The Wii U

[Necromancer]

http://kotaku.com/5964432/hacker-says-hes-cracked-open-the-wii-u-cpu-is-nothing-to-write-home-about

Meh, it's the GPU that's most important anyway.  I'm not surprised it's not all that powerful, though, not with the tiny case and limited airflow.

[KingDrool]

Personally: I couldn't give a shit less how powerful it is. Are the games going to be fun? Yes? Good enough for me.

[Arkhan]

http://kotaku.com/5964432/hacker-says-hes-cracked-open-the-wii-u-cpu-is-nothing-to-write-home-about

Meh, it's the GPU that's most important anyway.  I'm not surprised it's not all that powerful, though, not with the tiny case and limited airflow.

Yep.  and the GPU in it can do some pretty cool shit.

Heck, the Wii could too, with its displacement mapping.

its just most of the games were all cartoony and you couldnt tell.

[soop]

Just to chime in my $0.2 on the guy with the VC issue; I feel your pain man, the ridiculous policy is why I only splurged out for some essential shit like Megaman 9.  They could have had tonnes of cash with a decent service.

Anyway, if it doesn't work out, you might be able to convince them to give you ambassador status.  At least that way you'll get a bit back.  And it's not like they aren't handing those out.

[SegaSaturn51195]

Ambassador status? What's that?

[Nando]

http://kotaku.com/5964432/hacker-says-hes-cracked-open-the-wii-u-cpu-is-nothing-to-write-home-about

Meh, it's the GPU that's most important anyway.  I'm not surprised it's not all that powerful, though, not with the tiny case and limited airflow.

True, as long as it doesn't pull a SuperGrafx...

[KingDrool]

Ambassador status? What's that?

Isn't that just for the 3DS? I thought that was for the early-adopters who got all of the "free" NES and GBA games when Nintendo dropped the 3DS's price last summer.

[TheClash603]

I was playing Mario last night with my girlfriend.  I had a full charged gamepad...  after 2 1/2 hours, the battery had died.

I was getting nearly 4 hours out of the box when I first played the system and now 2 1/2?  That's not very promising...

Nyko is coming out with some Frankenstein shit that goes on the back of the gamepad to double the batter life.  I need to either get one of these things or an extension cord.  Do you guys think there could be any negative impact gaming with an extension cord on the Gamepad?

[soop]

Ambassador status? What's that?

Isn't that just for the 3DS? I thought that was for the early-adopters who got all of the "free" NES and GBA games when Nintendo dropped the 3DS's price last summer.

They also did one for the Wii.  A convuluted affair whereby you had to help 10 other people to connect their Wii to the Internet, and then swap friend codes as proof.  That one netted you every NES game.  They may have expanded it to 20 and every SNES game if memory serves.

So basically, they're handing out half of their catalogue to people for free anyway.

[Arkhan]

Do you guys think there could be any negative impact gaming with an extension cord on the Gamepad?

Only if you have cats or children that will get tangled in the cord, lol

[glazball]

  Arkhan, I believe I read you bought the basic white system, same as me.  (I agree, black doesn't look right for a Nintendo console unless it's N64).  I'm curious how much drive space you have left after the initial firmware update.  I'm reading different things, some saying it takes up 1GB, some 3 or 4GB (basically half the internal storage).

[Arkhan]

I don't know.  I didn't look.   I put a 32gb SD card in before powering it on, so I really ain't give no f*cks about the internal size.


ill check later today though, lol

[TheClash603]

I hooked up a 2 TB HD to mine I got for $50 on Black Friday and it works like a champ.

I almost always buy my games physical, so I assume I end up using like 10 GB, but storage is so cheap I figured better safe than sorry.

[Bernie]

Got mine today, and I love it!!  They put a lot of thought into the controller, even though it is big.  It fits really nicely in your hands, and I like it.  I also bought a couple Wii U Pro controllers, and they are really nice.  My registered name is debuttho, so add the Bernie if you wanna.   

[TheClash603]

Wii U Pro Controllers are pretty good, though the lack of analog on the shoulder is nonsense.