's the same reason why I don't gravitate towards the Sony offerings. If I were to buy a console over $100, it'd be the PS3 in all honesty. Well... maybe not. There are a ton of Wii games I thought were cool.
 
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I wouldn't play Wii U even if someone gave it to me free. That's not to say I wouldn't take it. I'd just take it, and sell it for $100 on Craigslist.
 
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It's gotta eat those Ninty game devs alive that they have made close to platforming perfection and they will be lucky to break 1 million copies sold yet if they released it multiplat they would be all living in mansions.
 
Intellivision said:
I wouldn't play Wii U even if someone gave it to me free. That's not to say I wouldn't take it. I'd just take it, and sell it for $100 on Craigslist.
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lol I feel the same way about XBONE, Wii U and PS4 is all I'm getting this gen.
 
I'll get one eventually for the exclusives. Hoping for even a $250 price sometime around the holidays or something, although the current bundle with the two Mario games might be worth it at $300.
 
What would it take for me to buy a Wii U?
-Nintendo needs to make a modern account system for their system.
-Make a new StarFox, Metroid or F-Zero game. Maybe a Zelda that doesn't make me want to slit my wrists.
-$199 or less before I'd even consider it.
 
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The Wii U is finally showing some promise. Too bad I can't afford Mario Wii U or Zelda on 3DS after spending so much on the other two consoles.
 
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I will probably get a Wii U before the other (PS4 is my pick, but we'll see how 2014 goes).
Like Bunz, I'm not crazy about Mario. I never played Wind Waker, so I'll probably get that. But I think I need something else. Metroid, Starfox or something totally different. Did AC4 come to WiiU?
 
People, can we keep the PS4 vs X1 discussion out? There is already a ton of it everywhere.
 
Li Tan said:
I will probably get a Wii U before the other (PS4 is my pick, but we'll see how 2014 goes).
Like Bunz, I'm not crazy about Mario. I never played Wind Waker, so I'll probably get that. But I think I need something else. Metroid, Starfox or something totally different. Did AC4 come to WiiU?
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Yeah AC4 is on Wii U, never finished 3 though. If you enjoy strategy games Pikmin and The Wonderful 101 are awesome.
 
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Yeah AC4 is on Wii U, never finished 3 though. If you enjoy strategy games Pikmin and The Wonderful 101 are awesome.
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Forgot Pikmin, I like Pikmin. W101 looks cool too.
Wii U has enough for me to justify now. I really need to get through my PS3 backlog first tho.
 
Li Tan said:
Forgot Pikmin, I like Pikmin. W101 looks cool too.
Wii U has enough for me to justify now. I really need to get through my PS3 backlog first tho.
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Yeah serious backlog here as well between 360, Wii U and the 3DS.
 
Jay Mammoth said:
Yeah AC4 is on Wii U, never finished 3 though. If you enjoy strategy games Pikmin and The Wonderful 101 are awesome.
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I really like strategy games. XCOM is one of the reasons I can't get through the backlog yet. I would love it on the Wii U, though because the iPad interface works really well (I like it enough to play it on PS3 and on iPad simultaneously). And it would be good if you could use the Wiipad screen to see the view of the individual unit in first person while the big screen shows the overall squad visibility.
 
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Yeah AC4 is on Wii U, never finished 3 though. If you enjoy strategy games Pikmin and The Wonderful 101 are awesome.
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Do you know if you can open Kenway's Fleet-minigame on the second screen without going to the cabin?
If it is possible - that's the version to get - it didn't support my Samsung Galaxy Note 2-phone - and it's annoying to go to the cabin all the time.
 
VaLLiancE said:
Get the Zelda WW bundle instead.
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Never was much of a Zelda fan. I played one on the Wii (probably the first one) and don't think I ended up beating it.

A Star Fox game would get me to buy a Wii U instantly.
 
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