[Wii] Wii U : And you thought the Wii was a stupid name...

So far it's been pretty good. I've mostly just been messing around with the system features and miiverse. Sunday was brutal for Nintendo's servers from the system update that took like an hour to just download and then all the errors from miiverse being overloaded. Monday was so much better. Miiverse was usable, I had fun sending stupid messages to skills and also trying out the chat feature with him. I then downloaded, installed, and played some of Mighty Switch Force Hyper Drive Edition which is what you'd expect. It's the same game in HD minus the 3D effect which is still fun. I've also played about 1 and a half worlds of New Super Mario Bros. U which is probably the first decent game in the series. Took them long enough. I haven't gotten around to playing Nintendo Land or Zombie U. Partly because I'm enjoying just playing on the gamepad and the really old 32 inch TV I have in my room is cutting off the outer edges of the picture for some stupid reason and I'd like to experience the game on a better display. Oh and Netflix on this thing is pretty nice too.

I wouldn't say the Wii U is a must have yet if you're looking to buy it to get a must have exclusive title. I'm not even sure when that will happen either. Pikmin 3 will be fun and so will Wonderful 101 but the only titles in the future that I see being the super must haves are possibly Bayonetta 2 and the next Smash Bros. So if you're holding out for an entire year I understand. However I must state that your best bang for your buck is to get the Deluxe model. The extra storage really helps and having a pack-in title for less than retail plus charging cradle etc. etc. is really worth the extra 50 bucks. I don't understand why Nintendo even has two versions of the console. They should just have a black model and a white model with all the stuff the deluxe model has packed in.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

no lie the first message he sent me had a dick in it

but really it would have been shocking if it hadn't

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Oh also I made a thread for sharing your Nintendo Network ID. Feel free to share yours there and I'll add it to the grand list of IDs I have found so far. If you are in the list and you would like to be removed please let me know.

http://www.gamingforce.org/forums/vi...epository.html

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Yeah, pretty stupid of Nintendo not to have a fail safe on updates like that. I've heard if you tell it no when it asks you to update you can then go into download management and have it download the update in the background while you play games and such. But yeah pretty terribad that a power outage while trying to download the HOUR LONG download can potentially brick your brand new console. I have no idea what they were thinking.

Oh and speaking of PS3 style updates before you even start New Super Mario Bros. U you get to download an update for that too. But hey at the very least Nintendo isn't taking the Microsoft route to patching games. All developers can patch their games FOR FREE.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Wow! Now that's a birthday present. <3

Also this video does a better job advertising Earthbound than the entirety of of the original ad campaign. They learned!

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oh hey I almost forgot we had a thread for this

Well, for those of us with a Wii U Nintendo has finally made it so you can buy an extended battery for the gamepad on their online store. Makes it last supposedly for 8 hours. Far better than the maybe 3 hours it was getting with the standard battery.

Go and nab one before they uh I dunno sell out? Is that a thing that even happens with the Wii U? I dunno. Anyway, I'd buy one. I did. You have a Wii U? Then ya might as well too. Pretend it's a great new game or something.

https://store.nintendo.com/webapp/wc...encyPreference

How ya doing, buddy?