Zora_Prince posted...
Never heard someone call the Dreamcast trash. Not angry. Just surprised. It delivered a lot of memorable classics and niche hits for how little time it was on the market.
Meanwhile, part of me wants to buy a Wii U because Zombie U looks like an interesting survival horror game with the gameplay concept, but want at least 5 games worth playing, and cant even come up with that. The only other two, Windwaker and Twilight Princess, I feel are going to finally be announced for Switch the moment I buy the system (genuinely shocked they havent been ported yet).
Both had games that could easily be considered classics, but both largely had an extremely limited library to the point that the classics in question are the only ones that existed at all. For an example, both of the Donkey Kong Country games on the Wii U were bangers that everyone who is into platformers should play and thus we've already hit your requisite 5 games. Not to mention other massive titles on the console like Xenoblade, Mario Maker, and Splatoon: the Wii U absolutely and unequivocally has just as many, if not more, classic games than the Dreamcast. But just as mentioned, it doesn't matter if it has a couple of classics when the total number of games is so low. The Dreamcast had just above 600 games, the Wii U just below 800: numbers that mean that the vast majority of people will not actually view them as worth looking into due to the lack in variety.
They were both solid systems with some good games on them, but they are definitely failed consoles, hence why they are kind of trash. Heck, both of them have the same sort of issue in that the vast majority of the stuff worth playing on them got ported to other systems/was on another system in the first place. They very much are the same sort of console in every respect besides the Dreamcast being ahead of the tech curve versus the Wii U being more gimmicky.