 Hey everybody I am the boss man and you know lately there's been a lot of conversation about the NX and Zelda U and a 3D Mario and all the things surrounding the future of Nintendo and it may be realized something with a lot of attitudes that people have on why the NX shouldn't come next year why Zelda U should not come to the NX a lot of reasons behind this and it made me realize that people don't feel like the Wii U for this holiday season is actually worth investing in. I never thought we'd enter this holiday at the beginning of the year thinking this but with Zelda U's delay, Star Fox Zero's delay, the big game this holiday is Super Mario Maker which previously released I believe in September and then Xenoblade Chronicles which releases next week. So I wanted to tackle this head-on and give you my top three reasons to invest in a Wii U this holiday and really to invest in it confidently. So reason number one it's cheap. I don't know if you realize this and it's surprising to me how many people I talked to whether I'm out at the park out at the mall or just talking to my friends don't realize this the Wii U can be had right now for $200 USD at store.nintendo.com. Now they call it a refurbished console and it very well could be consoles that have been sent back after all it's usually what refurbished means or consoles that were sent back that Nintendo has reworked new hardware bits or whatever they need to do to make that console function. Also a lot of these consoles were from the launch batch which the launch batch didn't really have a lot of big issues it just there was a lot of packages with like Nintendo land that simply did not sell so they're trying to get rid of that stock which you know was probably sent back by retailers. So when you see the Super Smash Bros and Super Mario Kart Mario Kart 8 bundle come together you see the Splatoon bundles you see the the Wind Waker bundles to make room for those they had to probably send some of the Nintendo Land bundles back. As such Nintendo sells them for $200 right on their website. Anyone in North America can go to that website and buy themselves a console for $200. Comes with Nintendo Land. On top of that there's a lot of stuff coming up this holiday that makes it really even cheaper. There's a lot of bundles running for $250 that will come with two games whether it's Smash Bros, Splatoon, Mario Kart you know so there's a 3D World Super Mario 3D World Super Mario Maker. There's gonna be a lot of sub $300 bundles coming out this holiday especially this upcoming weekend coming into Black Friday and Cyber Monday. So it's never been cheaper to buy a Wii U so like the number one reason to invest right now in a Wii U is it is cheap. This is probably the cheapest it's going to get until probably a year after the NX itself launches. So that's my first reason. Reason number two so okay it's cheap great but why get it now when the NX is gonna be coming out in years from now? What about the games? Why would I do that? Well backwards compatibility. I cannot confirm that NX is going to have backwards compatibility but Nintendo has a history of backwards compatibility since they switched over to a disk medium. So the Gamecube had mini-disc believe it or not the Wii supported those mini-discs so you can play Gamecube games on the Wii. The Wii U supports the Wii discs so you can play Wii games on your Wii U until further notice you can pretty much buy confidently the Wii U and expect Wii U games to work on the NX. Even if those games end up not working as in the NX for some odd reason doesn't have a disk drive which I know is a rumor going on out there. So let's say you prescribe to the rumor that the NX won't have a disk drive. Chances are it'll still be backwards compatible. Nintendo has a history of it. What they'll do is they'll just convert your disk games into a digital code or a digital library and then you'll be able to redownload those games onto your NX. Yeah I mean obviously this is a lot of speculative talk but Nintendo has a history of this for the last 15 years and they've shown no reason that they're not going to do it. On top of that the Xbox one offers backwards compatibility. The PlayStation is trying to do a streaming thing which doesn't really it's not really backwards compatibility because you got a rent slash rebuy games but yeah it's still something that around system that exists. Nintendo believes in carrying their libraries. This is the first HD console so the games are still going to look absolutely fantastic on the NX just like they do today. So yeah backwards compatibility is probably going to happen so you could confidently get a Wii U, get your Wii U games now and they will carry over and you know to kind of jump off of that you know your Wii U can once you get everything transferred could probably be resold and you'll probably get like a hundred or so bucks if you look at it it's a hundred dollar investment to enjoy Nintendo's greatest games they have right now. On top of all of that we get to reason number three I just brought it up it's the games. The reason to own any video game hardware is the games and the Wii U has a great library. Don't let the people fool you if you really have enjoyed previous Nintendo content throughout your life you're probably going to enjoy it what the Wii U already has and what it has coming out in the future. As an example you know yes there's Mario Kart 8 yes there's Smash Bros we've had that every generation since the N64 however that's not it there's a brand new IP in Splatoon I'm sure you've heard a lot about Splatoon it's fantastic it seems to be fitting in with the Smash and Mario Kart maybe a one per generation kind of thing so that game's absolutely fantastic there's Super Mario Maker there is Zombie U and while Zombie U is now on other consoles let's be honest the best version of Zombie U is on Wii U believe it or not despite the up rezzes and all the stuff the other consoles have the best versions on the Wii U honestly Zombie U and Super Mario Maker make best use of the gamepad to date there's the Wind Waker HD so if you're a big Zelda fan which I'm assuming you are and you really love the Wind Waker I honestly feel like the best version of the Wind Waker is on Wii U the improvements I've made so we got Twilight Princess HD coming next year as well for people who are really into the old school or older school you know Zelda games in the 3D realm post-doctoral time and then you know there's Pikmin 4 Pikmin 4 is coming out in the future but when I said Pikmin 4 I really meant Pikmin 3 Pikmin 3 hasn't been around since the Gamecube era it's nice to see it back it's really really good it looks really good it plays really well some people argue it's a little short but now it's actually gotten a little cheaper the game isn't $60 anymore so it's well worth jumping into at the prices you can find it at right now I've seen it as low as $40 there are some deals coming out this weekend that you could probably get it down in the 20s so just kind of shop around you're gonna find some good deals on Pikmin 3 in addition that's just some of the prior games I could talk about Bayonetta I could talk about the wonderful 101 honestly if you really want to know more about the Wii U's library very just type in Google Wii U games and you will find the Wikipedia article or Nintendo's own website and they will have a giant list of all the games that they've had come out there's a lot believe it or not there is a lot of gems in there and I haven't even gotten into the awesome indie titles like Shovel Knight as an example so that there's a lot of great content already on the Wii U so if you're someone who is kind of wavering on buying the Wii U because man there's just not a lot of content you have two-plus years worth of Nintendo games sitting on that console with more to come that's the key you know I already mentioned this year we've had Splatoon we've had Super Mario Maker those are kind of the big two Nintendo titles you will just pretend Mario Tennis doesn't exist but we also have Xenoblade Chronicles X coming out next week early previews of it in the United States have sounded really really well it seems like everyone is enjoying it it's massive one of the biggest games it just in terms of how big the world is in the industry which is impressive and that of itself think about it one of the biggest worlds that exist isn't on the PlayStation 4 it's not on the Xbox one it's on the Wii U I mean that's crazy you know so that's the big game coming out next or if you like JRPGs it's a great time to jump in we're gonna get one of the best JRPGs probably of this generation and then next year we obviously have Star Fox Zero coming out we know that for sure and as Nintendo has continually confirmed all year this year Zelda U is coming to the Wii U it may also come to the NX no one knows but that doesn't matter it's coming to the Wii U if you want to play Zelda U you know for sure it's coming to the Wii U and besides you know I do you want to invest in the NX when it might cost $300 $400 or a Wii U that costs half that price just to play that Zelda game I mean just saying if you're a game around a budget the Wii U makes a lot of sense right now a lot of great content it's cheap and it's probably going to be backwards compatible up to the NX if NX is going to be able to play your Wii U library so you could buy Wii U games confidently that's that's really it I mean what more reason do you need to buy the Wii U you know if you're looking for third-party games you're obviously not going to find that as much on the Wii U you know I mentioned Band-Aid 2 and the wonderful 101 Nintendo contracts for that if you care Mass Effect 3 is also on here there has not been a new Mass Effect game since so yeah I don't know why you might play it on the Wii U when the previous two games aren't available on the Wii U but it's there if you want to play it Assassin's Creed 3 which I feel is actually one of the better Assassin's Creed especially compared to some of the offerings they've had lately but it's just it's just not you know you're not gonna find third-party content really on the Wii U so if you don't want to buy a Wii U that could be a chief reason why but if you've enjoyed previous Nintendo content it's cheaper than ever if you think about it for the cost of buying a 3DS you could buy a Wii U and enjoy all these awesome games and HD Nintendo has been releasing DS games on it it's it's just a blast I have a great time with the Wii U so if you're worried you know that you're not gonna get your money's worth out of the console go ahead and look at that game library look at how cheap the console is look at the deals you can get here over Black Friday and Cyber Monday you know kind of look around at all that stuff and look at the games and I think you're gonna find yourself quickly convinced that the Wii U is worth it at the price you're gonna be getting it for you know that's just my personal preference but I think you're gonna end up not regretting that decision and if Zelda you ends up being the main reason you buy it and it goes to NX you're still gonna get it on the Wii U so don't feel bad in fact if it goes to the NX I can't imagine it's really gonna change a whole lot in fact we're probably lacking gamepad features and as we mentioned when zombie you went off to other consoles it's still better on the Wii U and I think there's a lot of people that will let tell you that Twilight Princess is better on the GameCube than it is on the Wii which is why some people are excited the GameCube version is coming to Wii U so just keep that in mind too that you know if you're worried about Zelda U the best version of the game probably going to end up being the one they've been making for four or five years now for the Wii U so yeah those are my top three reasons I hope you enjoyed this week's episode leave comments and questions down below you can follow me on Twitter at Nate Jants you can follow Zelda Informer at Zelda Informer or on Facebook look us up Zelda Informer we're on all the various social media channels you just look up Zelda Informer check us out at zeldinformer.com we got lots of great content coming your way especially for this holiday season and I hope you guys are having fun playing Triforce Heroes and if you're not let me know why you're not that's all I got for you today I will see you next week