Personal computing discussed
kvndoom wrote:But it won't be opened till the 25th, when my stepdaughter's mind will be blown. She has NO idea she's getting it, and didn't even ask for it.
kvndoom wrote:You should open it and at least test it before she does, you wouldn't want even the possibility of a defective console ruining your Christmas.We picked a Deluxe up on release night (each Walmart was only allocated 4 to sell after pre-orders were filled, but the lines were nonexistent).
But it won't be opened till the 25th, when my stepdaughter's mind will be blown. She has NO idea she's getting it, and didn't even ask for it. She's just expecting some games for her Wii 1.0
Skullzer wrote:Ive heard that the initial setup can take over an hour...so I would suggest opening it, updating it, and testing it out before hand.
Black Applesauce wrote:I had the original wii. Played it non-stop for hours on end! Some games were executed perfectly with the motion controls. Others...not so much. The game selection of the wii U looks like nintendo is trying to tailor to the older croud with releases like zombie U. Doubt I'll be getting it though, because I've been slowing drifting away from consoles and using programs such as steam.
Black Applesauce wrote:It's a shame most hardcore gamers overlooked the console, branding it as kiddy.
derFunkenstein wrote:If the only sense you have is that of sight, I guess that might a valid response.
derFunkenstein wrote:Preferring "quality" is all about fun. If griping about graphics is your thing, I think we're al winners.
wintermane666 wrote:If I dont care about hardware then why would I buy this rather then use a cheap 360? Or for that matter why would I get it not instead of wating for alot of games to get cheap on it and for its price to drop? If I dont care about hardware I also dont care for getting the hardware when its spendy now do I?
derFunkenstein wrote:You seem to be saying that the only way something can be fun is if it's on the bleeding edge of technology, and I'm here to tell you that's not the case. Then again, I grew up on console games. At the height of the video games crash in 1984, I got an Atari VCS for Christmas and it wasn't until around 15 years later when Starcraft came out that I seriously gave PC gaming a lot of time and effort. So I'm used to stuff being "behind". And it's a lot of fun down here where there's not any technological snobbery. The same is true of the PS3 and Xbox 360 as well, just FWIW.
It goes without saying (or it should, anyway) that "enjoyment derived" is what sells a console, not the - frankly, abstract - idea of what's under the hood. I don't care what kind of optical medium games ship on, or how much flash storage the console has, or what kind of limitations are imposed on downloadable games, or whatever. As long as I can enjoy it, I'm there.
wintermane666 wrote:If I dont care about hardware then why would I buy this rather then use a cheap 360? Or for that matter why would I get it not instead of wating for alot of games to get cheap on it and for its price to drop? If I dont care about hardware I also dont care for getting the hardware when its spendy now do I?