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So I was reading an article on the Wii U...
12 years ago
...and everyone was just shitting on the guy who wrote it because he hates the fucking thing. You know what. So do I. It was a waste of money.
Here's the article. <--That's a URL
Here's my comment that yahoo wouldn't let me post. Fuck them by the way.
I actually agree with him. I have the console. When you really think about it. Nintendo didn't put a whole lot into this launch. they were trying to get to market before the holidays. The console isn't very polished.
First, the controller. It's very clunky. It feels like a huge plastic children's tablet. Baring that the construction feels cheap. The glossy Nintendo finish just doesn't feel nice on a tablet controller. Like. If they could have gone with a matte finish, maybe trimmed some of the fat and heft to the controller then yeah, great. But as it stands. It's clunky and very not nice.
then slap on the battery life. A, it's horrible. and I could tolerate that if it weren't for point B, not only does it destroy a battery, like a fat kid on cake, it can't charge off the system. so I now have to free up, or run an extension to my couch. I don't know about you guys. My couch is an island in my living room, there are no outlets near it and having to plug it in constantly blows.
Another problem I have is the screen. Okay, you guys might not have any problem with this. But I am so sick of resistive touch screens on Nintendo products. They're blurry, they're not as easy or nice to use with your actual fingers, they are all around not good when compared to something capacitive. Which is nicer to touch, more responsive, and have clearer visuals. Yes I get it. They tried to keep costs lower. But you know what, give me a less shitty product and I would be willing to fork out the extra fifty to hundred bucks it could have taken them.
Next lets move on the storage. Yes. I get it. I am supposed to expand the system with an external drive. Stellar. That doesn't change the fact that after you plug in and sit through all the long ass updates on the system. If you have the 8GB version you have literally just about 3GB left. Which is nothing. You can't even fit a full game on it. If they could have spent the extra money for a hard disk? Even a small one? I as a consumer can go buy an internal 250GB, 2.5 inch drive for about 40 bucks. Now they as a manufacturer who are using millions of these things in bulk can get that at a much lower price. It would not have inconvenienced them to throw in something. Even 20 or 30GB as a base would have been better than 8GB of flash memory that gets almost completely filled but a system update, not even something optional.
Now lets move on to the actual console unit. First off. And I have tried to keep my language nice here. Fuck having to reboot to run a fucking emulation of the old Wii dashboard just to use my old Wii apps. You know what, my 360 does the same thing (run an emulation) to play original Xbox games and it's seamless and quick. There is no time consuming reboot. This is unheard of and completely lazy. If you want to throw in backward compatibility, yay great for you, but don't make it feel like a literal afterthought that was so tacked on that it isn't even there. That the system has to actually leave it's intended operating function to go off and run this as some little side thing.
And for everyone calling him a fanboy for mentioning that kids are likely playing on some Apple Product rather than on this thing, he's right. There are children in this world who don't own a console. Who don't want one. Because they would rather play Angry Birds and Cut the Rope on Mommy and Daddy's Android or iDevice. Mobile games are a competitor to gaming companies now. As shitty as that feels to say. Especially for Nintendo's target audience. The younger crowd. In a world where you can buy literally thousands of games, for little to nothing on a cell phone and hand it to your kid or even buy your kid a child friendly Android tablet for about 100 bucks with an already large install base, why are you going to go out and drop three to four hundred dollars on a home gaming console. I was a Nintendo Fangirl for years, and I am tired of their poor performance as of late.
Here's the article. <--That's a URL
Here's my comment that yahoo wouldn't let me post. Fuck them by the way.
I actually agree with him. I have the console. When you really think about it. Nintendo didn't put a whole lot into this launch. they were trying to get to market before the holidays. The console isn't very polished.
First, the controller. It's very clunky. It feels like a huge plastic children's tablet. Baring that the construction feels cheap. The glossy Nintendo finish just doesn't feel nice on a tablet controller. Like. If they could have gone with a matte finish, maybe trimmed some of the fat and heft to the controller then yeah, great. But as it stands. It's clunky and very not nice.
then slap on the battery life. A, it's horrible. and I could tolerate that if it weren't for point B, not only does it destroy a battery, like a fat kid on cake, it can't charge off the system. so I now have to free up, or run an extension to my couch. I don't know about you guys. My couch is an island in my living room, there are no outlets near it and having to plug it in constantly blows.
Another problem I have is the screen. Okay, you guys might not have any problem with this. But I am so sick of resistive touch screens on Nintendo products. They're blurry, they're not as easy or nice to use with your actual fingers, they are all around not good when compared to something capacitive. Which is nicer to touch, more responsive, and have clearer visuals. Yes I get it. They tried to keep costs lower. But you know what, give me a less shitty product and I would be willing to fork out the extra fifty to hundred bucks it could have taken them.
Next lets move on the storage. Yes. I get it. I am supposed to expand the system with an external drive. Stellar. That doesn't change the fact that after you plug in and sit through all the long ass updates on the system. If you have the 8GB version you have literally just about 3GB left. Which is nothing. You can't even fit a full game on it. If they could have spent the extra money for a hard disk? Even a small one? I as a consumer can go buy an internal 250GB, 2.5 inch drive for about 40 bucks. Now they as a manufacturer who are using millions of these things in bulk can get that at a much lower price. It would not have inconvenienced them to throw in something. Even 20 or 30GB as a base would have been better than 8GB of flash memory that gets almost completely filled but a system update, not even something optional.
Now lets move on to the actual console unit. First off. And I have tried to keep my language nice here. Fuck having to reboot to run a fucking emulation of the old Wii dashboard just to use my old Wii apps. You know what, my 360 does the same thing (run an emulation) to play original Xbox games and it's seamless and quick. There is no time consuming reboot. This is unheard of and completely lazy. If you want to throw in backward compatibility, yay great for you, but don't make it feel like a literal afterthought that was so tacked on that it isn't even there. That the system has to actually leave it's intended operating function to go off and run this as some little side thing.
And for everyone calling him a fanboy for mentioning that kids are likely playing on some Apple Product rather than on this thing, he's right. There are children in this world who don't own a console. Who don't want one. Because they would rather play Angry Birds and Cut the Rope on Mommy and Daddy's Android or iDevice. Mobile games are a competitor to gaming companies now. As shitty as that feels to say. Especially for Nintendo's target audience. The younger crowd. In a world where you can buy literally thousands of games, for little to nothing on a cell phone and hand it to your kid or even buy your kid a child friendly Android tablet for about 100 bucks with an already large install base, why are you going to go out and drop three to four hundred dollars on a home gaming console. I was a Nintendo Fangirl for years, and I am tired of their poor performance as of late.
