funnily enough, i've been considering buying a wii or wii u for ease of access in terms of playing games with guests over, i've ended up settling for a wii thanks to not having to buy a gamecube controller adapter (although both can run gcn natively, albeit with custom firmware in the wii u's case which i'm gonna be doing anyway) and being generally cheaper, though i did have to buy a wii2hdmi adapter for it which closed the price gap a little, anyway, shouldn't take too long for it to arrive in the mail

WiiU had decent specs for it's time, and had some good games. The problem is it was just a cumbersome concept. The Switch isn't even that much more powerful than WiiU, but it refined the concept and might end up being the best selling console of all time when said and done

Get a hard drive, homebrew your console, and download a lot of free Wii U games so you can play with unlimited time…