Schlachtor
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Hm, I can't confirm this.
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WiiU - Undercooked and rushed to the market?
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Hm, I can't confirm this.
I remeber back in the days when the 360 was first launch, the major knock on it was the RROD
it did affect a lot of people first day if i recall correctly
You could if you brought up Miiverse.
H_Prestige
Banned
And the other two consoles have a hard drive.
Vita definitely deserves some props for it's OS and software features, underrated in that regard
Version 3.0
Member
They've been working on this for quite some time. There shouldn't be glaring OS issues.
I bought it knowing it'd be outclassed in a year, but also expecting it to be at least on par with my 6- and 7-year-old systems, and it isn't.
It's now not okay to expect a product to be up to expectations when it goes on sale? What a world we live in.
The Power Of Snap
Member
I miss the gamecube launch.
schwabdizzle
Banned
I have noticed a lot of hate on the internet for this devise. Espcially the media. It's annoying as shit. its been out for less than 48 hours....give it a fucking chance.
velvet_nitemare
Member
This shit is hilariously funny in hindsight.
Luigi's Mansion really blew me away. Roque Squadron looked fabulous as well and Wave Race was pretty cool too. Yamauchi rocked
Osiris
I permanently banned my 6 year old daughter from using the PS4 for mistakenly sending grief reports as it's too hard to watch or talk to her
That's an easy one to re-enact, go buy yourself a purple lunchbox, stick it in the corner and cry yourself to sleep over the fact that there's no games coming for it, ever.
Hyperbole of course, Super Monkey Ball was awesome! It got at least one good title
The Power Of Snap
Member
Luigi's Mansion really blew me away. Roque Squadron looked fabulous as well and Wave Race was pretty cool too. Yamauchi rocked
Yep, all excellent. But super smash bros melee sealed the deal!
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
After what has been revealed over the last few days about the slow RAM, awful PS360 ports (to be fair, devs are to blame for those, not Nintendo), the supposedly weak CPU, the slow OS, the huge-ass day 1 FW update, not being able to transfer content between two Wii Us, Nintendo's weird decision to charge 50 cents for accounts for minors (it's obviously not a huge amount, and it makes sense for verifying CCs, but why don't they refund it?) and the savegame brouhaha (not sure what this is about as I didn't read the thread).. It seems like the Wii U isn't as much undercooked as the water hadn't even begun boiling.
Aquamarine
Member
This rage is still nothing compared to the explosion of gamer hatred that was the Wii...the Wii U still has a long way to go before it can match Wii levels of rage.
Have to say I'm reaching close to the point of cancelling my pre-order, we'll see if its improves via updates in the next 2 weeks before i get mine.
But if it doesn't probably gonna cancel my pre-order, or just send it back to amazon UK.
The NNID issue has really deflated my hype. I mean the Wii U has a lot of good ideas in theory, but the execution of those ideas... I mean how could you botch them so badly?
But if it doesn't probably gonna cancel my pre-order, or just send it back to amazon UK.
The NNID issue has really deflated my hype. I mean the Wii U has a lot of good ideas in theory, but the execution of those ideas... I mean how could you botch them so badly?
EricDiesel
Member
This is all pretty disheartening. Hopefully firmware updates will speed up the OS, but this memory business is madness. Makes downports seem unlikely at this point. Not that I ever expected beastly hardware, but this doesn't bode well for third party viability in 2014 onward.
Gotta love revisionist video game history...
Gotta love revisionist video game history...
That's an easy one to re-enact, go buy yourself a purple lunchbox, stick it in the corner and cry yourself to sleep over the fact that there's no games coming for it, ever.
Hyperbole of course, Super Monkey Ball was awesome! It got at least one good title
dude at launch we had Melee, Wave Race and Luigi's Mansion that 3 games alone are worthy 3 months of full immersive gameplay... GameCube launch was so much better it isn't even funny.
Osiris
I permanently banned my 6 year old daughter from using the PS4 for mistakenly sending grief reports as it's too hard to watch or talk to her
As I spoilered, it was amusing hyperbolic exaggeration, launch was fine, the next few years though? not so good
pseudocaesar
Member
Wait a sec.. so if the console shits itself. You lose your account and all of your purchases?
Aquamarine
Member
Not necessarily. I assume that if you send the console in for repairs, it'll come back fixed with your data intact.
ThatObviousUser
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Nintendo Customer Support confirmed that is NOT the case. Everything is lost and they can't do anything about it.
I've been one of the people that has criticised Nintendo pretty hard in the past two days, and I'm still getting the console. I'm confident that the company will fix many of the flaws present at the moment and I'm confident in their future games lineup (I also have yet to play quite a few Wii games at the moment, in addition to NintendoLand and NSMBU).
If you buy this console for the promise of third party support, you're better off cancelling. But otherwise, I think the Wii U will still turn out to be a worthwhile console. Of course, you can always buy later if you don't have a significant backlog or didn't get rid of your Wii.
pseudocaesar
Member
Unbelievable.
Aquamarine
Member
A NEW console. Fixing your existing console does not necessarily mean deleting all of your data. Tell me where Nintendo has explicitly said they will delete all of your data on your CURRENT console if you send it in for repairs.
but you know how it goes, things break haha.ThatsMytrunks
Member
This isn't THAT big of a problem. They could easily patch it later, and likely will. Or make some sort of data migration program.
jts
...hate me...
I hope there's clarification on that, otherwise they're just asking everyone not to buy anything ever! It needs official addressing of the matter. Like, from fucking Reggie.
Aquamarine
Member
Of course it's not. If you can send in your broken console and get YOUR EXISTING CONSOLE fixed while keeping your data / NNID intact (which I assume you can do), this whole problem is immensely overblown.
Not apologizing for Nintendo. This is an obviously backwards measure that needs to be updated / corrected in the future. But it's always fun seeing people get aneurysms and ulcers over this kind of stuff.
Hmmm, I remember my 360 as well as quite a few friends 360s dying in the first month or so. It only makes sense that the problem would get larger as time went on though. T
From what I recall the issue was more than the design as well. Having performed the xclamp fix on quite a few 360s, the amount of thermal paste was a problem as well. Which caused overheating and 'loss' of connection between traces. Clean and replace the paste, overheat the system, allow to cool, and it would work in most instances.
OldJadedGamer
Banned
If it was a major problem at launch in the first week, it would have been all over GAF. If you have links to GAF threads of users complaining about it in the week of launch, would love to see it.
edit: I'm obviously not saying it wasn't *ever* a problem, but it was not at launch like the user I posted said.
Dreams-Visions
Member
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this.
honestly, if you can't handle the code in-house to meet the base-level expectations that 6 years of the previous generation set as standard...then farm the work out to some other, more competent company and just oversee things.
There are just too many performance and feature problems with the Wii U right now. Features that have been in modern consoles for literally several years are wholly absent or completely broken.
GravityMan
Member
Yes, I think so. I had a bad feeling about this entire Wii U project ever since it was first unveiled back in E3 2011. It seems like Nintendo didn't think things through. The only bright spot since then was the Bayonetta 2 announcement. That's it.
Nintendo should have delayed the Wii U until November next year, instead of half-assing out a system this fall. Who cares about the competition. With this delay, they should have beefed up the specs enough so that it's a respectable jump over 360/PS3. (Weaker than the next-gen Sony/MS consoles is fine.) If that results in a modest price hike (say $50), then fine. A delay could have allowed them to take their time polishing up the OS, network infrastructure, and have better, more consumer-friendly solutions in place to deal with recovering lost game data and whatnot. It could have allowed them to have a bigger and more robust 1st party lineup with a REAL killer app or two...and possibly 3rd party too. If they had done this instead, the launch and critic/user reception would have been much better, and the system would have sold just fine even if the next Sony and MS systems also launched next fall...since most people buy Nintendo consoles for 1st party exclusives.
The Wii U has been Nintendo's worst console launch in its 25+ year history and there is little hope that things will improve much in the future. Firmware updates and patches can only do so much. This device has problems that are unsolvable via software updates.
AndresON777
shooting blanks
lol mine died hours after I got it out of the box. It would only run for like 20 minutes or so before it froze
I've been enjoying my Wii U, it's full of neat things, but I'm aware of the oh so many issues that is currently suffering from, I've experienced a few of them, some are acceptable (at least for now), others not so much. Having said that, the exaggerated hate it's getting is ridiculous, if I hadn't tried for some hours these past two days, I would be afraid of getting a broken system that's destined to be Nintendo's biggest failure in 25 years, with 0 3rd party support, broken ports and useless online features. For me it's a pretty good system that can only get better as time passes by, like, you know, the PS3 and 360 did.
Oh, i certainly didn't pre-order the Wii U for third party multiplat games (i have a beefy PC for that), at the very worst I'll just have to treat the Wii U like the Wii. Basically not buying any digital content and playing only 1st party and exclusive games.
It still saddens me that there's such potential being wasted. At-least the browser is quick, thats something.
Fox Mulder
Member
Snappy isn't a word I would use to describe anything about the interface.
I'm curious if the shitty slowness is due to some server thing or just it being poorly optimized.
jts
...hate me...
Hmmm... no?
stealthpengu
Neo Member
I really doubt this is totally the case. Customer support told me the same thing when my wii stopped working several years ago, but when it was returned to me, I was able to re-download all the VC games I bought, no charge.
Fox Mulder
Member
my first 360 cracked a disc presumably due to heat and then shit itself. That was a few weeks after I got it though.
Spieler Eins
Member
In 5 years.
OldJadedGamer
Banned
The WiiU launch day thread has already claimed a few victims.
gamergirly
Member
All it takes is the first 3D Mario
I think what he means is that the RROD didn't have a big impact at launch - it didn't color people's perception of the console right off the bat. Yes the RROD was a huge problem, but it was a gradual thing which took time to hit the media and be perceived by most people.
I love Nintendo, but some of the defenders in this thread are just that, defenders.
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