Wii U Complaints

Since my stepson got a Wii U for Christmas, I barely played it. He has three brand spanking new games for it: Scribblenaut Unlimited, New Super Mario Bros U, and Nintendo Land. They’re all fine titles, but he barely even plays them too. At age 7, he’s more interested in the console for Netflix and Youtube. Even then, he’s running into issues.

About twice now, the Wii U has hard crashed doing relatively simple things. My 20 month old, while pounding wildly on the tablet has caused it to hard-lock, but he was just in the home men screen, My stepson has hard-locked it while on youtube. The Wii U froze and wouldn’t respond to the tablet controls, or even the power button on the console itself. I had to UNPLUG IT and plug it back in both times. I’m sure there’s another way around, but that would involve flipping through a manual the size of a novel.

My stepson’s also complaining about the load-times of youtube videos. He has a leas three bars of internet connectivity, but he says it takes minutes to load his Pokemon videos.

Personally, he’s more interest in Pokemon White 2, whereas I’m back into Halo 4. Nintendo Land is fun, but we only have the tablet. The game is trying to get us to get extra controllers and hop on multiplayer, and I’m not into it, even though I have a $5 gift certificate to Best Buy and a basic controller is $19. I’m not even interested in putting in the tiny dollar value into getting a new controller. That’s sad, and it say something.

I picked out Scibblenauts Unlimited, but the game is a breeze to play through. I’m worried a monster session would kill it off, so I’ve been picking at it like leftover Christmas goodies.

New Super Mario Bros U is the same as all the Mario games we have on 3DS/DS/Super Nintendo. Those games are the best of the bunch. The other Wii U games we could get are already out on the 360, which we also have and are loyal to, and cheaper. For instance, I got Arkham City for $20 on sale, but it’d cost $49-$59 for the new “Armoured” Wii U version. Then with games like Assassin’s Creed 3, I’d worry if the same downloadable content would make it to Wii U.