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Most externals will work - you can find good deals on the big names like Western Digital and Seagate all day. The safe bet would be one that has a separate power source (ac adapter) instead of a self usb powered external. I mean I bought a 1TB seagate last year from walmart for around $80 bucks, sure you can find cheaper now. Check places like Amazon, NewEgg, TigerDirect ect ect.

Ha just wanted to share this.

Just a little bit more than 20 years me and my brothers and friends always argued about who was better. Sonic or Mario, and aside from the logic things like speed, acrobacy, attack the fight mostly evolved into a systembattle between Nes/Snes and Megadrive/Mastersystem.

Today I was cleaning the kitching while my kids were playing in the studio. All of a sudden i overheard the youngest(4) saying "no, Mario!" then countered by the oldest(6), "don't be silly, it must be Sonic"....but then, when I went into the studio the two set up the xbox360 with Sonic Gens, and the WiiU with NSMBWiiU, and were actually comparing screens while racing towards the end of the levels.  Mario won...of course. Because he's better

I am going to be completely honest here. Which is purely MY opinion to which you are welcome to disagree if you feel so inclined. If M$ screws up enough that their Xbox market fails, for...any number of potential reasons. I will not shed ONE tear. I firmly believe they ONLY came into the market to earn a quick buck and really don't know what they are doing in terms of the gaming industry. We are talking about a company that made it's way producing Operating Systems. That's it. They really had no place in the gaming console market to begin with.

This only comes out more given the shoddy hardware that doesn't work (Kinect), very VERY few exclusives, making you pay up the ass whenever and wherever possible, in a system that really..all it is, is a watered down PC. That gives out about half the power for the same cost as a decent budget computer. In addition to all that, they release their consoles KNOWING there are serious problems with them, BUT ships them off anyway cause..well..they have $'s in their eyes. Plain an Simple. Once they have your money, they really don't care.

Now, True, Sony DOES have a bad habit of copying its competition. However, They have provided AMAZING titles (including exclusives) and services. Ever since PS1. All things considered. They are a great company that does try there best and cares about its fans. I sincerely hope their new system is successful. I really do. I never want to lose Sony. I realize that competition is a good thing. Keeps all businesses on their toes and motivates everyone to do better than the other. M$, time and time again, show that they really only care about money, not their customers. With all the other new console entries coming this year, like the Steambox, or OUYA (which is a valid competitor, whether you think so or not) There is plenty of healthy and promising competition to go around to not need M$ anymore. That is how I feel about it anyway.

If Xbox 720 succeeds and they turn a leaf and makes their fans happy, then all the power to them. I just very much doubt that it is their mindset or goal. I am welcome to be proven wrong though. That is entirely up to them. From what I hear though, If they don't want to include a disk drive, that seems like a very backward move that I would expect them to make.

One thing is for sure though, Nintendo in this generation, especially this year, is turning into the bright and shiny, heroic White Knight riding in to save the day. With flying colors no less. They have a very bright future, as always. This year will be very very interesting indeed. Who will fumble and who will flourish? Only time will tell.

They will still see the Xbox 720 and PS4 in store, just  not the games.

That was a joke by the way. I just like being funny. For the truth I would get one. They have cool games. However mine was stolen.

Lately there has been an increase in people creating topics of an unwanted nature, and from what I can tell are doing so for the sake of annoying other members of the community. We don't have a Spam Centre here on the Wii U, so there is no place for such topics.

I suggest either we get a Sub-Forum for such trash, or remove topic creation from repeat offenders.

I personally am hoping that the next gen offerings from microsony are a significant step up from the ps360, it needs to be really to keep people interested, coz despite what people may say when it comes to new systems we all love new shiny impressive looking graphics,  stuff that makes us go OOH! AHH! and then rush out and buy them lol. im sure the wiiU will get stuff like that over the course of 2013, just not quite as spangly as the other next gens. it'll widdle over the current systems by a fair bit in 2013 i reckon, but by this time next year it'll face some stiff competition! i personally cant wait to see how it plays out!

Getting fed up of all the doom and gloom posts...just enjoy the blooming console and games..have fun,its why you bought it....gheeeeeez

As the Noonabites once said:

Wow, this is a very immature mature thing to do. If you see what I did there.

The dog was later destroyed.

The dog was later destroyed.

The dog was later destroyed.

The dog was later destroyed.

THE DOG WAS LATER DESTROYED.

SuperSmashBros, Animal Crossing and Metal Gear Solid. For the rest....i didn't like Barbie Fashionista either

I was talking about art style.

Indeed it's very pretty but they should have made new power ups...

We knew the Wii U console itself would be region locked. This means games from Japan, for instance, cannot be played on a console from North America. But it turns out, the region locking also extends to the GamePad. This means a GamePad from Japan cannot be used with a console from North America. I’m not sure what the point of that is, but there’s video proof after the break.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WiiUBlog/~4/tdQ9TuR_Hhk

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