Wii U 10 Year Anniversary | 10 Years of the Nintendo Wii U 

This channel influenced me to get a new Wii U. It is more practical to own Virtual Console games than paying monthly NSO Subscription. I want to own Majora’s Mask forever. I don’t know if Nintendo will ever go back to the Virtual Console model.

Happy 10th birthday Wii U🎂🎈. It's an amazing system. I recently took a 3 hours plane trip to the Caribbean and i played my Wii U while on the plane, if there is a 110V plug available you can play hundreds of different games, i had the console on the tray and the game pad on top of the console, it worked beautifully, highly recommended bring on a plane for longer flights. Enjoy, RobS

If it played DS game carts, that would have been sweet. Also, it should have played GameCube discs like the Wii did. Then you could have tons of your Nintendo libraries in one place.

Would have never given the Wii U a thought if it wasnt for yalls videos. You guys actually showed how great the system was and what it could do and how it stood out from Wii better than Nintendo did. Its a shame cuz its a great system. I have a pretty healthy Wii U collection, most of the bangers (Except Game & Wario and Devils Third Physical, but i got them digital) and its thanks to yall so, your videos DO make a difference!

Don’t forget, the Wii U pro controller is the best controller ever made by Nintendo, and probably the most comfortable controller in gaming history.

I love my Wii U and still haven’t picked up a Switch. Continuing on playing Wind in the Wilderness on this 10 year old console!

They should’ve named the Wii U the “Super Wii” just like the Super Nintendo

i love how these guys dont hate on the wii u or say its a terrible console for having bad sales because it is a good console. even though it got poor sales doesnt mean it isnt a good console. you are my new favorite youtuber just for that.

I picked a Wii U up when it was being discontinued For less than $200 CAD. Amazing console tbh. I have a massive collection of Wii U and mostly Wii games. It's far too underrated Imo

I was building up my collection then started watching you guys and I doubled my efforts cuz Wii U is amazing

I bought a Wii U today... just because of your video! :) Here in Germany the prices are still relatively fair. I paid €100 ($105) for a console + Breath of the wild + Mario Kart + Zelda Skyward Sword + an extra gamepad. I already had a console about a year ago, unfortunately I was stupid enough to sell it back then, even though I had a lot of fun with the games. But thanks to your great videos, I just had to pick it up again. :) I like your honest opinions and enthusiasm for retro videogames. Please keep up the good work, your channel deserves a lot more subscribers. Greetings from Germany! ;)

I’m definitely glad I picked the Wii U up when I did summer 2021 (even tho I practically paid original market price for it) I managed to get all the games I wanted both physically and digitally via eshop thanks to some the videos you guys put up regarding the virtual console stuff Now if only a DS player existed like you guys said it would’ve been LIT and if they ever did manage to allow us to forward our purchases to a future console that’d be lit too but I doubt it sadly still gonna protect my Wii U with my dear life 😂😂 great vids as always!

0:15 Nintendo Wii U came out in 2012 not 2013

One thing to remember with the Wii U is that Nintendo made some of their best first party games. Also on the market I think Wii U will pop one day simply because it has such a small library so people will want to get a full collection.

Bought my Wii U about a year before it was discontinued primarily to transfer my Wii VC to Wii U for it’s HDMI capability. Crazy thing is I was waiting for Wii U to go “on sale” but It never did, even after Wii U was discontinued it still commanded full retail prices. A few years ago I bought an officially factory refurbished 32GB Wii U from Nintendo’s online store and I also still have a new 32GB bundled Wii U I bought years ago. Not sure what I’ll do with either of them but they’re packed up for now. Many missed opportunities but still enjoy my Wii U to this day

I have been playing a lot of wind waker HD on the Wii u and my son and I still play alot of the library and Wii games from the backwards compatibility. Never was my favorite console but always found enjoyment when we took it off the shelf.

Man, I love the Wii U. Sure, it didn't sell well, the tablet range is limited, and the load times are long, but the quality of the games library is solid and probably the strongest lineup of games on any console. Thanks for this 10-year tribute, guys. I'm glad to see you love the Wii U, too.

Bought a CIB Wii U a few years back for next to nothing. You nailed it with the range of the pad. If it could have been played around the house or at least within the home wifi connection it would have been much better. Thanks for keeping the love of the Wii U alive!

The Wii U is going to be like the Sega Saturn, and TG16. The availability is going to go down and the Price will go up. Great Video Guys. You are on the money here.

I loved the wii u so much. From trading in games while in college to get it, to paying retail price for pro controllers. Late game nights with Nintendoland, mario 3d world co op, to mario kart 8. This console was so amazing and I hate others didn't get to experience it.

I had never thought to add 3DS and DS compatibility to the Wii U but that would have been brilliant. It would obviously have increased the production price but I'm fairly certain it would have driven up the sales of the Wii U and of Wii U and 3DS games and made Nintendo much more money. My only guess for why they didn't do it is because they were worried it would have hurt 3DS sales but I think it would have been well worth the risk. At a minimum a connection cable between the 3DS and Wii U that would let you play DS games on a TV would have been great too. Also I think Nintendo made a huge mistake in not letting you connect your Switch to the dock with a cable so you could have an optional Wii U style second screen in Switch games.

BEST CONSOLE EVER

Love y'all for doing this & all the Wii U work you did in the past! Cheers & Happy Birthday Wii U!!!

Such an underrated channel... Love the vibe! Only down side: can't get these crazy beers around here (Barcelona ES)

Always looking forward to these videos.

I love and miss our Wii U. The Switch is awesome but I think our Wii U has gotten way more play. Also when you soft mod it? Man so good. I loved Splatoon. We had that Splatoon shell that was shown in the video here.

I remember I was about to sell my wii u before I found your channel. Now I'm 42 games deep and loving it. Thanks for the solid wii u content. Cheers🍻

Love your guys' perspectives on these old school consoles 🤘 and I HIGHLY agree in a few years the Wii U collectors market will be on 🔥🔥🔥

I remember when I got my Wii U playing off the controller 20 feet away from the console in my bedroom and thinking "why can't I just carry this anywhere?" The seeds for the Switch were planted it seems.

Great episode!! I love my Wii U still play it all the time. I got lucky and bought mine right before the prices went up. I paid $80 for my CIB Wii U Super Mario Wii U bundle.

I discovered you guys through the Wii U videos (and subscribed), i'm always looking for Wii U videos (as i said in my first comment on this channel) and finally made a very good one of my own to celebrate the anniversary, and i'm glad to see so many celebrating that. I forgot to celebrate every other console, but not the Wii U, a system that its still my main gaming place and what motivated me to collect, all good things. Also, i agree about the Gamepad thing, that scares me a ton, i do take care of it, but i'm looking for another Gamepad. Its interesting really, because you can bypass the Gamepad in many games, even the ones that ask for it, like Mario Maker, you send the signal of the Gamepad, the game lets you in and then just use a Wii Mote, i imagine that there could be a hack to enable the entrance to games without a gamepad. The only thing that seems "unpatchable" is the Settings menu, since you can only change those on the Gamepad, someone would need to modify the bios in order to access those, or just keep the settings to your liking and never touch them again. Now with the Gamepad out of the way, the other issue is the flash memory on the system, and idk what to do about that except backup the system on to an SD.

I bought a second Wii U second hand for my daughter for just $30. The person who was selling sold the system with 7 first party Nintendo games but it didn’t have a charger for the game pad. I ordered a charger off Amazon for $18 so $48 all in for about $500 worth the stuff.

Finnally beat Mike Tyson’s punch out !!!

I love the WiiU, first Nintendo home console I owned since the super Nintendo. And coupled with the 3ds made me fall in love with Nintendo all over again

Love my Wii U. I've only had it for 3 years and it keeps giving. Was very blessed to have a friend that sold it to me for practically nothing, cib, zelda version. Yalls videos keep me hyped for it, so for the thousandth time, thanks for what yall do.

People thought the tablet was an add-on for the Wii as there was a TV ad that didn't show the console, Nintendo later showed an image of the console

Glad Wes found a spot for that clean nes advantage!

I didn’t own a Wii U when first released. I own one now recently and this system it’s such a gem 💎. Loving it. Thanks for bringing us this video to us gamers. Great job.

Wes, you have a future in voice over acting! :) Another great video, thanks boys!

As someone who’s owned every Nintendo console from SNES to Switch except the Wii U, I never thought I’d own one myself until last month at a flea market after hearing the news about the closing of the shop channel. The marketing at the time of its release just didn’t hook me, because the commercials made it look like a toy full of family games and not enough on the idea of what groundbreaking gameplay ideas it could have accomplished. I love my switch, but it’s lacking in many other features the Wii U had

Back when I worked for Best Buy at that time, most casuals didn't really understand what the Wii U was, often people assumed it was just the Wii but better. The Playstations & Xboxes were easier to explain to that parent buying for their kid, but even then some of the different models confused people. I agree in thinking that if Nintendo had named the Wii U anything else, it probably would have had stronger sales because the target market would understand the value proposition. I think Nintendo were banking on using the name recognition from Wii to pull people in, but they mostly just said "well I've already got a Wii, why do I need another one?" and it backfired.

Loving the production values, guys! You guys are a foundry of knowledge and passion. Never did own a Wii U, but it sure had a lot of great games on it and I'm thankful that most of the ones I wanted have come out on Switch since. I am still hoping for Wind Waker!

If you take the Wii U ports out of the Switch library - it wouldn't be the same console.. It's a bit crazy that games like Zelda WW & TW HD, Xenoblade X and Starfox haven't come over.. For me the Wii U is also a fantastic retro modded console - with full gamecube over HDMI support, Mame arcade and 1-5th gen (apart from Saturn) - or via Virtual console.. This will be what carries it fwd in people's minds. It was also a banger for Indie games -playing games like Axiom Verge, shovel-knight, affordable space adventures etc. Love the Wii U and it deserves to be remembered and played.

Wiimote n Nunchuck fps control was always massively underrated to me, the Wii CoDs were amazing to play online if you got your control setup right and weren't bothered about how it looked, it didn't matter it played with accuracy like mouse and keyboard but from your couch and the intuitiveness and fun of just aiming and shooting, and the Wii U gave us 2 HD CoDs, and BlOps2 at launch was an awesome experience.

Totally agree fellas! Wii u holds up fantastic. So glad i held on to the collection. One year ago i got the mario maker edition cib for $75! The switch owes much success for the wii u. Way ahead of its time!

Great vid guys. I love seeing wii u anything

Picked up a very minty CIB Mario & Luigi Wii U along with a boxed pro controller, a few shovelware games and about 50 Infinity characters for $200 off marketplace a few months ago. I almost passed but then thought "when is the next time I'll see one CIB?", particularly in this condition. I agree, now is the time if you want to collect cheaply. They're not going to become any easier to get. According to the wiki page only 6.5 million units for the US market.

Another Wii U and I'm buzzing to see. Cheers Gents again 😀

The guys are back it’s Wii U Time 10 Years Of Greatness For The Wii U

Great video on the Wii U again guys! Still have connected the Wii U next to the PS4 and Switch. Recently played Yoshi's Woolly World, underrated game by the way. And just bought s new copy of Devil's Third for €20 in Holland.

Another game that you can create on Wiiu was “Mario vs Donkey Kong tipping stars”(also available on 3DS)I still love my Wiiu.The Final years of the “Wiiu” .I got frustrated with “Nintendo’s directs”announcing a lot of 3DS games and almost some to none Wiiu games.Not even multiplatform games😢

If you build it, the Wii U will come.

I have the entire Wii U North American physical collection and owe it to you guys. Y'alls channel got me curious and the rest is history. Excellent console. Excellent channel. Cheers boys.

I love my Wii U. Easily top five fav consoles. I’m fully aware that some mistakes were made by Nintendo with the design, hardware, marketing, etc, but I love the tablet, I love the features of the console, I love its virtual console, and almost every game on it was an instant classic.

Great discussion on Wii U! I really wonder how different it could've been with different marketing. I remember towards the end of the Wii lifecycle there always being discussion of a "Wii HD." Crazy it's been 10 years!

Decent beer! Cheers to U! The Wii U!

It is so wierd for me to hear you guys say Gezellig, which is Dutch for Cozy. As always loved your video.

Never had one around launch or during its life cycle, but have bought two in the last year and a half, and absolutely love them. We all thought it was literally just a tablet for the Wii, and ignored it back then. What an incredible little system Nintendo fumbled the bag with LOL.

Just picked up a back up wii u console only for 20 bucks. Might hack and run all my wii and gamecube game off a hard drive.

I see the GameCube, Wii, and Wiiu are almost like a legacy. One of the benefits of Wiiu is that yeah, games came out as a dribble. But that meant I bought almost everything, even games I wasn't sure I would like. I was going to buy Smash, MK, Pikmin, etc. But would I have picked up Legend of Kay? Samurai Warriors Orochi? I don't know. But I did, and I'm glad I did. Not everything I bought really resonated with me, but a lot did. It's okay to try new things. Even my crappy Wiiu games are at least interesting on some level. Cheers guys!

Your videos rock! Thanks for all the Wii U stuff, especially this past year - really helped give me some direction in what to pick up on the eshop before it closes. Too bad the Wii U wasn't advertised better with a different name when it came out - completely flew under the radar. Most people didn't know it was a new console. Even though Nintendo is done with it, I suspect the Wii U will live on with a niche but dedicated fanbase (3DS too). Pretty sure there's a team currently working on a Nintendo Network replacement that'll keep online gaming going for both the Wii U and 3DS and bring back the Miiverse.

I didn't even know about what a Wii u was until 2022

Great video as always, cheers fellas. I just finished off my complete NA Wii U set, including most of the controller box and big box variants. So, no longer will your price hike videos give me anxiety to finish off my set ASAP lmao.... Take it easy mangs

Really enjoy your Wii U videos. Hoping they continue past March 2023.

Give the some Retro-Indie developers a dev-kit, that will make sure the system lives on for another decade.

Well, guys, I have two Wii U systems, and I will be buying a white version after the turn of the year. I really hope there is a big closing sale of the eshop in February. Great video, as always, guys

I just wish the Wii U could've played Gamecube disks (it could've been the defenitive, EASY way to play both Gamecube and Wii games in 480p via an hdmi connection). That's my only complaint of the console...criminally underrated system. P.S. In 10 years, the Wii U will be the new Saturn...def finish your collecting of the console now.

Great video guys. I am still playing Sin and Punishment from time to time. Cheers, Ciento, Salud.

Even though the range of the game pad is poor, the game pad did work in the spot on the next floor right above the console. I remember playing the system on the game pad on the main floor couch while the system was in the basement.

The Wii U is one of my favorite consoles ever, the first complete set I've ever collected, so many (yet so few great titles). And you know how I celebrated its birthday...the same way I celebrate my own birthday... By working

WiiU will become like the Saturn, uncommon, expensive and largely reserved for collectors to scrap over.

Still have my WiiU hooked up downstairs and play it often. Best way to play Batman Arkham City and Splinter Cell Blacklist! Good stuff as always guys!

I talked my brother into getting my nephew and niece a Wii U, i just hope the online servers aren't getting shut down like what's happening to the Vita

I have a Wii U and me and my kids play on it all the time. It’s a great console. Great video guys

Wow, November 18, 2012. Already 10 years, today, since it released. I didn't really know about it until months leading up to Mario Kart 8's release in May 2014. I saw game previews of each track, characters, gameplay, beautiful graphics, etc and I knew right then I wanted to pick up this console. I was not disappointed. I really enjoyed playing the Wii U. I didn't have all that many games, but I did enjoy what I got to play and having hardware and software backwards compatability. I did enjoy playing on the Gamepad (massive VMU) for the most part and miss having that as an option on the Switch. The thing I hated the most is that the Gamepad was required for the system to work and having to have a bypass to use a controller as player 1 over the Gamepad. Sometimes it could get frustrating. There was a lot of potential with the Wii U and it wasn't presented well with marketing and it may have been a bit to early to do what Nintendo was going for, which we have seen a lot of that carry over to the more successful Switch. I may hook mine up again sometime and play some games, whether Wii U or Wii. The discs are the game cases are beautiful too and the discs have those round edges which just feel right. Cheers 🍻

Great video fellas. I probably wouldn’t have bought a Wii U if it wasn’t for your enthusiastic videos about it. Tbh I haven’t played mine much yet, but I’m definitely gonna make time to this week. Been playing way too much Asphalt 9 legends on Xbox game pass. Actually made me think of you guys. Yous may be into it, it has a burnout ish quality, although it is a little glitchy. Also thought that a top 20 modern games you have been playing, or best of new ish PlayStation or Xbox game pass would make for interesting videos, even though it’s not retro related. Thanks

I picked up an extra Wii U couple years ago. Just so I Will always have one working.

I am in love with your splatoon gamepad shell. I’ve been eyeing one on ebay. The buttons and d-pad still easy to use?

I know there were hardware limitations but I still firmly believe that had Nintendo enabled the Wii U to be able to handle two gamepads...that would have won over a lot of people Imagine Call of Duty, Smash Bros, sports games, racing games, etc....with two tablets instead of just one ....overall it's an underrated, misunderstood system & I've always appreciated your vids about it

Thanks boys for another sweet video. Got a Wii U a year ago off your video and haven't looked back. The amount of shit you can do to this system is astounding but I do want to collect like a good boy too so I've now got about 30+ Wii U games and just the few that are heavy hitters almost makes up for the fact that I'm a filthy asshole buying cheap Wii U games off EBay makes me feel like a real boy. Cheers from Australia

I’ve been having an idea, which as of now, is not certain but amazing if Nintendo listens to the feedback and pulls this off just right. With talks of the Switch’s next-gen successor on the rise, not only is backwards compatibility the main request when talking about legacy content, but a true successor to Virtual Console with every mainline Nintendo console included. The DS, 3DS, and Wii U being among those systems included. If this has to be done, then Nintendo needs to make a 2nd-screen gamepad that you can utilize with the console docked on the TV and with it undocked and attach it to the gamepad and take it anywhere. Let’s face it, some Wii U games CAN’T be ported because either the gameplay is heavily relied on the gamepad or some games have successors on the Switch that pretty much outperform them. So to successfully pull this off, there has to a gamepad. Now I can imagine Nintendo showing it off as a preference for compatible software, but not a gimmick. In the case of dual-screen systems in the Virtual Console successor, it’s mandatory. Very few Wii U titles can possibly make their way to the next-gen’s VC: - Splatoon - Super Smash Bros. for Wii U - Nintendo Land - Xenoblade Chronicles X - Star Fox Zero (whether anyone likes it or not) - Game & Wario - Fast Racing NEO (why wasn’t this ported yet?) I know there are others I’m missing, but the ones like Wind Waker HD and Twilight Princess HD are better off just getting remade for the next-gen console. Wind Waker HD doesn’t really need that big of a change (aside from the removal of the Miiverse features), but Twilight Princess HD was a rushed job, and it needs more care and attention to detail to definitely stand out from previous releases. If people want the Wii U’s legacy to live on, then this is the way to do it.

I love the fact can watch telly and play especially when kids off school, I paid 140 other week for 32g one with 5 games

The couch co-op A-Semetric games blew me away at the time. Even today i think it was a pretty radical concept. I'll defend to the grave that the BEST way to play RE4 was on the Wii.

I've been playing Wii U reguarly since it came out. Great system, can't same the same about my Switch sadly.

I love the wii u. It was the first console my wife and I bought together after we got married and started her down the road to collecting games with me. I also have to say that despite the somewhat limited range of the wii u tablet I've still logged a respectable amount of hours on my wii u from the toilet. My wife has heard a wide variety of expletive deleted phrases coming from the bathroom. Lol. As always great video guys.

I loved the Wii U and when the games used the pad correctly the games were awesome like MarioMaker, Project Zero, Captain Toad, but alot of developers were lazy with the pad and just used it as a map. When I spoke to "non gamers" about the Wii U mostly they thought it was just an add on the Wii which to me was shocking. So for me Nintendo didn't advertise it well. So the down fall of the console was there own fault. Great video as always

I never had one back in the day. But 6 months ago I got 2 of them and I love it.

Im a big fan of lactose beers. Strawberry milkshake ipa

8 player couch co op on Smash with the GC controller adapter. Nuff said...

I've been waiting for years for blackdogtech to restock their Wii HDMI native conversion boards. Starting to think it will never happen but it looks like a Wii U might be a better option since it has that already. Great video.

The Wii U is an interesting console. I got mine in 2013, and used it regularly for a few years. The Wara Wara Plaza with all of the Miis with Miiverse made the Wii U more than a console. It brought a sense of community, but with a lack of games, I eventually lost interest, probably around mid 2016. I still have it though. The Game Pad was also a good gimmick, but Nintendo needed more direction with it. Most games didn't really use it that well. Games like Mario Kart and Smash doesn't even require the Game Pad to properly play. The only game I found it most useful in was Wind Waker. With that aside, with what games Nintendo brought to the console, they absolutely nailed them with a couple of blunders, especially to Animal Crossing fans. For a while, it had Earthbound Beginnings as an exclusive. The Wii U was hands down a blueprint of what the Switch would become. Most of the features on the Switch were present on the Wii U already. Playing on the TV, playing on the Game Pad as a handheld, and even tabletop mode. You could play Wii games on the Game Pad. The camera area emulates a sensor bar, so there's no need for extra accessories other than the stand, which came with the deluxe bundle, which was basically most bundles, especially after the 2013 price cut. I could go on about the Wii U and how it was unique in not just the games, but I feel like I've already talked enough already. It's truly one of Nintendo's most unique systems to date, if not ever.

My jaw would drop off, If I seen a wii u tab for just 3$. It would motivate to get the rest of it eventually. Not spending 120$, when I can get a switch for 200$ more

I had one since Christmas 2013 so of course I’d love to still make use out of mine, especially first when Splatoon and Mario Maker actually gave me reason to play on mine over on Xbox but also now with how the current homebrewing scene is going. Despite all that, just seeing what the Wii U still has going till this day, how little of the staple titles for the console used much of the GamePad gimmick as evident by their rampant portings to the Switch, I could never excuse buying one when they are selling on eBay for same as a used Switch or NIB Switch Lite. The ones that can be softmodded can always be emulated to play games, it isn’t piracy so long it’s a title you own the cartridge form of.

Still have my original WiiU from, maybe 8 or 9 years ago. I was totally not aware it was even out since I didnt follow the news on consoles back then. Nowadays I have softmodded it and play some Gamecube games on it as well as retroarch (pc engine cd etc)....dont care much for the Wiiu library of games myself, no one is online anymore on CoD black ops 2 I used to love and play fondly 6 years ago. My Ps3 I can still play CoD (ghosts) online with multiplayer

My modded WiiU is my favourite Console of all time. No joke.

Can anyone recommend good 3rd party Wii U Remotes with the nunchuck and Wii U Pro Controllers available today?

I still have the Wii U today it didn’t broke and play it regular , How you guys edited this awesome video ? What tool

I still have and love my Virtual Boy. :)

Happy Birthday, WiiU. I wish I had gotten to know U.

Just played black ops 2 on wii u last night. Definitely the best way too play it.