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So as we all know, there's been a pretty substantial WiiU infodump over the past few days.
I've never kidded myself about it: I know I'm going to get myself one of those eventually. Maybe not in the launch window, maybe not even in the first year, but not because of any doubts I might have about the system--because I just started college and I need the money. (Good thing I'm taking up Melee, right?.) So I read through all the stuff and I'm like "yeah, yeah, cool, shutupandtakemymoney.gif, yeah, nice, interesting"...
So it has this social thing called Miiverse. Basically a gamer's Facebook, Miiverse.... yeah. Boring, right?
So then I read this:
http://kotaku.com/5943417/the-wii-u-powers-up-to-nintendos-version-of-a-facebook-feed
And I'm thinking "yeah, NBD, is anyone here surpr--"
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In addition to the Miis, Fils-Aime says there will be "what we're calling 'tiles.'"
"These'll be the key games that the community are playing, buzzing about," he said. "Because of the deep linkage through Nintendo TVii with video services, these could also be movies. They could be TV shows, could be a range of different content, but it's bubbling up through the community, with the exception of
So as we all know, there's been a pretty substantial WiiU infodump over the past few days.
I've never kidded myself about it: I know I'm going to get myself one of those eventually. Maybe not in the launch window, maybe not even in the first year, but not because of any doubts I might have about the system--because I just started college and I need the money. (Good thing I'm taking up Melee, right?.) So I read through all the stuff and I'm like "yeah, yeah, cool, shutupandtakemymoney.gif, yeah, nice, interesting"...
So it has this social thing called Miiverse. Basically a gamer's Facebook, Miiverse.... yeah. Boring, right?
So then I read this:
http://kotaku.com/5943417/the-wii-u-powers-up-to-nintendos-version-of-a-facebook-feed
And I'm thinking "yeah, NBD, is anyone here surpr--"
<div style="margin:20px; margin-top:5px; "> Quote:
In addition to the Miis, Fils-Aime says there will be "what we're calling 'tiles.'"
"These'll be the key games that the community are playing, buzzing about," he said. "Because of the deep linkage through Nintendo TVii with video services, these could also be movies. They could be TV shows, could be a range of different content, but it's bubbling up through the community, with the exception of