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When I purchased a wii u (returned it for a refund) and needed a card for the eshop it was a bit of a minefield as to what card to buy. Even shop assistants where not sure as there were no wii u card logos for the cards so i could of easily purchased the wrong eshop card.

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Which is odd since they've been doing it longer than anyone else. In Japan on NES etc.

Good point, that... And they've created innovative products like the Super Famicom Satellaview (downloadable games and DLC without the Internet, or even a telephone network). I guess that Nintendo being Nintendo would prefer proprietary networks, like MSN circa 1995, given a choice, but the Internet genie already escaped the bottle a long time ago.

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If the rumours about a $500 (probably £450) next Xbox are true, then I can see Nintendo picking up a lot of the Xmas business. Especially if Nintendo manage to get a few more TV apps (iPlayer, that TVii thing, maybe Sky's monthly movie one). TV seems to be the big focus for MS on the next Xbox, which I can't see being such a major seller for the UK, especially if the Wii U is less than half the price with the same BBC, ITV, CH4, Ch5 and Skyplayer apps (if that's rolled into TVii, then all the better).

£225 for premium by Xmas, with Nintendo Land and a few preloaded additional games, I think that would sell.

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As much as i hate the PS3 i think next gen will be PS4 and Wii U for me!

Anyhoo, going to set the Wii U up in a bit, anything i must buy from the store - i have Sonic racing thingymejig and nintendoland on disc??

Also, i plan to add some storage, is it ok to use a 64gb USB stick or am i better with a external HDD? Should i set one up now can you transfer to another HDD easily enough? I may go for an external caddy with small SSD drive so have no noise or external psu needed - workable solution??

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yeah the memory stick will do ok short term. They could do some nice flight sim type things on wii u I reckon with the touch screen as a readout.

Cool, cheers! I take it that i can copy from that to future solution?

Also, i cant seem to find the console stand things in white, do Nintendo not make them and i have to use an abortion of third party one?

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If the rumours about a $500 (probably £450) next Xbox are true, then I can see Nintendo picking up a lot of the Xmas business. Especially if Nintendo manage to get a few more TV apps (iPlayer, that TVii thing, maybe Sky's monthly movie one). TV seems to be the big focus for MS on the next Xbox, which I can't see being such a major seller for the UK, especially if the Wii U is less than half the price with the same BBC, ITV, CH4, Ch5 and Skyplayer apps (if that's rolled into TVii, then all the better).

£225 for premium by Xmas, with Nintendo Land and a few preloaded additional games, I think that would sell.

I think you're forgetting the PS3 and xbox 360 (especially if that 99 dollar xbox rumour is true)- which have a good amount of tv apps and far stronger third party support still. The Wii U won't automatically sell loads just because the next xbox is expensive because people still don't know what it is and it needs the mario kart/wii u fit type software stuff to still come out and support it. Nintendo still need to remedy the software and advertising issues regardless of the next gen competition.

I'm sure by xmas they'll be remedying those two issues to some extent, but that's why it will sell, not due to a console that costs twice as much but has possibly multiple times more power/grunt.

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Cool, cheers! I take it that i can copy from that to future solution?

Also, i cant seem to find the console stand things in white, do Nintendo not make them and i have to use an abortion of third party one?

play asia might have them. Ninty have a rather odd belief that nobody will want the things in white here...
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Cthulhu Steev

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Cheers!

Now, i have it on but cant get it to connect to the wifi :( it can see my SSID but fails to connect, a quick google says its a sware on wii u and virgin superhub problem - how the heck can i set it up anyone knows???

Don't you have to assign it a manual IP, rather than let it automatically assign one?

EDIT: I don't have one to check, so probably wrong. I;m just trying to remember what was posted up-thread when others were having superhub troubles :)

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I think you're forgetting the PS3 and xbox 360 (especially if that 99 dollar xbox rumour is true)- which have a good amount of tv apps and far stronger third party support still. The Wii U won't automatically sell loads just because the next xbox is expensive because people still don't know what it is and it needs the mario kart/wii u fit type software stuff to still come out and support it. Nintendo still need to remedy the software and advertising issues regardless of the next gen competition.

I'm sure by xmas they'll be remedying those two issues to some extent, but that's why it will sell, not due to a console that costs twice as much but has possibly multiple times more power/grunt.

If the rumour of a subscription based Xbox are true, I still can't see it being $99- unless it's a $40 per month subscription with a 2 year min sub.

The other thing is retailer margin- how much margin are retailers going to make on a subscription subsidised Xbox compared with a Wii U? Then you end up with dopey sales people getting told what to sell- based on margin (like Samsung always being pushed- the margins are better)

They do need to seriously address the advertising issues- although in all honesty, what would they really advertise at the moment? There's not exactly a huge amount of games. So it ends up gathering dust after a couple of months. Hopefully by Sept that will be addressed and there will be a few more 1st party titles that will get people interested in it. Then we'll see Ant and Dec or One Direction with it...

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I've just bought a Wii U in order to play some games with my girlfriend. What are the decent co-op experiences with one gamepad and a Wiimote? Especially thinking of Lego City Undercover but all suggestions gratefully received. Even any Wii games that have good co-op modes. Thanks in advance.

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I've just bought a Wii U in order to play some games with my girlfriend. What are the decent co-op experiences with one gamepad and a Wiimote? Especially thinking of Lego City Undercover but all suggestions gratefully received. Even any Wii games that have good co-op modes. Thanks in advance.

Nintendoland is a good starting point. The games get better with more players but there's a lot of fun to be had with two.

Mario U is cracking good fun too, either two players on Wiimotes (if you're both pretty competent) or one person playing and one doing support on the Gamepad (if they're less experienced).

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I've just bought a Wii U in order to play some games with my girlfriend. What are the decent co-op experiences with one gamepad and a Wiimote? Especially thinking of Lego City Undercover but all suggestions gratefully received. Even any Wii games that have good co-op modes. Thanks in advance.

I wouldn't start with Lego City Undercover, as it's not co-op.

Have you played Sin and Punishment 2 on the Wii? That's pretty good co-op and probably up your street.

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Ah, Lego games, of course. Thanks for that both. Looking forward to trying Nintendoland now, I'd assumed it was going to be a bit low-rent like Wii Play (which admittedly was fun on occasion). I was intending to pick up Super Mario Galaxy 2 and NSMB Wii as I seem to remember they had co-op elements but I might just get NSMB U instead then.

I wouldn't start with Lego City Undercover, as it's not co-op.

Have you played Sin and Punishment 2 on the Wii? That's pretty good co-op and probably up your street.

Ah, I'd had a quick read of the thread and saw talk of playing it with children, I'd assumed it was co-operatively. That's a shame.

I've got a Japanese version of S&P2 that I've not even unwrapped...

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Yeah, Mario U is very very similar to NSMB Wii but slightly better in pretty much every respect plus the Gamepad co-op is really good. I'd definitely recommend it over the older game.

How about Sonic Racing Transformed? Not strictly co-op but it's a great game and you can play through the campaign together with one person on the TV and one on the pad.

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