The ability to use the Wii U without the television has been one of its strongest features for a lot of families, and Nintendo clearly gets that with Switch. If I'm in the middle of a big fight in Kingdom Hearts, they know they can grab the gamepad and start up Skylanders sitting right next to me. If they are in the middle of a movie and I want to get in a few laps with Mario Kart, I can pick up the Wii U gamepad and play without interrupting them at all. One of the coolest features of the Wii U as a parent is the ability to share the living room with my kids. Switch is taking some Wii U ideas and improving them dramatically While the new Legend of Zelda game is going to be available for both consoles, Splatoon 2 will be a Switch Only title and will push a lot of active Wii U owners to move if they don't already own both. Read more: Everything we don't know about Nintendo Switchįor some Wii U owners, this means there will need to be room on the entertainment center for both consoles. Switch also can't recreate dual-screen effects and doesn't use discs, so backwards compatibility with Wii U content is almost impossible and won't be happening any time soon if a digital option becomes available at all. Switch is a games-first console Netflix and YouTube won't even be available at launch, and when they are available, you'll need a controller in hand to navigate everything. The design for Switch does not make recreating either of these scenarios possible. The design allowed for some unique gameplay that can't really be recreated anywhere else, and it challenged Nintendo to build experiences that are now incredibly popular new games. The smaller screen gave you access to things that would normally be hidden in menus, so you could glance down at it occasionally when playing on the larger screen. It was also an entirely unique game system, designed basically to recreate the DS portable gaming experience for the living room.
Some parts of this experience worked better than others, but the overall vision was impressive at the time. If you wanted to put it on a TV, Nintendo wanted you to be able to do it through the Wii U gamepad. The gamepad was a universal remote for the TV, stereo, Netflix, YouTube, Internet, everything. This wasn't just a game system it was your entire entertainment center.
Nintendo's design for the Wii U was a grand one.
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