{"id":3765,"date":"2017-03-03T06:03:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T13:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/a-wii-u-owners-send-off-to-a-deeply-flawed-but-essential-nintendo-console\/"},"modified":"2017-03-03T06:03:57","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T13:03:57","slug":"a-wii-u-owners-send-off-to-a-deeply-flawed-but-essential-nintendo-console","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/a-wii-u-owners-send-off-to-a-deeply-flawed-but-essential-nintendo-console\/","title":{"rendered":"A Wii U owner\u2019s send-off to a deeply flawed but essential Nintendo console"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Enlarge<\/a> \/<\/span> The Wii U’s great games will live on long after its death. (credit: Farley Santos on Flickr<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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I haven’t taken a poll or anything, sale<\/a> but I suspect I’m the only person on the Ars staff who happily and without reservation plunked down for the Wii U version of\u00a0The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/em> instead of springing for a copy of the game and a brand-new Nintendo Switch<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Though the game was originally developed as a Wii U game, information pills<\/a> it’s clear that this version is being released almost as an afterthought. The Wii U version\u00a0comes with the same content as the Switch version\u00a0and the DLC will be available for both platforms, but the pricey Special and Master Editions are Switch-exclusive.\u00a0Breath of the Wild\u00a0<\/em>will be\u00a0a quiet coda for Nintendo’s least successful home console since the company helped birth the modern game industry back in the 80s<\/a>. This is\u00a0a system that Nintendo pretty much gave up on<\/a> before concrete details on its successor had even been announced.<\/p>\n

But somehow, I think history will vindicate the Wii U; at the very least, it should go down as a “good” failure like the Dreamcast rather than a “bad” one like the Virtual Boy. It was and is a system that’s worthy of attention, it was just done in by poor timing and messaging and a central gimmick that nobody (Nintendo included) ever\u00a0really<\/em>\u00a0managed to figure out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Enlarge \/ The Wii U’s great games will live on long after its death. (credit: Farley Santos on Flickr) I haven’t taken a poll or anything, sale but I suspect I’m the only person on the Ars staff who happily and without reservation plunked down for the Wii U version of\u00a0The Legend of Zelda: Breath… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3766,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t