Interesting (albeit weird) video about the WiiU (jimquisition)

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/jimquisition/6331-Why-the-Wii-U-May-Have-Already-Won-Next-gen

he makes some interesting points, past the 1 minute intro

Jar~

At least I have more incentive to try WiiU more than next gen consoles.

he has alot of good points, I've always detested paying for XBL but all the M$ fanboys cry a river saying it's worth it for netflix,etc......when all that stuff is for free on pc and most new smartphones now days, not to mention netflix has been free on Wii and PS3

I looked it up and it was a pretty lame reason,but the reason the PS3 doesn't have the party chat is because of how the RAM is set up. The Vita has much more RAM, and, it has party chat,all for free.

I don't even ever care to talk to other people playing different games in XBL parties anyway, not to mention the horrible hardware failures I've seen and experienced 1st hand by M$. If I needed it so bad,I could just use Skype on my laptop while I'm on PS3

I've seen the move towards everything going casual for awhile now, stuff being dumbed down, barely any new IPs, the sea of military style shooters and sequel after sequel, generic crap,etc etc.

I guess the thing that irks me so bad about XBL is, that the multiplayer should be free. It's free on every other platform.

but..........the sheep have gobbled it up,so M$ knows they can get away with it

Lego City does look prettttty awesome

zombie-u looks cool.

I wouldn't mind getting the wii u....I'll just wait until more games come out for it...probably till the zelda game comes out on it

i think the Smart-TV point will prove to be true, seeing as how Smartphones have done the same thing (turned a pretty utilitarian device into a multimedia hub) recently.

This video assumes that Xbox and Playstation are sacrificing gaming capability for the ability to be a media hub, even though the beginning of the video just explained that the WiiU is yet again another generation of technology behind the new xbox and ps.

The WiiU doesnt have an advantage for not including media hub functions... it's just another thing to add to the list that it doesnt have that sony and microsoft do. If an xbox is a bit redundant because my tv can do internet and netflix, it doesnt mean im suddenly going to decide to buy something with shitty gaming specs like a WiiU just for the sake of not being redundant.

the vid pointed out XBL being redundant when PS3,Wii,and PC are all free to play online, Vita is free and has party chat as well. As well as whatever DS/3DS games are online (dunno never owned one)

MS tried charging online on their games for windows live and the pc people didn't take kindly to that shit lmao so now it's free XD

I'd rather pay for the stability of XBL (doesn't matter since I'm on PC now.) It's 10 dollars a month. Ten. That's what... 33, 34 cents a day? PSN sucks. I've seen it used first-hand and it is fucking awful.

And where are you getting this Netflix being free on PC and shit? I pay 8 dollars a month to watch Netflix on my computer.

you have to have XBL gold to even use netflix,I didn't mean the service was free