Best Buy: ZELDA: Breath Of The Wild WII U $38.99 Clearance $31.19 GCU

Thanks for the heads up, I was starting to give up hope for a discount. I still have GCU so it’s even better.


“He who throws dirt loses ground.”
 
It's also the same price on their ebay page

With the current 10% ebay coupon running until 8am EST tomorrow, that's an alternative for people who do not have GCU

It would be $35.09 plus tax

 
Also on Google Express for $38 and Google Express has 25% off “first time shoppers” coupon.


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This game runs like complete ass in several sections on the Wii u. I actually waited to buy a switch and just got this for Wii u when it came out. I was happy at first, as the first few hours seem fine. Once I experienced frame rate dips in the teens more frequently though,especially in heavily wooded areas, I got curious and bought a switch along with Zelda. What a huge difference! I thought there would be some gamepad features exclusive to this version as well, like integration similar to Wind Waker remaster. But alas, nothing. There is literally every reason to purchase this on the switch. And if you don't have a switch yet it is worth it for the experience it provides for this title alone!
 
This game runs like complete ass in several sections on the Wii u. I actually waited to buy a switch and just got this for Wii u when it came out. I was happy at first, as the first few hours seem fine. Once I experienced frame rate dips in the teens more frequently though,especially in heavily wooded areas, I got curious and bought a switch along with Zelda. What a huge difference! I thought there would be some gamepad features exclusive to this version as well, like integration similar to Wind Waker remaster. But alas, nothing. There is literally every reason to purchase this on the switch. And if you don't have a switch yet it is worth it for the experience it provides for this title alone!
Thanks for the input. I never got around to asking this question so it's a definite pass on the Wii U version for me now.

 
I played the Wii U version and had minimal frame rate issues.  They happened, but I didn't think they ruined the game.  This is a great price for this version of the game if you plan on playing it, in my opinion.

 
I have it on Wii U as well, and yes it had super terrible framrate in sections....like the hotel on the rain forest path, the woods where you find the master sword, Ganon's castle. Complete slideshows. I usually don't get hung up on this stuff but it was baaaad.

 
I have it on Wii U as well, and yes it had super terrible framrate in sections....like the hotel on the rain forest path, the woods where you find the master sword, Ganon's castle. Complete slideshows. I usually don't get hung up on this stuff but it was baaaad.
Dude... Lol just stop.
You gotta love the internet. A slideshow? Lmao
 
Dude... Lol just stop.
You gotta love the internet. A slideshow? Lmao
It was easily the worst framerate performance I've personally experienced in a major title in several generations. I haven't touched it since summer of last year so they might've patched it further, but that hotel area and the castle (in certain sections) were straight up dipping into the teens with so much going on. It was terrible.

 
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FWIW, I’ve played through the whole game on both Wii U and Switch, it played just fine through the whole game on the Wii U. The only real frame rate issues I encountered happened whenever I defeated a moblin, when it would burst into a cloud/explosion, the game would freeze for a half-second, and then continue on as if nothing had happened. Honestly, I’d have thought it intentional if it happened with every enemy. Nope! Just moblins.
 
It was easily the worst framerate performance I've personally experienced in a major title in several generations. I haven't touched it since summer of last year so they might've patched it further, but that hotel area and the castle (in certain sections) were straight up dipping into the teens with so much going on. It was terrible.
You must not play many games, then

 
This game runs like complete ass in several sections on the Wii u. I actually waited to buy a switch and just got this for Wii u when it came out. I was happy at first, as the first few hours seem fine. Once I experienced frame rate dips in the teens more frequently though,especially in heavily wooded areas, I got curious and bought a switch along with Zelda. What a huge difference! I thought there would be some gamepad features exclusive to this version as well, like integration similar to Wind Waker remaster. But alas, nothing. There is literally every reason to purchase this on the switch. And if you don't have a switch yet it is worth it for the experience it provides for this title alone!
Well, to be honest, on release the Switch version had some framerate drops in areas as well - notably in heavy grassy areas under certain circumstances. They patched it in fairly quick order, but as usual Nintendo did not go into details about what they changed, just that it had "performance improvements". It was rumored to be related to the fact this was originally developed for the WiiU, so I don't know if that meant the problems were even fixable on the WiiU or if it ever got a similar patch.

Unlike normal games which might lose a frame or two here and there, it seems Zelda was designed to flat drop to 20 FPS (probably to maintain a consistent refresh multiple of 60, which often seems smoother in gameplay than uneven dips) if it could not maintain 30 FPS making the drops more obvious. It isn't a slideshow (LOL, I grew up with Starfox and Panzer Dragoon), but in this day of frequent 60 FPS games and pretty much everything else being 30, it might seem like that.

The last Zelda game to straddle generations was Twilight Princess, but there was good reason to consider the previous gen version with that. Swinging a sword with a button and getting rid of the motion control actions had a great deal of appeal. Not to mention purists preferred the Gamecube version's making Link left handed (the Wii version was mirrored to match user input). Until the remaster came out, I was still considering finding a Gamecube version at some point just over the buttons even though I had the Wii version. But with BotW, there is no reason to consider the WiiU version if you have a Switch, it has zero advantages over the Switch (other than price in this case).

 
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You must not play many games, then
I've played a good bit (of well received titles), and it...at times...was easily the worst in terms of performance.

Were those moments frequent? No, because I didn't spend a lot of time in those areas, and they only amount to a fraction of the ninety-some hours I sank into the game, but thinking back on my overall experience, those moments stick out like a sore thumb as the framerate was a constant issue early on. The first town (Kakariko Village) chugged along so poorly pre-patch I avoided most quests found there, and the areas I mentioned remained a problem after several.

They may have patched the game further correcting those issues after I quit playing, I don't know, but I'm not sitting here tossing shade because of some silly gamer grudge trying to talk someone out of a purchase (I quite liked Breath of the Wild despite it not having a very engaging story), I'm just chiming in with my experience with that particular version.

Regardless of how you can play it, it's a game that should be played.

 
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They may have patched the game further correcting those issues after I quit playing, I don't know, but I'm not sitting here tossing shade because of some silly gamer grudge trying to talk someone out of a purchase (I quite liked Breath of the Wild despite it not having a very engaging story), I'm just chiming in with my experience with that particular version.

Regardless of how you can play it, it's a game that should be played.
I agree with you, I don't think anyone's trying to bash the game, just toss out their experiences with it. It's funny that console's are supposed to be similar hardware, so you'd assume all issues would be the same, but that never seems to be the same for any one anymore, as small variables on the system seem to effect everyone else differently.

(I'm just spit-balling, here, too, but what if users with low frame rates had installed the game to an SD card, and the SD card didn't have enough of a read/write rate?)

 
Not cheap enough for me, but not a bad price. I have the Switch version as well so that helps make this less appealing since I only want it for collecting purposes, hoping to snag one for $20 or so when they inevitably start getting cleared out with the remaining Wii U games everywhere. I've been picking up Wii U games that I want for cheap pretty often lately, but I am not going for a complete collection or anything, but I do agree that the Wii U version will inevitably be much more valuable than the Switch release ala' Twilight Princess on Wii and Gamecube. 

Right now though Wii U is probably as cheap as it's going to get before the prices start going back up. A lot of you probably remember how cheap GameCube games got for a while and look at them now!

 
I guess your to young to remember what happened to twilight princess. =/ Wait for your switch drop...
Twilight Princess got expensive on the Gamecube because it's the objectively better version of the game since it lacks motion controls and is also the less available version (still very available though, the pricing is a joke). The Switch version this time around is by far the better version for control options, visuals, and performance, so it's not the same scenario.

 
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Twilight Princess got expensive on the Gamecube because it's the objectively better version of the game since it lacks motion controls and is also the less available version (still very available though, the pricing is a joke). The Switch version this time around is by far the better version for control options, visuals, and performance, so it's not the same scenario.
No the Wii U version is the better version of the game.
 
When $39 for a 1 1/2 year old game is a "clearance" price. Though I'd wager sealed Wii U copies will be going for $100 on eBay in 5-10 years
 
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thanks for the heads up on the drop.  Was on the fence but pulled the trigger since I had the $30 cert from the BB card ($300 purchases outside of BB) and got another $1 off for in store pick up.  $2.17 out the door.

 
At $28 after tax and with gcu I grabbed another copy. Zelda is my favorite series so I tend to keep a sealed copy and a copy to play. I never did this with the Wii U version just buying 1 Wii U copy and then opening and playing the switch version. Now someday I can play the Wii U version and still have a sealed copy as well. Guess I need to buy the dlc again for the Wii U wish it was cross buy. Silly I know but I only do this kind of crazy stuff with Zelda.
 
Twilight Princess got expensive on the Gamecube because it's the objectively better version of the game since it lacks motion controls and is also the less available version (still very available though, the pricing is a joke). The Switch version this time around is by far the better version for control options, visuals, and performance, so it's not the same scenario.
I don’t know about ‘objectively better’. No motion controls is nice, but the gcn version is in full screen, compared to the widescreen of the wii version.

It’s worth more because it is much rarer than the wii version and Zelda fans are crazy. This one will be expensive too, imo.
 
Pop Swiss on a memory card, load it up with Twilight Princess save hack, enable widescreen hack for the disc, then load the game up again. FIXED! I literally just did this today for the first time, and it works great.

On a Wii and not a gamecube? Softmod your Wii and use a HDD loader coupled with Nintendont, which also allows widescreen hacks.

Both options allow the gamecube version to run with the same 16:9 capability of the Wii version, except without the world mirrored or motion controls tacked on.
 
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