Aaron Barton

So you want a half done story? You sound like a little child obsessed with shooting things. A space shooter? Yeah that shows the true capability of the system, not really.

Actually I'm 26 and I read books more often than I play video games. If I want a good story, I'll read a book. If I want to play a video game, let me enjoy the GAME without dealing with what will probably be a worthless story anyway. Super Mario never has a story beyond rescuing the Princess and getting a cake, what's the difference?

The stories of games are most usually godawful and would be better off not existing at all. A simple story that sets up the role playing aspect is all you need and any more than that is usually more than they can write without messing up.

Old Zelda, Mario, Starfox64, Phantasy Star Online, Ikaruga, to name a few off the top of my head, got it right. The last time Nintendo tried in earnest with a real story, we got Twilight Princess, and it just made me laugh.

Even better example. What would "show the capability of the system" better, a game with a simple concept like Sonic Generations, or the convoluted storytelling mess of Sonic Adventure 2?

I don't know dates, but the concept behind the wii remote began during the Gamecube era as they were researching new add-ons to be used on the system. It was a likely candidate to be a gamecube add-on until they decided to let the system go and launch a new brand. Like I said, I don't know dates...but Sony was developing Move during the PS2 reign?

My sincere apologies for sparking a tirade of forum-cluttering facepalms.

well, (for us brits... actually, I think I might be one of the only brits here)the 3DS was £220 at release (which is about $349), so I'm guessing the WiiU will be around £230-260, ($365-$413). That isn't actually that bad if you think about it: around £200 for the console, about £30-40 on the controller, and about £10 on the extra stuff (ie, cables, sensor bar(if the wiiU has one... I haven't thought about that actually), etc.).

Oh, and the thing I said earlier about MS and Sony, I take that back (a bit). MS do concentrate on Live, which is an awesome experience, some of the games are pretty good, but I think there are only mainly FPS, Racing and sports games on there (more of an RPG fan myself... and mario... and zelda... and, well you get the message). Sony only really concentrates on graphics, online is just as good, if not worse, than the wiis

Not that bad indeed.  In fact, do you guys realize that when you adjust for inflation, the Wii was the cheapest video game console released ever?

But I gotta call you out about the online.  The Wii's online is absolutely atrocious.  It's a feature that I think would actually be better off not being there.  If you're going to put online on the box of a game, make it a feature that works.  It's little more in my eyes than a pathetic husk of a network, pitifully trudging along to fulfill its primary directive of sending out old roms for ten dollars.  PSN is worse?  Please...I'd rather have my identity stolen a hundred times than to have to suffer through a single match of online Brawl.

Guys with Quagmire personas tend to be easily distracted.

As for no upscaling...we were all pretty much doomed to have Wii's in our living rooms for eternity because the U doesn't have controller ports either. I don't even count its backwards compatibility as a feature like I did with Wii. It doesn't really make a big difference, but it would have been nice so that we could just rely on one box for all Nintendo goodness ever.

Remember that, even if its technically possible, a major bullet point of U's feature list is it's HD graphics. Nintendo doesn't want to let you play your old games with better eye candy -they want you to buy their new games with better eye candy. Mario Wii U may not look as huge a leap after playing your years-old Galaxy in HD.