Posts with tagged with "launch"

If you are, I am sorry. But I just got mine last night, a good week and a half before it actually comes out here in Japan! (And the same amount of time after it already came out in the states.) Cory previously shared his own impressions of the thing right out of the box, and now that anyone who really really wants a Wii U back home probably has one, there's really not anything brand new for me to add.

For all the action up in this mother, my personal experience surrounding the surprisingly impetuous launch of the Wii U has been notably atypical. Despite having written a confirmed shitload (I googled for "shitload thesaurus" in an effort to spice this line up with no success) of articles Entirely Spanning the month of October—or as I like to call it, Brantober—the last three N-Sider.com posts have exploded forth from the fingers and mouths of Cory and Amber.

Time sure flies when you're working overtime. It's nearly November 18th already. How did that happen? The launch of the Wii U is just a day away, and by early Sunday morning (or late Saturday night), Nintendo's next console will have landed on store shelves—and for everyone lucky enough to have snagged one—living rooms across the continent. But not mine. For the first time in three generations of Nintendo consoles (and unlike Cory and Brandon), I won't be picking up a Wii U at launch.

Whoa man, one more week until the Wu comes out "for people in America" oh ho ho not me. The information is really starting to seep out too. Just today there was a new Iwata Kas about the Wii U Chat application. And there was a FAQ that Nintendo posted on their Japanese website, lovingly put into English by a message board goer. I for one have just started to reach the point of System Information Saturation that renders me contented enough that I can actually started getting excited about the games, which is what we really should be excited about anyway and not the stupid firmware.

Did you hear about this? My lines and feeds and whatever are lighting up. Apparently the new "Nintendo" Wu system will be sold in stores one month from now. A single month! Hey, I gotta question for you. Do you remember when other systems were about to come out last time? That is exciting times isn't it. I remember quite specifically me and Cory talking on ICQ or whatever idiots used back in double-last-gen to talk on the Internet before YouTube, and the 360 was about to come out, and then the cases for the games started showing up in stores.

You know, it's easy to forget, in these godlessly offensive modern days, how bad gamers actually used to have it when it came to console launches. The Wii U is gonna launch with twenty-three games, many of which co-exist as major installments of bigtime franchises happily among the piles of worthless spew-ware. A new Mario? Ninja Gaiden, Assassin's Creed, Tekken, Black Ops 2, Darksiders, Batman? No man could even play all these damned things with any amount of timeliness.