With my last breath, I take a look at the Nintendo eShop on Wii U's last breath. Edited by Scott Wozniak Main Channel: @ScottTheWoz Twitter: / scottthewoz Facebook: / scottthewoz Instagram: / scottthewoz
I remember being pretty excited about the Wii U eshop in 2012. The ability to download full-sized games seemed cool since I never had a ps3 or 360. After the switch released, revisiting it felt lonely, like an abandoned place
Especially the miiverse plaza filled w generic mii’s, apps, and posts… feels like ur in a shoddy simulation of the past that’s just never gonna be there again
@@sinkaido i wish miiverse was ported to the switch instead of ended... i never really took advantage of miiverse with my wii u since i was too little and didnt know how it worked, i just used to post drawings on NSMB U about me beating the game on drawing random stuff on Super Mario 3DS, oh dude, good old times
the end of an era. the wii u was my first ever console, i got it for christmas in 2014 and could not stop obsessing over it. sad to see the wii u eshop gone. miiverse shutting down in 2017 had me in tears, here we are again 6 years later 🖤
Scott you missed out on the Silver Falls games. Balance Board support, asymmetrical multiplayer, minigames on the GamePad, enemies that can hear the GamePad if you turn the volume up... It is a single Developer masterpiece.
25:50 Let me explain a bit on this situation, the 3DS and Wii U were part of a Nintendo Developers Program, were you could enter some of your personal information, company information and then they would give you dev SDK, wich you can develop games with, ofcourse, that SDK only had some functions of those systems, to really develop a game you needed a game engine, and Nintendo gave support to Unity and Unity to Nintendo in 2013, as well as a web developers think (the recent news about Mario and Donkey Kong for browser), so the developing aspect was pretty open, i even entered with a fake company myself. However, Nintendo recquired you to own a dev kit, something that costed up to $1000, and that stopped me (add tax and shipment to south america in my case, even more expensive), but not everyone, so many of these devs learned how to make games for the first time on Wii U, or atleast in a more real way, and some of these truly saw the potential of the gamepad and took years to develop the game, such as the case of Pad of Time (with space/time perspective differences between TV and gamepad) and Silver Falls (with the use of the gamepad like the Wii mote was used on Silent Hill Shatered Memories... or atlast that was the intention), much like the m8 that tried to upload a level in Super Mario Maker before the upload capability was removed (he took 7 years to beat the hardest stage and couldn't upload it), these devs wanted more time, and they had to hurry the releases, and lose money anyways because no one used the Wii U for the eshop anymore. So there you have, these devs won my respect, but not my money as i'm a cheap-ass and barely pay for anything, but they do have my respect until they don't, it probably doesn't mean much really. Also, the eshop closing destroyed free downloadable packs (dumb) and Lego Dimensions, because the figurines activated downloadable packs, so those figurines now are useless in the game, i will never play the Sonic level, atleast not on Wii U.
@@mangaprofilepicture5820 There was also the time he went to a funeral and was a total buzzkill. Like, c'mon dude, some people just need some evening entertainment after a long day of not eating a corn dog.
Nintendo was starting the greed, i remember how aweosome was the announcement for that game on one of those Nintendo competitions. I have to say, they could've done the same they did with Fire Emblem, to release it at $10 and then de-list it 6 months later, but that's the Nintendo we have now sadly.
Three weeks later and this still breaks my heart. I miss the 3DS era. That is easily the most nostalgic console along with the GBA. Already been over 10 years since it released, still can’t believe that!
I did my best to preserve the games on the Wii U eShop... And boy... it was a lengthy process that involved so many hoops! But I finally managed to save Fatal Frame 5 on Wii U... for now. Also, Japanese eShop... especially Wii U... why did you get the better games!?
I am sad for the eshop for 3DS closing because since ~2015 I will just pick it up every 6 months and play it passionately for like a month and often would buy new stuff
Hey Scott! Big fan here, and I was wondering if you would do a video on my favorite game Chibi Robo Ziplash. I love this game so much, and it would mean the world to me if you made a video sharing its praises to all of your fans!
When I got my 3DS, I decided I would dedicate it to Virtual Console games. I was born in '92 and when all my friends were playing with their Super Nintendos and Sega Genesis, I had my Dad's Atari 2600. Being able to play all DKC games portably still blows my mind. I will ALWAYS be a decade behind everyone else.
They put their last-gen handheld games on the current-gen console with DS Games on WiiU. That would be like them putting 3DS games on Switch. For 10 Bucks. Just imagine. I'd buy so many. So sad that a lot of these games aren't officially available anymore.
19:57 Something I'll never understand is why if og Wii games could be sold in the Wii U e-shop did they not sell DS games in the 3DS e-shop? Not only would there have been no need for emulation, but it would probably work a lot smoother on a system that also has two screens. Idk she's dead so who cares anymore I guess.
I personally never owned a Wii U, but seeing all the videos about it before it closed, and especially The Completionist's where he bought all the games, it makes me sad that it's now gone.
I'll miss it even though i never really bought anything off it because i kept my wii with all the virtual console games and so i could play gamecube but was fun to scroll through it from time to time
As a fan of the GBA and snes but totally okay with owning digital over physical for expensive older games - really wish I took the time out to get a wii u for its virtual console
I mean mostly people don’t go on it and buy anything anymore but I think what really sucks is now you don’t have the option when going back and discovering a series for the first time. Like just two years ago on the Wii U I bought Metroid Zero Mission before metroid dread came out, and rhythm heaven fever after getting into the series. Those games were expensive physically and the Wii U was the only legitimate way of getting them digitally. It sucks that I won’t have that option now when I discover a new series and won’t be able to go back and experience many previous games.
The nice part is that you can have a hard drive full of home console Nintendo games of all generations and proper controllers hooked up to it (Wii, GC). The switch could never XD
7:49 The price increased as the game got more modes and stories, but anyone who owned it would keep getting the new content. It was a cool consumer-friendly marketing strategy that nearly convinced me to buy the game... sadly all I had to play it on was a 3DS and there was no coop in that, the main incentive for me to even buy a 2D platformer, so I never did.
I love how Nintendo puts real effort into creating an interesting and user friendly digital store, only to throw it out and start over with subsequent systems.
Wii U might be the only Nintendo console I've never even seen in person. I skipped Nintendo after the N64 until I got a Switch last year (I'm a PlayStation guy)...so in that time if I played something on Nintendo it came from a friend of mine or through an emulator. But literally no one I knew had a Wii U, so I've never even physically seen one.
I'm literally the only person who's everyone in their family has a Wii U with me being the last one to get it lol. I got it relatively recently used and it rocks.
If I ever get a Wii U, I'm gonna mod it and get all the games on it that were lost when the eshop closed. It's the least I can do for not appreciating this era of Nintendo as much as I should've.
Im sad that I never had a Wii U until last years. I have still hardly played it, but the 3DS and Wii U eras are over and I barely even touched the surface, despite owning a 3DS. I was only able to have a couple games as a kidz
REST IN POWER, Wii U eShop!! The end of an era. Enjoy the last purchase of this goldmime, Scott!! Online Play service it's the one lasting on Wii U, when it dies, the Wii U will officially die, and yet the new Nintendo Console will born.
Does Scott putting this out a month and a half after the Wii u eShop closed down mean that he will release his last Wii u video that he was talking about making on his main channel sometime soon?
The only stuff that had me happy with the Wii U when i had no Switch was them updating Shovel Knight, releasing Turbografx16 games and the last games, Cars 3, Darksiders, etc. Then it was 3DS still getting stuff, while Wii U got some weird fan games every 3 months, until it got the Switch in late 2018, but at the time i got into retro-collecting and Wii U games were CHEAP, so to this day the Switch is still tossed to the side sadly. Nowadays, what's still existing that works on Wii U that's official... amiibo, i think.
Scott scrolling right past the very final exclusive Wii U games, Silver Falls - Undertakers and Silver Falls - White Inside Its Umbra I developed in close cooperation with Nintendo, not even mentioning the games. How do I post a GIF of Frodo from the end of Fellowship of The Ring shedding a single tear?
The biggest thing about the Wii virtual console was that certain titles like nobody Chronicles would allow you to play using the gamepad. So you didn't have to have any kind of classic controller setup or anything, you don't even need the Wii remote. One of the most annoying things about the Wii in the Wii u was that you had to select the game with the Wii remote.
One thing I hope Nintendo doesn't do for their next console is limit the amount of older games for their Online software from Launch to it's last legs. I was absolutely disappointed Nintendo started with even less games than on Wii U, let alone launching their shabby N64 emulator. But if they bring over what they currently have with Switch Online (Could rename simply to Nintendo Online) & bring over GameCube games at launch (And/or DS games depending on what the next system is going to be) that would soften a lot of the blow from Switch Online & Nintendo's reputation somewhat. It would be great just transferring over your accounts & having the same games &/or save data on the next system, etc. Will it happen though? Doubt it.
i forgot 2 get just two games though i have em on the 3DS, if Nintendo brought back the Wii, Wii U and 3DS virtual console, back just 4 a few dayz i would probably spend so much money again !
To be fair, it was mainly developed for the Wii U, the Switch version is "just" a port. Of course, not many people would play the Wii U version, and Nintendo knew that, but they wouldn't give up completely. I'm sure Tears of the Kingdom does look better than it's predecessor, since it was developed for the Switch since the beginning with the Devs having more experience with the Switchs capabilities.
Besides feeling a little sad... I have modded my Wii U so still can download every content (with some cool tool) that can't have time to save money to buy, but this will over the day that they close totally the store, that day you will not be able to download anything you purshased. When will come that day? I think less than a 2 years or maybe a few months after the release of the new console.
I remembered the virtual console video and him saying that Nintendo was being lazy with releasing classic games but I feel like we should accept Wii U virtual console cus the switch doesn’t have that
A lot of people were hurt by the Wii U. This was the console to buy when Scott was 15 or 16 meaning teenage Scott had this constant let down thrown into his life as the big thing to look forward to every year.
