Posts with tagged with "wii u"

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.

It's hard to load up a page on the Internet today without finding people goin' ham about this or that Wii U problem. But I've said my piece about that. It's time to lighten the mood. It's new hardware day! That brief glow where you first notice all those fancy little touches, and start to integrate new systems and ideas into your routine. Let's focus on those details. There are a ton of things about my first day with the Wii U that made me smile.

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.

We're in the thick of it, bros and broettes. In the wind up to the Wii U's looming plop, people are gettin' tense. Each little glimpse we get of the various system features is accompanied by a cacophony of shrieks and wails, as if in our diabetic final throes we've found only saline in our syringes. It is time to CHILL OUT. I'll tell ya, I'm actually quite enthused about what I've seen from the Wii U so far, but others have been decidedly candid with their displeasure regarding Missing Feature A, or Flawed System B.

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.

So we know the Wii U will feature a global achievement system called "accomplishments" when it launches in scant days. Oh, wait, we don't know that at all. This is one of the remaining Wii U mysteries—maybe there is a system there, or maybe there isn't. There have been hints, but there have also been plenty of things to suggest that maybe there is no such thing whatsoever, or that if there is, it's game-specific and not shared.

I suppose it's not necessary for me to summarize this morning's new Nintendo Direct presentation, which focused entirely on Wii U a mere week and a half in advance of its American release—plenty of other websites have that useless task covered. But I think I should at least call attention to a few of the neatest little bits that other places probably aren't going to talk too much about.

I bought this new HD remaster version of Okami that came out on PS3 a couple days ago, and I've been ripping into it just like I did back when I got the original PS2 version. It's comforting to me that it still holds up, still feels intelligent and well-made. It's less surprising as a game now though, which is a testament to its refinements—lots of games have since borrowed elements that Okami introduced.

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.