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I'm going to get one because ever since my kids have discovered the old Super Mario Brothers Super Show on Netflix they've been completely hooked on all things Mario. Super Mario 3D World for the Wii U was such a great family game that we've been playing it for close to 3 years now.

It had such a good cooperative experience that we could even play with my 4 year old pretty quickly. We even had a big night out for dinner after we finally beat the crown world. :-)

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I'm 26 now but I can say that some of my greatest memories as a kid are the times I spent gaming with my brother and dad. I simply cannot think of SNES without thinking about the three of us working our way through all of the old Donkey Kong games. I'm sure your kids will be the same :)

33 and SNES games still give me a nostalgia kick to the face. So many warm happy memories of that system and time of my life.

I fondly remember being unable to beat Vargas in FF6 (FF3 in the States I think?) with the Left-Right-Left Sabin command, and my dad trying to do it for me (and failing as well). :)

Still my all time favorite console game to this day.

I had so much fun with Super Mario 3D World that the new Mario is definitely THE reason to buy Switch. I bought the Zelda for my old WiiU just because I had the console and the game is basically the same as it is for Switch.

I watched some trailers from Super Mario Odyssey, where Mario was in a sandbox looking for adventures, like in Mario 64, but the sandbox was an actual real city and that really sold the game for me. The proper Mario games have always been massively fun which I can't always say about the Zelda games; the last Zelda before BotW I truly liked was Wind Waker. And there are rumors for a new Super Mario Galaxy game to the new console.

But all in all, these games are so far away in the future I can surely buy the new console in 2018 when I've finished BotW and its DLC's.

I wouldn't say BotW is the same on the switch, the graphics are much more pleasing on the switch.

Well, then it's a good reason to play the game again with Switch on 2018. For what I looked comparison videos on Youtube the graphics are not that different and I've really really enjoyed the Wii U version. And gosh the game is beautiful!

And this comes from a guy who enjoyed Witcher 3 with ultra graphics and 60 fps as his last game. :)

Since you own the disk you could extract the ROM and probably before 2018 comes play BotW in much higher quality than the Switch can do, on your PC. ;) Emulation sure has come a long way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg0h-ZgVLAI

I know, I've been following the cemu project now. Waiting for the point where I don't need to spend hours on tweaking to get that steady 30 fps (or, gasp, 60 fps) with my Steam Controller. But Zelda reminded me again, that sometimes slow framerate doesn't really matter that much when the game is this good.

might want to consider a wiiu.. mario maker is amazing(o) in its own right, but it sounds perfect for your situation

there must be a Mario maker switch on the horizon but it's yet to be discussed from nintendo

(o) https://youtu.be/KKIm3mFk-6U

Just FYI: he already has a Wii U - I think you're confusing 3D World with 3D Land, which was on the 3DS.

Mario Maker is great though, yes.

As a father with an infant daughter, I am so looking forward to (carefully) introducing her to video games. My wife couldn't care less about them, but I'm hoping she inherits my love of them.

Wow that sounds awesome. What a great way for a family to bond :)

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