Cracked thinks Nintendo's Lost It

[mad825]

But you can't play Wii or WiiU games on the PC (without emulating, which is usually buggy and it usually take a lot of time to make an emulator. And if the WiiU is 50% stronger than the 360, you won't get a emulator even in the next generation).

You can emulate the Wii on the PC and in fact they've also hook-up the Wii remote with the help of a bluetooth transmitter. It's not possible to emulate the 360 or PS3 because the hardware requirements is too far much to emulate the PS3/360 with another OS on top.

Honestly, I give it a year at the very most on release for the WiiU to be "emulated" as well seeing there's nothing entirely special about it.

 

[BishopofAges]

"Specs this, specs that" "Losing their minds" etc.. These things have no bearing on the fact that when this was unveiled I literally sat up in my chair and said aloud "I want to hold that controller" And since that E3 and after this recent one that feeling has intensified 10 fold.

Graphics don't matter to me, the ability to play wider varieties of games does. Naysayers don't matter to me, the games lineup looks a hell of a lot better for launch than the PS3 did (ha~...). I have not yet bought Arkham City because I lacked funding for so long and forgot about it, now I want it on Wii U and not a damn thing about 'PC is better' or 'controls are different and therefore bad' will stop me from buying it and enjoying it.

Taking what the Wii already had in motion controls and the like, bringing it togather with all the fun stuff the new controller can do and the third party support, I am very confident in wanting to buy this.

 

[OldNewNewOld]

But you can't play Wii or WiiU games on the PC (without emulating, which is usually buggy and it usually take a lot of time to make an emulator. And if the WiiU is 50% stronger than the 360, you won't get a emulator even in the next generation).

You can emulate the Wii on the PC and in fact they've also hook-up the Wii remote with the help of a bluetooth transmitter. It's not possible to emulate the 360 or PS3 because the hardware requirements is too far much to emulate the PS3/360 with another OS on top.

Honestly, I give it a year at the very most on release for the WiiU to be "emulated" as well seeing there's nothing entirely special about it.

Maybe my wording was unclear. I know you can play Wii games on the PC with an emulator.
But it wasn't always this way. I did take some time to make the emulator work and even now you can find games that won't work as they should.

Also, I doubt that we will see a WiiU emulator anytime soon.
The WiiU is a stronger than the PS3. So if it's not possible to emulate the PS3, I doubt you can somehow emulate the WiiU.

EDIT:
I reread my post.
I wrote "You can't play Wii..." instead of "couldn't". I got my Wii shortly after the launch and I doubt there was an emulator at that time.

 

[Phuctifyno]

FI is Fucking Insulting. If you really need as much help as Fi forces on you, you're also not old enough to read, making her completely pointless anyway. For the first six hours of the game, you really can't go more than two minutes with out being interrupted to be told to do what you were already going to do. I actually rage quit because the game was constantly being interrupted.

you know that you could have just not pushed the button that makes her talk right? That is literally the only way that you could hear so much from her outside of a cut scene.

If that were really the case (it's not and I'll get to that), being constantly reminded that you're on a virtual rail tour set up by programmers who think you're an idiot makes it insanely difficult to get immersed in a fantasy that's supposed to be about exploration and discovery, unless you've got a very special kind of personality. Even by actively ignoring the prompt (if I remember right, it's a loud beeping sound, definitely not annoying - or maybe that was for the dowsing, also pointless and stupid), this invades your psych while trying to enjoy the game.

Also, there'd be the nagging feeling that you're missing something important, because even though most of what she says is pointless, there's bound to be that one tidbit of info that you really do need. So chances are that you're not going to ignore it no matter how bad it is, unless you're the same type of player who in an RPG would use up every single item they have in every single fight they got into. Special kind of personality.

Now, what you're not mentioning is that "cut scene" includes stopping you in your tracks for anything and everything up to: A) entering a new area to show you all the places of interest, 2) getting into a fight with a new enemy that may employ a new strategy, and D) ending a conversation with an npc which then requires you to take some kind of action (most of which are forced on their own).

60 to 80 percent of Fi's help does not require button presses, unless it's to skip or speed up the dialogue. Maybe this lightens up later in the game, further than I made it, but having that completely unnecessary feature at all is irritating - anything beyond the first hour is offensive. Text-based instruction is never necessary in a video game. That's what the manual is for, that's what the options menu is for, that's what your brain and fingers are for.

Idunno. Here's a brilliant video that can explain it better than I could. (if you've got 20 minutes to spare).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FpigqfcvlM

 

[SpectacularWebHead]

Hasn't nintendo been off the ball for a while now?
I mean, It hasn't been doing anything really great for a while and has been wildly outshone by practically everything else.

 

[MyNameIsNowNotMyName]

Wha... I don't even... D:
Anyways, this article is complete BS. For me, Mass Effect 3 being on Wii U is a deciding factor, one that will actually cause me to BUY IT. I dunno, this is probably one of the bad Cracked articles. You should probably give it no regard. I honestly think Chris Chase wrote that.
(-99 rep for me knowing who Chris Chase is....)