A recap of the thread thus far:
I had such a disappointing time last night. My Gamepad has been fucked up for at least 8-10 months, and the touchscreen is essentially non-functional. When SM3DW came out, I managed to get to the point that I could play the game, though I missed out on some of the gameplay.
So last night, I made sure I could get to the actual WiiU home screen, past any annoying pop ups, and I went to buy MK8. Then I launched it. And it told me I didn't have enough space on the WiiU to create save data. Fuck. I couldn't even press the OK button to dismiss the message and just not save.
The WiiU is the worst designed fucking piece of consumer hardware ever, at least from a UI perspective. Nintendo had such a fucking hardon going for this touch screen, that they forgot all the physical buttons on the goddamn controller existed. So you can't interact with any messages that pop up from the system itself, except for touching it.
So, I can't do anything about data management, since it's all hidden behind a dumb touch-only UI. "But wait!" somebody in a design meeting thought, "what if the user is messing around in the system settings, and their touch screen dies. We need to allow them to exit somehow!" So, the only physical button which does anything at all in the system settings menus is B, which exits. You can't scroll through the options, or make any selections. But by God, they made sure you could exit.
The same problem applies to the main home screen. You can't do fuck all with the buttons you have sitting there all stupidly, it's all touch (or you can use a Wiimote, BUT ONLY FOR THIS SPECIFIC THING. FUCK USING IT ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE OS). "But wait!" something something something, "what if blah blah blah, let's make X swap screens." So again, Nintendo's fucking cream of the crop UI team recognized that physical buttons could serve a purpose, but abandoned that entire line of thought after they implemented the first fucking idea that came into their heads.
So yeah, I have an entirely broken console because Nintendo. Before anyone asks, I never bothered having this fixed all this time because the WiiU is a terrible machine, and I only really have a vague interest in playing MK8 and 3DW. So it's really never been worth the trouble to send it back into Nintendo to have it repaired, when I could spend a little more money and get a brand new console. Either way, it's not worth my time.
I had such a disappointing time last night. My Gamepad has been fucked up for at least 8-10 months, and the touchscreen is essentially non-functional. When SM3DW came out, I managed to get to the point that I could play the game, though I missed out on some of the gameplay.
So last night, I made sure I could get to the actual WiiU home screen, past any annoying pop ups, and I went to buy MK8. Then I launched it. And it told me I didn't have enough space on the WiiU to create save data. Fuck. I couldn't even press the OK button to dismiss the message and just not save.
The WiiU is the worst designed fucking piece of consumer hardware ever, at least from a UI perspective. Nintendo had such a fucking hardon going for this touch screen, that they forgot all the physical buttons on the goddamn controller existed. So you can't interact with any messages that pop up from the system itself, except for touching it.
So, I can't do anything about data management, since it's all hidden behind a dumb touch-only UI. "But wait!" somebody in a design meeting thought, "what if the user is messing around in the system settings, and their touch screen dies. We need to allow them to exit somehow!" So, the only physical button which does anything at all in the system settings menus is B, which exits. You can't scroll through the options, or make any selections. But by God, they made sure you could exit.
The same problem applies to the main home screen. You can't do fuck all with the buttons you have sitting there all stupidly, it's all touch (or you can use a Wiimote, BUT ONLY FOR THIS SPECIFIC THING. FUCK USING IT ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE OS). "But wait!" something something something, "what if blah blah blah, let's make X swap screens." So again, Nintendo's fucking cream of the crop UI team recognized that physical buttons could serve a purpose, but abandoned that entire line of thought after they implemented the first fucking idea that came into their heads.
So yeah, I have an entirely broken console because Nintendo. Before anyone asks, I never bothered having this fixed all this time because the WiiU is a terrible machine, and I only really have a vague interest in playing MK8 and 3DW. So it's really never been worth the trouble to send it back into Nintendo to have it repaired, when I could spend a little more money and get a brand new console. Either way, it's not worth my time.
