Actually my WII U is not new it is used. I picked up a super good deal on ebay and my purchase arrived today in the mail. I got right into it and set it all up. It took all day to fuck around with it and figure out what I needed to do to have it going the way I want it to.
The main thing that I kept drawing my focus to was the game pad. I was astonished by this thing. The screen has super good quality and the size of the screen is primo. There was a lot of attention to detail put into the construction of this thing. One detail that seems off and definitely not right is the controls with the right hand. The four buttons under the joystick are placed kinda fucked up. I have to use my wrist more than I would like to switch between the trigger, the button on top and the joystick. It doesn't smoothly work all together with keeping my hand in the same position. I have to use my thumb flat and press some of the buttons close to my joint in my thumb. This is not like I'm use to with using the tip of my thumb. I have no clue how Nintendo could fix this since players have different size hands. Either way any size hand will have to deal with this to some extent. Another thing that is fucked is the edges around the pad stick out and are kinda sharp and not flush. This irritates my hand as I'm trying to deal with this fucked up button setup. This lowers the quality of the product big time. How could they let that pass by inspection when designing it? I rigged it up with some tape to help and it does. Fuck buying a cover.
Now for the good things. Options are what I want and there are options with the game pad and tv adjustments. I'm not going to go over every damn thing it does. I will bring up switching between the game pad or tv if you want to. This is cool shit because I have a shitty tv and it is nice to play some on the pad to enjoy the 1080 view. I also like the fact that it has a headphone jack and a physical volume slider on the top of the game pad. Wait I have to switch back to bad things, the touch screen is not a sensitive as I think it should be. I've got to push down a little to hard to get shit to move around.
Basically my first impression is this is a good effort on Nintendo's part and I like this gamepad action. It didn't take long before I could point out things that were not solid quality like the button placement and the edges on the game pad most notably. Of course Nintendo will put out a new improved game pad at some point because I could not imagine that they are going to keep this design for the full life span of the WII U. As Is I would say that the setup is worth 250 dollars.
As far as the game play mixing up by showing extras on the game pad different from the game on the screen has potential. Unfortunately I get the feeling that Nintendo might not use this as much as they originally planed to use it. Either way I don't give a fuck as long as they don't throw some garbage bullshit in to show that they did what they said they would. When it says look at the screen or look at the game pad. My neck motion going back and forth and think about how I have to move to do this is going to get real fucking old real quick. The move the game pad or TV should only be for super good content and nothing else.
I would much rather have this game pad idea than waving a wii remote around like a fool. I would also rather have this game pad play than a regular controller like Xbox one or PS4. Yes, It is innovative and I think that any better tech that the other companies have over Nintendo doesn't make that much of a difference and all those third party games that will probably end up being 50 dollars will be excellent on WII U. Big beef with people is online gaming and they will go where the population is and that is Xbox one of course. Well, fuck em' they can go play there meat head shooters. As for the tech part of it, if that was a big concern of mine I would get the third party games for my pc which I will do anyway.
The main thing that I kept drawing my focus to was the game pad. I was astonished by this thing. The screen has super good quality and the size of the screen is primo. There was a lot of attention to detail put into the construction of this thing. One detail that seems off and definitely not right is the controls with the right hand. The four buttons under the joystick are placed kinda fucked up. I have to use my wrist more than I would like to switch between the trigger, the button on top and the joystick. It doesn't smoothly work all together with keeping my hand in the same position. I have to use my thumb flat and press some of the buttons close to my joint in my thumb. This is not like I'm use to with using the tip of my thumb. I have no clue how Nintendo could fix this since players have different size hands. Either way any size hand will have to deal with this to some extent. Another thing that is fucked is the edges around the pad stick out and are kinda sharp and not flush. This irritates my hand as I'm trying to deal with this fucked up button setup. This lowers the quality of the product big time. How could they let that pass by inspection when designing it? I rigged it up with some tape to help and it does. Fuck buying a cover.
Now for the good things. Options are what I want and there are options with the game pad and tv adjustments. I'm not going to go over every damn thing it does. I will bring up switching between the game pad or tv if you want to. This is cool shit because I have a shitty tv and it is nice to play some on the pad to enjoy the 1080 view. I also like the fact that it has a headphone jack and a physical volume slider on the top of the game pad. Wait I have to switch back to bad things, the touch screen is not a sensitive as I think it should be. I've got to push down a little to hard to get shit to move around.
Basically my first impression is this is a good effort on Nintendo's part and I like this gamepad action. It didn't take long before I could point out things that were not solid quality like the button placement and the edges on the game pad most notably. Of course Nintendo will put out a new improved game pad at some point because I could not imagine that they are going to keep this design for the full life span of the WII U. As Is I would say that the setup is worth 250 dollars.
As far as the game play mixing up by showing extras on the game pad different from the game on the screen has potential. Unfortunately I get the feeling that Nintendo might not use this as much as they originally planed to use it. Either way I don't give a fuck as long as they don't throw some garbage bullshit in to show that they did what they said they would. When it says look at the screen or look at the game pad. My neck motion going back and forth and think about how I have to move to do this is going to get real fucking old real quick. The move the game pad or TV should only be for super good content and nothing else.
I would much rather have this game pad idea than waving a wii remote around like a fool. I would also rather have this game pad play than a regular controller like Xbox one or PS4. Yes, It is innovative and I think that any better tech that the other companies have over Nintendo doesn't make that much of a difference and all those third party games that will probably end up being 50 dollars will be excellent on WII U. Big beef with people is online gaming and they will go where the population is and that is Xbox one of course. Well, fuck em' they can go play there meat head shooters. As for the tech part of it, if that was a big concern of mine I would get the third party games for my pc which I will do anyway.
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