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  1. Dude you must come from a strange family.

    Fixed.

    Lol, I dunno, we've always been able to focus on two devices at once. For years I played pokemon while watching TV. In fact, I often played on my DS, while also having my laptop open with breeding and item location info. That's 4 screens! I guess I never even thought twice about the Wii U's two screen setup: it sure won't be unusual for me.

  2. The Wii U Gamepad has almost zero lag. In fact, it's actually

    And anyone who has fears about playing with a tablet controller and TV at the same time: people had the same fear about the 2 screens of the DS. Plus, everyone in my family is always on their ipad/phone while watching TV, so clearly we are capable of focusing on two screens at once.

  3. Also yeah, I don't know if it's just because my sensor bar has taken more than a few good whacks, there's wireless interference, or I got a dude Wiimote+, but I had problems syncing the thing with my Wii and my wireless sensor bar for PC on a consistent basis. Seriously hope they deal with that for the Wii U.

    Yeah, you should really get a female Wiimote +, they work way better and are much more reliable.

  4. I always love seeing the home menu/UI of a new system. Personally I think the Wii had probably the most user friendly UI ever, and I love all the little secrets and fun things you can do on the lesser-used channels like the Photo Channel. I hope Nintendo continues to put in a lot of easter eggs.

    I'm probably going to get most of my games boxed, since I love boxart and displaying them on my shelf, but the one title that I for sure will get digitally is Wii Fit U. The biggest deterrent to using Wii Fit was having to take out the game in the wii, put it back in the case, take out Wii fit, put the disc in... it's easier just to get fat. The Wii fit Menu was great, though, I used that all the time. So having the full 'game' downloaded on the system will definitely give me more incentive to actually try and get fit.

  5. Once upon a time Nintendo tried something new. Luigi's Mansion is a great example of them trying something new, as well as Paper Mario. Both excellent games that tried to break the normal formula. But now Nintendo gets a free ride as far as innovation is concerned. No one seems to care that they just dont try anymore. Because the release a waggle stick that doesn't work well or a gimped tablet pc that more than likely wont work very well, Nintendo gets to ride on the way of stupid customers shelling out there money because they don't know or care to know.

    Much like Squeenix has lost their way with development, Nintendo seems to be phoning it in. If that is what they want to do, that is fine. I just really hate that they are going that way.

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  6. I suspect that these early-run models will be much more prone to breakdown than later-run models, much like the Wii.

    Well, technically this is true for any electronic device.

    Although maybe a different loading mechanism would be better for protecting disks, I can already hear the outcry from Nintendo haters that using anything other than a disc-loader is old and archaic and the Wii U should be banned etc

  7. Am I the only one who liked Red Steel?

    Nope, I actually quite enjoyed that game, but I got it in like 2009 or so for $5 new. It certainly wasn't the game it was hyped up to be, but for what it was, it was fun and enjoyable. I think people are just afraid that Zombi U (do you fight Zombiis in it? lol) won't live up to the hype. At this point I think it's a given that the game will be good, but maybe not as good as people are hoping.

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    That's kind of sad to hear. I really liked the first Darksiders, so I'll probably give the second game a try, but at least now I know not to have super high expectations.

    I preordered the Deluxe Wii U the other day and I was actually the first person to preorder at the Best Buy. I'm hoping to get NSMBU with it, and Pikmin if it's a launch title. I'm looking forward to adding you all when I get it!

  9. Pretty much what Malaki and Crowbar said. Sure graphics can get better (the fox engine and unreal 4 kind of blew my mind) but do we really need graphics that good? It's really the art style that matters in the end. Metroid Prime 3 looks outstanding, thanks to its art design and intelligent use of resources. And while Mario Galaxy would look excellent in 1080P, more advanced shaders etc wouldn't do much to improve the art.

    I'm really interested in seeing what Nintendo does with its stronger console with games like Zelda and Metroid.

  10. See, the best games and hardware are the ones that are built for each other, especially when the system was designed around a certain game. For example, the N64 was designed for Mario 64. You can just tell from how the system is built: the analogue stick was included to give mario free movement in 3D, the C buttons were added to control the camera around him, etc. The Wii was designed to play Skyward Sword, it just happened to come way late in the console's life.

    I haven't yet seen that game for the Wii U. As fun as Nintendo Land looks, it's more likely than not a case of "we have all these awesome features, what games can we make to take advantage of them?" And while there's nothing wrong with games like that per se, the best games are the ones which had the hardware built around them. I'm going to give Nintendo the benefit of the doubt however and assume that they have such a game in development. I believe a Metroid (maybe Prime, maybe not) title could be that game. The HD graphics, the second screen with touch functionality... All those features would be right at home in a Metroid game.

  11. Yup. Definitely getting the Premium package. I wasn't able to watch the video, and Nintendo's site keeps trying to show me the ustream or something. I didn't see anywhere that the Premium package includes Nintendoland. Any link that says so?

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    here ya be

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    $150? That will be quite the wait. The Wii only just recently dropped to that.

  12. It was a pretty good event, and 50 launch window games?? Whoa, that's nothing to sneeze at.

    I'm probably going for the premium set, although I just hope that Nintendo Land comes in a proper case rather than one of those cardboard slips so I can display it properly.

    But the TVii thing confuses me. The Wii U doesn't have a port for cable tv, so how on earth does it know what channels you have available? other than that, it looks really cool, but if Nintendo is so set on making the Wii U your entertainment center (so you never have to switch inputs to the TV again) then why didn't they spend the extra $15 and just put in a DVD player? I mean COME ON.

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