Wii U easily, if you jailbreak it you can play every generation before it
switch can't emulate Wii and GameCube games, and on top of that half of its good games are Wii U ports anyway
Wii U gamepad is horrific tho
I'll also add that it's a woefully underpowered system for the generation it was in and that is where my dislike of it comes from mostly (I did have one)
I loathe Nintendo's business practices and internal culture and miserliness and legal-threat bullshit. But damn if they didn't nail the Switch's design and portability.
It's not required for hardly any functionality beyond navigating the start up menu. Most games that support it don't require it.
I spent hundreds of hours playing monster hunter 3U in bed on the gamepad and never had a problem with it. I found it pretty comfy and the steam deck basically copied its ergonomics so they must have been doing something right
but regardless the pro controller exists which can be used in like 95% of Wii U games and has an abominably long battery life
I remember when I was kid and the absolute fucking HYPE around the gameboy color. It was gonna revolutionize gaming. Lol, it it was teased for years before it finally came out.
lol, this would've been years before pokemon even existed.
I think they were teasing us with a color metroid.🤔
The Gameboy color came out a month after pokemon red and blue in the US. Development for the Gameboy color began in 1997, after pokemon had been out in Japan for about a year.
They were teasing a color Gameboy in Nintendo Power in the early 90's. Before the Gameboy Pocket was even a thing.
That's probably because Nintendo Power had a lot of leeway to bullshit. Adding a color screen to the Gameboy was the most obviously going to happen upgrade whenever one did happen, but Nintendo wasn't working on one until 97.
The development of the Game Boy Color was spurred by news in October 1997 that Bandai, with the help of former Nintendo engineers including the late Gunpei Yokoi, was planning a new handheld console called the WonderSwan. Leveraging an earlier color prototype from 1992, Nintendo was able to accelerate development of Game Boy Color. Critically, the Game Boy Color maintained backward compatibility with all existing Game Boy games.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy_Color
Electronic Gaming Monthly Issue 32 March 1992
...Riding high on the first info of a color GameBoy from Nintendo last year, Quartermann has discovered that the machine is now reaching the final stages of development, with certain suits gaining access to preliminary discussions with the big 'N' during the recent CES in Vegas. The unit, which is rumored to be maintaining the same basic size and structure as the original GameBoy is being called (are you ready for some originality???) the Super GameBoy! The device is rumored to be set for a late '92 release and could come in under the $100 magic mark at toy stores near you! An unconfirmed report in to Quartermann also has this powerful portable using a dot matrix screen similar to the one employed in the GameBoy and having full compatibility with your original black and white and grey carts. The Q-Mann throws Nintendo a big yawn for that, but the concept of a new color portable gets me tranked, especially when you consider the long list of developers who will produce for it...
One good thing about the Consumer Electronic Shows is the fact that we can sit down with many of the hardware and software developers to talk about some of the new products being developed. One item which came up from several different, reliable sources is that a color version of the GameBoy is currently in development.
With an estimated target price of only $99 this little beauty comes with some very impressive specifications. Currently the color GameBoy is scheduled to be downwardly compatible. That means it would be able to play, not only the new, yet to be developed color cartridges, but it would also play, in black and white only, all of the older Game Boy cartridges! Also, in order to keep the price down, the new color GameBoy would use a low resolution color screen. One with less quality than either the Game Gear or Lynx. This being the case, it wouldn't be possible to add a TV tuner as the screen wouldn't have a resolution high enough to show TV broadcasts. Details are sketch at the moment but stay tuned as more information is on it's way!
Are you done nitpicking my childhood memories?
I think they were teasing us with a color metroid.
I'd like to imagine a Metroid 2 DX that has changes like Link's Awakening DX lol
Switch. I really appreciate that they let a console generation last a decade, because I'm not a consumerist paypig. The biggest indie games all ended up on it. And Nintendo has really been killing it with their first-party games, lots of them that hold up really well even against ancient stuff that I might be giving the benefit of nostalgia.
I really like my Switch tbh. I'm a very casual gamer though.
GBA cos i spent most of my childhood playing on one. It had teeth marks in after trying to complete rayman 3 and mario kart
In terms of system function and practicality, hacked, probably gonna be Wii U because it can play most other Bintendo systems. Function unhacked is probably a DS phat or Lite, because DS/GBA libraries are pretty good.
I also wanna ask if this includes fan translations, because at that point SNES/SFC is a system that has FF6, Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, Earthbound etc but also Front Mission, Seiken Densetsu 3, Tactics Ogre, Bahamut Lagoon, all six 2D Dragon Quest games, so on. Also if you factor Super Gameboy/2 in, SNES probably wins.
In terms of the native NTSC/PAL libraries it has to be a dead heat between Super Nintendo and DS. Gamecube is a shit system, N64 is a shitter system, Wii has a loooot of shovelware(although the virtual console was rad), Switch goes in the trash, the NES, GBA and Game Boy were cool but I think the DS probably had the most variety of genres. Plus it has ports and remakes of a lot of classics, so at gunpoint I'd go DS.
The Wii U was my first true love and I will always be its strongest warrior
The system that was practically built for a Pokemon Snap sequel, and yet...
That's the thing right, does it need to anything more than a more powerful switch? There are things I'd like for them to do, like allow more abilities to communicate in online games, add more apps, ship joycons that work. Outside of that tho, I'm not sure what else I'd want? iirc it's confirmed no oled screen as a default which sucks
If there's anything I want it's for a subscription service not to be required to play online games, though that's nothing a new model requires.
Square dumped the N64 limitation for Playstation when doing FF7
The feel of the n64 thumb stick making a permanent dent in my thumb as i cross hyrule field for the nth time will likely be with me forever but honestly it's the DS. The first wireless ad-hoc connected handheld console that my group of friends all owned and we would line the halls playing Mario Kart or tetris in school
The New 2/3DS XL are goated, the emulation support on CFW is great and you can take it anywhere you want.
lol I almost made a comment complaining that the N64 wasn’t in the picture, and then I got the joke.
No GameCube? I guess Wii then, assuming it's the backwards compatible model.
Virtual Boy fans ate outraged. Game and Watch fans are sobbing and shaking
