I went to Walmart at 1130pm on Saturday night getting some bathroom supplies when I remembered that it was Wii U launch day. I had a good amount of expendable income for once and I really thought that since I was going to get one eventually when Pikmin and a new Zelda come out that I should just snag it now and I can play Wii games on it till the good stuff comes out. But then I thought about it, and honestly, this Wii U feels just like the last one. Not alot of launch flare besides one or two games, but this launch doesn't have Zelda which I think they should've put more work into Skyward Sword and made it a Wii U launch title instead of release it on a dead system. New Super Mario Bros. looks like the same old same old just with new levels and a new gimmick with the touch pad. I feel like Nintendo doesn't try to make their games great anymore, they just try to sell the system. You can blame it on third party support, but it got that way for a reason. Nintendo has really fallen of the edge and I'm pretty sure they'll go the route of Sega in the next five to ten years.

I picked one up at midnight on Saturday. It's a fun console. The gamepad is really different but I am getting used to it. I played a bit of Nintendoland and it had some fun mini-games that showed off the gamepad. ZombiU was pretty cool but hard as hell as well as ultraviolent (which I like). I played some Black Ops 2 on the Wii U last night and I really liked it. I bought one of their "pro" controllers which is basically a 360 controller clone. The nice part of the Wii U is that it will be able to port over a lot of the big titles for the time being until PS4 and 720 come out, and they will always have the Zelda and Mario franchises.

The big question will be whether they can maintain these ports once the other consoles arrive.

My brother got one at launch and got Mario with it. It's fun but overall I got bored with it after 15 minutes or so. That ZombiU game is gettign some pretty average reviews.

so far, it seems pretty cool. I dunno.

They probably won't so at that point it would switch to current gen exclusive titles. Nintendo can afford to do that with the multiple popular exclusive franchises.

So $350 for 15 minutes is $1400 per entertainment hour.

Average movie $10 for 2 hours so $5 per entertainment hour.

Black Ops 2 $60 for 60 hours so $1 per entertainment hour.

Skyrim $60 for 120 hours $.50 per entertainment hour.

Free XXX Videos for unlimited playtime "Priceless" per entertainment hour.

I'll be back in 2 minutes...need some quality entertainment time...:thumb:

Homebrewers claiming they have already jailbroken the device


http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/21/wii_u_hack/


squad of techies claim they've cracked Nintendo's anti-piracy defences in the Wii U days after the games console hit US shelves.

The hack, the gaming equivalent of jail-breaking, allows home-made games, pirate copies of titles and other unauthorised software to run on the Wii U, according to wiiuhacks.com. The attack appears to involve exploiting security holes in old Wii games when a Wii U is running in legacy Wii mode.

The team has compiled a list of authorised games that can be hijacked to launch unofficial titles.

The group has also produced a seven-minute video of what appears to be a Wii U playing homebrew games after running the "Smash Stack" exploit from a disc. Nintendo, like other console makers, locks down its machines so, in theory, they can only play cryptographically signed software; hackers usually have to exploit security holes in the system or endorsed games to defeat these protections.

Chris Boyd AKA PaperGhost, a senior threat researcher at GFI Software and an expert in gaming security, said major Wii homebrew communities such as wiiubrew.org are yet to hack the Wii U.

"We have not been successful in running homebrew on the Nintendo Wii U. But running code in Wii Mode is possible," wiiubrew.org stated.

"It's the same story elsewhere, even on sites with dedicated modding and homebrew sections," according to Boyd.

He added that it's one thing to get old exploits working in legacy Wii mode, but another to develop exploits for vulnerabilities exclusively present in new Wii U systems. He is cautious of the wiiuhacks.com team's boasts.

"There is one video on YouTube where the uploader claims to be successfully running homebrew on the Wii U using an older exploit designed to load unauthorised code on the original Wii console, but I've no way of verifying if the video is genuine," Boyd told El Reg.

"Additionally, there are groups picking through the back catalogue of programs and exploits from the original Wii - some of which no longer work on certain versions of system menu - to see if they can uncover a blind spot in the new console."

The Wii U console is backwards compatible with most Wii games and accessories, which explains why older exploits for the previous console still work, up to a point, on the next-generation machine.

Nintendo pushed a firmware update to Wii U consoles less than a day after the system went on sale on Sunday in the US. The sizeable upgrade does not block the Wii U Smash Stack exploit, but future updates could, wiiuhacks.com warned. Attempts to interrupt the lengthy Wii U update process once it starts can leave the console as useful as a squishy brick, as Nintendo itself advised.


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i kind of want one. i want to play that new mario brothers. Never got a wii, so i also wanna go back n play the zelda games.

Skyward Sword alone makes it worth the purchase.

Thats what i hear, this wiiu snuck up on me, i was gonna put a little cash away and get me one, but i totally just forgot, didnt pay much attention to the release. lol Now that xmas is coming andi have alot of nieces and nephews, no way right now which sucks.

Snagged a Deluxe unit from my local Toys R Us yesterday. I figured i would surprise my kids on Christmas morning. Im kinda excited to open it up.

This might make it worth the purchase, son no longer touches the Wii though other than a very rare Warioware game.

Just wrapped one up for the kid. I really don't want to wait until Christmas day to open it up...but i just have to remind myself that i didn't buy it for me. Color me excited.

TVii went live yesterday.....anyone try it out yet?



http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/20/n...live/#comments



Nintendo TVii is now available on the Wii U, arriving right on time with Nintendo's 24-hour window of "December 20." The service -- which promises to unify the console's disparate media services under a single application, dubbed "TVii" -- doesn't yet support the promised TiVo or Netflix integration it was announced with, but the former is said to arrive in January, while the latter is expected in "early 2013." To start using it, just turn on your Wii U and select Nintendo TVii -- if you're already all up in Acorn Plains with your Raccoon Suit on, just head into the Home menu. Also, maybe take off that Raccoon Suit you're wearing before the family gets home.