• Esoteir [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    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

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      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)

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        It’s not required for hardly any functionality beyond navigating the start up menu. Most games that support it don’t require it.

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        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

  • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    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.

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    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.

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    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

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    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.

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        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

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          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.

  • Acute_Engles [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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    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