Isn't that just upscaled, though?  I did that with Sonic Colors with a Wii emulator awhile back and it still looked a bit off to me.

I have an amazing PC only slightly undermined by the fact that the SSD cops out sometimes.

Checked on Amazon for the Wii U. There seems to be plenty of 3rd party sellers trying to flip these for way over the MSRP, asking $550 or so. There was even one guy trying to hock his for $800.

Fuck you U.

I remember waiting in line when I was younger for console launches. Maybe I'm getting to be an old fart (I'll be 30 this month...), but I just can't stand that kinda stuff anymore. I'd rather just wait and pick one up later at a sane price and not have to elbow soccer moms in the face.

In general, flippers just piss me off. Now that Twinkies are out of production, you've got assholes buying up cart loads and trying to make a profit by selling them on eBay. I wouldn't be surprised to see these guys rip a box right out of some kid's hands. Never mind there are so many knock offs, and I'm sure another company will swoop in and buy up the rights for Twinkies.

Went on a morning jog to enjoy the nice weather and decided to stop off at the local Best Buy on a whim. They had one of the basic model Wii Us left in stock but were sold out of the more expensive bundles with "Nintendo Land." Decided to pick one up, since I don't foresee ever needing more than 8 gigs given that I rarely ever play the original Wii. Plus it looks better in white IMO. It was awkward having to carry the system while walking home, especially as they were out of bags. ;___;

Went with the obligatory Mario Bros. U.

Also I was surprised to see Mass Effect 3 already out, and despite the absolutely retarded idea of releasing only the last game in a trilogy (especially one that is based on your previous decisions), I briefly considered getting it out of curiosity to see any changes and implementation of the touch screen. But I held off, and reading the earliest reviews, I'm glad I did. Seems the interactive comic that lets you make the important decisions from the last two games is an utter failure, boiling down important plot points to "will you help your team? Y or N." As one review said, who is going to say "no?" Plus any DLC from the second game---ie. some of the best parts---isn't included in the interactive comic. So any Shadow Broker stuff with Liara is left out, making all the dialog about it in ME3 seem oddly out of place now. I do like the idea of using the touch pad to draw battle plans and coordinate your squad, but they missed some serious opportunities with letting you use it as a codex or for managing weapons upgrades. Plus the controls are apparently laggy. Oh, and no DLC until December at least.

Sheesh. What levels BioWare* sinks to for money these days...

(*apparently this conversion was handled by a company whose only prior experience was working on some iOS games?).

I'm much more interested in Arkham City: Armored Edition. No reviews yet...

So I thought that, with a gamepad and 2 wiimotes, my friends and I could play a 3 player game of NSMBWU and, well... we technically can, but the pad user is limited to laying down blocks.  There's absolutely no way for that player to, you know, play the game despite having a full range of controls at their disposal. i feel like any other company would have an option come up on the pad screen asking if you want to be player 3 or use "boost mode," which is the crappy block thing, but Nintendo didn't think of that.

Nintendo Land's alright, but its tutorial NPC never shuts up.