Depends what kind of games you're into.

Beach Bum wrote:

Not unless you can't live without a handful of first party Nintendo games. I'm still predicting third party support to really fall off once the PS4 and new Xbox come out and are significantly more powerful making it a pain in the ass to port to the Wii U. It won't happen immediately but after the developers really start making use of the full power of the new systems they'll not want to make crappier versions for the Wii U just like they didn't for the Wii. It'll just see a bunch of gimmick games and shovelware with the occasional gem mixed in.

We'll see. Being "underpowered" hasn't stopped the 3DS from kicking the Vita's ass and getting the lion's share of the third party support.

There are a variety of factors that make or break a console's success/third party support and technical stats are only one of them. Another thing to consider: some of these OMG M-RATED TITLES OR GTFO companies might not survive much longer. The current AAA video game business model is unsustainable. When selling multimillion copies is a failure, something is wrong. We're gonna see more THQ-like collapses. And more publishers shuttering smaller devs to cut costs. Great game, guys, now you're fired. Peace out.

Ky-Guy wrote:

The only problem: it won't work with your Gamecube games. If you have a first-generation Wii, you might want to keep that.

You might also want to keep your firstgen Wii for Smash/Kart, because no GCN controller ports.

NFS Most Wanted U has Origin though.

I have zero desire to play at least 75% of PSX games. The load times are awful and all the firstgen 3D games look like ass. The 2D stuff holds up better, but some of that suffers from loading issues too. There are even less N64 games I stll want to play.

You're right. I have not played the vast majority of PSX games. But I have played a ton of N64 games. So unless you're going to sit here with a straight face and try and tell me that the PSX had better in-game graphics than the N64, I don't need to have.

Am I biased against the PSX inherently to begin with? Yes, probably. I didn't touch a single PSX game until 2000, so I don't have nostalgia-colored glasses about the system.

A lot of the RPGs hold up. That is the nature of RPGs. I'll play Torneko, Dragon Warrior VII, and Final Fantasy IX all fucking day. A lot of other stuff does not hold up, in my opinion, and it's almost solely due to the graphics. Soul Edge? Pass. MGS? Pass. Resident Evil? Pass. Twisted Metal? Pass. And the most famous game released on the system, Final Fantasy VII? Pass. It looks like fucking ass.

I DO have Nostalgia colored classics about the N64. Between the last three years of high school and freshmen year of college, I probably spent around 4-6 months of total combined hours playing N64. But I have little interest in revisiting those games either. I know I'm usually the first to say graphics don't matter, but I'm also the first to add the caveat that that does not apply to firstgen 3D. GoldenEye looks fucking awful. Those shitty blocky characters with painted on faces running through empty cavernous levels doesn't excite me the way it did before I played better games. Mario 64, too. Mario 64 is depressing as fuck to play now. It's so blocky and empty and unimaginative compared to Sunshine and Galaxy. It may have paved the way, put they put up a One Way sign at the entrance to that street.

PS2/GCN/DC is the retro line in the sand for me on the 3D games. If a 3D game doesn't look as good as releases from that era, it's unplayable to me.

And honestly, I do hate Miis. Miis were a cute idea, but then Microsoft came out with Avatars and showed us all how shitty and pedestrian the Miis really were. And Nintendo didn't even ATTEMPT to fix this with Wii U. Make my fucking Mii more elaborate. Get rid of the fucking jeggings and give me real clothing options for fuck's sake.