Does anybody here own a Wii-U?
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@blakeyrat said in Does anybody here own a Wii-U?:
Huh.
Most people pronounce the A short, like in cat[1]. You kept saying it with a long A, like the letter itself is pronounced.
[1] Now I have this image of you saying "cat"--and now "rat"--like they were spelled "cate" and "rate".
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@FrostCat said in Does anybody here own a Wii-U?:
Well, in the past, there was a facility for transfering SOME information from one console to another but I am not sure how comprehensive it was, and IIRC even if you could copy a game, you couldn't copy your saves.
There's a facility in place to transfer a Nintendo ID and all its associated games and saves from one 3DS to another (or a New 3DS), but it will remove any accounts already on the target system.
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@blakeyrat said in Does anybody here own a Wii-U?:
so I could play them on a bus without looking like a spaz.
If you do find any mobile game you can play on a bus, please do share it here. It seens like all mobile games now either require 100% internet uptime (try playing that on a brazillian subway) or crazy controls that are unfeasible while commuting.
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@blakeyrat if it were optional, developers wouldn't use it enough and it would fail.
that's why so few games support kinect
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@Sentenryu On Vita, my best bet was buying ported older games which I could guarantee didn't have gimmick controls because they came out on consoles without gimmick controls. For example, the Sly Cooper ports.
Zero Escape is another good example, all it takes is a touchscreen and it could easily be ported to iOS or Android if its developer wasn't an idiot moron dumbshit who hates money, apparently.
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@mikehurley said in Does anybody here own a Wii-U?:
stuff where you can query input devices for supported features.
When this stuff is available, lazy developers will check a key feature to see if the hardware is type X, and assume it for the rest of the code.
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@blakeyrat is it worth not playing something you like just because it's developers are assholes?
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@fbmac said in Does anybody here own a Wii-U?:
is it worth not playing something you like just because it's developers are assholes?
But I don't even know if I'd like it; I do know that I find their business practices deplorable (and am constantly mystified by people who don't!)
I'd like to be able to buy a Nintendo console and try out their games, but I certainly don't want to give money to a company with such deplorable business practices.
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@blakeyrat said in Does anybody here own a Wii-U?:
Downloaded a bunch of games, and your console breaks? Tough shit. Fuck you. They're gone forever. We don't have "accounts" the games go into.
They've had accounts for the entire lifespan of the Wii U. You have to make a Nintendo Network ID to use the eShop in the first place, and all of your games are associated with that account. (3DS has this too; but it was added in an update after Wii U released.)
You cannot register more than one Wii U and one 3DS to the same account, but the account is still there, and it has your data on it. You're supposed to perform a system transfer if you need to switch from one system to another, which will indeed carry over everything.
In the case of a broken system, you can send it to Nintendo for repair, and then they transfer over everything if they have to. Alternatively, contact them and ask them to unlink it. Many people have successfully done this. (If you're selling or returning the system, unlink the account first to be sure you can reuse it at a later date.)
(Caveat: This most likely doesn't cover purchases made on the Wii Shopping Channel from a Wii U, since the Wii predates the account system and the Wii mode doesn't know anything about the Wii U side of things. Of course, most games you might still want to play on the Wii are going to be retail releases, and those won't be on the Wii's shop anyway, so it's generally not an issue.)
It's far from ideal, and there are definitely many ways that things could be improved. It is, however, at least doable.
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@Pidgeot Compared to what Sony and Microsoft do, it's utter ASS. Don't defend that shit.
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@Pidgeot said in Does anybody here own a Wii-U?:
You cannot register more than one Wii U and one 3DS to the same account
IIRC, Sony allow up to five of each of the PS3, PS4, PSP and Vita, and MS has no limit at all; what's more, all you need to do is sign in on one of those, and you have immediate access to all your stuff (once downloaded of course), without having to do some sort of transfer bollocks.
Basically, if your PS* or Xbox breaks and cannot be repaired easily, you just buy a new one and carry on.
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@blakeyrat said in Does anybody here own a Wii-U?:
@Pidgeot Compared to what Sony and Microsoft do, it's utter ASS. Don't defend that shit.
All I'm saying is that there is an account system, and there are ways to deal with it, even if your system breaks. Those ways may not be very good, particularly compared with the competition, but that's .
Besides, while Sony may be better here, there are other areas where their account system sucks complete donkey balls compared to Nintendo. (I can't comment on Microsoft; I haven't used their consoles.)
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@Pidgeot said in Does anybody here own a Wii-U?:
Besides, while Sony may be better here, there are other areas where their account system sucks complete donkey balls compared to Nintendo.
That's certainly true. It goes like this, from best to worst:
Microsoft - - - - - Sony - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The Third Reich - - - - - Nintendo
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@blakeyrat said in Does anybody here own a Wii-U?:
I'd like to be able to buy a Nintendo console and try out their games, but I certainly don't want to give money to a company with such deplorable business practices.
Buy one used. Then you're giving money to a different company with deplorable business practices. Unless you find an indie store.
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@blakeyrat not pictured: EA/Ubisoft 15 miles to the left, followed by all other PC game distributors a few more lightyears in that direction.
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@blakeyrat said in Does anybody here own a Wii-U?:
The Third Reich
This can't be true ... a console designed by Porche & Speer can't be that bad.
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@Luhmann they also inspired hundreds of good war videogames
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@fbmac said in Does anybody here own a Wii-U?:
they also inspired hundreds of good war videogames
They also inspired Call Of Doooooooooooooooooooooty
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@RaceProUK
Luckily they didn't inspire Call of Booty.
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