Wii U
- Relased: November 18, 2012
- Sales: 13.56 million
- Most Sold Game: Mario Kart 8
- Ranking (in sales): 9th
The Wii U the eight generation console for Nintendo that was essential a failure, having the lowest sales of all Nintendo home consoles. However, while the machine did not sell well, it did add new innovative features, such as a gamepad controller, which although it was poorly designed / implemented, did add something new. Also, the Wii U is the first Nintendo console to feature HD graphics and provides almost complete backwards compatibility with the Wii. The main attraction of any console thought is its games, which the Wii U also fell behind in because of developers not knowing how to properly implement the gamepad. Even with poor third party support, the Wii U still featured a good bit of 1st party high quality games that made the console worth playing.
Games
Lego City Undercover
- Relased: March 18, 2013
- Sales:
- Rating: 8/10
- Genere: Action-adventure
Lego City Undercover is an open-world RPG that fallows the adventures of Chase McCain, the undercover Lego police officer. The best part of this game is not the missions or even the story of the game, but the immense world that you can explore and all of the things that you can collect. Chase McCain has different outfits that he collects though out the game that give him different abilities, which creates many different ways to play with his Lego world. Also, you can steal anyones' car or plane of boat and drive them into anything Lego you can hit.
Super Mario Maker
- Relased: September 11, 2015
- Sales: 4 million
- Rating: 8.5/10
- Genere: Platformer
This game is self-explanatory: you make Mario levels. The interface for making the levels is fairly intuitive and allows users to design and customize there very own levels. The game allows for levels from Super Mario Bros, Mario Bros 3, Super Mario World, and Mario Wii U. It also has many interesting components that can be added that you don't usually find in these games, such as some crazy SFX and Bowers that have wings. You can do a lot with Mario Maker and you can also play a lot of levels that other people have created online. The game also has a lot of interesting Easter Eggs that pop-up from time to time.
Pikmin 3
- Relased: August 4, 2013
- Sales:
- Rating: 8/10
- Genere: Real-time strategy
Pikmin is a real-time strategy and puzzle game. You can watch as you control small little Pikmin to do big things. You can break walls, build bridges, attack enemies, and grab fruit. The main goal of the game is to obtain enough food to survive for as many days as you need to return back home. You can control three different heroes allowing you to multi-task easier. Pikmin can die from monsters but if you defeat a monster, pikmin can take their dead corpse to their onion , their home, and the onion produces more pikmin. You also save many endangered types of pikmin, each with their own ability: Red with the power of fire resistance, Yellow with the power of longer throwing and the power to conduct electricity, Blue with the power of water resistance. Also new pikmin types were added such as rock pikmin with the power to be as hard as rocks and flying pikmin which can fly.
Mario Kart 8
- Relased: May 30, 2014
- Sales: 8.4 million
- Rating: 9/10
- Genere: Kart racing
Mario Kart 8 is the eight installment in the Mario Kart Franchise, which improves and develops this great series of kart racers. This game includes the new mechanic of anti-gravity racing, which changes the handling and feel of the karts, keeping game-play fresh and exciting. Another addition is 200cc, which is the fastest mode of Mario Kart to date. 200Cc takes the easy and playful nature of Mario Kart and takes it to the next level, creating challenging and exhilarating game-play for long time players. This game also allows for kart customization, allowing user to tailor karts to their specific driving style.
Smash Bros. for the Wii U
- Relased: November 21, 2014
- Sales: 5.34 million
- Rating: 9.5/10
- Genere: Fighting
This game is a fighting style game that contains most of Nintendo's characters and characters from different franchises. The fights are two dimensional fights between characters and up to eight people can fight at once, with two different battle modes, stock, time, and coin, on a variety of courses. Each fighter has several different attack options, a normal attack, varying smash attacks, taunts, and some have additional options. Finally, all players have a special attack move called final smash, which is a move that can almost knock out any player. Other modes such as home run contest, bomb-blast, and a multi-round challenge mode. Online rounds are also available to play with friends or fight intense rounds against random players. Overall, this game is very interesting and is different every time you play making it very re-playable and enjoyable.
The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD
- Relased: September 20, 2013
- Sales: 2.26 million
- Rating: 9/10
- Genere: Action-adventure
Remastered on the Wii U in HD, Wind Waker is one of the most massive Zelda titles ever made. Its cartoonish art style and giant world to explore makes it appealing to all ages. Featuring a massive ocean with several islands to explore and many quests and challenges, this game offers many hours of content and plenty of replay value. Anyone who has played Breath of the Wild should check out this installment in the series.
