With the onset of powerful personal computers in the early 2000s, the market share and sales reeled in from games have become substantial some say they rival Hollywood. Personal computers are owed some of the major advances and innovations in the gaming industry. When we got married and moved in together I figure I didn't have a need for a second Wii U, so I boxed it up and sold it.It is possible to argue that the gaming industry and the silicon valleys’ of the world are mutually inclusive of each other. What's worse, and which haunts me, is that at a point I actually did have a spare console: I bought my girlfriend (now wife) a Wii U in 2015 as she wanted to play Splatoon, and I ended up getting her the 32GB White Deluxe model direct from Nintendo, which as far as I can tell is pretty much a unicorn in the US. I'm seriously tempted to pick up a spare console on eBay to drop into storage should I ever need it while prices aren't ridiculous. Should I be concerned at this point that if/when my Wii U fails that getting it replaced will be an expensive endeavor, am I just being being silly? There's only 13.5 million units of the thing in the wild, and you can assume that at most half of those are US region systems, meaning that the pool of hardware is roughly 6.75 million, not accounting for systems that have already failed and/or ended up in a landfill. If either the console or gamepad physically breaks or fails in some way, is there any one out there that would repair them at this point? I'm sure Nintendo doesn't accept it for repair anymore, and third party repair shops may not have access to spare parts in the same way they would with other platforms.
As far as I can tell everything seems to be working fine, and I do my best to keep up with preventative maintenance, dusting out intake and exhaust areas before playing it, but it's only a matter of time before it gives up the ghost, saying nothing of the Gamepad itself. I bought my WIi U on launch day back in 2012, so it's going to be ten years old this year. While the Wii U hasn't quite suffered a similar fate judging by a cursory glance on eBay, I figure it's only a matter of time before it happens.
Jeremy was mentioning how 3DS hardware has suddenly skyrocketed since its discontinuation, meaning that getting new or used hardware these days is an expensive endeavor. I started listening to the "3DS and Wii U Deathbed Recommendations" episode of the Retronauts podcast last night and something really stuck to me.
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