My Wii U Review

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Oh one more thing I wanna point out before I forgot is the Nintendo eshop.

Almost every retail game is available on it ranging anywhere from 2gb to 16gb download. A lot of the games are $10-$20 cheaper then retail store. Now if you purchase deluxe system you can enroll in program that gives back % what you spend in points

So $50 game = 500 points = $5 store credit.

All the indie games like trine 2 and neo are $10-20. So after a few purchases you can basically get a free indie game is a good way of looking at it


The reason I bring this up is bc wii u lets you attach an external Hd up to 3tb. 1tb can hold 60 games

I am starting to feel that Nintendo is trying to cut out retail like GameStop and encourage gamers to go all digital. You can easily have all your games on the hard dive and they are easy to access through the menu

If your worked about game manuals all the games have a virtual manual software that you can access through the game pad via the home button. I love this instead of the paper booklet

Also Rahman legend demo is piff :ahh:
@Liquid yes I would say that. Portable game system/Netflix/Hulu/Internet half size of Xbox and fits in your bookbag
 
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Egads.......This thread is..................is a mess....I have WiiU but I have never even tried the Miiverse because im not a 'social' gamer. I never had facebook or myspace, and TBH I have never even voice chatted during game play online. Really since honestly online gaming has been so accessible console wise Ive never fukked with it heavy like that. I used to be that motherfukkin guy on PC playing anything online from Quake 2 to Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 and tons of shyt in between I used to fukk with Madden online and initially some FPS but I used to like keyboard and mouse vs controllers for FPS since its been so long im :flabbynsick:

So Ive seen Miiverse and i think its cool that people do shyt and it pops up on my console screen but idk about anything else.

The only way you can compare the consoles is to have the same game on 2 different consoles and change your inputs!!!!!!! anything else is seriously retarded hearsay. You can talk about all the specs each system has had since the creation of gaming but if you havent seen it with your own eyes its anything you say is bullshyt.

I cant cosign NSMB because I havent seen it. I have seen Assassins Creed 3 and COD BLOPS2...Im being straight and not biased when I say for those games they virtually have no differences....they look good.

@Cockmeat Sandwich ..first off why are you so mad? Pop your knuckles, stand up talk a couple of deep breaths and walk around for about 2 mins. Take it easy homie, it aint that serious. For real, we are talkin about games here. Don't you have a family? You shouldnt get so stressed about the little things.

Where did you see jaggies...what game because for real real...i'll buy the game put it on my tvs and take pictures, if your talking about AC3 or BLOPS2 then im hard pressed to call you a liar. Before my shyt broke, I was deep into ZombiU and while it could be better its not terrible. I know what Jaggies look like...I have Skyward Sword and Twilight Princess for Wii while I thoroughly enjoy TP and I havent really scratched the surface of SS (my rainy day games) They are Jaggy as fuuuuuuuuck.

Iono what homie is talkin about takin the gamepad somewhere...because it aint goin more than 25-30ft at best.

Youtube app was dope I hadnt used it since the update but its possible it aint working.

Netflix is actually dope, ive never had it or used it, but the functionality via WiiU is cool, I have Whole Home DVR plus OnDemand so theres nothing Id really need Netflix for but I tried it and it was cool
 
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I am starting to feel that Nintendo is trying to cut out retail like GameStop and encourage gamers to go all digital. You can easily have all your games on the hard dive and they are easy to access through the menu

If your worked about game manuals all the games have a virtual manual software that you can access through the game pad via the home button. I love this instead of the paper booklet

Also Rahman legend demo is piff :ahh:
@Liquid yes I would say that. Portable game system/Netflix/Hulu/Internet half size of Xbox and fits in your bookbag

All systems are moving toward digital DL's to replace physical copies..Thus Gamestop folks are starting to question whether their existance will be needed, granted they sell tons of accessories, their markups on used games and such aint gonna matter when people can cop it directly from their console.

What are you talking about taking the gamepad places? And not every title is available, from what I can see its only certain developers, like EA, Ubisoft----You can correct me if Im wrong, I know ZombiU is a download, AC3 could possibly be (thats what I need someone with a system to check)...but BLOPS2 is not...

AC3 and ZombiU are both Ubisoft so I think they are both digital download but im not quite sure, I browsed the store often but there aint a lot on it yet.
 
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Egads.......This thread is..................is a mess....I have WiiU but I have never even tried the Miiverse because im not a 'social' gamer. I never had facebook or myspace, and TBH I have never even voice chatted during game play online. Really since honestly online gaming has been so accessible console wise Ive never fukked with it heavy like that. I used to be that motherfukkin guy on PC playing anything online from Quake 2 to Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 and tons of shyt in between I used to fukk with Madden online and initially some FPS but I used to like keyboard and mouse vs controllers for FPS since its been so long im :flabbynsick:

So Ive seen Miiverse and i think its cool that people do shyt and it pops up on my console screen but idk about anything else.

The only way you can compare the consoles is to have the same game on 2 different consoles and change your inputs!!!!!!! anything else is seriously retarded hearsay. You can talk about all the specs each system has had since the creation of gaming but if you havent seen it with your own eyes its anything you say is bullshyt.

I cant cosign NSMB because I havent seen it. I have seen Assassins Creed 3 and COD BLOPS2...Im being straight and not biased when I say for those games they virtually have no differences....they look good.

@Cockmeat Sandwich ..first off why are you so mad? Pop your knuckles, stand up talk a couple of deep breaths and walk around for about 2 mins. Take it easy homie, it aint that serious. For real, we are talkin about games here. Don't you have a family? You shouldnt get so stressed about the little things.

Where did you see jaggies...what game because for real real...i'll buy the game put it on my tvs and take pictures, if your talking about AC3 or BLOPS2 then im hard pressed to call you a liar. Before my shyt broke, I was deep into ZombiU and while it could be better its not terrible. I know what Jaggies look like...I have Skyward Sword and Twilight Princess for Wii while I thoroughly enjoy TP and I havent really scratched the surface of SS (my rainy day games) They are Jaggy as fuuuuuuuuck.

Iono what homie is talkin about takin the gamepad somewhere...because it aint goin more than 25-30ft at best.

Youtube app was dope I hadnt used it since the update but its possible it aint working.

Netflix is actually dope, ive never had it or used it, but the functionality via WiiU is cool, I have Whole Home DVR plus OnDemand so theres nothing Id really need Netflix for but I tried it and it was cool

nikka, shut up :rudy: I do have a family, nor was I mad when I wrote what I did write. What does bother me is when people like yourself and the other guy spread bullshyt lies as truth. Then you trying to trick other posters of this great community to fall for some shyt cuz you ignorant to what your speaking on. You said you was a PC gamer, cool. Its clear you don't know shyt about consoles tho. I could school you, but you'd cry and be like :sadbron: Don't you have a family"

The-Coli is my family, fukk everybody else :yeshrug:

Now I would of left on that note, but since I really do care about getting the truth out there?
You said nobody could compare unless they played both themselves?
Thats clearly not true. So your not very Net-smart. But from my actual experience with the system. I saw with my own two that the games look like crap compared to the xbox versions. Madden? Horrible. And since I was under the false impression that the wii-u was slightly more powerful? When I saw that? It killed it for me. Before that all I played was the Rayman demo which I really liked alot. Had me wanting to buy the system for my kids
Today I was at Toys R Us to cop a Nexus 7 for my daughter. Not too far away from that tablet was a Deluxe Wii-u just sitting there in stock
I was in that store for about an hour. Nobody bought it. I think the people have spoken. AS for comparisons? This really needs its own thread.

Just google that and literally every single review will say how they are inferior
This story right here breaks it down perfectly, everything about the wii-u and why it sucks...

Wii U is blatantly better than PS3 and Xbox 360 COMBINED - Destructoid
 
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Oh one more thing I wanna point out before I forgot is the Nintendo eshop.

Almost every retail game is available on it ranging anywhere from 2gb to 16gb download. A lot of the games are $10-$20 cheaper then retail store. Now if you purchase deluxe system you can enroll in program that gives back % what you spend in points

So $50 game = 500 points = $5 store credit.

All the indie games like trine 2 and neo are $10-20. So after a few purchases you can basically get a free indie game is a good way of looking at it


The reason I bring this up is bc wii u lets you attach an external Hd up to 3tb. 1tb can hold 60 games

I am starting to feel that Nintendo is trying to cut out retail like GameStop and encourage gamers to go all digital. You can easily have all your games on the hard dive and they are easy to access through the menu

If your worked about game manuals all the games have a virtual manual software that you can access through the game pad via the home button. I love this instead of the paper booklet

Also Rahman legend demo is piff :ahh:
@Liquid yes I would say that. Portable game system/Netflix/Hulu/Internet half size of Xbox and fits in your bookbag
That's all I needed, its suffering from the same issues that the Vita is.

You cannot simply launch a console...want people to keep downloading content on the regular basis and have it potentially be full with 2 games.

Unacceptable.
 
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That's all I needed, its suffering from the same issues that the Vita is.

You cannot simply launch a console...want people to keep downloading content on the regular basis and have it potentially be full with 2 games.

Unacceptable.

Wait! The Wii U doesn't have a hard drive?
 

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nikka, shut up :rudy: I do have a family, nor was I mad when I wrote what I did write. What does bother me is when people like yourself and the other guy spread bullshyt lies as truth. Then you trying to trick other posters of this great community to fall for some shyt cuz you ignorant to what your speaking on. You said you was a PC gamer, cool. Its clear you don't know shyt about consoles tho. I could school you, but you'd cry and be like :sadbron: Don't you have a family"

The-Coli is my family, fukk everybody else :yeshrug:

Now I would of left on that note, but since I really do care about getting the truth out there?
You said nobody could compare unless they played both themselves?
Thats clearly not true. So your not very Net-smart. But from my actual experience with the system. I saw with my own two that the games look like crap compared to the xbox versions. Madden? Horrible. And since I was under the false impression that the wii-u was slightly more powerful? When I saw that? It killed it for me. Before that all I played was the Rayman demo which I really liked alot. Had me wanting to buy the system for my kids
Today I was at Toys R Us to cop a Nexus 7 for my daughter. Not too far away from that tablet was a Deluxe Wii-u just sitting there in stock
I was in that store for about an hour. Nobody bought it. I think the people have spoken. AS for comparisons? This really needs its own thread.

Just google that and literally every single review will say how they are inferior
This story right here breaks it down perfectly, everything about the wii-u and why it sucks...

Wii U is blatantly better than PS3 and Xbox 360 COMBINED - Destructoid

:russ:

I saw and played what claimed to be Madden and it was an outright abomination on the WiiU. I was like

:ohhh:

:why:

Also, OP..... I thought that according to WiiU specs and design, you could not leave the house and play out and about around town. Not that anyone or rather most people would be sitting out at the park with this large console controller playing what is said to be 'Madden' but do you have a special edition WiiU? Is it truly mobile if you have to plug it in somewhere? Does that not defeat this seemingly positive if it's really an option? How is it that your WiiU does what Nintendo says it can't? Thanks though. Good to hear from someone who has the system.

Me, I am all about good quality tech as many here. So Just want to understand about your WiiU and the differences between it and possibly another WiiU that is available on the market?
 
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