The WiiU / Nintendo dumb decision thread

Okay, decision one: If you turn off the WiiU during a download of an update, you brick your system:
http://penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/the-incredibly-true-story-of-how-i-bricked-my-wii-u

Whaaa? Nintendo is usually really good about realizing kids will be using their console, and probably turning stuff off when they shouldn't.


Decision two: Let's restrict adult / 18+ content to the hours of 11pm to 3am on the eShop.
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/...rated_content_during_daytime.php#.UMI1lYPoSDM

Because your eShop was doing so well on the previous console, lets restrict it's use on the new one!

That is amazing. And apparently the restriction exists even if you turn off the parental controls. Because, sure, you own the system and say you want the controls off, but how can Papa Nintendo be SURE that you're not a minor? Papa Nintendo knows best. You don't really want that icky awful violence, do you? Here, have some more rechewed Mario pablum. Mmmm, delicious. Hold still and Nintendo will spit it into your mouth. You can't be trusted to chew on your own, after all.

Can Nintendo hurry up and pull a Sega already? I'd like to play Majora's Mask: HD Remix on the XBox 720 ASAP.

As awkward as Nintendo's consoles can be...



Imitating Sega is probably the last thing you want to happen to their software.

Euuuggghhh. Just seeing that package gave me a full body shudder. I just made the noise Sideshow Bob makes after getting hit in the face by a rake.

It's times like this I miss Dave Long.

Nintendo has tons of money banked so you will be waiting another decade at least.

From the PAR article:

Who the hell has their powerstrip tied to a lightswitch?

I don't, but it's not a terrible idea, considering how greedy power adapters are, they basically continually draw power, even when the console isn't on.

Everywhere I have lived in Kansas City, be it apartments, townhouses, or regular houses, has various outlets controlled by light switches. I don't know why this is.

Although this is true for all the places I've lived too, I've strictly avoided utilizing these particular outlets for gaming devices -- or have converted them by bypassing with switch.

Edit: ^^^^ I don't get to choose where my outlets are located, so if I want a room set up a certain way I might not get to choose where I plug it in.



Controlling outlets by light switch is fairly common, and if you're renting you probably don't get to make that decision.

Likewise -- it restricts how I can set the house up, which is incredibly frustrating. ESPECIALLY when the switch is tied to one of only two grounded outlets in the entire room.

So, it's basically a shitty OS design decision tied to a shitty wiring decision, snowballing into a colossal Cacosphere?

So you can plug in a lamp and control it via the switch.

Did this idea get really popular in the sixties? Nowhere else I've lived (various places in Virginia) has been like this, but everywhere here in KC has been.

It's been that way everywhere I've ever lived, which is just west coast. My current place is at least wired so that it tends to have the standard two sockets in a wall outlet, one is controlled by switch, the other is not.

I feel like the Wii U is completely experimental, since it doesn't seem to be made up of good ideas but rather 'let's see what happens when we do this'. Since if it fails miserably it probably won't hurt them too badly.

Nintendo has tons of cash in reserve so they don't really care if it bombs. I just worry that another console generation is going to be held back by the necessity of porting to an inferior device.

An experimental Nintendo console that doesn't require a TV but isn't portable? If it lasts more than 9 months then it's already winning in Nintendo-land.

Considering Nintendo is a publicly traded company their stock holders might care. Cash reserves aren't a get out of jail free card to stock holders.

I didn't realize this because I live in North America (and have a regular 3DS, not an XL) but does the 3DS XL seriously not come with a power cable in Europe and Japan because LOL

Yeah, that's just baffling. It's not even a significant expense; they probably lose more in sales than they gain in cost-cutting.

It's just Nintendo knowing their market, and being well aware that most of the people buying a 3DS XL are people trading up from the 3DS, and paying their Nintendo tax. I mean, THOSE people don't need a cord, right?

Which only works out if you're saying that Nintendo didn't intend for the market to grow one bit from its state at the 3DS launch.

It probably has something to do with complying with a local law re cable size / compatibility (I think EU has some universal compatibility micro USB slot rule) and they cant be arsed complying.

Although the EU law I am thinking of is for phones only - http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/sectors/rtte/chargers/index_en.htm

Nintendo never needed a reason to sell you extra peripherals