So I Got the Wii U

scottalanmiller

Picked up the download version of Mario Kart 8 today. Took hours to download and install, Nintendo needs to work on their bandwidth issues. Looks great and the five year old really enjoys it already.

So whats the best video game system? still only have a GameCube and 1 game for it. (I don't really play video games)

scottalanmiller

Well I've only played a few and overall there are NO games of interest for the system. Wind Waker for Zelda fans and Mario Kart really are the shining examples on the system.

scottalanmiller

@dominica is playing the Wii U a bit today. So it is getting some use, more than I anticipated, actually.

IRJ

What is your opinion on the Wii U, now?

scottalanmiller

We packed it up many months ago and haven't bothered to unpack it. It's pretty worthless. Over the summer we might unpack it to try to finish one or two games that we own on it. But very sad that we bought it. Seemed like it had potential, but that was nothing but the marketing.

@scottalanmiller said:

However it is looking like it is going to rock for YouTube, Amazon VOD, Hulu and Netflix.

So does a $50 roku stick, and it travels much better

scottalanmiller

@Aaron-Studer said:

@scottalanmiller said:

However it is looking like it is going to rock for YouTube, Amazon VOD, Hulu and Netflix.

So does a $50 roku stick, and it travels much better

Neither travels for us All those things (except YouTube) are blocked in Europe.

coliver

@scottalanmiller said:

@Aaron-Studer said:

@scottalanmiller said:

However it is looking like it is going to rock for YouTube, Amazon VOD, Hulu and Netflix.

So does a $50 roku stick, and it travels much better

Neither travels for us All those things (except YouTube) are blocked in Europe.

Hola VPN?

scottalanmiller

Yes, we can use Hola but that doesn't work on Wii U or Roku last I knew

coliver

@scottalanmiller said:

Yes, we can use Hola but that doesn't work on Wii U or Roku last I knew

I've done some stuff with Hola and a shared wireless network on my laptop that works fairly well for that sort of thing... but I have to set it up as it is too much work for my fiance. So ease of use goes out the window.