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Tank! Tank! Tank!

That's the one. It put a photo of me in the game, which was cool. It also said "Enemy up ahead" or "enemy behind you" constantly - it simply didn't stop.

http://www.notenoughshaders.com/2012/11 ... -nintendo/

be negative about nintendo, or you won't be published

404! Conspiracy!

Does anybody want my WiiU Premium pre-order? I got it for £200 plus delivery. That's £100 cheaper. I'm gonna cancel it otherwise. Conditions: You'd have to give me the money before release day and pay for me to ship it to you.

Otherwise I'm just gonna cancel it.

What happened? You were well excited.

I was! I just don't have the wedge to do get one anymore. Plus I'm not quite as excited about it as I thought I'd be by now. I could "afford" to buy it, but life would be a bit easier with Christmas coming up if I didn't. That combined with feeling less excited about it made me decide not to bother... If you get me?

I done have PM'd you as I am weak.

I've replied!

I'd rather pass the discount on to someone than cancel it and lose it to the ether!

If markh ends up not wanting it, my housemate definitely wants one. I'm sure he'd be happy to take it off your hands.

Did markh nab this then?

I am awaiting Mr Bulge to confirm the details, but yeah, I will pay!

Coolio.

Amazon have honoured their mispricing of pre-orders!

They cancelled mine this afternoon...

I'm in the process of complaining.

Well my Wii U Premium has been despatched It even gives a delivery estimate for tomorrow which I don't believe at all.

Over the last few weeks I've picked up a couple more Wii remotes and motion plus attachments so I've got all the controllers I need now.

I've picked out a spot where I can move my 3DS charging cradle to so I can place the gamepad charging cradle in it's place. I might move it tonight

Thinking I will also get Nano Assault Neo from the eshop if it's out, unsure on Little Inferno though. Depends on the price I think. Stupid Nintendo hasn't released any details on the eshop at all.

Other than that though, I AM READY!

My body is ready!

Some good planning going on there!

Fail to prepare then prepare to spend a few minutes longer getting it all set up!

Amazon have said mine will be here in the morning!

I've lost interest in a day 1 purchase already. The launch line up looks snoring.

There's only me around, but the single player Nintendo Land stuff is pretty great. Not £300 great, but it shows the potential for what the controller can do quite well, and seeing games with that Nintendo visual charm at 1080p lovely.

The system menu and set up process was surprisingly slick, and the way the controller acts as a remote for your telly is fantastic.

The screen on the controller looks great, and after spending a couple of hours on it, the batter meter was still at full.

Very pleased with it for £200, and can't wait for Mario to get here. I love Mario games.

Did you try it with COD?

I'm not buying COD. I've only got Nintendo Land, and Mario on the way. Played the FIFA demo, which was pretty shockingly bad. Although I don't like FIFA.

I speak to The Guardian about the cheapest place to get a Wii U:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/ga ... ace-to-buy

Good stuff! That's got to be worth a few more hits, at least, no?

Hopefully!

Have any of our forum types got that ZombiU game? It's making me think dangerous and preposterous thoughts about blowing my Christmas bonus on a WiiU.

Don't.

Poor Zardoz. No Zombie game, no Bayonetta 2 and no stars.

I suppose he'll just have to comfort himself with Dimrills bum.

Email from Amazon:


Mine came with a copy of Nintendo Land.

The more I read about the launch line-up of games the less and less bothered I am about the Wii-U at the minute.

An update of the rubbish Wii Mario? Nah.

Nintendoland, a collect of party games? Fuck that.

CoDBlops, when I've/everyone has got the definitive version? Waste of a line-up game.

Ass Creek 3? Nope.

The only game I'm half interested in is ZombiU and that's only just peaking above average reviews. After the launch there's a couple of interesting games but a couple of games ain't going to make me bite the bullet yet.

Oh, and Ninja Gaiden 3? Fooooork off.

Nintendo Land is far better than you'd think, but it's main attractions are very 'Bomberman' i.e. not all that gripping in one or two player modes. However, get three or more people round the TV, and it's buckets of fun and hours just fly past.

The console's Miiverse system is charming and brilliant in equal measures as well. It's just short of being a killer app in many ways. I guarantee you that Nintendo's competitors will mercilessly rip it off before too long.

Agreed on that, I think MS & Sony will both definitely respond to the Gamepad screen, and Miiverse.

New Super Mario Bros Wii sold more than Super Mario Galaxy combined!?

There's no justice in the world.

Darksiders 2 visibly worse on the Wii-U than either the 360 or PS3.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digit ... u-face-off

People shouldn't be buying a WiiU to play games like that anyway. Everyone knows that Nintendo are going to be the best at getting the most out of the WiiU and controller.

The gadget show "reviewed" the WiiU by saying "truly next gen performance"

I don't think any Wii U owner is under the illusion that their new console is any kind of powerhouse. The most recent technologically 'competitive' Nintendo hardware was the GameCube, and that was hardly massively more powerful than the then-dominant PS2. Disappointing to hear about third party games though, perhaps it was due to relatively short development times for the ports, or something.

Trine 2 visibly better on the Wii U than either the Xbox 360 or PS3.



http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digit ... 2-face-off

Game in brum have two big TVs showing WiiU game (minigames? Nintendoland?) definitely not running in HD. Thought that was a bit odd.

It doesn't strike me as odd as it's Game. Nicademus has a funny story about trading in his Xbox at Game.. I wonder if he'd like to share it with the forum?

Wii-U draws 33W under maximum load That's pretty fucking amazing!

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digit ... en-console

I'm very surprised to see the latest 360s and PS3s peak at around 75W too.

Also by playing just on the gamepad you can save even more by not having the telly on.

So far the only thing that has annoyed me with the Wii U is with Nintendoland and how it forces you to play some single player games just on the game pad. F-zero is played mostly in a 2d top down perspective. Boring.

Otherwise, all groovy. I can understand why someone who already has an Xbox or PlayStation would be disinterested. But with more indie downloads and Nintendo games coming there is more than enough to keep me interested.

It seems Lego City Undercover might make good use of the gamepad:

Some new games announced the other day:
New Yoshi game, from Good Feel (who made Kirby's Epic Yarn):


New RPG from Monolithsoft


Also announced is a new 3D Mario, to be playable at E3, a new Zelda is being worked on (as is an HD remake of Wind Waker), new Mario Kart is on the way too.

Plus you can pay £1.50 per game to play the VC games, that you already bought, on the wii u pad.

Thanks Nintendo!

You can buy a VC game now, Balloon Fight, an early NES release. It's 50Hz only.

Oh sure, but this is a charge on games you already own on the wii.

Will Sony and MS follow this example? I bloody hope not.