Do you have a Toys R Us that you can get to today? For Wii Remotes (with built-in MotionPlus), I suggest buying four copies of Fling Smash. Fling Smash comes bundled with a black MotionPlus Wii Remote and it is priced at $24.99. Toys R Us is having a buy one get one 40% off sale on Wii (and Wii U) games that ends today, 11/21/12. For $80 + tax, you can get four Wii Remotes and you'll be set (versus buying them individually at $39.99, or $160 for four). You can then just trade/sell your extra copies of Fling Smash to Best Buy/GameStop/etc. to recoup some money. Toys R Us also have it online but you can only buy one Fling Smash per order. :/
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Do you have a Toys R Us that you can get to today? For Wii Remotes (with built-in MotionPlus), I suggest buying four copies of Fling Smash. Fling Smash comes bundled with a black MotionPlus Wii Remote and it is priced at $24.99. Toys R Us is having a buy one get one 40% off sale on Wii (and Wii U) games that ends today, 11/21/12. For $80 + tax, you can get four Wii Remotes and you'll be set (versus buying them individually at $39.99, or $160 for four). You can then just trade/sell your extra copies of Fling Smash to Best Buy/GameStop/etc. to recoup some money. Toys R Us also have it online but you can only buy one Fling Smash per order. :/
Yeah, I was not interested either.
But I had my friend pre-order at Nintendo World Store in NYC. I then took a train from Maryland to NYC got there an hour early to get my WiiU. I will always buy Nintendo but until the TV apps & first party Nintendo games roll in it feels too gimicky(Wii 1.5).
Version 3.0
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I'm absolutely enjoying it. But I also almost universally agree that it sucks. It's an underpowered machine (apparently even more so than we thought), destined to have lousy support, it has a bunch of annoying issues, etc. The two sides are not at all mutually exclusive.
Just like the millions of us 360 owners stuck it out through the horrible RROD issues, or more recently, the ad barrage, you can love a system and still be mad at all the stuff it does wrong.
axisofweevils
Holy crap! Today's real megaton is that more than two people can have the same first name.
Is there a webpage or something that lists the Nintendo recommended HDs?
My hype remains. 9 long days to go here.
Apophis2036
Banned
Would be interested in numbers aswell, im thinking 2 million if they sold out their entire pre orders in America with maybe another 2 million to come from the rest of the world and when more stock arrives in America before Xmas.
Didn't they predict 5.5 million by the end of the year ?.
beanman25
Member
It's a really fun game. It is in fact fully playable on the gamepad so far as I've gotten.
Baconsammy
Banned
If you own an iOS device, download the 99 cent game. If you don't like that, you wont like the 60 dollar version.
I drove to Best Buy today to return Persona 4 Vita(gonna buy it digitally) and there was a long line of people waiting outside. I assumed it was for iPhones or Wii U. Nope. These idiots are waiting in line to buy a discounted TV on Black Friday. Humanity.
I’m having a blast with the Wii U more than I did with the Wii at launch. I have enough games to keep me busy until the release of Wonderful 101, Rayman Legends, and Pikmin 3. I also recently bought ZombiU after reading a few impressions here on gaf, but won’t open it until I’m weary of playing the games I’ve already opened.
One thing I didn’t expect is how much I was going to love Nintendoland. I was a doubter at E3. Actually I was angry they announced it and frustrated that they dedicated 15 minutes of their E3 presentation for a game I deemed unworthy of being a launch game. Nintendo proved me wrong and I’m glad they did. The experience is easily one of the best I’ve had at a console launch. My brothers and I have played through some of the minigames so far. Some are boring while others are really fun. My favorite has to be the Metroid game, especially when it’s 1vs1. It’s like playing hide and seek, where the person in gunship is actively seeking the person running around and hiding. I do corner shots and my brother has no idea where it came from and not to mention the teleportation is a nice way to evade the gunship once spotted.
NSMB U is probably going to be my personal game of the year. I’m only in the third world, but from what I’ve played so far they’ve done everything right in terms of getting back that charm of the classic 2D Mario games. This is definitely the best out of the NSMB series. It’s also nice to see chimes from 3D Mario games and Paper Mario games in this as well as enemies and objects from SMW make a return.
One thing I didn’t expect is how much I was going to love Nintendoland. I was a doubter at E3. Actually I was angry they announced it and frustrated that they dedicated 15 minutes of their E3 presentation for a game I deemed unworthy of being a launch game. Nintendo proved me wrong and I’m glad they did. The experience is easily one of the best I’ve had at a console launch. My brothers and I have played through some of the minigames so far. Some are boring while others are really fun. My favorite has to be the Metroid game, especially when it’s 1vs1. It’s like playing hide and seek, where the person in gunship is actively seeking the person running around and hiding. I do corner shots and my brother has no idea where it came from and not to mention the teleportation is a nice way to evade the gunship once spotted.
NSMB U is probably going to be my personal game of the year. I’m only in the third world, but from what I’ve played so far they’ve done everything right in terms of getting back that charm of the classic 2D Mario games. This is definitely the best out of the NSMB series. It’s also nice to see chimes from 3D Mario games and Paper Mario games in this as well as enemies and objects from SMW make a return.
DeuceGamer
Member
Here is the list that I found on Nintendo's site.
http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/systems/wiiu/en_na/external_usb_devices.jsp
I believe there was a thread here on Gaf tho where people were posting the ones that worked for them, including some that had some decent prices, IIRC.
Baconsammy
Banned
They're working on one now.
brandonh83
Banned
Black Ops II runs well enough and looks good enough and everything, but I really don't know why I keep falling for COD hype. I'm not familiar enough with the series to really know what all changes/revisions were made to this one but it just feels like the same old tired stuff to me with a boring plot that pretends to be gritty and interesting. Not to mention I find it almost unplayable on the game pad and I can't find a good calibration for the Wiimote and nunchaku.
If I even got $20 in trade-in credit I could afford something else. Honestly I may just get some Wii games that I missed out on for now.
If I even got $20 in trade-in credit I could afford something else. Honestly I may just get some Wii games that I missed out on for now.
Baconsammy
Banned
A much better plan than paying full price for bad ports. I'm waiting to see if there's any good Wii black friday sales on games. Also hoping Redbox starts to add Wii U titles soon.
Data Ghost
Member
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Went to target again, family in line in front of me bought all the black ones they had (no games of course).I haven't been able to find one yet (West LA)
Asdf.
Data Ghost
Member
Ah it does, cracking, thanks!
are you saying that BO2 is a bad port on the Wii U?
Baconsammy
Banned
Yep. Namely the framerate issues in single player. Not what I would call a good port.
Keep checking Targets in you area. Mine each had a few when I went to buy some games. They received shipment yesterday I believe.
no is not.. You are wrong. Now let me move on..
The Elite
BOSS
I just picked up two more games.
My launch pick-ups so far:
Call of Duty: BLOPS 2
Zombi U
NSMB: U
Tekken Tag 2
Ass Creed 3
Nintendo Land (Deluxe)
Sonic All-Star Racing
A couple of those I really could have just grabbed for other systems but I'm in Wii U mode right now and enjoying it a lot.
My launch pick-ups so far:
Call of Duty: BLOPS 2
Zombi U
NSMB: U
Tekken Tag 2
Ass Creed 3
Nintendo Land (Deluxe)
Sonic All-Star Racing
A couple of those I really could have just grabbed for other systems but I'm in Wii U mode right now and enjoying it a lot.
Baconsammy
Banned
Yes, you just go ahead and move on.
Set your Wii U to Xmas and get a nice Sonic All-Star Racing surprise. I hope they patch the game soon so I can go back to it.
axisofweevils
Holy crap! Today's real megaton is that more than two people can have the same first name.
It's a pretty good port. Multiplayer runs perfect, the only real issue is server population (hopefully that'll change over time). Campaign runs swell too. There's not much that I'm seeing that's really worth complaining about other than the server population.
ZedIndyLil
Member
Wow, Nintendoland is really polished. A ton of great art styles, great gameplay variety, and the overall hit-to-miss ratio is really high. If you are to own only one shitty lolcasual minigame gimmicky fad wagglefest shovelware, this is definitely it.
Baconsammy
Banned
I believe if you skip it, it downloads in the background.
That and NSMBU both show what can be done when dev teams care about the platform they're developing for. Both have no framerate issues, and both implement Miiverse very well.
Apparently if you hit cancel when it prompts you to download it, it'll just run in the background automatically.
PAULINK
I microwave steaks.
It's really better when you get it in your hands. I remember watching footage at e3 and I was so pissed, haha. It doesn't feel like shovelware either, the games are for the most part genuinely fun.
plagiarize
Banned
so, I'm going to put this in here.
my first afternoon with Wii U was kind of depressing with patches, and locks and all of that, and my first evening over at a friends playing 5 player nintendoland on his system was very positive.
since then I've not had a boat load of time with the system, but I have gotten to play some Zombi U (not enough to call it one way or the other, but it was promising) and I've played more BLOPS2 and I picked up Nano whatever last night.
System power is a bit disappointing so far. Hopefully things improve a bit, but I'll get over it. I was hoping multiplats would be best on Wii U (but not by any large margin) so I would be able to comfortably pick up games on Wii U over the next year.
This isn't entirely a negative thing though, because ultimately I love the gamepad. It's been a bit of a revelation for me (though not a revolution). Most of this is good stuff, even with load times being a bit quicker than I'd like, the ease of transitioning from game, to miiverse, to web, is still impressive. It'd be even more impressive if they cut down those 10 second load times.
While this sort of makes it harder for me to focus on playing a game, it makes the whole experience more communal, and I really like that. I also really like how easy it is to just fire up the pad and check miiverse, or pop in the store. Where as doing that on the 360 seems like a bigger deal somehow, it feels incredibly convenient to do it on the pad.
Hulu Plus needs to have some updates so you can just use it off the pad like Netflix, but these are the Netflix and hulu plus clients I'm going to gravitate towards in the future, espescially when I'm watching something home by myself. To be able to switch from the gamepad to the TV and vice versa instantly is going to mean I can easily bring what I'm watching into the kitchen if I'm doing dishes, or over to my PC, or whatever. that's a killer feature.
Last night my wife wanted to go to bed early because she'd had a really long day, and she asked if I'd bring up the gamepad and play on that, rather than using my PC or playing on the TV downstairs. she hates going to bed by herself, especially on cold nights, but our schedules aren't completely aligned, so often she's really tired and I'm not.
so, you can see where this is heading. I put BLORPS2 into the Wii U, grabbed my headphones and came upstairs. In no way did I feel like I was getting an inferior experience playing off the gamepad and I was as involved in the game as I'd be anywhere else. I hit the wing suit section and shared a screen of it on Miiverse (tagged spoiler!) and some replies came in very quickly from other people talking about how cool that section was.
I did have to pay a little attention to how I was sitting in order to keep a strong signal between the console and the pad, but I plan to move a couple of things around in my AV center to mitigate that somewhat. That's an environmental issue though, we're only talking about something that cropped up a couple of times in a few hours using the system.
After some more BLORPS2 browsed gaf for a bit, and then loaded up the store and bought Nano whatever and had a few goes on that. I'm looking forwards to seeing that on my HDTV, but it looked really impressive on the pad, and played great. I'd definitely recommend it, even though the leaderboards are a bit bugged right now. basically it only shows the last two digits of your rank, so everyone thinks they're ranked top 100. I thought I was ranked 12th (and presumed the game was selling terribly as a result until I checked the top scores leaderboard and saw the real top 100. the friends leaderboards work just fine though, obviously as you can't have more than 100 of those.
The convenience of it... is incredible. The flexibility of it is impressive. The seamlessness of it is good, and will hopefully improve if those load times can be addressed somehow. The control is a great size and weight. It definitely beats using our Surface in bed for anything other than web browsing.
Smartglass is neat on the 360. I like using it with Forza Horizons where it's a moderately useful little proof of concept, but I can't see how it can even begin to compete, even when talking about AV tasks, like using smartglass to launch videos on the Xbox 360, the Wii U has it beaten. Both have to load the video players, but transferring from one to the other on the Surface takes a little time. That instant switch on the Wii U, it really does feel like some sci fi magic, even if I understand the technology behind it.
TVii is going to get a lot of use from me, especially with the social integrations. Multiplatform games that offer off screen play, unless they've got serious technical issues, it's going to be Wii U all the way for me, for the next year at least.
The benchmark for me of any innovation is, 'do I want everyone to jump on board with this?' and I absolutely do. I really hope Sony and Microsoft go in the same direction. Some people who don't share a screen or live with anyone else aren't going to get it, I don't think. But fortunately we're talking about a very big group of people that will. Trust me, if I was twelve, I'd completely understand what this device was going to offer me, and it's no surprise to see it as high up in the Christmas wishlist rankings as it is.
edit: Also, if you didn't see over in the network id thread, I'm 'plagiarize' over in Miiverse. send me a friend request, just be sure to tag it 'GAF'.
my first afternoon with Wii U was kind of depressing with patches, and locks and all of that, and my first evening over at a friends playing 5 player nintendoland on his system was very positive.
since then I've not had a boat load of time with the system, but I have gotten to play some Zombi U (not enough to call it one way or the other, but it was promising) and I've played more BLOPS2 and I picked up Nano whatever last night.
System power is a bit disappointing so far. Hopefully things improve a bit, but I'll get over it. I was hoping multiplats would be best on Wii U (but not by any large margin) so I would be able to comfortably pick up games on Wii U over the next year.
This isn't entirely a negative thing though, because ultimately I love the gamepad. It's been a bit of a revelation for me (though not a revolution). Most of this is good stuff, even with load times being a bit quicker than I'd like, the ease of transitioning from game, to miiverse, to web, is still impressive. It'd be even more impressive if they cut down those 10 second load times.
While this sort of makes it harder for me to focus on playing a game, it makes the whole experience more communal, and I really like that. I also really like how easy it is to just fire up the pad and check miiverse, or pop in the store. Where as doing that on the 360 seems like a bigger deal somehow, it feels incredibly convenient to do it on the pad.
Hulu Plus needs to have some updates so you can just use it off the pad like Netflix, but these are the Netflix and hulu plus clients I'm going to gravitate towards in the future, espescially when I'm watching something home by myself. To be able to switch from the gamepad to the TV and vice versa instantly is going to mean I can easily bring what I'm watching into the kitchen if I'm doing dishes, or over to my PC, or whatever. that's a killer feature.
Last night my wife wanted to go to bed early because she'd had a really long day, and she asked if I'd bring up the gamepad and play on that, rather than using my PC or playing on the TV downstairs. she hates going to bed by herself, especially on cold nights, but our schedules aren't completely aligned, so often she's really tired and I'm not.
so, you can see where this is heading. I put BLORPS2 into the Wii U, grabbed my headphones and came upstairs. In no way did I feel like I was getting an inferior experience playing off the gamepad and I was as involved in the game as I'd be anywhere else. I hit the wing suit section and shared a screen of it on Miiverse (tagged spoiler!) and some replies came in very quickly from other people talking about how cool that section was.
I did have to pay a little attention to how I was sitting in order to keep a strong signal between the console and the pad, but I plan to move a couple of things around in my AV center to mitigate that somewhat. That's an environmental issue though, we're only talking about something that cropped up a couple of times in a few hours using the system.
After some more BLORPS2 browsed gaf for a bit, and then loaded up the store and bought Nano whatever and had a few goes on that. I'm looking forwards to seeing that on my HDTV, but it looked really impressive on the pad, and played great. I'd definitely recommend it, even though the leaderboards are a bit bugged right now. basically it only shows the last two digits of your rank, so everyone thinks they're ranked top 100. I thought I was ranked 12th (and presumed the game was selling terribly as a result until I checked the top scores leaderboard and saw the real top 100. the friends leaderboards work just fine though, obviously as you can't have more than 100 of those.
The convenience of it... is incredible. The flexibility of it is impressive. The seamlessness of it is good, and will hopefully improve if those load times can be addressed somehow. The control is a great size and weight. It definitely beats using our Surface in bed for anything other than web browsing.
Smartglass is neat on the 360. I like using it with Forza Horizons where it's a moderately useful little proof of concept, but I can't see how it can even begin to compete, even when talking about AV tasks, like using smartglass to launch videos on the Xbox 360, the Wii U has it beaten. Both have to load the video players, but transferring from one to the other on the Surface takes a little time. That instant switch on the Wii U, it really does feel like some sci fi magic, even if I understand the technology behind it.
TVii is going to get a lot of use from me, especially with the social integrations. Multiplatform games that offer off screen play, unless they've got serious technical issues, it's going to be Wii U all the way for me, for the next year at least.
The benchmark for me of any innovation is, 'do I want everyone to jump on board with this?' and I absolutely do. I really hope Sony and Microsoft go in the same direction. Some people who don't share a screen or live with anyone else aren't going to get it, I don't think. But fortunately we're talking about a very big group of people that will. Trust me, if I was twelve, I'd completely understand what this device was going to offer me, and it's no surprise to see it as high up in the Christmas wishlist rankings as it is.
edit: Also, if you didn't see over in the network id thread, I'm 'plagiarize' over in Miiverse. send me a friend request, just be sure to tag it 'GAF'.
Wiz
Member
I believe the point cards are now a universal "Nintendo Point Card" so they should work on both eShops.
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
So I got to play around with this finally at my nephews and the tech is great and NintendoLand is way more fun than I thought but you people actually arguing that this thing was having a "great" launch of software got some low expectations going on.
Marty Chinn
Member
Unfortunately it's not, and it's a bad idea to just assume that it will work unless you know for sure.
JoshuaJSlone
Member
Something I'd like to see added is the ability to make Paused downloads STAY paused. As is, every time I go back to the main menu or start a new game it starts right back up again. As a guy with limited bandwidth for most of the day, this is a hassle.
As for the game itself, I'm not sure one way or the other yet. The interconnected world concept is nice, but so far most of the objectives do seem pretty basic compared to the stages seen in the earlier games.
From looking at the box and manual pre-launch I didn't think Gamepad-only was a go, but it's fine. Most of the time the TV and Gamepad are showing pretty much the same thing. Unless you're a spectator or someone using a remote for multiplayer purposes there's not much need to look at the screen.Bumhead said:
As for the game itself, I'm not sure one way or the other yet. The interconnected world concept is nice, but so far most of the objectives do seem pretty basic compared to the stages seen in the earlier games.
That's 5.5 million shipped through March 31. For comparison, Wii had shipped 3.19 million by the end of 2006, and was at 5.84 million through March 2007.apophis2036 said:
shadyspace
Banned
What the hell is overscan? Sounds like something I should be worried about.
The entire image can't visually be seen since it's being cropped by the tv. It could depend on the tv or the console itself.
Baconsammy
Banned
If you get around to playing Sonic on the gamepad, let me know what you think. I find it unplayable. It's too hard for me to discern what's coming up. On TV though it's apparently the best of the 3 console versions.
http://community.callofduty.com/message/413594322#413594322
Damn, I hope people didn't buy that usb headset..
plagiarize
Banned
It's something TVs used to do back in the day. Overscan means that the TV isn't showing all of the picture and is cutting off part of the image around the edge. Modern fixed pixel displays give you options to show all of the image being sent to the TV. some earlier LCDs and plasmas for some insane reason decided it was a good idea to continue cutting off the picture somewhat.
if you've ever had to reduce screensize in a game to get it all to show on your TV, or if you do not have an option like 1:1 scaling (or just scan... there's a few other names too) then your TV cuts off some of the picture. Nintendo have put options into the store, miiverse and the web browser letting you adjust screen size, but you cannot do it for wara wara plaza, and reportedly NSMBU cuts off a few things in places.
really though, it's a fault of your TV if it does it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overscan
have a read. it exists because of deviations in the manufacturing of cathode ray tubes. we should have left it behind ages ago.
Not only is it fully playable on the gamepad, but if you are playing alone, I don't really see the point of having the TV on.
It's definitely a fun puzzle game, though so far I don't think it's as good as the first couple. That may just be because I'm in the early stages, though.
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