I disagree. The games you mention as being crud are from being so. A lot of those games are great and even if you don't care about them a lot of Wii U owners do and those are exactly the kind of games the Wii U needs. The attitude of people like you happy with the first party and second party exclusives is certainly not a representative of the wider Wii U community any one who bought one certainly didn't make a mistake in doing so. They have every right to expect the same games that are being released on other consoles. Unfortunately with the state of the Wii U as it is today most third parties don't really have a financial incentive to release their games on the Wii U. A lot of this has to do with Nintendo not being aggressive enough or providing the type of game playing experience found on other consoles especially when it comes to the online structure and how people's online accounts are handled.
Great compared to what? The more of the conditioning i see in action the more I have to agree with Jonathan blow and jason rohrer.
The only people who thinks the majority of the product churned out by the aaa factory line can be considered good, nevermind great, either dont know any better, as the bulk of their gaming experience actually did take place in the seventh generation, or have been conditioned to stockholm syndrome.
We should be LIGHTYEARS past where aaa gaming is right now. Instead, were playing the exact same games for three generation straight.
Compared to what ive seen, the games ive played in their time, those games are mostly degenerative garbage falling far short of where they should be, when compared to what previous generations did in their time.
Its not that were happy with first and second party exclusives, its that we refuse to be a part of feeding the cancer thats destroying our hobby. Plus I really cant stomach 'playing' another game where all I really do is watch the computer automatically do everything i used to do, while I hold the stick in a general direction until i get to the next consecutive context sensitive area, where the game tells me to press a button while standing close to thing, and then i watch the character do something with thing, and then cutscene plays.
Its like the difference between going on a grand adventure, and being on a crappy amusement park ride depicting said adventure.
Its crap. Its all crap.