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For the first time in three years, there's a new route in the fastest The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time speedrunning category, and it comes down to an unlikely savior: the Wii U.
When the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) launched, it was an instant success following some of the legendary Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). Nintendo sold out the initial shipment of 300,000 systems within hours, making it one of the best-selling consoles of all time. While not quite as big of a quantum leap as the jump to the N64 would be, the SNES was a technical powerhouse for its time.
It wasn’t the first console created, but the NES was most people’s first exposure to home video games and was responsible for pulling the entire industry out of a crash. This is where some of the most iconic video game franchises got their start, and many of the best games of all time come from this humble system. Although the best Switch games have highlighted some of Nintendo’s strengths, Nintendo’s dedication to the craft began here.
The Sega Genesis was an incredible system when it was launched in 1989. Featuring hit franchises such as the best Sonic games and best Mortal Kombat games, the console was able to go toe-to-toe with the best SNES games — an impressive feat when you look at all the series only available on Nintendo’s system. But the Genesis was no slouch in the games department. Not only was it home to exclusives such as Streets of Rage 2 and Altered Beast, but it also made use of a unique subscription service called Sega Channel. This gave owners rotating access to some of the best titles the system had to offer, much like PlayStation Plus and Xbox Game Pass do today.
Nintendo seemed untouchable in the handheld market, but even fans were a little confused when we first saw the DS. This was the start of Nintendo experimenting with weird ideas for its systems, in this case making a handheld that had two screens. Unlike the Wii U, people loved everything about the DS, most of all its games. There are hundreds of hidden gems to discover in this clamshell console, including some we think are the best games of all time. Let’s narrow the list down as much as we can and list only the best of the best.
The Paris Olympics are just getting underway, but the event has already made history by being the first Olympics in 16 years to arrive without a new edition of Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games.
Nintendo doesn’t often have massive blunders, but the Wii U was certainly a dark time for the company. Riding high off the huge success that the best Wii games brought, the Wii U tried to keep that momentum by building on that branding. That strategy ended up backfiring big-time in the sales department, but not due to a poor lineup of games.
The Nintendo Wii was a bona-fide cultural juggernaut, with over 100 million consoles sold during its lifespan. It was never the biggest console in the world, with a size approximating a paperback book. Modders, however, have managed to shrink the Wii’s footprint way down. They made a functional console that’s no bigger than a keychain, as reported by Time Extension. As a matter of fact, it actually doubles as a keychain.